NO PUBS IN HEAVEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3813, 18 May 1891, Page 2

NO PUBS IN HEAVEN.

SIR ROBERT STOUT ON TEMPERANCE. During the Sydenham licensing contest oir Robert Stout made the following appeal:—"lf there are in this room any men and women who believe in imnapi'taltty, they should vote far prohibition, There were many in that room who believed in the heaven of Christians. He turned to the revelation granted to St John, The heaven found there, is described as a city of clean streets and clear waters. Its inhabitants were pure, their raiment white, and no centre of mora) degradation existed there. He had heard Christians defend the earthly grog-shop; but he (Sir Kobert) wished to say he had never beard men picture a pubiic-houße in the heaven ihey hoped for. If you men and women are honest, I ask you to try and make this earth as good as the pictured future state of existence. If you think we can enjoy the brightest happiness of which one can dream, without public-houses, then why have them here ?. Every religious man in the room, if ho b« honest to his -reed, whatever it may be, will vote for prohibition ; and I am told tbat there anHs many publichouses in Sydenham »s there ar> churches. I ask the orthdox, and tho«e who look at the question as I have put it to them, to Ecake this carth/ft place of bliss,"