SCOTTISH, CHURCHES AND TEMPERANCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 381, 18 April 1927, Page 15

SCOTTISH, CHURCHES AND TEMPERANCE.

In submitting his report to the Church of Scotland General Assembly, Dr. Swan, of Leith, spoke of alcohol as “that substance which has got out of place in the world, and which, like a lion escaped from a menagerie, must be brought back to its true place again.” Dr. Mac Gilchrist, seconding the Assembly’s motion, said, “One of the aims and effects of the period’cal local option polls is that they educate the people. It is not wasteful to spend some money if the end will be a healthier, happier, soberer Scotland.” Dr. McCallum, the Moderator, said that intemperance had not only claimed thousands of victims from those without the Church, it had struck down her fairest sons, and converted the sweetest and best homes into places of unhappiness anti want: it had even swept her rainistrants from the holy table. In moving the adoption of the Temperance Committee’s report in the United Free Church Assembly, the Rev. James Muir said it was a scandal that the Church had the power to eliminate the drink traffic and did not do it. Dr. Maclean Watt said no Church could be a soul-saving Church tnat was not a sober Church. The biggest work they had to do in Scotland to-day was to see that whatever else the public house was, it was not to have added attractions so that the women and children would be drawn in. No decent woman wanted Lord Salveson’s improved public house. No decent woman wanted her child to grow accustomed to it. —“Exchange.”