SPARKLETS

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 July 1947, Page 9

SPARKLETS

A member of tlie Spring lands Union expressed concern because children were playing with gas masks, and pretending that war was going on. She felt that the idea of Peace, not War, should be encouraged in children’s play. At the Epsom-Green Lane meeting, the Rev. A. S. Wilson said that as Christians we need to - be “Cheer spreaders,” as was St. Paul. “A little faith in a Big Christ releases great power.” Read at the Brooklyn meeting:—“The late Sir Wilfred Grenfell, missionary doctor to the fishermen round Labrador, wrote in his autobiography—‘l learned to hate the liquor traffic with a loathing of the soul. I met peers of the realm, honoured with titles liecause they had grown rich in the degradation of my friends. I saw lives damned, cruellies of every kind jerpetrated, gaols and hospitals filled, misery, want, starvation, murder, all caused by men who fattened off the profits and posed as gentlemen. 1 have seen men driven from the profession of priests of God. making the Church a stench in the nostrils of men. all through alcohol, alcohol, alcohol! I have seen men’s mouths closed, whose business in life it was to si»eak out against the accursed trade.’ "