SHOULD CHURCHES HAVE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.
OPINIONS OF EMINENT CHRISTIAN LEADERS.
(By Lady Elizabeth Bicldulph.) As I look upon temperance teaching as a practical and definite form of sound moral teaching, I cannot see how the clergy can stand aloof from it. But in country villages they often have a great objection to it. This I attribute very much to the awkward position they are in when they drink themselves, however moderately. The total abstinence pledge is the great stumbling block, and, as it is impossible to teach properly that which we do not practice, so it is impossible for most of our clergy to make temperance teaching part of their Church work. They do not see this matter in a religious ligltt, "or I am sure it would be more widely taken up by our clergy.—"Sunday Companion," November 24th, 1900. The man who objects to be tied by the pledge often forgets that he is held in chains by the drink. The largest temperance association in the world ia now the Salvation Army..
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10883, 6 February 1901, Page 3
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