TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXV, Issue 1309, 23 June 1899, Page 2

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

[By arrangement, the matter for thiscolunio is supplied and edited by a..gentlenian appointed by the Clutha Prohibition League. — Ed. C.L.]

If intoxicating liquor could be taken without danger then moderation might be a good principle, but as it is a deadly poison and does so much mischief, prohibition ought to be the rule. —W.J.Elliott.

The Archbishop of Canterbury strongly denounces those who not only claim liberty to get drink, but that others shall have liberty (license) to tempt their fellows to drunkenness.

The Dean of Rochester haying spoken of liquor as a good creature of God, was replied to by a City Missionary, who wrote : ' I can show the Dean in his own diocese such scenes on Saturdays and Sundays as would make King Khama blush— fouler crimes and immorality associated with ♦ the good creature of God ' than the Dean imagines to exist."

Bishop Fraser of Manchester said: 'Anything more frightful than that which anyone riiay see where public houses and spirit-vaults abound, it is impossible to conceive. I would as soon keep a brothel as a spirit house."

The congregation of the most fashionable Baptist Church in Louisville, the principal city of Kentucky, has voted a resolution for the expulsion from the Church of all connected with the whisky trade. — British Weekly.

In the prohibition cause we ha.ye arrayed against us the strongest force of human selfishness welded together in the shape of £ s. d. that any cause has ever had to fighfc. — Rev P. B. Fraser, M.A.