LECTUKE ON TEMPERANCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5275, 21 July 1874, Page 2

LECTUKE ON TEMPERANCE.

A v excellent lecture was delivered yesterday evening by Mr. John Lamb, of Riverhead, on the subject of " Temperance." Owing to the inclement weather which prevailed yesterday, the Temperance Fall was not so wall attended on the occasion aa we could have wished. However, the audience though small was keenly appreciative of toe opinions enunciated by the lecturer, which were listened to with great attention. Mr. P. A. Philips, the Town Clerk, occupied the i hair, and introduced the lecurer to the meeting; in a few and appropriate remarks. Mi-. Lutnb was received with much applause on coming forward, and during the course of hit lecture was warmly applauded. After dilating upon the homes left desolate, the many prospects in life blighted, the many cnm°s committed in this world, all arising from the pernicious tendency of men in this present time to indulge immoderately in the use of ardent spirits, the lecturer proceeded to give some good advice to those present, and warned them to eschew the intoxicating beverages which were .so enticing, but were so hurtful. The lecture was not one of the usual kind indulged in by Temperance reformers, but was throughout made interesting to the audience by the interspersi'inof admirable anecdotes judiciously introduced. After inveighing against the etila of drunkenness, the lecturer proceeded to quote some lamentable instances which had recently occurred fiom the effects of that crime — a crime which was at the root of nearly every murder, every social disturbance, and every other disaster occurring through the outbreak of the human passions, and which was universally feund to be at the depth of "man's inhumanity to man." Allusion was also made to the "whisky war" at present being carried on in the United States of America, and the andicnco were kept interested in the subject by the lecturer reading at some length extracts from the London Times upon the subject, giving particulars of thia latest re'igious movement in America. After some very appropriate remarks concerning the duty of women iu this sphere towards counteracting the evil habit of drunkenness, and the latitude which the sterner ser ought to be allowed, the speaker resumed his seat amidst prolonged cheering. — A most instructive evening was concluded by a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer, proposed by Mr. Hemus and seconded by Mr. C»rr.