TEMPERANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5918, 13 February 1880, Page 6

TEMPERANCE.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —Will you kindly allow me to call attention to Pastor Otuniqny’s lecture on “Temperance,” as advertised in your columns. The lecture will be given in the Oddfellows’ hall, this (Friday) evening, and will be the last of the series. All who are interested in this burning question will do well to be present. Few men are better qualified to speak on this subject than Pastor Ohiniquy. For 50 years he has been identified with this movement. It was the opinion of many people in England that his temperance addresses in that country were more effective than those of Mr Gough. In Beauport, where he was a parish priest, he shut up every tavern; in Quebec he found 22 distilleries, and during a crusade of five years, from 1846 to 1851, succeeded in closing 20 of those distilleries. Father Matthew declared on several occasions that Pastor Chiniquy’s book on “ Temperance " was the best he had ever read. In 1850 the Government of Canada presented him with £SOO as a small recognition of the benefits he had conferred on the people of the Dominion. A rare treat may therefore be expected this evening.—l am, &c„ J. a. SMALLEY.