A PRIMATE'S WARNING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 3

A PRIMATE'S WARNING.

A letter was recently addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of Croydon, chairman of the Church of England Temperance Society, in which the Primate says:— One of the dangers which at present beset us is that so many people rely upon the administrative and legislative work of civil authorities and members of Parliament as our main force for the promotion of temperance. I believe, on the contrary, that these efforts, even at the best, are as nothing compared with ,the effect which may result from the quiet, persistent, prayerful endeavour on the part of a vast multitude of individuals throughout the land to stem the evil _in our homes and in the social circle to which they belong. _ Many of those who take a general interest in temperance work are now saying that the magnitude of the evil has been so greatly reduced that our efforts may reasonably be relaxed. We know better : we know that the evil, tnough it has happily diminished in some directions, is rampant in others, and there never was a time when we might more confidently expect a divine blessing to rest upon a concentrated and vigorous endeavour to grapple with it.