THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 146, 29 May 1883, Page 2

THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE.

* — , — „ ' ■ - -"■■ ' 1 The Timaru Herald winds up a very clever article on temperance thus :— " Example creates custom, and custom is more potent than any other law. Yet Archdeacon Ptook would have us believe that it does not help an advocate of temperance to be himself a teetotaller. We s «annot agree with him, and we cannot understand. In our opinion the example of teetotalism is by far the Tndst -powerful of all agencies m promoting temperance ; more effective than the most splendid eloquence, more penetrating than the clearest argument, more convincing than the weightiest statistics, and a hundred times more effective than the most comprehensive legislation, that ever- was framed. One great reason for this, perhaps the greatest reason, is that' example is not aggressive. It excites no suspicion, it arouses no opposition, it hurts nobody's feelings, it rasps nobody's prejudices, jt puts nobody on their mettle, It operates . ilently, secretly, and continuously, and every, dty, every hour, it puts drunken-:' nesp to shame and incalculably strengthens and extends the cause of temperance. The time will come when the power of example, will make even the English people sober,''