TEMPERANCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 6

TEMPERANCE.

HOW IT SUCCEEDS.

Upon what does the success of liquor traffic depend ? Upon debased; manhood, wronged womanhood, defrauded childhood. It holds a mortgage over every cradle; a deed written in blood over human life. Shall mothers know this and be silent ? Shall fathers look on and be indifferent ?—New York Tribune. INEBRIATES HOME. Among the applications for admission to the above home, New York, were—B judges, 39 ministers, 226 physicians, 340 merchants, and 1300 rich men’s daughters.—State Sentinel. THE ALARM BELLThe alarm bell disturbs people, but it keeps them from being burnt in their beds. The Prohibition Alarm Bell disturbs some politicians, but when Prohibition has become law, it will be found to be the save-all of our country. THE GREAT ENEMST OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. The greatest enemy which the church has to contend with to-day is not Materialism, nor Ritualism, nor Deism, nor Atheism, nor Freethoughtism, but it is Alcoholism.—Signs of the Times. BURGH OF ELGIN ON LOCAL VETO PLEBISCITE. The papers issued contained the following question :—Are you in favor of giving the people the power to suppress the liquor traffic by their votes, if they wish to do so ? There were 1600 papers issued. Of these 100 were returned. 428 of this number were blank, making 675 papers filled up, which contained 1395 names, and there were 1247 said yes, 9S no, and 50 neutral. One morning a drinking man told his family of a strange dream he had. In it he saw three cats, one fat, one lean, and cne blind. He was anxious to know what it meant. His boy answered promptly, ‘ I know what it means. The fat cat is the landlady that sells you the drink ; the lean cat is mother ; and the blind cat is you.’

Mr Ward Beecher has lost one of his leading laymen by the death of Mr Horace B. Caflin, the eminent merchant of New York, who was one of the founders of Plymouth Church at Brooklyn, and at the time of his death president of its board of trustees. When Mr Caflin succeeded to the business which his father had founded one of his first acts was to pour out the entire stock of alcoholic liquors into the street. Contrary to the elder Caflin’s predic ■ tions concerning the outcome of this proceeding, the firm prospered greatly, aud became one of the most important on the American continent.