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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11133, 20 February 1886, Page 3

[ADVERTISEMENT.] TEMPERANCE NOTES. " FOB GOD AND HOME AND NATIVE LAND." " Thou hast giveu a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed beoauae of the Truth, that thy beloved may be delivered," Some time since an aocount appeared in the newspapers, of a house near the eea ooast, in California, built entirely of the fragments of wrecked vessels. The whole edifice is a combination of bulkheads, and bulwarks, of lookers, nnd cabins. It is boarded with planki, ripped off from the ship's aide by the savage violent wind, and breakers. The oeilings are decorated with the linings of sumptuous steamer cabins. The kitchen is the galley of a wrecked merchantman. In one of our fair inland towns there is ft beautiful house. The grounds around whisper of paradise. Lawns, trees, flowers of many a choice variety, beautifiy the scene. The edifice itself is built after the richest style of modern domestic architecture. The doors are massive walnut,with hinges of silver. Is£ There are winding stairs with ample landing places fenoed with heavy balustrades. There are frescoed ceilings, and carpets that yield like down to the pressure of the foot. There, are means of illumination that turn night into day. The proprietor lies upon a bed of ivory, and stretches himself upon his couoh ; eats the lambs out of the flock, and the oalves out of the midst of the stalls : drinks wine in the bowls, and anoints himself with the chief ointments. This house is built of wrecks ; every board and every brick, every stone and every piece of.timbor, every piece of furniture, and every appliance of comfort, the oarpet on the floor, the frescoes on the ceiling, are eaoh in whole or in part the fragments of a wreck— A wreck, not of a ship, but of a home, a lif9, a soul 1 The owner of this mansion is the owner also and keeper of a drinking saloon. In another street, not far away, there is|a house that was once the embodiment of thrift, neatness, and domestic joy. The house has become a wreck. Old hats and clothes now ocoupy many a place once filled wuh window-panes. Without, all looka like desolation, and, within, all is misery and destitution. The woman is wearing her life away to Support the children, while the father is a lounger about that drinking saloon. All that was beautiful in that home has gone into the gorgeou3 mansion of *the ' ealoon-keeper. The wreck of this house has been built into that palace^ Have not the sighs, sobs, groans of women, broken-bodied as well as brokenhearted, the ravings, the blasphemies, the cries of despair of ruined men gone into the very walls of that mansion P And in the dark, lonesome nights, when the winds aro sighing aroun-i it.may not these come out again and pour them* selves into the ear of the sleeper on the couoh. Sooner or later all these moans and groans, and sobs, and cries, will descond in one awful chorus upon the ears of' the buildor of that houee. No, we should not like to live in a house built of wrecks, whether of ships, or of homes and bou!s. Would any of our readers ? The "Woman's Christian Temperance Union" numbers in America 200,000 members, nearly every one of whom is an earnest, active, and effective worker. The central figure of this grand movement is Miso Frances Williard, whose iiigh standard of ethics, v^hose paperiority to tho half-selfish motives of Jie majority even of good people, and ■ whose brilliant oratorical and parKa* mentary abilities . place her in a position of well-deserved influence such as probably no other w.-mau in our generation has ever re-iched. The servant of all, gentle and forbearing to everyone* she yet loads those who come under her Bway to now and advanced positions. Her favourite expression is : '• The last advance has been a success, do not be any more afraid of ttu next step than of the last." It v/ould not need many such, rich in faith and abundant in works, to change this evil world. 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