The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-14 00:00:00

CANON WILDERFORCR MID THI BLUE AMNION MUM

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At the meeting ,n Wein.' lay evening the enthusiasm
owed loniser boost is, swoon estimated ,a the ob-cure St
NiCiolemueet be bun lirw.s lout Ashore in- alai- of Inn I
4111.1. thong th• whole o tie hod,we. ltll.d
with fereirriid siate, •.ch was filled nen Paring
oczup•nt U.. tog, sl. p•ople Tuned Is w.h su,beg.'.
beet Ma . U SIP MM. 4 said, it seemed Sill g„,
hell divert sway. .54 sooe •here was not a Ware vacant
whence the ponform could be -ma Beal lee them
huadrds wers amble to get In. arn an ove It mr meet-
ing was and at St. Ilsry's Na•imia. Sob o room. won
arm crammed; he • Bey. W. Oen ad C,am wag,.
qr. *poke. eisailog •erey from the Theatre.
00 iU Mattoon stile higtrr pi et wore .ett too longs
pillows covered with too deco•ationi of the "(In-psi
Tooperano. Ilona." or" Blue Ribhun Arley; an. weer
in Mei sadistic' already wore their blue. Ain mg tho.• os
•im ;inform were—Cenoo Elteplinsoa Canon Wilber-
force, Heyde. W. Shaid•worte, O. R. ilil'sert, Herbord,
n Bonbo Forster, H. Randall. I. Kelps, J. Trafford, ate.,
And Dr. Look Namara B. Hopkins, Aldermen Thomas,
Glover. 8 rwden Payee. D.O.T. Holatwool. Asc.
Rey. Cann inaragason presided, sad, testing that this
wee a very 11014Nee mewing, wielt•id It to be the Means el
.411, hint. sew spent, sad new strength for that temper.
sae mosament in this moo
Tee rimy. Gaon WILSIMPORCE biked if there was any
other ilUbjeCt in politic., reiletoit,, phinsophy, or eeptnin,
mem whims could All ne theism as it was that night, It
was one of the grand signs of the progress which this
temperance movement was making, sad an encourage-
ment tor nom to go on ia the work. This lecuperaaos
movnien, *mom of the grariden of the age, and showed
the Church of the helots God was aottu be 000 deed to
say met or denominatioa ; net ths Conch of the living
God was simply • spiritual unite which really gained '
between mete, the hearts of those who loved the Lord,
sad when tee people got otom together like glowing
00.1 A is toe Ire, nem own from thins a @Oman radia-
tion of airman, which put life into the heart, of those
woo irer• left out is the rind chilled worn. The temper-
ance tauvrtn-at bad dose mOre 1.0 evidence that Met tame
.o:um{ man They might aak blot how it was that
he dad not unite himself to some Church De-
fence Aeroctetiol. He was told the Church of
Saeletid was very much upon her trial, that there we.
politicians 01 *erten suing views who were trylag to
ors; her dews sad lay her ems in the dart. The retina
why be did not join a Choreal Deimos AseoOlalitia wog
b... he believed the bem Courso &Mace wm • Church
reformed. a Conch mimeo& • Conch alive, and a
Church with power (ApuLataan) H. also beuered If
teer, se Conch of &whorl clergyman, were to wain
Use unique poetion ten held In the lead. it wool I not
be beca-se toe, condi put their engem up,. ear old
is luny anemone in linos Comte, or b came they mutat
fancy they bad atom superior sacerdotel presets...us. He
win glad to see Is Weymouth the Church di E nand at
the beat of trio temuerauce movaineat. He dmared to
be coded..., right from ate top 01 tile head down to the
aol-e of hie toots,. fanatic in this cease, sad he waned
them also 1,0. Mastics sad to em.r the blue rabble. He
Olt not wens them to tea balf.hearted tiell01411011; he
dad not want ouch, sod there oat no room for them, He
wool t tell them wit.t it was Coat nude men fanatics It
was became they as• upon elk eider tee women of
E mind anaemia terribly (soder the curse of iatamper-
ante. lon celled eau the victims of intemperance,
bat the real victims Were the wives and canteen, little
on. s lido went berg! toted and nerving sad brought up
In eveiy kind of licentioumeas from the tante. It Wee
the captain witnensing those 'ones of misery, whin
drove moo to spend sod be meat an the ranks of
fanatic sin. It happened to him in this may. H. had
once to put lot,, her Mat rmung.plece toe wife of a work-
inn—p dotes, mooring, loving, tents. bard working,
hut when toot woman died he could not help thanking
G4l she was than a. peace. She died Just as mace
murdered . It her throat lad lases cot by a Turk.
Wk.. her honsad came hiss. mice be we. angry ein
her becalms 'here w.. no Cast in the bones. Titey
e 'old unt neve food II .11 noir mosey wont to buy
a aide drags for • pUbliCelia ; they could not keep
two la utiles. This as in did just no men would do whoa
is • rem. rendered worse ten brute.; he r steed bit foot
a, 4 elck,.l nor, and witbin three sour. her soul was
sone. Teat tortured spirit we, at root ; out of the
eletCties and reach of ton ben-al man and one in taii
armlet Jesus, whoa be could aot tooth ben. There was
a God-lake example get by people who were safferang,
winch other. did not know soy thing about. When se
her death hod this poor woman leant towards him and
" Don't ro bard upon him when I ma gone. He m
always no bled when he dote not driak." Wan ha lald
that pour woman is the grate, sad heard the Dods guise
on the roan, what did ha me lying in the grave He
maw thin, ous more victim et Eniants cures, one
Mire •Klite Of her missrabie, contemptible, to operant,.
letiolation ; a legialetlon so covoarday that the bravos'
GPPerielAnt they bed ever had did not dare to put it in
sqg Qema• apeech—(applause)—on• more victim of the
charsa's cold, conies., and moat consumable toddler.
nee; sad this in the kind of food epos which
treatises arm bred. At that pave he and others lifted
up their Mitts to Cud and toad Him they wood neva
sheathe their sworda, but throw their scabbards away and
right at all time.. in season and oot of mason, egeinat
this dr...none and hell-along Iniquity. (Applause.) If
say present were holden of snares in joint•atocit
brew mit, he would adobe, them to sell out, na they
wenn to di their best to make their investment
ci md a peasibis. (laughter.) The evil was not an Use
how. or is the .pale=; it was the driek mU, en 1
it eat that they bad nor to fight nation Toe,
hod now In aibg ildsiset Os. sp.clalmy poisobous drug,
witch woo demising boon of thousands of IS Winans.
Tbe thig.g,ou as body afford to inch iet
thst inevansenti—eas oaoi of the power. is. G ;ha had
ea-e SO blurb men brought in, sad trethaii cloteed and in
th-ir 'lett naiad. and yrs may tank the Lod for the
trots of their work. He also spoke to nom uncoave rod
t a tastotioisin. aad with many erarniage and illoetr dame
relies by ncraiiensl humour, he called hem to gill* up
Ineetientng drink utterly, to keep on working Inward,
sad to le lake little Ceram. here. In the course of •
mummies and powerful address, the Coots spleinel the
•• Muli ration 1. 11. Oigth nerhonal I nteeoregun roe the
en• of God and the people to the teetotal rouse.
- Pledger then ollf..ned the teetotalers loused is repeating
The el.. a
. sat the ..s la, to attnid the meeting as
St Mary • Sc• cola
Toe mentelera afterwards passed over ths platform, and
mgy eggo d corned with the little bit of saramt which is
11. sign of the Blue Ribbed Army, aed Alderman Indust
was among the greet maw
Ram J. g NIPS del ver•d so liddrele, add siejitut sag the
Ineedictioa ouniel somber most eataudionc and
imprtsoin weft&

atom 111111FLAJIT.

The temperas°, miesils ems aootiouqd with unabated
talere4 es tie tbe theatre baba(
_gals
m
eedad, e• 1 overdo. tasetias betti I• llary's
"tre,timial Sehe,M. At the "beets, the ebalr wee takes by
Dr Creesi, M Witaberse, estMorted by Mr. Holmwood,
Dia•plet T.mplar, Cases likeeltearen. Rev. J. W.
Kinn°, Rey. J. S. Butcher, W. 11. Hopkins, Ray. P.
Vetoer, N.. J. Labelle, Rev. J Smonsa. Mr, gobtarro,
Ism Come C ..struetar is It. Navy, 4,-.

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Al ter singing an prefer.
The UNAIRII4/1 Pilul Its hardly knew anything mom
remerk• de thao the thermal tk • temp-ranee movement
At Shaf (*.bury wiry larie meetings es', held. •p 1 in
this toes, when he tSooeht haematite interiorss have
So' leen very much in favour, tee large 111-41Uagi are
twist bold at the same time. Th• 0 itimmommthe
bee. been kn ion for very many year. looser than eupothed,
for Is the "Republic of Plao)," that learned tenter
the 1011, of giving soldiers wine when on active
mason In the "Confessions rf the Albizentes." tbe evils .
el mituichou.s. er-re denounced. and in the " Utopia' of
114Th:emu X lore, them arm to be go ear, no p millrace,
no 1505155. and sb,. .11 1.1 oublicOou•es, shemiog that
th. evils were well Muth% in that day. Evelya aleo
thesk• sgemat the vice and 104 r4eiag intoziethiag
mink to servant.. As.., much I Wees Mules of the
eels of istemporanee foe year., t it a ilitsi .th to out
theatre thst them misolues should be seeded eeroa .
perseas believe that stansulaam ars thinner?, °that that :
Mundial/ are useful In some enter, but that some, who
bee ano drunkard.. ought In become teetotalers other.
miwooateid 14 on the around of selfsacridas ; hut of all
teetotalers the Goad Templer, are moot uneotoprontincm,
advocate testdilinn becthee they think it is hest for
tuneselvee. and the beret for the country, bream,.
obi • there are is mar moderate drinkers in the
rosette,. there will be a tomcat's number of drunk•rds.
A 4 clot at Cadlff silent:and the moderate use of Math
Wean; but he wa. curet by lading that • patient hid
been tattier a great diet; and h• t ill him w t the an ounce
of alachat duly Tbe pitient asked ha eon he • much
C ii an mere 0 alcohol, -hen his son mid-16 Muss
Tha patient allowed him's', peeve large " drams," and
we. tame drunk thee ever. though he never got World
It drams. • Gothic/ma aditimil • farmer to take en'y
two glasses • day ; bat Me Wm. n looked out an
emermous goblet. Ailed ft twice i4.y with brandy, and
%seems more drunk thin meg. tag. p .optis to the
pledge, kept it • day or two, and thee goys it up, fairy-
ing their h-alth wee hurt Bit the power of the er,ll
over the bode le very ire t; on one occasion • general
had his trey. down with scurvy, no medic-loth were at
heed. hat be ws. amended to giv, them pura water
nee. falba( theft that it containel • very powerful
Analt, end all those who t it, believing ii wee •
inedteine. quite renovate', Hundreds o( pmple suffer
because they have net medics those mind that the pledge
is good for thew A farm.. gigeed the pledge, aid is
three :soothe his health suffers I; he em wealthy man.
meg had missed for example, b•liming 1.0 vould ha fit
He tomer amid 0 • men brouthe is • tremoitigler who
kid to give up the pledge loc.use hie Isedth solaria
Sor anat improvement had been ob.. reed In the se*
euetrel of the people, who become teetotaler,. (lied
Templarl the most uncompromising—thee M.., buy, sells
give.or peeemtbe to others, nor in be, u.s them-elves,
alcoholic irtimuleate. He hop. d the time would routs
whew we shall ham in army town the, e or four strong
migt.orithileth Gond Trimoisw
Broltre-r V. B ROIWISOP. let" OW emmtmtator of the
Neer. had become ate 4 ital.; 7 ye... ego. H.
I.ll:rield on eleehat at it is described In lA* pberiss-
a. a • Asa& The true 111611011 peep's 'airs iv.
.4.esg drink. is became they like them. Wbog
Übe Dotch bee their limier' 110.0.111,11,n biggs 01 pu.gb„e
were etld without less, bother toe Dutchmen had cut
famse ar, to make peepth belieth they alwath lived en the
wise. se/ this we. " "us he thet ing tie/mine drinks
ire Imp Job,. 8 'idlers who bad ti marsh without their
ruse gig it very welL Moderate &takers obit/est the
program 0 the ewe oast ; iii, oboe the good and Mous
of the country drink ai&l quaat, ties of stroeg drink, that
they can .• quoted in ammo dos t. temperance. What I.
• moderate drinker? BMW chino c gild take three
listiles of wins with some end water, and he would
:iv describe himself a. • 'Adman. num. We were
by the ?With that wham the prt,,,, of
Wales wee taken to Scotland as • baby, be
spluttered ft'oot of his ithinth.
(A . The best thing in be done Pew when
I. to simis troatk. A Mix Zs=

bees a teetotaler wee templed be a gregrailliw a battle
at besady Wag pushed under blo ease. iil hi on men'
lag it, geoid not r slap and WOLIN dreatr, fell into
delirium t and was relieve( from service being
towskried out. 8001 propl• become" testotalen from •
sinewy &sire to do good—a ping of patriotism. Genoa
Beall Wilt,, tom was doles • glorious work at Soatharap.
toe la true pittrigitioseotad does not evarste it from
Wartra. no, ought or. a have immense Mope Of MOM
-I"Lbe
r"-
t by intoxicating drink, and salsas a
Jam gen re aa est roman for drinking. be ought to
abotala. • BMW drink injures the drinkers, for this
. to shown by Insurance statistics, wherein it sa proved that
• moderate drinkers lives are 18 ear cent worm than
tretotalen. Look at tho foolish ofdi'l'aaa I° lb. dime
of alcohol' it wan said by some over-clover man that
' alcohol Is elm at everywhere, Including in to' sea, go it is
! Is • bawl Methio data • torufassor hal said that alcols
is • food, 6601n/elf be took thy cue
oas of alcohol It con-
ant he collected from the hevattread trio secretions. But
• If he took half a grain of strychnies. Gault it to Wthict.4
from the remotions/ And If not would he my that it
went to MUM up the mantes aad boos? Women its wet
mach wanted in this work. far it affeste women as mach
aa others. sad he told of • lady who always pot • b 444 of
brasdr under her pdlow at night and emptied It before
the aloeitial• He laid the matter before her, she movie all
Well of Prealfana. land he bagged her sister. to help her.
but Map would only promise not to let her go oat aloes:
that promise they brok• and when she went as • jortraey
allowed her to go slew; 'ohs beard • gentleirasa at • statics
call for drink; she called for slow, and lam° tate " rsmainad at an hotel drunk, and is delirium treinem she
died. B.m• of the beet people give way to drink, mid ars
mood, awl be iaotarwood the great .choler Potion,
Richard Brim/day Sheridan, sad the poet Barns, as Injured
and almost naiad by drink. Let • Mototaler be above
reproach in other malt.,,; name let him bare a stone
hurled at him for other rostrum: but lot hiai hold stradmil high, and whoa he peasee away, hand that
standard to soother younger and more able man.
The choir sang "W ! for the Npht la Coming."
80.. the Rev. J. W. KIIITOX said the G TomPlars its a
gamer lot. and he wasted to show that they at. 0" temperas*, men, and in fact better than any other art.
(4414611".) Thal, PlIalg• Is not to make. bur, sell. use.
turaish, or cense too be furnielted to others, any intoxis
cottage drinks ai loos as they live (Applause. and Wale
laughter.) That walla clam sweep of the whole Maslen.,
1.71 if it wore carried, the pablimas would retire Irmo
busissee. for Malawi would retire from them, end if the
Publicise and brewers were to mistreat., t .morrow. we
riould be Waging. "Praise God from whom all blowing.
flow," whit* rhos. who could not live without it would
NB 0 110111. 0 deer me, whet can the matter be r
(Laugher.) Teo teetetalors had PG all the risk. and
Pr 'cod it possible Ii live without drink Is ShreewburT
gaol an I every other gal, tag people twat sober hp Art of
Parliament ; they don't dm, became they don't bit them
di.; they or. imam& sad their hair sot, and they are
antigaed, and again whom ther go out, sad aro found to be
heavier when 'hay go out than when they west In, Toe
bedsit al prisoners la NM injured by being compelled
totally to abotele, but It is improved. A lot of people are
toe 4.10r111 about Friday, whin the moaey's goes. (Laugh'
(ar) Sine men were arguing about what could be done
witaout drink, and mos mid he could do anything without
It; hut, said tho other. "You used, when you were
drunk, to go Immo &ad thresh year wife; con you do that
no • 7" Tao other said—" Ladies and gentlemen, I beg to
aoolspiss ; I con do aaything that is right without drink.'
If you want to do anything wrastrto flght
drop or a gime or two, and bill at you, (Laegater.)
Some oki ladies say they isn't eat their dinners without •
Oar of" bitter;" then let them wait an hoar or tore or a
day; that would core them (Laughter.) If she doubted
It, lot her ask half-admen testomlers to Mame with her;
the, "an eat. Some say they can't sleep without • " night: !
moo thou let than jots the Templar', and they will be
invaluable on the Sick Visiting Consinittees. (Laughter
and applause.) Out of tea pints of ale, Mao Pinta am
water; we go to the pump, or the tap, for dean wooer, .
and get it (Weep, while the drinkers go to the publican or
the brewer, sod get it dirty aid dear. Bat they hold up
SIN glom of beer, and say—" Toms's food for the people I
Row c4ar You can me through it r Hem `. can you
me through • empenny loaf? That most be ;crated bread
If you can. (Laughter.) Can you me through • mutton
chop, or • beefsteak I If you can, that wool mach
to your rib. (Laughter.) L 4 them give his compliments
to say brewer within • hundred miler, and any this—
" Not • brewer in the world inroads to ink. an article
or trim to do so, that will stray/atom or nourish the
Imams body: they never fry to put In that which will
strengthen, but try all they caa to get it out; and as if..
the saga., ha should lilts to paint root theft..." Liessesd to
oblate immey by false proboscis, let it wee • wholesale
mote= of fraud. Is his possession he had tho largest
collection of papers by brewers, sad whenever Bass or
Allskroo—(leuthtre)—for it was all olope—pablished their
analysis, they showed the beer conteined at Masi 90 or 91
p.r cent of wet',. Let tits nate go to buy 100 lb. of
niniton,aad outot it get Polk of oraterand what stuff mast
that be—talk about okillywhack awe that I (Laughter.)
Was them • bear &later who would drink • glom
slur it had been standing open all nightf No,
.they sold
" the life hal gone ont of it. it is gone dead.' Who killed
it/ I: had gone flat,—pot so flat as the man that drank
It. Why did it go deed I Coffee would have got cold.
The fact was that was true who celled out to the browses.
drily Magi —" Ott 14 the water old spoil. water." (Laughter.)
1 H. entrattel—" D wit spend your mosey for that which
io not bread, your labour for that which eatiolleth not
People get through the world easiest and happiest who
hare the Worst wants, and ho not smoking for instance .did
did not went to stop anybody
in the morniag with—'' Hays
yi;setiuld4 • match about you? It he oar. • woman he
not let • gam who smoked Mos him, 111 • Leigh
Host said, the stink of tobacco le the Wittiest of all
stlaks. (Laughter.) Resting some smoking sailors in •
train. he asked them whether they spout 3.1. • day oa
it. "Yes, more.' "That is le 91. • week, or £4 lie. 31.
In teems montha' "Mr aye." mid Jack "that's • lot,
too." "Yes," °attiring(' the speaker. You unoke aad
drink to bap the cold out' I gave 1/3 for this overcoat
to keep it from getting in." Said Jack mats, " He knows
• thing or too, don't be r (Laughter.) Abatioence is
better tor Malth and bettor tot character. Shakopee/a
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" Who @tea s y pars. steals trash;
'Twos moo. .sod hos boss sigma to thoussads.
B h• who filches from me my sood Dhow.
Rohs oss of coat orhic nm. sane-hes Wm.
But loaves as woos f ode, I."

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Filming drink ha.s been the greatest thief to rob • man of
li. chars-to,, It r itm the poor, the minister, the church-
wards., the aloes leader, the deacon, end the Sunder
school teacher. A clergymen ably fillet every pert in his
perish, until it became whispered that be drank;
it was indignantly deniel. not,' it became not 'r-
ims ; the bishop had to make enquiry, and to deprive
him of his gown. That mut went to the public.
house, sold his femme, his books his lasta, ma every-
thing to get drink ; be went Iwo th• workhouse, and
Suedes, after 8 inlay ha sat se • pauper in the very church
in which be hat preached. Hews. started am a sett mi.
muter; bolt be sold all his thing., hod an attack of
Irliriuns tritawiss, and nied. All the country it struck,
naivetes. id ell denominations, for, if drink had on.
virtue, it we. this—lt is no rasps t.r of pereony F mlists
pimple think it only rsqiiires a respectably boom.; but it'
gin were sold by the Archbishop ot Canterbury In Wed-
rninsty r Abbm, it w mit produce just as much mischief as
if sold by the honest blackguard ia Weymouth. He hod
sees a woolen rushing out of • house tearing h,r bar; bey
husband emned nothing through drink; but the went out
chiming. leaving • sick chill in bed. The men came borne,
and eared the child when mother would be boa.! S.
mid-0 At 0 yri ;" "I; M nearly thst now; would you like
to get up." "Yes, fathrr." she said, when be carried Ism
no the sitting-room, end went sod took the bed on eitwb
:tie child had been lying, ant got rid of it for drink. No
wonder the woman, when the came home. rnshal wildly
out, when she found the very lord gone from her sick
. child. If he could get the drink, evrry drop should go to
the bottom of the ea to-night, It is perfectly safe to let
, the drink skins, sad it is safer to get rid of it ell. Some
DIMPIII say." On don't hit us so hard, you don't leave an
I ;bah of ground to stand nom r Well, then I take to
1 eater. Otica be said "if I drew • line down this school
! mom, end put :no one side all the (lord Templer% Courch
1 of g.glend iihttaieers, and other teetotaler., sad on the
other side all the drunkards sad other drinkers, on oh oh
•die would you be r Sail the 'tient who wee Wiai bin—
"I sympalsim with Novenas/ : MI& I have nnnnn yet
seen it my duty otitis to abet do, and you put me among
, sb• delebyee," n. returned " You win excuse as; I did
! bus put you them.; I found you the-r, if you do not lute
your posit:mi. more." (Adopleam.) I. 50 Fenn we It lye rodeo
sr mt strid a, good is being ii'.. throughout the length
I arid tread h of tha land ; the pram is muting, the doctors
! are cooties, the perroes are co wog. and if people
I don't make beite we don't know whether ive
shall him* thrm. (L oughts, end euphuism.) A man
said to hi.—" You ',Aren't touched the real room of the
driekin r yet; It is because they like it." As If lim would
waste hi, time arguing with people's siomscoo; he wanted
to avow with basins. But soother said—' You are arms
seals; 100 ley alcohol affects the heals; but those who
have braise doe't drink it now." (Laushter end modems.)
"It you once begin think'
• You 611 sure to stop -
lie concluded &mkt great *opium
Bro. the Rev. H. winos' congratulated them on
mai4tie tech a good use of the theatre. sod it w. hikbly
to as credit of the suilesos that they were so mlerl,E
sod so enthusestic This week we are "On the spree,
end a right sort of spree. IP rewound's' the Independent
o•der of Good Tenopian ;I ity talievyd in the promiiesim
of the liquor train% and they *aro glad the Coerce of
14ogload Temperance 8 iCitsr Wei grow*. Tb• religious
i moms of the qiie.t oil ha l boo dealt with. eel the
i 1.9 G.T. aysmid with all; they went every help in the
work. Thom ye the bloeh the rod, sad Cho white ribbon
,t movement, so a int.. 4 of aptl,t.,eg up lb* M"One*to
i every sesesiatios lied ill model a ointildiore 4 ship wee
i is Marone . Um minute gas was bodatiog, when the
I flebeereen Wed Ii bun* the luster *Mast the water.
They tried very hard. but a'ter repeated efforts eat dims
Ibeaten, asylne—" Twenty puma. more push would do it";
when a boy acid—" I can push 90 pounds," and th=
' launch-II the 'miter. and the live, were saved. P
total obitinenct from the me of iototirmting drinks, sad,
secondly, the prohibition of the matzoth-acre sad sale,
are tit two planks of the Trmplar movement. and the
Good Template are in ',Meath, .itit 4,07 form of
tecuperaece organisation. Is the United Kingdom are
lodges, moieties aa • rule weakly, each of wh ch li on
, nAr.i...l temperance society IMO ; juvenile temples.
' IsPb a-e spent noon such nisei loge with so taconite of
000 a veer. 411 the principles and conatitution are
published tied thowo ; they ar• soc•al in the lodges.
1 subordinate and district: lodsse, grand lodpee, and right
i worthy grand lodms, all brotherly and eiete/ly to rmh 1
: other, the it W.G.T. being no intereatideat coofrovMoo, :
' with remmentatir •s front all parte of thie world. Taerii Is
r e colour Um In the Order ; it is rubbed ouS fa tbd Order.
: Not only are they social in actor,, but rill/tette in spirit.
i On the very threshold of the Order is demand ed as
! acknowledgmeet of the exMteace of God; every csadidato
! i it initiated with lame q tot Aires from B:ripture, end the
; lodes
_are °wined and cl smd triill pearl,. mid that Pr•Yor
I 4 cio..d in the some of lb, Lied Jesus Corist, white Boma
' thoomiads Of ministers of reheat) are menalt.n of tho
, Order Good imaplary is not religion. sod *ill not do
I the work of religion ; it is not in accordance with the
1 principles of Good Templer's' to pet it in tho awe of
: rfligion. Bat it le religious in the spirit, ptilleethroptc Is
Its purpose. It. Onset is the upl.filnd of drink-cursed
humanity. the pr,vesties of the drink Irak. mid the
: making of a sober world; they at. • lah•houle airing
light. • lifeboat going to tom life, bonded together to
pit down Um mem corm, and the peoplits of Welotooth
at" canine fteet.d nobly in the owes.
Mr. T. W. GLOVER •140 •Icireesed the amootbly princi-
pally on subirets of buon 'II ; bat be also gave the roes on
: why the blue ribbon was eetopt id as the origin of the
I
' toommeott referring I' Ntmime• ay., 3Z t) 40.
1 Sinaloa sod the tekin. of ha plrdte followed. • further
I number Woe tipped with the bide ribbon that night.