The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

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mouth ngainst giving them better .
a few fprther remarks from the chairman aiki
advantages which tempers, ce conferred on the ste
the Rev. Dr. Gale addramed the meeting. ,
,-rairt then began to fail, and an adjournment was
a hart cloy by.] Re said that he had read III:Oat",
.vorks.and studied the temperance question as deeply as
say man, and the more he studied it the deeper was his
1 eonviction that tlee Christian public in this country
ought to Se in the, side of teetotalism. He of course
could. not but admit that them was a great deal of truth
arid Christian wisdom outside of the pale, of the
temperance canoe- but as regarded,tintagicating drinks
be could not but believe... Abet thelirgtia was with the
teetotallers. Tt inieht tie Ake& " Why Co you corne here
to introduse your newfangled ideas into this little
country village r To this he answered that teetotalism
weemit a newfangled idea,it was as old as the world,
'indite reason, why they sought to promulgate it was
because they /mind even in that small place three
public-houses. There was still a great Mount' °I
ignoragce respecting strong drink. He himself thouglg ,
taming from college full of book-learning, was as me
carded the question as ignorant as a "sacking duck.!;
(Laughter.) They were told to take a little but not to ,
get drunk. That was about the sum and substance-of
their knowledge. They were not them tailed that these
drinka were Injurious to the human system. But the
most celebrated men had searched into the matter, and
the result will Clear proof that the most healthy of all
drinks was Water; and that intoxicating drinks were
Tolitively %%eons, even when taken moderately. Tlse
friends of the temperance reformation seeffig on evert*
hand the immense amount of evil caused by thee
drinks called upon all to give no their use, being per.
seeded everyone would be better in health, better ter
pocket, and better in mind without them. The rev.
rliidaman then spoke of the vastamountof panperism in
the conntry, which he said waits. diegraos twit nation the
'richest in the.world. There was one million, or one in
every thirty Of the population supported by the met of
the community. Poverty was a disgrace except it was
caused by illness, old age, or adverse circumstances.
t During the past four years there had been the cotters
famine, caused by the American war. During that
period there was lam mime than when the operatives
were receiving good wages, aid spending money in
Intoxicating liquors. This question of poverty was a
great and vital one, for if the millions spent to make
tanners went into the legitimate trades of the country—
butchers, bakers, grocers' he' how much richer and
better would the people be. He attributed the short
supply of butchers' meat to the fact of thousands of
acres being sown with barley, wbioh being malted
was n. 4 to make beer, pale ale. he. The reason
the Gospel did not succeed was not because its ministers
were unfaithful. butivhrongh the hindrances in the way.
There was poverty and ignorance of the things relating
to this life and that whieb Ato come. Now strogg
, drink was the greet barrier to the spread of education.
They had the evil before them .1 what was the remedy!
Total abstinence. 'Mat would give them a healthy coun-
tenance and • sparkling eye, it would give their children
education and lead themselves to reflection, to the love

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