The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPIELNCE
SOCIETY.

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The Good Templar, Waisted the Rt. Karel branch of
the above society to have a good meetise on Friday
night, at St 11.7.11 School. The It.. J. Fdx, Christ-
church. prroided in place of the Ra-tor. who ww
nnfortunarrly 111. awl after the minting and warm%
called on lb. Glover, who stated that Canon Barker (the
great gun of the nu unable to be prowler, baring
been suMisOried br telegraph to attend Her Majesty at
Orixeroc.

The !ter. C. M. OWie, of Southampton. delivered an '
address, in Flitch he stated that,. mock money to spent '
yearly in this country as would stifil, to put • number
of enverelyna on each letter of the an average of
as. per head is spent per annum in Britain on intoxicants,
while only Si. Is contributed for apreading the Gospel of
°briefs When • child lust been low he made a member
of Christ, and a child of God, drink must accompany the
occasion, when a couple of young People are mtierted,
drink must celebrate the union, and if the body of a
brother or sister is to he committed to Its resting place.
drink mast be consumed What is the remedy for
druckenness Drink is the cause, and we must stop the
aetureed traffic. In the worat of evil. at least nn the hest
of days; we must not wait for Parliament ; hut every
parish In Zeeland most support It. temp trance society.
and all the societies join to try ani stem this
Increasing curse. They have been waling to see
whet the dortors will say, and now upwards of
1.000 doctor, have come forward and sirned a state-
ment that intoxicettng drink is had in all the dieseats
of the human frame ; that perfect activity and perfect
health are compltible with total abstinence: that
eh., who have been in the habit ttf taking intoxicating
drinks e•n leave It off at once without Isngrr and that
if people could he got to leare them off. it would he much
better for the happiness of the nation at large; total
abstinence I. peoluetive of loot life. ea asurance statistics
prove. Teetotalers must teach the Parliament what to to
In the matter, iind nxett feel they are responsihie for the
course. Who mend the member. to Parliament I The
electors. In S'ntthoolOt^n they have circulated a notice,
and have got • large nomlier .tf voters who pramim not
to vote for any member of Pirliament, who will not
procaine to vote for the Permissive Bill. It is said by some
that the It-formation will come with .ut their personal
efforts ; hut how can we ,•I1 Ir/h.-a it will be, effected. till
know how fast it I. coming! Sime who cell th-mselvee
friends of terapereore, act like the Jew• who agreed to
present • Mimi of wine to their rabhi : one hiao thought
he might pat • bottle of water into the barrel instead of
wine, and when the rabbi cone to dims, hi. presentation
trine, it was clear all en," have thooght the Fame, for
there was not Inn Mit water in the barrel. The ladies*
hitt been actussed of causing the driutia4, Inc it ws

"Women make m.n love,
L ive nuke. them iii:
SIVIU.OI m•ltes them drink,
And drinking rnskn then. mad."
Bit he believed that if the ladies .in j n, they will
greatly heln the Tennwrance cause The children
emecially Could he kept teetotelere: a child 'hose father
wee going ups nioonteln ask him to take the ufe path,
Nemo.. he "Father nisy he able to *elk the dimme-
r.). pith hnt Tem tore to fall there." So let everyfewly
.how hi. rhiliren the cafe nt.th. L•t everehodc swettP
clean by hi. own dom. and all will he cleen hot Emdifim.
men ere noted for going to meetins.
and then id iine nothing. Alt", ell the right light to look
it the temperance queetlon is the light in which God
look. at it, we have something In common with the
drunkard, end that is the 1,11,41 soil, for which Chriet
died, end the queetion for ech of tie is —"What am I
doing to mare a arnnkarre soul r For the Bake of
nhilenthrony, economy, end r'lelliuntion, And fm
I•lether still, the motive of winning souls for Christ, as He
has in time past helned it., en let no in tinie to crime, work
fir. Him. and we shall kindle a lieht in Weymouth and in
all England that shall nye its hien flyer ages yet to come,
and oenerstion. vet unborn. (A tonlatue.)
Mr. T. W. (haven till the !I.e. Telhot Grease, had
taken an inter«, In the timti.t, nqmtioq the tee 20
ream. The Chnrch of Enid/cid Temperance Society h.
the great weicht of the Q teen on its title, also b ith
Archhiglicon. Canterbory. and York. a large number of
the bishnes. and flee chaplains of Her Misje.ty. The
"moderate" trench of the rootletv is doing great good. for
Instance, the Dike of Weetrainster, who is not •
teetotaler, haa a vac namher of gin paha,. heloneinx to
hin. in London, and as fist as the lease, fall into hind, he
shnts the gin palaces up, or. at crest lost to Memel', pm.
coffee palette, instead. The "moderate" breach hu
hyoueht into the total abstinence branch inch men its
Canon Wilberforce, Canon Farrar, and °them: it has„
like the teacher beginning to teach the alphabet, made
the people say k in the ranee of temperance, and they
will have le. difficulty In Icing made sty B C. and the
rest. flir William Coll, the phy.ician to whom wu
entrusted the life of the Prince of Wales in his dangerous
has &dared that alentiolic liquors, taken In any.
qnantity. are Injurious to the person who take, them
and Dr. Richardson has declared that persons habituated
to them may tense theni off at ono, without danger. In
fact at Portland people hehitusted lone to them have to
leave them at once whether they will or no. It was •
mistake of people to finer they could not do so, and
reminded him of a lady who era, carefully put into •
train with her face to the engine, bemuse she "could not
ride any other Int." The train went up some MI miles,
and came hackers., Is shoot twenty mile. to Portansonth,
and near the end, the lady dim-neared she sac "going the
gryetur way," and exclaimed —" What a hesdache I should
have had, If I had known my hack was to the engine."
(Laughter.) Fourteen thnicand ai.onoi of the clergy,—
and that was two thirds of the whole—hail aimed a
mentor's/ te the Flonee of Lords in which they adopted
the rinciple of the Permiclve Bill, which is "that no
Pohllchoese ought to he thniet on any people without
their free will and consent." (Aunty...) In conclusion
Mr. Glover timed all to join the Church of England
Temperance Society, and the United Rinzdom Alliance.
Rev, J. FOX (cheirnien) at the close of the meeting.
spoke highly of the temperance calms, and stated his
determination that no member of his family obritilii touch
Intoxicating drink: he is a teetotaller himself, and he is
going to be especially careful to keep it from the children.
(APPIAU..)
hOlarbb"C:rrePenmaileined.refreorcientheZdhurchby the
of England T7mdperans"'"l
Temperance
scciety. St. limis branch.