The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-27 00:00:00

0.Z.T.&-A DORSET SPZAKER.

Bev. Canon Stephens= called the friend/ of tentgrence
togethwr o, Monday evening last, to beer an aridness from
Kr. Daniel Bailee% of Lidebet Minot-r. aed they com-
muned / doge( toot stirring hymn ot Sank.syn—"Huld
the Fort AMr enuring author "UP with thy
heads to Jean," not quite no lively as iin nese for the
people evidently dichit know Its, v. 51, Rev. kir. Stephen-
sea hoped the mune of Mr. Beaded was gomg to fell
upon their Mead Kr. Setter, who dad not feel very (olden
Ws subject, egad wished to say • few eorde to the teetot
I deeds. —kr. SOW_ tympana with teem to the bottom
In the object they hod tonight, and was glad to bee so
much enteuelaant in the matter; let them put their hearts
Into lx, nod that would carry them arouse ever/
Bev. Cason Stepheasou said It was dingsleuos 10 tulthlmtio
on the subject of temperance ; but just sa he was going in
for it, Mt. Bailers appeared amid loud thenra—Mr.
Bellem had been 'ravelling up from Peusania, and was
glad to be there. The lost tans he came into that dox,
be told his wife the Wi remolds PeoPle did ion
wised say more of him; but toll Judeanc • we, thoson
big in popularity, foe peep. used to Leine isetotalere
were • laths gone, wrong in the upper ato:ey, but,., far
no the Monte of it west, he bad no wish to real. word.
Day or aight, sumor or winter, hot or cold, Intone:snag
dnek woo no good. If the to-. 4 abstainers had &skid a
rev. gentleasea to go into hie echoolroon he wadn't sure
th-y denial.' a bin nut up to D echest-r. (Laugetere
No ciao could look et the evils of the dram,.g system for
One osieuursand not feel the horror of it. He bed bees •
total abstain.t for IS gets, and Noe oit four or five
sleet. • week, nod aust had anything for IL No quells"
this total shatioeszas dose now what it erased, to, nod
he idea's called lx tkepel setapereince. Tarty thanss.
I. the breweries up so dieser time on Suoditys, and
hundreds of teouseeds babied the counter, dealsng out.
souldestraying drink. le at we have had • wonderful
change In them; the young wan ere wiser then the old
ones, bk. the boy who said "Tether taught me all he
knew, and 'tees very hard I couldn't learn • little
raysen." People believed thet .drinks mold snake,,
well if they were 111, sod If the, enereWt al %would keep
Ikea well, If they wentwl to go to sleep it would send
them, and if they greeted to hasp awake 'twee. do that.
(I.egetere But if any doctoe or closest could prove
i seers woo more nutriment in • gallon of beer than • panty
Ilea( bed give al. People did not know that the null
couldn't be made int) daya soh* was obliged to tell 'eta orst
lead over main they must break the Sabbath Wreaks drink.
Out of 100 gallons of the best beer, 94, or 944 were water,
and nothing else, and 31 gallons of alcohol—e real p 01.0114
whisk does not grow to aerating an God's earth. Hs
daseribeg the malting of barley and the brewing of beer,
and denoted alcohol will not arairailate with Use blood, or
the system et all How could they have out of the drink
what west% in 111 Go to your par. when 'tis wooly
empty, and try to take oat AA Didn't it prove the truth
—if in. publicans and beavers did not dare to come on the
platform and contradict his opinion. I It er,. their policy
to ode quiet. Tim they said—" We can't eat unless we
do drink." and than they turn round and sip 'You tato-
tellers. if you dou't drink. you sail good dad" (Leugh-
ter.) Out of the greats, the tows and the son bad the
best o' it, and the drinkers do hays the wadi, and gle six-
peace a plot for It. You can get a good p‘g n I • seek of
barley for what you pey for a hogshead of that swipes.
W hist 'II keep a publiran 'II kw, p• bu iier. 'ti -ca the Knee, a
have taken up to sell wine, their deaths here been needy
double what they were before. Lea week his heart wee
sad at Blendford : • clog maa wss overeat,. with drink;
he had tut his church and they tried to rec aim him, but
the firit mosey be got, he sent notion a bottle of whisky ;
he smashed the windows, and tee? were wilted to take
him bock to Loudon, and that was only net Thursday.
He asked than who would give up toe drink to do so.
TheC.I.TI3., though he doubted them at find, I. doing
a grand, go. work; hundreds of clst,yuon have j bud,
and huodreds more got the night-marn Icc toss they clot
step urea this platform. Soros people slot their being
able to drink a great deal I one m said—" I cam
drink, Kr. Hallam, till I es* WI the others curlew
up round the table; whin d'ye melte o' teat I' Bald
ha—"! can understand it my way. Tb tv say 'Us • heath-
poison, and if you got no brains It don't hurt es I' (Leash-
ter.) 'Ti. the mod generous-booted yoong NMI that the
drink hurt mos% Even the men too do sal it don't
know what 'tis no wore'n • donkey no know about hi.
grandfather. (Laughter.) In Souse and down in
Bourn-, Valle; te.y were bluing temp•r thee ego stings out
of doers. Only £ll lOs goes into the livo-ur market to
me-infector. £l6O worth of swipes; but tor other things
16s. oat of ovary pound goes lot, the bthour market. L ,at
yea- we laid out £1,300.000 more money Wdin the rent of
ail the boors and ever/ mere f Una in the Uaitad King-
dom, on in•oxica*ing drink.. :tooth es were o bothers-
up to Parliemeot —there woe Kr. Wanton; a chimney-
sweep would be al ire honoureble in Perliament than hi;
didn't he block the Welsh Sonday Ciosing Bin, 1 here
eae one block he ought to , to, that eas in the Tower of
London, where the axe do come down. (Laughter)
li-tter on* men auffer than hundreds of tlO deeds, nod
x treble respoosib lily rota upon Mr. Warton—anose
make the best o' it ; boil
Then there WY the Bali Itt of Lnc on ; ehousi I.
ashamed to tell 'au whet he said. sq I he hoped they'd
never know. Torre is a pleasure in doing or of, that no
stineinese or nig irdlinest or hal— :r d. tanking will
ever find. "Ha that wee rich for oor sate. became poor,
that we through His purity mutt be rich." Only the
oner day the spanker coo at Dorchater, when the Lord
Chief Just c • of England mid—" Nine.etalis of the crime
caosei by int xowtne drink." To tee Idol—drop-
drinksi• be said—" Don t let the mad dos bite you before
you fight him." Let m 'there aed fathers think about it
now, keep the drink away frith their tWiles, nod bring
op their ehildrrn in the princip'es of temperance, and
they will grow up stronger and healthier. Teetotalers
were courting for the young people. Some young oxen go
on keeping company for years, and mother our" Beery,
when's John a going to meek. a hwome for 'as r —"l3Ait
know, =giber r —Why I Ikeeti. he b. • drinking
bout, and there goes the price of • cene-bottomed choir;
than they must go out for • bal. 'Korean, and both
drink, and there rod • kiteben table A young 'oomen's
-nother asked bet the question, en I the gol said—"l dont
know ; but 1 001 l to-night" When th-y were walking
do-n the lane. with his arm round her witist—Caushkeo—
they do nut in Weymoutb I Well, they do In the
country, Loire, then I (I. outlier.) She says o-o-hr•
" What', the matter r say. John. "O
-..h r Anybody
been s-horten th. r—" I doan't like to tell 'es."—"Now,
I oil know." "0-h " says she." p op'e do any we be gun
1., be married." S.ys be—" La '.to mind their own
ruiners, is what I haven't adludight aeout."—" That'.
je,t what I kboyitit," •.y, she, " and a .w I with 're good
Orb,, sod you goo bwome to your m ,ther r Mous of
laueldw.) Why people drink ie because they doq't think.
At Winterslow • nun who had been • clryollard and in
etas .re. reclaimed, and 18 months after he was singing in
the choir and ha spoke 4 a. meeting and told how his
child used to ask t , be put to bed before dada came borne.
Now his really were happy, and he had Rid off £l6 debt.
Drink can do what the devil can't do. He can tempt, bat
be can's take away our rsaooe and make men a raving
maniac, like drink. Mean) The wins,. Just on bed no
the beer; Dr. Collinette said he could make as good wise
as people drink, at five farthing a erntle, nod when two
judges, an arm: captain and a navy c anent tried it,
ani some wine sold by the merchant u of the same
kind, they decided on Dr. Calliasite's as the superior.
A doctor at B ,urnemouth sold—" If we murder our
Patients, their relatives an perfectly utiaded." The
plainer es Hui the healthier he was, and, if every drop of
intoxicate/ drinks were annihllatel this night, eobody
would be arty the wale; hat If it cant n me., and is uaed,
hundreds of thousands will be pauperioet and criminabeed.
In conclipien, he congratelated them at St John's on their
position oo Temperance Reformer,, and defied the brewers
and the publicans to kneel down and salt the blueing of
God upon their bushiest. If they did, and their business
bar:reseed, what would be the result! Crime, onel
pauperism, and misery must Increase But hei hoped the
pest will he dons sway, and religion and sobriety will
ratan all over the town.—Tee Her. J. Stephenson said
that in looking 4th. work of the C IL.T.S. in this diocese.
St.John'. stood at the top. (Applausi) In Ws striety
thin are sourudy any moderate drinkers ; they are gritting
flaw sad fewer, and the total abstainers or. lacreasiall
He sautionsd them to be boort. Toot had 600 members;
bat, If they drank .0 the sly, he woo. rather have six
who were houest and true A lady told him a clergyman
was coming eho di I not believe in t etotalion, and who
rhalleoged them to produce ex refonnel drunkard., who
st on Ito the pi-dg,. (11. ice : Tows ars le Isere. sir) You
there were more than -ix hero t night, and he thanked
G si for it —So tber 10 the doxology, sad the Cues
thinkeel the blessing.