The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-04-04
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
{ EDITED BY A LADY.

In one OF our Sabbath schools last Sab
bath teacher was presenting pledge to her
class of, boys from twelve to sixteen years of
age. All signed it but one, who promptly re-
fused because homemade wine was manufac-
tured and used in the family. He said he
liked it and he would not give up the privi-
lege of drinking it. Are parents willing to
risk the sobriety and well-doing Of their chill
dren by such an example9
AS III Should BEs-Let me tell you of .one.
home which will never be desolated by drum
kenness. Among the pictures in the sitting
room, where the children meet father and
mother in happy companionship many times
a day, hangs a total abstinence pledge with
the signature of every member Of the family
| upon it. And the parents take pleasure in it,
speaking Of it, with satisfaction, thanking
| God for it, keeping the idea prominent in the
minds of their children. No intoxicating
liquor, for any purpose, ever comes into that
house. Neither for cooking, for medicine, or
for cleaning, is child ever sent to purchase,
alcohol, or any of its foul kindred.
Parents, for the sake of the children, the
dear little children, whom you cannot keep in
| your arms always, keep up public sentiment
IN the home that shall be guard to them,
when they go out into the world /; set them
an example like the Forth Star to guide them,
and then, and always pray our Father to
"deliyer from evil.
The OUNCE OF PREvENTIoN.-" An ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure, says
the old proverb. Let us apply it to temper
ance. A long line of Keeling, staggering
candidates for perdition, $780, 900 in number
one after another, through the year, drop out
of sight and memory. And still this death
march goes on. Is there any way to prevent
| it?
Why, certainly. Druukards grow from
moderate drinkers, and moderate drinkers
from the untaught, or wrongly educated chill
dren of our homes There is a point where
the stop can be put on and that is the home.
Every parent is responsible for the intemper-
ance of his child, il he has not, by example
and precept, done everything possible to pre-
vent it.
| If parents would take as much pains OF
form pure, healthful taste in their children,
as they now take, truly, though sometimes
unconsciously, to form taste for stimulants,
we should see fewer entering the path that
leads to the drunkard's grave.
A PIcTuRE.-We call upon all sensible peo-
pie to mount this picture, and hang it on
their wallis
Mhare 10 tho ,,o,,,,,1,, so,,so 81 1,,, ,,,o.;
can people?
Survey the picture the rum flend has hung
up before the vision of the people 100000
liquor saloons that would form street from
New York to Philadelphia 100000 inebria-
ties, who five abreast, would make procession
equally extended 4 saloons to every school
in the nation vendors to every minister of
Christ 1900 funerals of drunkards every
week an amount of liquor distilled that
would fill canal 1870 miles long, by fourteen
feet wide and four feet deep, vast army of
fathers, sons, brothers and husbands filing in
to prisons, asylums and graves, and the
ranks never decimated; the drunken incen-
diary's torch illuminating nightly the heav-
ems blood shed by intoxicated assassins,
! reddening night by night the ground long
procession of widows and orphans made such
by the drink demon startling statistics of
crime and poverty looming up before the
drowsy eye balls of the people like the pillars
of cloud and flame an appalling panorama
Of squandered fortunes, crushed hopes, brok-
en- hearts, desolate homes, and the curse licen-
ssd and protected and defended By prcfesscd
Christian mon.