Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-09
Temperance and Intemperance.

YOUTHFUL inebriate appeared recently
before Cincinnati justice to swear off, but
the magistrate declined to aid him in his
attempt to reform, on the ground that he
was too young to understand the meaning
of an oath.
AT a temperance meeting on Tower Hill,
London, two weeks ago, ten thousand peo-
pie, chiefly Irish, were present. Cardinal
Manning, who presided, said he had wit
messed many meeting on Tower Hill, but
never such one as that
SERIES of most powerful aud convinc-
ing temperance lectures was delivered in St.
Louis and other cities during the recent
heated term. An unusual interest on the
subject was awakened so that even phySi.
clans united in recommending entire absti
nence for the time being. The Sun was the
lecturer.
The National Baptist, speaking of "The
Temperance Lesson Book" says zone halt
hour per week devoted to this subject in our
public schools, with this work as a guide
and text book would he of vast service to
the temperance cause, by training the chill
dren to intelligent views Of the monstrous
evils of intemperance."
Or all the robberies that is the most
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man of his manhood, his selfrespect, which
robs children OF their parents, making them
orphans and worse than orphans, while a
boated degraded and demented father still
survives, robs the family of support and
sends them to the almhouse, robs the day
schools of their pupils, the Sabbath-schools
of theirs, robs society of some of its laborers,
the professions of some of their most bril-
liant ornaments, the world of hope and the
individual of his soul Who is this robber :?
Strong drink. just to the extent that it is
employed as beverage or as a medicine,
since the change in name does not affect its
nature changing what is justly styled, IN
the one case, "the foe to the system a
| foreign element ever at war with the vital
process" into harmless medicine--just to
that extent this robbery is perpetrated, these
evils exist, as vice prevails virtue must yield.
Dr. Hanatord.
TRAVELLED the other day with a gentle
man who has very extensive legal practice
in Edinburgh, and who performed a large
amount of brainwork. said to him, Are
you an abstainer % He said to me, " You
take nothing?" | answered, "No." He
said, " As for me, | did take little, as
thought it was necessary for me, because
had so much brainwork, but spoke to my
medical man about some complaints from
which | suffered, and he said, What do
you take p said my breakfast consisted
of so-and-so, and in the middle of the day
have glass of sherry and sandwich, and a
glass of sherry at my dinner, just what any
moderate drinker taxes" sWel,' said the
medical man, that is all quite right, except
the glass of sherry. | said | could not get
on without my glass of sherry. The medi
cal man said, You try to do without your
sherry. | followed his advice and now
am able to do more brainwork than before
and get through my duties with less fatigue
and less sense of WEAKNESS than ! ever
did before moreover, when ! saw my sons
rising up about me, felt that | could moi
urge them TO abstain when | was not alb
staining myself, and, therefore, was all the
more resolved TO follow the advice of the
medical man."-NDor Ross
In recent eloquent sermon in England
Rev. Canon Farrar gave the following ex
perience. How many Christian ministers wit
ness similar scenes with much less emotion
al am speaking to you this evening, the
soil being still freshly broken over the grave
of one of the sweetest wives aud mothers
ever knew in my life. For years she had
been bearing with, aud praying for, and for
| BNluEf lndl bIutt WIN oMOlt az tiie
altar of God that he would love and cher
ish her, and few days ago he set the sea
upon years of bitter cruelty and neglect
and in paroxysm of drunkenness he kicked
her savagely, and in few hours that tor
tured broken heart, that weary tormented
spirit was where the wicked cease from
troubling, and the weary are at rest and
by her side in the cold grave tonight, il
lying the tiny corpse OF her prematurely borr
infant. As | spoke over that dear mother
the words Of sure and certain hope of 1
resurrection to eternal life, and of rest in tn,
providence of God, where there shall be M
more sin or sorrow, and where tears shall
never flow, my heart was on fire within me
A voice seemed to say 10 me, there lie
another victim of England's accursed sin
there lies another victim of England's mis-
erable imperative aud cold-hearted legisla
ton; and repeated my resolution one,
more that as long as God gives me voice Il
speak will never sheath my sword in tn
battle against this terrible iniquity."
REV. CANON WILBERFoRcE, in recen
sermon in York, England, said; " If a con
gregation like this gathered before me thi
morning would 90 home determined that il
the present distress they would for a few
years at least Danish from their own us
that which, though it never hurts them, i
numbering the souls of millions; II the
would feel that Jesus was giving to them th
command OF ordination, aud sending then
out preaching from the pulpit and from tn
workshop, the dinner table and the socis
gathering, they would do a work for thei
Lord which would astonish them at the da
/ of judgment. They would do more to chez
, the intemperance of England than all tn
Permissive bills that ever could be passed
/ You say now am asking you to sacrifc
/ something. Is il too much to ask those VIII
! were bought by the blood of Jesus to pu
, away from them a single article of domesti
comfort to save the souls OF those whom tn
Infinite and the Eternal once came fror
heaven to win Is it too much to ask thos
4 who often sing these words
: " Love 10 amazing. 80 divine,
Z Demands my life, my soul my all p
a You are not asked for anything like thai
' only for personal self-denial. You mus
e learn to cruelty the flesh il Christ demand
h it, for he gave everything To you. This
4 not the only way in which you can worl
I Everybody can work the physician, tn
e statesman, aud the phianlhropist and thos
e 10 whom God has given riches, can worl
}. They could give literally to all temperate
8 organizations"