, 1879-02-01
TENPER1NCEIN Old ENGLAND

TIL" time honorrd established church
"fOd Eogland at present is dong u
very prniswortly work in tvmp,rmrr
by lI" Church ot England Trmprmnrr
Union" which extend, all over the king.
dom md has ON immrus mrmlrrSl i,
A writer describing the movement
says thai:
"Ihc rl'dgr is signed upon printed
card. which the signcr krrns. In,trnd
"i beng perpetual plrlg,, rs g,u rally
among uS. II can hr Terminated. mt any
time by simply giving up She card at
my time to hc proper officer l. was
thongIt that this phlp did no. prrticI.
" lead t" 'rckSlili'g. willie it promoted
s5!'-resprct hy ssrn e chaucr of
pledge breaking, They vary from our
practice, ag"in, Iy maintaining always.
IN the same oIglrizltiun, an ON n per
fert "qn lily ia every respect, "A 7o,oI
-1o'tt0en'e section and II Temperance src-
tion. The pledge of the latter is one Of
geIct"l opposition to the abuse Of drink
ing. and also Of absence 10 "A certain cy.
tent: as from drinking in pu lie house.
or between meals, or more til n Il sp,ci
Net m"d'rrtrqnln'ity per day. or any
spiri'npus liquor. or from receiving drink
in part ply 20" hhn.. The syncr IN the
temp"lauce section hinlS hims, # 10 one
or more, us he p'ens IS. Of ,hrse specific
restraints; AMI h. has, | hrIicvr. II blue
card instead of pink ON: in very 9th
er respect, he is on precisely the same
footing with the total abstinence mrm-
bers. A clergyman who hat worked up
large AMI surcrs,rul hrinch of the so
ciety in his parish told m: "rne total
abStanprs are n littl inclined to look
down on the OH r. ms halI-wny chap;
but always discourage that. tell
chem the oin'rs art just as good MS they
are"
This Arrangement srnck me ns m nj
mirable SaIrguIrd against the intolrranl
spirit which is the hanr Of so much of
our own temperance work. Thi, clergy
man b"long"d hims II to the strictcr scc-
tion, which | think in his plrish includ-
cd twn.thlrds OF the membership. H.
believed that total abstinence was the
wlsrst course for the great majority, and
That the current notion that thu. lnbprrr
Peels his beer WAS mistake. He
thought the temperance section of the
socicly served largely rs an education
for the other.
The most striking indi,ilnal succr So
0i the temperance movement lately has
been the wonderful popularity and pros
prrlty ct the temperance coffee houses
in Liverpool. which / suppose has had
q larger prop 'rtinn Of drunkenness md
gross lmmorility than almost any other
city in Christrndom. These rutfrc.hnusrs
have thrivrn and multiplied amazingly;
they arc owned ly nm ASSOCIATION lich en-
ough to often buy up nn'l appropriate II
popular tavern stand; they are to II GER
tain cxttnt revOlutiOnizug the moral
condition Of tho city. wish some one
on the grnnnd would tho 0ughly ST. dy
up tmse Liycrp ,ol confr-houscs, and
give the result with some fulnrss to the
American public. Perhaps it has already
been done, hut il SO I Il" not know whirc.
! think it would make n page Of GOO
reading for III" people who are blue be
cause the world is all going to the dogs
with inf lelity and irrrlgion. The tn
icrprise has been 40 managed as to prov"
an excellent business investment. which
no doubt is one min secrrtr Ut its sue
ccss L'nlnn has comparatively moth
Ing oi the kind.