The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
The Church ofEnglana and Temperance

r. Graham, general secretary of
the Church of England Temperance
Society, who is commissioned to re-
port on the working of prohibitOry
laws and inebriate asylums in Can
ada and the United States, lectured
the other day in Boston. He said
that after reading carefully and
thoughtfully DIR. Crosby's lecture he
found it to be anything but q calm
view; and when he considered
further the replies TO that lecture by
DIR. Mark Hopkins and Mrs. Foster,
one of his long standing insular
prejudices at least had disappeared.
Mr.. Phillips statement i'll his lecture
to the naughty Episcopal Church and
its slowness i'll the movement had
also moved the speaker 10 reply 10
DIR. Crosby to show w here the Eng
lish EpiscOpoi Church did really
stand. DIR. Crosby's hard words APP
piled to total abstainrrs, the speaker
believed, has done great injury. y
special committee had been appoint
ed ill England recently 10 inquire
into the extent of imtenrperancc, the
reason for it, and how it could be
remed Ell. The wretchCd condition
of English homes disclosed by the
investigations of this committee, was
| detailed, and it was declared that
the church Of England, with its
countless resources, was just the
power to grapple and deal with this
great curse of society. The misno-
mer evident in calling houses for
selling stronk drink, licensed victu-
alling houses, led to the conclusion
that the multitude of public houses
strengthened intemperance greatly,
and vivid description was given of
the enormous evils wrought by these
houses upon society and the home.
Within late years an intense feeling
has been growing up that there shall
be at least one day in the week
when the liquor shops shall be
closed, especially when the same law.
is enforced concerning other and re-
| spectacle trades. The enforcement
of the prohibition laws i'll Toronto
| was described, and their successful
working; and the speakers expert
ences, while riding along the elevat-
ed railway in New York in the OBJ
servation of liquor saloons open on
Sunday, and the disregard of the
fact by police, were narrated. The
same state of things in English cities
i'll the past has prevailed, but the es-
Enlistment of the coffee house has
wrought an ind escribale change for
the better. there being now forty
one in Liverpool. The society pre-
viously described has looked upon
this temperance work from the very
first as religious movement, an as
pect of the question which is greatly
needed everywhere for the most sue
cessful progress. Numerous distin-
guished men of England have rallied
to the support of the cause, among
whom Canon Farrar is prominent.
The chairman of the committee on
the revision of the New Testament
has also joined the cause, followed
by the bishops of Durham, Roches-
ter, Exeter, and the two Wilber-
forces. In closing, the speaker pre-
sented a general resume of the great
points of the temperance question,
and alluded to the tremendous odds
with which the cause has to contend
in the agony and wretchedness OF
the home wrecked by this sin; in
the ruin of countless lives, and in
the universal combination of the two
great evils OfdrHnkenness and senu-
ality, all of which must be met by
an organized force moving by united
efforts, both of England and Ameri-
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