Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-04
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CALM VIEWS OF
TEMPERANCE.

r. Graham, general secretary of the
church of England Temperance society,
who is commissioned to report on the
working of prohibitory laws and inebri-
ate asylums in Canada and the United
States, lectured Monday noon at the
Meionaon, Boston. He said that after
reading carefully and thoughtfully DIR.
Crosby's lecture he found it to be any
thing but calm view; and when ne
considered further the replies to that
lecture by DIR. Mark Hopkins and Mrs.
Foster, one of his long standing insular
prejudlces at least had disappeared.
Mr.. Phillips's statement in his lecture
to the naughty Episcopal Church and
its slowness in the movement had also
moved the speaker to reply to DR.. Cros-
by to show where the English Episco-
pal Church did really stand. DIR. Cros-
by's hard words applied to total alb
stainers, the speaker believed, has done
great injury. A special committee had
been appointed in England recently to
inquire into the extent of intemperance,
the reasons for it, and how it could be
remedied. The wretched condition of
English homes disclosed by the ivesti-
cations 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
misnomer evident in calling houses for
selling strong drink licensed victualling
houses led to the conclusion that the
multitude of public houses strengthened
intemperance greatly, and vivid de-
scription was given of the enormous evils
wrought by these houses upon society
and the home. Within late years an
intense feeling has been growing uI
that there shall be at least one day in
the week when the liquor shops shall be
closed, especially when the same law il
enforced concerning other and respecta
BILE trades. The enforcement of The
prohibition laws in Toronto was describ
ed, and their successful workings; anc
the speakers experiences, while riding
along the elevated railway in New Yorl
in the observation of liquor saloons opel
on Sunday and the disregard of the fac
by the police, were narrated. The sam
, state of things in English cities in tn
; past has prevailed, but the establish
, ment of the cofee-house has wrought a
] indescribable change for the better, ther
, being now forty-one of them in Liver
F; pool. The society previously describe
e has looked upon this temperance wor
e from the very first as religious mov'
ment, an aspect of the question which
t greatly needed everywhere for the mo:
d successful progress. Numerous distil
i guished men of England have rallied
| the support of the cause; among whol
e Canon Farrar is prominent. The chat
IL man of the Committee on the Revisio
:" of the New Testament has also joint
!, the cause. followed by the Bishops
d Durham, Rochester, Exeter and the tv
30 Wllberforces. In closing the speak
d presented general resume of the gre
lie points of the temperance question, al
D, alluded to the tremendous odds wi
ID which the cause has to contend in t
~ agony and wretchedness of the hor
< wrecked by this sin ; in the ruin
countless lives. and in the univers
IS. combination of the two great evils
- drunkenness and sensuality, all of viii
n, must be met by an organized force mo
Id ing by united efforts, both of Engla
en- and America.