Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-15
TEMPERANCE NOTES,

Consistency Nplt lnf llph NhN AlN
in favor Of license and who y0n know
would grant licenses then condemn
the license business,
A Lowell liquor dealer advertised q
FREQ lunch Ut his restaurant every day
A lady took seven ragged aud hungry
boys to tho saloon on the ilfsl day, nine
the next, and twelve the next, The
beer seller soon concluded that the free
luEch was an expensive advertisements
Iwould say 10 every young man IN
tho United States, II | could reach HIN
II you mean 10 attain one 0f tho prizes
Of your profession aud live q cheerful
llfc to tho ago Of eighty, throw away
your dirty old pipe, put your cigars IN
tho stove and never buy any more, be'
como an absolute teet0taler, take your
dinner In the middle Of tho day, and
rest one day In seyen,-Jdme' FH7on'
"The number Of prisoners who have
been committed to prisons with which
| have been connected during the last
fifteen years, amounts 10 22,OOO, and
among them | have come IN contact
with ministers Of the gospel, numbers
Of persons who were once members OF
our churches, ~ also children Of pious
parents, but never met with q prisoner
being q tcototalcr"'-THe GorerTor "
Canterbury JdH
We are not In favor Of any kind Of .
license system, iium'sclling IL either
good or OWL, II good, then II should
have the same chance as any other KIND
of business. II evil, the nation, state,
county or town has no right to license
il, When the state lcgaliaos an evil is
moral power is destroyed When II
places its protecting power over 10
worst enemy the result will bc dcgrada'
ton to the people aud death to tho
state. The only remedy " destruction
OF tho owl, thus clcyating tho people
and preserving the statc.-Ec'
II is evident that the battle for tenn
pcnnce Is only half won in Kansas in
tho incorporation Of prohibition into
the constitution. The brewers, who
have vast amount OF money invested
in their business, have taken combined
action and will carry mp to the u >
Supreme court, il necessary, the qucs'
ton whether under the United States
constitution the state has right "to
take property for public use by forbid,
ding its sale when the state law had
allowed its manufacture" Considering
tho question in its broadest aspect the
state certainly ought to have the right
to forbid the sale Of that which is the
leading promoter of poverty and vice
and crime, however much the pockets OF
few dozen brewers may DO ompued
thereby. CongregationoiiA
The Wine.Dealers' Gazette, the most
reputable of the journals devoted to the
liouor interest, says "Pubhc sentiment
has outgrown the idea that men can he
made pious or temperate by statute law
or any possible system of pains and
penolties." Public sentiment has not
outgrown the idea that statute law has
still value against theft, lying, and
murder, even though, despite the
statutes, these oilenscs still continue
Public sentiment sanctions law which
provides pains and penalties for
those who either commit crimes, or who
are known directly to incite Others to
the commission of crime. II is not pro-
posed, however, 80 much to make men
temperate by law, as to abolish the
mischievous law which enables Il few
men, for money consideration, to
tempt, by authority of the state, other
men to drunkenness and ruin.
The following Temperance Bible read
ings were arranged by Mrs. Richardson,
of Texas:-
I. Priests not to drink Lev. X, s,
9, 10, II. 2. Isaiah xviii T.
III. Rulers not to drink wine.-3.
Prov. xxi, 4,5. !,
iii. A woe on dunkard-makers.-4. 4.
Hab. ii, Is. 5. Hab. ii, 8, 10.
". A woe on the wine.drinker.-6'
Isaiah V, II, -. 7. Isaiah V, 29. s.
Isaiah xviii, /. 8. Isaiah xviii, 2, 3.
10. Prov. xiii, 20, 80. II. Prey. xiii,
81, 80.
V. Wine and strong drink degrading.
10. Prov. xiii, 20, q. 13. Prov. Xxx,
l. IA. Joel iii, 3.
vi. Drunkenness condemned as other
sins.-15. / Cor. v, IL. 16. Luke XXI,
"a. IT, Rom. xiii, 10, IA.
VII. Drunkenness excludes from
heaven. Gal. V, 10, 20, 81. l9. l
Cor vi, 8, 10.
Let nineteen persons in the congrega-
tion be furnished with tables, and be
assigned a number, and asked to find
the text opposite the number ON the
card. Then let the leader announce the
first part of the reading-"Priests not
to drink wine"-and call upon numbers
one and two to read their texts. This
can be followed with questions and re-
marks as may be appropriate. Then
take sip the next subject, "Rulers not to