The Portland daily press., 1884-01-01
REV. MR.. BLANcHARr

AEv' MR.. BLANCHARD
VINO spoke briefly en- the motto ore society,
FOR God and Home and Natiy4and'
he vent on to say that most u and girls
Wnen engaged in any cause are ccustomed TO
choose motto. SO these oosonen selected
one which they considered wld be good for
them. They thought that a could not ~
willing to have such things they saw areunu
them, men and women in streets, IN 'he
prisons and dying from dAk. Ths neheSea
| de wiiled it otherwise, tt we wore mere ioi
better things than theseAnd obsying His VIII
they said eve will wos first o. all for God"
Then they said "w.will work for Home"
There are many haps. pleasant homes in this
city, where smiles I'd love and comfort sur
round the childre, and YET it is not unfre-
quent to end a xvetched AID sad one. Perhaps
not very far froa the bright homes of some
children bera there cold be found homes
which consistof but onewretched room, made
sad and gloopy by this curse of intemper-
ance
These ,somen come tgether to try to make
truly homes all places where children are,
homes where they aylwell with safety and
care.
th5tYan they looked ouslde themselves, over
our dtaFapd lakes, and the broad stretch OF
country; We WHY, al said; This is one
can see man3 sssoeiatiopt,r !. naIIve ianu. we
haze tho @rS;soUsU4ations, omposed of men who
older on na ,, ngnt clubs ghe re- Young men and
arc not always son ~ latlres, where good ends
where which nesd things manifold every
lnan they are. The grbe made much better
h hSel9l enosi much Of IL IS not all used Tor
into no;se cnise distilleres, oes 70 tn9se greae
minds, and souls destroys mrs sS b bodies and
change all this; to tani wome. wished 70
purpose. The earth is beautif1em tosome good
IS meant flor some good purp6sld all upon it
men Is what turns its good to evil. Re evil in
bqs tney can not, at least,they do not WIS.,.
do all this alone, so they turn to the bows ans
girls for help; 1t is the Masters work, and y,
are going to believe that the boys and girl
here will help us in doing it,
The man without whom no temperanc,
meeting in Portland is complete
GEN. NEAL DOW,
was then introduced. He said, among oths,
good things, that there was man in ENGLAND
many years, only a poor cobbler, who took tbi
for bis motto; "When 1 die I.wish to leave
the world no worse than / found it, Thil
man fought the battle of the oppressed agains
the rich, as the speaker showed by an interest
ing incident in his life, and in this, as we'll al
In ether ways was successful. These are littl,
folks here to-day, they say, but it were bettel
to call them great folks, and the most import
ant thing for this nation to do is to properly
tram the children. On the one side in thi.
great temperance struggle we find the schools
the academies and the churches; on the othe,
the grog-shops The sole object of the grog.
shops is to make drunkards Many anSions
thoughts OF fathers and mothers, MANY achino
hearts and broken lives would be saved il these
cursed shops were blotted out OF sight. And
yet sometimes people forget this great over
shadowing question for other little petty con.
When the rebellion was raging, some vounp
men, obliged to remain at home, chafed Under
the situation and felt ashamed. In this war
against rum many intelligent men do not enter
into 1t and feel no shame for such a course,
There is no neutral ground here. We must
stand for church and school, or for the grog-
shop. Every one of these children ought to be
on on the right side; no one can afford to be on
Jewels" was then sung by the audience.
Rev. Mr.. Lowden and Mrs. L. M. N. Ste
VEINS both delivered spirited addresses, and the
concluding prayer, with the benediction, was
pronounced by Rev. Mr.. Dalton.