Connecticut western news., 1885-03-11
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 The Rev l.. H. Reid gave a temper
 ance address in Lakeville, Sunday even
 ing, March 8. This is one of series oi lectures that are given every fortnight. The Rev Wr Goddard is expected to speak two weeks hence.
 Mir Reid's theme was, "The Mistakes of Temperance Workers. These he emu merated as follows:-
 Tt is a mistake to treat this sub lect as if it were funny one. The an- ti-slavery apostles dId not blacken their faces and go around as minstrels, and ! get of their conundrums and make peo- pie laugh over the agonies of the slave.
 At is a mistake to rely on legisla- tion. Use it, but do not rely on it. Laws will not release from responsiblli- ty CT enforce themselves, It is mistake to spend all one's Zeal in getting law.
 st is mistake to rely on reform instead of regeneration. A reformed drunkard who does not pray is almost sure to fall. The work of temperance Is the work of the church. Every church should be temperance society, and ev- 'ry Sunday y-school should be such in form. Our State Temperance Union, ,he- cause of it's deep religious spirit, com mends itself to the cordial support of all good men.
 At is a mistake to employ irreligi- JUS men for lecturers. It Is premium on drunkenness, and it is 8 cruelty too 10 lift man from the gutter and en- courage him to tell all the horrid things about himself possible, sometimes mag nified and sometimes made up and then hatter him with attentions that foster his pIile and surround him with temI- tations that he is not able to resist, so that he falls lower than before and pub lie morals sustain another shock. 1
 5.-It k mistake for temperance workers to quarrel among themselves. The Bible questions; the wine used at Cana of Galilee; the distinction between intoxicating and non-intoxicating wine in the Old Testament;-a professor of Hebrew told me had gone through the Bible from lid to lid, and there was no such distinction,-thew wine to be used at the communion service; the organiE- ation of secret orders; the offers of help from men not total abstainers; ;the numer- ous questions of flegislation ;-oh, what oI- portunities for skirmishes among our selves;-while the great enemy strong and united, bound by league, escapes our missiles and wars on us with tre- mendous power.
 6.-It Is a mistake to expect large It. suits at once. Numberless facts ar furnished to show that tine millennium. of temperance Is coming.
 Tt is & mistake to make the tenn perance cause a hobby. The temperan, 0 ause is made by some sort of omn:- bus bill to carry other measures througl. Cranks and fanatics do the cause harm.
 st is mistake to cudgel rum sell CTS. Evils are not to be put down with N shillalah. Honey draws more than vinegar.
 9.-It is a mistake to throw all the blame on the seller and excuse tn, thinker. Intemperance should b, made crime. If man goes home anU yoes to bed intoxicated and lies there l'eaceably, he ought to be fined or in prisoned.
 10.-It is a mistake to organize third political party. Still the anti-slavery party showed like a thermometor tn, Ieated state of public feeling, aud reg iStered the increasing numbers wh were determined to put an end to the ,xistence, on our soil, of human slavery Let the leading parties put temperance, in their platform. 1t k vastly mor important than tariff, or silver question, civil service reform, internal improve ments, Chinese immigration, Indian civ ilization. or almost any other grea question.