The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-17
DIR. cUy1ER-s WORDS OF WISDOM.

Temperance Education for the Young.
The Voice.
The Rev. Theodore /. Cuyler, D. d. Of
Brooklyn, was the speaker at the regular
exercises Of the American Temperance
Union Sunday before last in Chickering
Hall. There were several rows of vacant
seats, caused by the rawness Of the day.
but the house was comfortably filled, and
the audience manifested considerable en-
thusiasm.
In the course Of his remarks DIR. Cuyler
said:
DIR. CUYLER's ADDRESS.
When | was at Jericho, I saw Elisha's
fountain, and / remembered the biblical
account, how, when the people of the
n~eighborhood complained that the water
was bad and the land barren, they were
told, Go and salt the fountain They did
so, and the water became good and the
land fertile. \ similar counsel is needed
to the friends Of temperance:
GO BACK y SALT THE FOUNTAIN
The fountain of all results is the youth of
the country. Garry temperance work into
every home and to every child in the land,
that is the most important business for
temperance workers. Put the grip of alb
stinenee on the young before the grip of
alcohol has a chance to get at them, on
the principle hat an ounce of prevention is
worth more than a hundred pounds of cure.
| would have vigilant men posted on every
precipice, with strong lines ready to throw
out to those who may unhappily be shoot
ing down the rapids of destruction; but be-
fore I would do this I would plant Others
and better and more vigilant hes at the
head Of the rapids, where the smooth river
begins to descend, to say to the men and
the women and the little children as they
come, Go back. There is danger,,'
TEMPERANCE IN THE SCHOOL AND HOMES.
Begin with the children and teach
every boy and girl just what it means to
touch wine, to touch alcohol in any shape.
Just as soon as it is early enough to go
wrong, it is early enough to go right. Put
temperance in the Sunday-schools, and
put it in the day schools. | thank my
dear friend, Mrs. Mary Fl. Hunt, for the
great work that she is doing in inducing
State Legislatures to make temperance in
~struetion compulsory in the schools.
THE English officer who, at night, and
guided only by the stars. successfully led
his column across a stretch of desert to at
tack al Egyptian intrenchment, when he
lay dying On the sands after the victory
was won, looked up into Lord Wolseley's
face and said, General, didn't l lead them
straights:' Fathers. will you be able to
say to God, when you meet your children
at the judgment day, Didn't l lead them
straight2.' Believe me, you never will be
able to say it if you put a wine bottle on
your table.
Begin by cultivating a horror of the
foul thing in every child's mind, so that
there shall be no possibility of their ever
touching it under the delusion that it
strengthens, that it supplies a want which
nothing else can supply. For unless they
grow up with such a complete horror, they
may do like that Presbyterian divine-a
man most splendidly gifted, one of the few
whose lot it has been to be called sublimely
eloquent-who never delivered a sermon
without having plentifully imbibed port
wine, fancying, as he did, that it stirred
his soul and quickened his faculties:-he
became a drunkard. and had to leave the
ministry. If he had known the truth about
alcohol, do you think he ever would have
taken If under the delusicn that it gave
strength?
ALCOHOL O STRENGTHENING
1T doesn't give strength. There is more
nourishment in one cracker than in a whole
key of beer. I can testify on this matter
as a pretty handwriting clergyman. Next
Sunday l will nave been twenty-five years
a pastor in Brooklyn and forty years an
ordained minister. During that time, ev-
cry day a total abstainer, | missed filling
my pulpit only two Sundays by reason of
sickness. Show me another clergyman in
this city or Brooklyn who can give an
equally good account Of himself, and | will
cheerfully yield this platform to him, for I
know that his testimony will be similar TO
mine, and that he will give you an equally
good temperance speech. Applause. l
talked to my friend, Horace Greeley, a
great worker, as everyone knows, and he
said that liquor cannot yield a particle of
strength or inspiration. l talked to my
good old friend, William Z. Dodge. Zap
plaasel alse a mighty worker, and you all
ought to know what his testimony was.
After Weston, years go, made his great
walk of a thousand miles to Chicago, !
saw him one Sunday in my church and
called to him: Mr.. Weston, how did you
do it2 Did you drink any alcohol to
strengthen YOU? No, said he, If / had
drunk any alcohol l would have lost.
What. | replied, didn't you use it at alp
Not at all-only to rub the scles of my
feet, the pedestrian answered. And l said
TO him, That's right-keep alcohol under
foot. which is the only proper place for it?'
daughter and applause.
S0T A WHOLESOME FOOD.
ssAnother thing: alcohol is moi a foot
and supplies no natural craving. Nowhole
some food demands an increase. The ap