The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04
Juvenile Work.
BY MISS c. S. BURNETT.

All truth depends for its propagation
upon the faithfulness of the present to
the future. The future is the children
OF to-day, and our duty 10 them en-
braces all of future good to the indiVid
ual, to the home, to society, and to the
State. The special obligation to tenn
perance work, as related to the chill
dren, begins with duty to the individual
chlld. No results can be expected from
him, in relation to this large field of
effort, unless he himself be rooted and
grounded in temperance truth, whose
foundation is total abstinence for the
individual. Duty then begins IN the
teaching and training necessary to i'm
plant the principle and practice OF total
abstinence. First in the home by ex-
ample and precept. The home atmos-
phere in the first few years of child
life has in it more of the oxygen Of life,
or the nitrogen of death. to mental,
moral and spiritual development than
all the succeeding years of contact
| with the world. The wine glass at
| home, the beer with The home dinner,
the brandy in home mince pies, the ale
to give an appetite INDUCED as
medicine in many Christian homes,
gives the bent to thought that liquors
are not such very bad thing, if they
o not implant love for the drink it
self. The apathy and Indifference of
so large a class of good religious people
to the mighty interests involved in the
temperance reform to-day would not be
8 cause of regret had the teaching and
training of their childhood emphasized
the evils of the drink habit, and taught
the crimes of the liquor traffic.
Temperance lessons in the Sabbath
school to tx in the thought and life of
the child Gods truth as to total absti-
nence, follows the home example and
precept. The law of the Recabites, the
VOW of the Nazarine, the faithfulness of
Daniel in refusing the kings wine, the
woe and curses of the Bible against
wine drinking. its teaching for temper
ance should be theme for constant
| lessons in the school of the church,
every hand with "thus saith the Lord"
against the use of lntoxicants with
which to meet the countless tempta-
tons to the drink habit sure to beset its
pathway in the world.
| Teaching in the public school that
the children may hear the voice of
science as to the effect of alcohol poison
upon the human system will supple
ment the temperance truths of Gods
word, for science but demonstrates
Gods temperance law written in our
| bodies, and every child should know
that alcohol, and all drinks that con-
tain alcohol are poison, and injure all
parts of the "house wonderful" which
we call our bodies, and renders them
unfit to be the temples of the Holy
Ghost. Thus fortified by home train
| ing, by Sabbath school lessons, by day
school drill, the children will be fitted
| for temperance missionaries, both to
| the Indifferent, uniformed home
heather" and to the heather of for
eign shores. Rooted and grounded in
the conviction that the drink habit is
sin, and the drink traffic crime, in de-
cade We shall have generation of total
abstainers, and nation full of prohi-
bition voters. Work with the children
in temperance schools, bands of hope,
and loyal legions is the most promis-
ing, yields the largest interest for CAPT
tai expended, gives the best assurance
for future results, as we'll as being the
most agreeable and inspiring in the do
ing. The wonder is so few are found
to take this work in hand.