The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-01

the voluntary Temperance inculca
tions, directly or indirectly given b,
the precept and example of tn,
churches, ought not to be al
lowed to fall. This does not neces
sarily mean that the churches SHOULD
devote as much time as the schools d,
to scientific Temperance instruction
nor that they should employ the meth
DDS of The schools, but it does mean thai
they should not be satisfied with in
ferior results.
LAS to the methods by which the
Temperance instruction of the young is
to be brought up in the church to at
least the level it has attained in the
schools, each church must decide for
itself. l venture to suggest only that
by pulpit hints or special addresses and
lectures, by Sabbath-schooi instruction,
by the use of pledges, by the circula-
ton of sound Temperance literature, and
especially by personal example, the
standard of total abstinence should be
everywhere preached in the churches.
Mr.. Spurgeon was many years wine
dealer, but now he says: More men
have been killed by grape juice than by
grapeshot.'
'"The new approved Temperance text
books which are now molding the secu-
lar schools of the Nation ought to be in
all Sunday-school libraries. Once a
month, at least, instruction in harmony
with these standard books should in
some way be effectively given in all
Sunday-schools. Lift the youth, the
adult membership and all the preachers
of your churches to the level of total
abstinence, which is now the level not
only of the secular schools, but even of
the life assurance societies, and i'm
mense results must sooner or later fol-
low
THE SECOND HOOP.
Cali Christian denominations ought
to rise to the level attained by the larg-
est and strongest bodies in the United
States, and declare that no rum-seller
shall be accepted as a church member.
THE THIRD HOOP.
Gas no rum-seller ought to be accepted
as church member, all denominations
of Christians ought to rise to the level
of the Methodist body and declare
that the liquor traffic can not be legal
lied without sin. The church can not
in reason or honor with one hand make
rum-sellers and with the other hand ex-
communicate rum-sellers.
THE FOURTH HOOP.
"If rum-sellers ought not to be church
members, and if the liquor traffic can
never be legalized without sin, then it
fn1 hnt Oh, lA, ,1,A
never to vote for a political candidate
who is in favor of the liquor traffic.
While the churches as such need not de-
clare for any one political party, they
ought to declare that church members
as individuals should support no party
that is dominated by the whisky rings.
Christians on their knees before God
will never vote for any party on it's
knees before the liquor traffic.
THE FIFTH HOOP.
''The churches will support law and
order by the whole power of their moral
and social and political influence.
TIE SMITH HOOP.
There should be a great extension OF
visitation from house to house by church
members, as individuals, as committees
and as companies in support of the Tenn
perance reform. Personal contact with
the tempted and the tempters on the
part OF church members has great posi-
bilities of good that as yet have not been
fully utilized In the Temperance field,
nor indeed adequately explored and
discussed. Let the cooperative and
aggressive work of visitation proposed
by the Evangelical Alliance be car
ried out so as to reach both drunkards
and their families on the one hand, and
saloon-keepers and corrupt politicians
on the other.
| THE SEVENTH HOOP.
1.-THE churches should unitedly insist
on the closing of saloons on Sundays
and election days and on the prohibition
of the sale of liquor to drunhards and
minors
''There is no reason why the churches
on these seven points should not reach
unanimity, and if unanimity, then VIC
tory"