Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-28


To-day the Pagan boy who walks tne stIeels M
of Pekln be he well or i'll born, is saier from
the alcohol temptation than the ooy VINO wal "a Ne y
these Pittsburg streets, boy in ClnclnnaH ls
not SO sheltered from the drink curse as II ne
lived in Calcutta or Constantinople; one IN
Boston is in more danger than II ne Hfeu II
Bombay We are confronted not Dy Iheuis
but by q condition. Why is the MononInetual. t
boy better prepared to resist the drink Ihsn
the boy in Massachusetts,? Because MS bioiI-
tho only one he knows and he calls IL tue
koran-teaches him that it is his solemn ouIy
to let alcohol alone. This teaching has come
down from father to son; has been Workeu
into the warp and woof of his characueTs hae
been engraved upon that childish memory
which is wax to receive and marble 10 reeaih'
CLIMATE NOT A FACTOR.
But you say that do not take account OF
climate, race, environment? But these nave
not prevented the Eastern nations from falling
away into drink when it is pressed 10 tnelr
lips by Christians long enough ana Win SUI
fcient aid, or, per contra, millions OF Iolal ao-
stainers have been made among our anglo
Saxons when they have been specifically
trained to let strong drink alone, because to
use it was sin against God and their own ma
lures.
taken at the flood, leads Oh to fortune"
The hoodtide is the flowing torrent OF the
Youthful soul; the determlnative period OF
mind is gelatinous. when an impression once
Silver workers say that when you can see your
face in the melted metal that is the time to
work. So 1t is with the heart OF childhood, In
that malleable state when 1t reflects your char
acter and teaching, then stamp with nrm,
true hand the white cross upon the soul; the
the royal habits OF personal cleanliness OF NE,
with total abstinence from strong drink as
their basis. First of all the parents must 40
this, but society and most of all the Sunday
schools is a foster parent to millions VINO are
worse than orphans.
The Church stands for prohibitory law. but
we shall never fully realize our hope until ene
oncoming generation individually enac1s d
This must be done in the legislation of each
brain, declared constitutional in the supreme
Court of each judgment, and enforced by the
energies of each will-that is what we have a
right to expect as the outcome of the Sunday
school,
WANT TEMPERANCE TEACHING.
In view of facts like these we are not willing
to leave these priceless fortifcations of the
child's character to haphazard builders, but
solemnIy urge the Master Masons to make
them an integral part of all the working plans
We are not willing to grade the
step of the Sunday school regiment
to wih the slowest foot IN the last battalion. We
are NOT willing to leave the defenceless little
one with his mocking enemy of inheritance
and bis measureless temptations, legallzed ana
warm superintendent or the Indifferent teacher.
We want the organic methods of the Sunday
school upon the side of temperance teaching.
We want plan that puts the very Wis inertia
of officer and teacher on the child's side, for if
the kew is set by your authority, the lesson in
dicated by the International Committee and
the lesson helps provided by the Sunday school
purveyors then, and not till then, is the chain
complete-then and not till then is the lesson
going to be taught.
Why should this cause be forever rowing up
streamf Nay, my comrades. let us as Christian
workers compel the very current of the Sunday
school movement to help carry it forward to
victory. Here we are with the machinery,
levers and wheels, cogs, belts and bands all In
splendid condition; all that is asked is that
we shall gear on this temperance wheel and set
it spinning all round the world. We women
do not believe this teaching should await until
the arrest of thought concerning his duty and
temperance lessons will furnish that arrest to
thousands of these kindly, but often chaotic
mlnds-I mean chaotic SO far as total abstl-
nence is concerned.
THEN AND NOW.
Nearly 80 years ago 1 was teacher in the
Pittsburg Female College and had class in a
Mission Sunday school, where we had to watch
as well as pray. But to those wild young
Ishmaelites of civilization i never said a word
upon the temperance question-because had
not sense enough to do so of my own accord
ago, in company with band of crusading
women, / went on the floor Of saloon
on Market street. asking God to have
mercy on those who drank and sold,
and to teach us what to do. To-day come
to you pleading for an advance al. along the
line of our blessed Sunday school army. and
the utmost utilization of the International
Lesson Series for the building in OF character
along the line of least resistance to temptation
in boyhoods life, and that line is notoriously
well known to be the drink habit. The child
in the midst is also in the market place, and
they are bidding for him, the men of the saloon.
How like requiem in many a mothers heart
rings their "GOing-going-gone."
have argued the case OF the boys, whose
temptations are SO emphatic, but the training
OF tie girls, soon TO be the mothers of our
nation, the trainers of our children, the dis
pensers of Its hospitality, while of
less apparent is of greater actual
necessity, indeed. Both of these are but
parts of one tremendous whole. When we
went to the public school educators of the ma
tion's youth some said: ANY true school is a
temperance training school; every teacher
whose heart is enlisted can bring true temper
ance into his teaching; any day in the year If he
is not enlisted requiring HIM to DO SO would
amount to very little" But now, when, out of
42 States all but IL have the law SO patiently
ership of Mrs. Hunt, our'educators find that
when
TEMPERANCE TEACHING
is required, then and not till then normal
schools introduce it into their course; teachers
become experts on the subject to the adyan-
tage of their own personal influence and habits
as we'll as of their teaching; educational jour
nails furnish lesson helps; sidelights are
thrown upon the subject and the whole
attitude of the public school is changed
some said: 1--WE are too full already; have no
time for extras" But others answered in
effect, as did the Superintendent of Public
Schools in q notable New England CITY. IF
there isn't time then shorten up some other
exercise, for this temperance teaching shall
have the right of way"
Nowadays the State gives to the child a tem-
perance lesson in a secular way five times ner
week as a result of the urgent demand OF
church-going people, and l do not believe we
are going to refuse a religious reinforce-
ment of the same four times year in Sunday
school.
To resolute ia well, to evolute is better
Eighteen hundred and eighty-seven witnessed
a grand enthusiasm. May 1890 bottle this up
for use. Electricity is priceless. but ouly stored
up electricity can make the wheels 90 round /"
Twelve DAYS hence speak before the National
Educational Association, where it is claimed
that 5000 delegates will be in attendance. Let
me carry the glad tidings that temperance
teaching is enthroned in the Sunday schools as
well as in the public schools of this great land
and of our cousins in Canada.
On the week day boy learns this fact of
nature: That the heart of a healthy man exer-
cises an amount OF force equal to lifting l25
tons in "a hours. one foot for each ton, and that
if in the meantime he absorbs eight ounces of
alcohol, his heart must do an extra amount
of work equal to lifting 25 more
tons, one foot each. On Sunday he should
get this clear-cut. Thus saith nature {"
eIinched by Thus saith the Lord:n HE
that defleth the temple of God, him shall God
DESTROY for the temple of God is holy. which
temple We are" Thus taught. the boy sees
that this destruction is not out of vengeance,
but comes as
THE INEVITABLE SEQUENCE
of laws written in our members for our highest
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