The Lake Charles echo., 1893-09-08
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
BY MRS. A B. MEAD.

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The states OF Ohio and Colorado
have undertaken TO provide clothing
for al needy school children. It was
thought less expensive to the state
than to let them grow up in ignorance,
"a bushel of corn makes four gal
ions Of whisky, which retails for SIG
Out of this the government gets S3.
the railroads. 81 the manufacturer "a,
the vender 81, the farmer forty cents
and The drrnker gets the delirium
Ifemens."
Sho Nemoto, the WILL kno VD TEN
perance worker of Japau, arrived IT,
San francisco, July %, where be gar
gwen a reception by the state w. Q
I'll. He reached Chicago, last week,
RECEIVING a wsrm wrlcume at tht
worlds w. c. T. U. headquarters and
addressed a large aud deeply inter
ested audience at the Willard Hall
noon meeting.
Two or three generations ago the
WesLeyans III certain locality 10
England passed a resolution that no
'emperanee meeting should be held in
their church and no non.alcohoIc
wines should be used at the cummun-
ION. In the church that is now built
On that site the temprranc,. pledge IL
offered aud there is free scupr for the
temperance people to any desired
extent.
Mr. F. c. Selous, the African traveller
and hnnter, during his twenty years
wandering IN Africa, has never taken
with him even medicine bottle of
brandy or spirits. From his youth
up he never tasted beer or wine or any
other IntoxIcant. the anti-tobac
couists will also be delighted to hear
that he Is proof against the inslduous
weed The natives with whom be
spent most Of his life in Africa never
smoke tobacco.
Fr'ends Of the progress of women
should bestir Themselves 10 view of the
iact that The Japanese government Is
now closing the schools It bad esab-
hsbed for the higher education Of
girls, MISSIONARIES thluk thrs Is
largely due to he fact that polygamy
is sanctioned by the government,
which fears that if the Jnpan,se
w"men brcome al all educated aud
ema"cipated they will rebel against a
custom 50 degrading to themselves
and their ChIldIen.
The Illinois Chr,rtian Endpavor
societies have lnauguraled a ten
peramoe Campaign. Tnry have secu,ed
The services of Mr John G. NUullr,
for y~ar, and arrangements are beng
made for hlm TO speak over the leng Il
and the breadrh OF the state. He wlll
remain but one night in each place,
delivering in every town and city ht
VISITS his marchless lecture, "JnaIlena
Die + ghls." We rejoice to see The
Young people of the churches thus
settling an example of Lemperace actlv-
lty. temperance work Is IegItlmaLely
church w"rk, and we hope this move.
m~nt will be The brglunlng of vigorous
effort along prob bItlou lines by the
churches as churrhrs.
The program al w lizard Hall during
Ihe past week was a particularly fine
one. Among the SPEAKERS was A. u.
Wolfenbarger, OF Nrbraska, who gave
rouslng address upon the never
lhreadbare them, "Whal are We going
to do with the Liquor Traffic 2" calling
INTO use a starrI ng array ot STATISTICS,
against which arguments must be
silent. Rev. J"hD McNeIlI, who is
associated with Rev. D. L. Moody
and a grand body oi Christian workers
90 this city, spoke on the pracucaI
subJect of true bel pfuIn+ss--arrhlgmng
ln s'ern, y'r kindly terms, the spiritual
seI6shnrss thai IS content to SIT and
be "fed and fed and fed" Sahbath
after Sabbath without one effort IL
pass on TO Others a single orum of tb,
Bread of L fe DE-. Anna Shaw, who's,
name Is Ialb"r familiar to our r, adrrs,
delivered plea for WumaD's Suffrage,
u pIoylug keen, bright weapons ct
wit and satire, to the amust mrnt and
10 the CONVICTION of her hearers. o.
Saturday, as crown to the labor ut
the week, Robert j. Burdette, D"pue
preacher and phiIaDthropisl," address, d
a large .andirnce an bis own lnimitabI,
fashion. Most fnrcefuIly he showed
from the Word that not only are evil
things doomed, because, according 10
the law Of God, every tree bringing
forth evil fruit is hewD down and cast
dnto the fire, but every tree that j.
fruitltss shall likewise be rpmuved from
It's place. The saloon has within itself
the law of inevitable destruction,
because it is only evil, but that met
and women may not fali under tb,
lpuniahment awardsd to the barren fg
lfee, they must resist it and fight il to
the death.
The LAKE CHARLES EoHo, 81 a year
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