The Portland daily press., 1896-01-06
GA WE'LL ORDERED HOME"
The Best Champion to Fight Intem-
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MISSIONARIES TO TEACH coon
COOKING.

The Refining. Uplifting, Saving In
f1uence of Good Home Better than All
the Prohibitory Laws; the Gist of a
Striking serman BY Rev, DIR. jenkins
1--WE Have Used LawlondiPublic Officers
and Forgotten God Made the Family
An Address that Will Command Wide
Attention.
AT the State Street church last even
ing Rev. DR.. Jenkins addressed crowd
ed congregation, his subject being.
Drunkenness and the Family In some
degree it was continu ance OF the series
of Sunday evening addresses on the fam
lily he has Teen delivering. He said that
some time ago he received in common
with other Portland clergymen request
to preach sermon during the winter on
intemperance, and that he replied that
it would give him great pleasure to do
SO at some point in the series of Sunday
evening addresses he was then delivering
He said that it was impossible for any
one to give much study to family lif Q
without coming to see to what degree
it is threatened by drunkenness The
faraily is the fundamental Institution,
and both state and church depend upon
it. Poor families produce poor states and
poor churches, and well guarded and
properly trained families produce good
and we'll ordered states and churches.
The family is an educational institution
of the greatest value. 1t is the one place
among us where there is, or at least
should be training of children for
LARGER AND MORE IMPORTANT
DUTIES
in life. Here is taught the lesson of ODE
dience, most Important lesson for the
beauty and the necessity of self sacrifice.
1t is the school for instruction in social,
and shall not say civic vir.ues also.
A member of the Chinese delegation
was shown through Oxford, England,
and was then asked his opinion of that
great school. He replied, s'For the teach
ing of the arts and sciences the schools of
England are superior to those of my own
country, but for the teachings of morality
and good citizenship the schools of
China are better than those Of England"
And 1t is melancholy truth that he
was right. AS schools go among us, if the
child is to be taught social morality any
where, it must be done in the family.
Then the family is the creator of much
social beauty. Family life has been the
favorite study of painters of all ages. The
home, the father and mother, the broth
erS and sisters. The ancient painter
were fond of representing the Holy Fam
lily, but in most cases the special charm
was not the holy but the family. And
we are to remember that this institution
as perpetuated. Drunkenness in its effect
on family life is shown in three ways.
IT CAUSES DIVORCE.
The great increase of divorce is lament
ably evident, and in most instances
drunkenness is the real cause. Want of
support or desertion may be alleged, but
in most instances the real and primary
cause is drunkenness. OF divorce, it is
enough to say that it ruins the family.
Out from good families come good oiti-
zens. Destroy one family and you destroy
many. 1t is the drying up of the springs
that fill the rivers that give the waters
of life to the country.
Drunkenness leads to poverty in the
family. This is sadly true. In Massa-
chusetts, and l suppose the same rule
holds good III Maine, nine-tenths of the
applications made for charity are because
of drunkenness. And when it does not
come to this strait it leads directly to bit
ter want. The wife and the children OF
the drunkard suffer and are SILENT An
income is essential to the maintenance
of the family life, and when that is with
drawn, the wife goes one way looking for
work, and the children must go out
themselves on the same errand. Drunk
enness is the enemy of the family because
it withdraws from the family the income
that is necessary for its very existanoe.
But the most terrible effect of drunk
enness on the family life comes through
the
IRRESISTIBLE LAW OF HEREDI-
TY.
A French doctor who was investigating
the effects of drunkenness examined $50
children between the age of 10 and /,
and said that the examination confirmed
him in his previously formed conyic-
tions, because he found on their faces the
three fold and unmistakable marks of
physical, intellectual and moral degener-
acy. If all parents were drunken. no
community, no nation could exist more