Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-15
W. c. T. u. NOTES.

presume not upon myself, but place thy
hope in God.
DO what lieth in thy power and God will
assist thy good will."+-rhomas Al kempis.
a writer In the September Sunday
school journal thus discouTsos upon
"The Temperance Lesson"
1.-THE church of God has done much
for temperance i'll the past. She has
never lacked the voice of Gods minister
to cry aloud 10 the people, but there
needs to be perpetual awakening on
the subject 1t will not do to leave tenn
| perance instruction to outside organi-
| cations. Valuable and effective rs many
Of these may be, they should be regarded
| only as helps to the Christian Church,
which is the grand and divinely ap-
| pointed leader : in moral reform. We
| canuot shift responsibility Even now
| that we have in some States the civil law
| for compulsory temperance education in
| our public schools, it does not lessen the
responsibility of the church. The in
struction to be given in the schools is
purely on scientific basis; there is no
thought of introducing it in the light of
"A moral code. 1t remains for the church
through the pulpit and the Sunday
school to teach tho moral aspects of the
| question. Intellectual knowledge is often
OF little avail when unaccompanied by
an educated and sensitive conscience"
| In addition to this teaching by the
church, we would plead, for the careful
teaching of temperance in tho home
| where the first and strongest impressions
are received by the child, at the mothers
knee, and from the lips of the father.
A.,l kxt. hat I.ia t,pt ,att sNt,
should be given with the religious train
ing, as soon as the child can comprehend
it, and that 1t should be strengthened by
tho total abstinence of the parents from
alcoholic liquors. and furthermore that
the family cookery should never contain
that which "At the last biteth like SER
pent and stingeth like an adder"
The Union Signal gives the following
bit, entitled "Alcohol is Brain Poison"
from one of Its exchanges: "Alcohol is
to all intents and purposes u poison. 1t
seizes with its disoryanizng energy upon
that mysterious part whose steady and
undisturbud action holds man in true
and responsible relations with his family
with society and with God, and it is this
fearful part that gives TO government and
society their tremendous interests on the
question. Is not society. Is not every in
dvidual who makes, sells or patronize,
the use of alcohol and leads the person to
temptation and death responsiblep There
has always been jurisprudence of al.
cohoi; there is still and the necessity fol
1t will continue. But the demand of the
aye is for a new, higher and jnster legis
lation for more thorough and potential
law, through which the most ubiquitous
and omnipotent energy of government
shall be expressed for the protection ol
society" #
Our national organ of the same dat,
august 25th,) also gives the following
AS being "Among the last Of the IF. w
Notes" sent to it By Miss Willard.
It is of especial interest now says Tit
, Signal in view of the bloodless battles o.
today, and the possibilities OF tomorrow
for d part of the world not heretofor,
blest by the highest type Of civilization tt
put it mildly. The missionary, the iner
chant, the home and the school will sooI
be ministering to development OF Cub,
: and the Philippine Islands, and their in
hahitants will in fewer years than 81
have "a thousand susceptibilities q
rational enjoyment where their father
had one" tst
"The brain that has this day registeret
! the largest number Of serene and wit
! thoughts is the best brain. In thes'
latter days our pleasures are more diver
: sified than in the past; their symbol is nj
longer jug and mug. The Anglo
Saxon Is the only race that thinks b,
nations, instead of by railway stations
Where tue Enylish-speaking race gets il
barbarsm goes out. What have TIL
| English done in Ashan.ee? They foun,
an African tribe that fed on human flesh
slaughtered women without mercy, be
lieved in witchcraft and every form o
superstition. Without firing gun, bu
simply by an ingenious campaign of fire
\ crackers and skyrockets, which thes,
natives believed to be supernatural, til,
tribe WINS conquered in matter of three
weeks and an area of tens of thousand
of fertile miles came under the rule of hi
Anglo Saxons. The chief of the tribl
kissed the foot of the English genera
aud promised complete obedience. Wit
shall say that this was not gain TO civi
lzationp Who does not know that tn,
coming of the missionary, and the mer
chant, the homo aid the school to tina
community will raise it SO in 80 year
that tho children Of those cannibals vii
have thousand susceptibllities of rationG
enjoyment where their fathers had one 2