Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-27
N. c. /. i. NOTES.

"lf you do not wish for Ills Kingdom
do rot pray for it. but il you do, you
must do more than pray for II, you
must wor: for it. n--Ruskin.
Within tho pcat twu weoks an unusual
number Of temperance conventions have
been held. First. the Anti Saloon
League hold its third annual cnnren-
tiou 10 Columbus o. On January llth
tho opening session OF the Non Partisan
w. u. T, L. annual convention wEs
held in the same city. Last week the
Church Temperance Society OF tho
Protestant Episcopsl Church met 10
Now York. Ihs Voice gives tho fol
lowing from an address delivered by
BiHhup Dnann at this convention;
. a thing may he lsgali2ed but it can
not tie mado right by any earthly law
when it Is wrong according TO higher
law. This Hals Of liquor on Sunday is
wnrse than ON any other day. because
the workingmnn is then at leisure ami
the more subject to temptation, and
because he has Just received his week'a
wages Ii ia more perious than tho
sale OF dynamite or poison, hecause
dynamite and poison are Tagged Rs it
were by the red flag of danger, but
whisky has no such danger signal. The
laborer is selling bis birthright OF in
dependence not for meas Of po;tago
but for a mug Of beer. 2
To this tho Voice adds: 1T is one
of this obieGts of the ". g. I. U. to
hold aoft tho danger signal, that
men may be sayed from the usp Of in.
toxicants each day of the week and We
therefore Indnrse the good bishops
utterances againat the sale of liquor
ON Sunday, tho evil of which 10 in
creased by the Dissertation of the day.
On January 9th the annual mseting
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
was held in rhiladephia. The Voice.
to which we ara also indebted for the
item, states that Archbishop Ryan
said: 1.-THE more | SEES of the Hin of in
temperance the more nm | convinced of
the necessity of thu Total Abstinence
Uniun. = Tho union has membership
Of more than |, 500 10 tho Archdiocese
OF Philadelphia
King Alcohol" may we'll "tromble"
in consideration Of tho general mar.
shaling Of Temperature forces, ire
spective of opinions ana creeds.
Miss Willard ana Miss Gordon, ac
companiUd by their stenographer, NJ iss
Powderly, left Chicago last week for
tho East. They will visit Nav York
and lioaton in the interests Of the
Temple. Miss Willard Wiahea us TO say
that the prospects, are good anil her
state of health most encouraging, re.
ports of the press to the contrary not
withstanding. Union Signal.
Mrs. Matilda D, Carse makes this
statement concerning NJ iss Willard q
WORK for the Temple: 1.-THE most of
her work at present will have to bo
dono by her pom, and that is rather an
unsatisfactory way, for 1t is 50 easy for
persons to refuse when letter ia the
medium nf appeal. Hero is whero
winter lohoners can step in and aid
our chief. All who can afford to give
large sums or small let thum do so, and
all who can raise money from others for
the House Beautiful lst than go to
! work at once, not waiting for the first
of July, as that is ths last limit for
completing the $500. 0oO."
We take up paper and read OF the
explosion OF a manholo in crowded
city strevt. This heavy iron cover of
the manhole was blown high into the
air and broken TO pieces. Such ex-
plosinns are becoming more frequent
and dangerous as the electric wirss are
buried, for gas collects in the conduits
and change spark aXplodos il. Hither.
to, with the exception of one most
frightful accident, no loss al life has
attended these mishaps; but the pos
sibility of such events docs not add to
the pleasure OF urban pruE,enades.
On the very street first mentioned,
however, almost ecery alternate placs
of business ia saloun. In thess man
holes men IRE daily inguIfed, their
characters blown 10 atoms, their souls
hurled into eternal death. Not even a
paragraph in the newspapers announces
tho fearful tragedies. If the maEholes
in the streets were responsible for n
thousandth part of the evil wrought by
these manholss along the Sides Of the
streets, they would have been abolished
decades ago. christian Endeavur World
1t has BEEN announced that M
liquors will be sold in the new
national library in Washington, and
the statement has been made that "the
strife over the matter was short, sharp
and decisive. "
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