Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-12

In the CROSS is salvation, 10 the
cross IL life, 10 the cross Is protection
against Our enemies, in the cross is in
fusion Of heavenly sweetness. in the
cross is strength of mind.and in the
cross is Joy of spirit.
Take up, therefore, thy cross, and
follow Jesus, and thou shalt go into
life everlasting. Thomas attempts.
The Union Signal Of March Goth con-
tains a brief sketch of our worlds
loader, Lady Henry Somerset, and in
closing 1t quotes the following extracts
from her last annual address before
the British Womat's Temperance Asso
ciation
1t takes many years and much hard
work for the reformcrs of our time to
learn that cure Is good, but prevention
infinitely letter.
Hence the present generation has
devoted a far larger proportion of
thought and effort TO the establishment
Of the reign of sobriety, aud to the en-
tinction of causes of intemperance than
did their predecessors, and they are
beginning to learn what are the con-
ditions essential &c the permanent suo-
cess Of the struggle.
I'VE have come TO see that the sole
| object OF the temperance movement Is
not the rescue OF the drunkard; for il
this we're so we should be doomed to
| failure but rather we have now realized
that what Is called moderate drinking
| is responsible for IN enormous pro-
portion OF evil by opening an easy way
to the intemperance which impairs
| virtue, intellect and happiness.
1t has become an absolutely neoes-
| sary part of the equipment of every
temperance reformer to learn exactly
| the physiological and scientific effect
of alcohol, in no matter what pro-
| portion, and to grasp the fact that
alcoholic drinks are in the long run, as
| literally poisonous to the body social
and to the body polite AS they are to
| the human body.
I've are beginning to understand
| that our Christian service must be for
the lace, how we are a part of the
great machinery of God which is ever
working towards the glorious ccnsum-
nation of blessing Of pcrfecting man
kind.
| "Thus although our individual lives
may seem insignificant, they assume q
new Importance, because we under
stand that they are part of vast
plan, that we are working with God,
that all power is ours so long as we
are Joined TO His supreme forces.
How clearly does this reveal to US
the worthlessness OF the social chasms
that divide US. We no longer think
now about the submerged tenth as
human rubbish every man has on him
| the dignity of soul for whom Christ
died. We dare no longer restrict any
privileges to the few, but we must on
deavor TO spread the opportunities that
have hitherto been enjoyed by u limited
class to-. the many who equally need
them"
The Union Signal recently published
Mrs. Mary II. Hunts reply to Prof.
Atwater, before the department of
superintendency of the National Edu-
cational Association, small part OF
which we give, as follows:
at was said on this platform yester
day that we claim that alcohol in the
smallest quantity always does harm. /
challenge any one to find such o state
ment in any Of the endorsed physiolo-
gies.
What we say is, because alcohol is a
narcotic little has the power to create
an uncomfortable and destructive APP
petite for more and therefore a little is
always dangerous. No one can deny
that statement. 1t is as undeniable as
the law of gravitation, and nobody has
ever brought scrap of proof that con-
troverts it. Two facts, first that alcohol
is a narcotic, and second, that 1T has
like other narcotics cumulative
attraction for itself, aie the two funda.
mental scientific reasons for total alb
stinence. thank God and take courage
for the republic as | remember the
millions of children in our land who
are being taught the reasons. And
now with regard to that English
assertion about alcohol not being q
poison quoted here and said to have
been signed by certain Psychologists.
To the best Of my recollection it was
that when taken in quantities and
ways that cause no injurious effect,
alcohol can not be called a poison.
'There is probably not brain
worker in this presence who has moi
had strychnine prescribed for him by
the doctor. If it acted upon you as il
does upon me, you took it in guam
titles and ways that cause no injurious
effects. But you would not therefore
say that strychnine is not poison. Il
| Is SneclHl plehuiuR w dIiolHpb ~ W ht
in the case of alcohol. Out of the ovel
30 endorsed books in our list there are
three written some l6 years ago thai
make statements that can be distorted
please note say can he distorted
into meaning that alcohol is MOI
oxidized in the system.
1.-TWO of those books are being revised
the third is practically out of use
For the other endorsed books which
. the professor attacked, it can in al
truthfulness be said that they are q,
accui ate in statement and pedagogical
in construction, as are any othel
school text books now in use.
"They have been again and again sub
mItted to the best scientific authorities
with the request that any inaccuracies
BIO pointed out, and every suggestion
that truth warrants has been and eve
will be Incorporated,
"In closing, please allow me to sa!
: you have criticised our methods il
securing the legislation that makes thi
: study compulsory. Our methods hav'
been to carry the case to the tina
tribunal, the source of power under ou
government, the Leople. They, tn,
people, have instructed their law
makers to pass these laws. You thinl
+ we should have withdrawn our len
! beavers when we saw that school mel
{ objected. We would gladly have don,
! so il you could have assured us tina
> the temptations our children will moe
in life will be SO withdrawn as to leav,
! no call for this temperance education
AVA, pnpoplnin of mr. pereiGtappa