Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-23

/ When the Sunday schools have mad
this old Bible part of the warp ant
wool of every childs life, then Shake
| speare, a Browning will be born to u
who will lift America to God.
Take the Bible out of Shakespeare
| Browning and Ruskin and their hear
| will have departed. Take the Bible on
of art, music and literature and YOU
have chromos. dscords and lies. TAXI
the Bible out of the lives of earth's lead
ers and they are weak, helpless and con
| auered. This old book is the one re
| demptive, regenerative force that will
| never. never lose its power. Htt,5
| Teachers give this book to American
homes. put it back into our schools
| Give it to the rich and the. poor, t.
the saint and sinner. Put it on the
desk of the thinker and scientist, the
statesman and social reformer ant
America will have a new birth of free
| dom and ignorance will depart the earth
This is your task to give the Bible tc
| all the people, this is your key note
| THE truth shall make you free.
| Following the address of Rev. Mr..
Dunnaek. Rev. w F. Berry Of Water
vile, superintendent of the Maine
Civic League, gave a delightful ad-
dress on Temperance Work and
| Progress In view of what might be
termed sufferings which Mr.. Berry
| has recently undergone, willingly, for
| the sake of carrying out his plans and
beliefs, the audience listened with in
tense interest to the we'll delivered ad
dress of the speaker which dwelt al
most wholly on the question of pro-
hibtion and the fight against tuber-
culosis in the State of Maine. An
abstract OF Mr. Berry's speech is as
| follows:
| Bishop Vincent said:
The Sunday school is that depart
ment of the church of God in which is
| taught the word Of God for the sake Of
bringing souls to Christ and building
Iup souls i'll Christ.
St. Paul said drunkards are unfit for
| the kingdom of God.
The saloon is the mother and the
| father of drunkards. If the Sunday
school attains its true purpose in the
largest degree, then the saloon must
be destroyed
| The destruction Of any human en-
envy is seldom accomplished by a
single process.
| A great fight has been inaugurated
lagainst tuberculosis because it an
lnually destroys the physical life of
many. In this fight we are teaching
the people how To avoid tuberculosis,
how to care for those sick with it,
how to guard against its contagion.
We are also seeking to create in
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tape tuberculosis so that they will do
the things necessary to this.
| We are, also, by wise laws seeking
to protect society from the germs of
tuberculosis. and to provide as well
the best treatment and care for those
suffering from this disease.
| In the fight against the destructive
forces of the saloon we must teach
society how great a menace is the
drink habit and the drink traffic; the
effect of alcohol upon the physical and
moral natures; and the subtle danger
every user of alcoholic beverages
faces
We must inculcate. also, in the in
dividual an all controlling desire to be
upright in character and habit to be
useful in the largest measure. to be
lGhristlike in the truest sense so that
under this incentive the individual will
|avoid what would prevent him from
Preaching this goal.
Suitable laws must be enacted and
reinforced to protect individuals and
Isociety from the contagion of the sa =
loon, from the destructive forces OF
the saloon.
man going home passed four
grocery stores each displaying early
Istra wberries. He get safely past three
of the stores but took home two boxes
of berries from the fourth. Many a
man who has been caught and held in
the net of dissipation would still be
sober and industrious and more ac-
Icessible to gospel grace if he had not
been compelled to run the gauntlet OF
saloons and of the drinking habits and
solicitations to drink of society. WHAT
Il is kept beyond our reach cannot be
used by us.
i Temperance work includes every
possible means that can be used tc
save humanity from the curse OF
drink.
| Temperance progress has been most
II IlldIhtQ Ill the century just pdSStd
In our own State a widespread habit
of intoXication prevailed a century
Iago. The use of intoxieants was al
most universal.
| AT first men said, when the evil OF
drink impressed them, I'VE will moi
drink if we can avoid doing So Later
total abstinence organizations were
formed. The Washingtonian move
ment, the Sons of Temperance. the
IGood Templars, We're organized. Still
later came the Wcmen's Christian
Temperance Union, the Prohibition
Party the Anti-Saloon League ant
kindred organizations, all seeking tt
Danish the drink traffic and habit
Then laws prohibiting the traffic We're
enacted, then the principle of pro-
hibition was put into the constitu-
ton. Today nine states have state
vide prohibition, while a large area OF
our country is under local prohibition
Through local option.
i For more than a decade science has
been studying the effect of alcohol
even in small doses upon man, and has
given the public the most startling
statements as to the harmful effect OF
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