The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-13
v. c. III. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. E. Van Hood, Editor
Program for Worlds Temperance
Sunday for Sunday Schools

Program Tor WOrldS temperance
Sunday for Sunday Schools
Recitation, 1.-TWO Ballots"
Two Ballots
Along in November, when chill was
the weather,
Two ballots were cast in the box to-
gether.
They nestled up close like brother to
brother;
You couldn't tell one of the votes
from the other.
They were both rum votes and sane
toned the licensed plan,
But one was cast by a whisky seller
And the other by a Sunday school
man.
The Sunday school man had always
been noted
For fighting saloons, except when he
voted;
He piled up his prayers with holy
perfection,
And tore them all down on the day of
election.
The Sunday school man-no man
could be truer-
AAOpC Duoy oil ouiI1lSI uSIOuIlC1ilS tuS
brewer,
But his ardor cooled off with the
change in the weather,
And along in the autumn they voted
together.
The foxy old brewer was jolly and
mellow.
Said he, Il admire that Sunday school
fellow"
He's true to his church, to his party
he's truer.
He talks for the Lord and votes for
the brewer.-Selected.
Responsibility of the Church Member
Discussion: Different phases of the
liquor question. Three minutes talk
each.
Legal. Liquor traffic is a law
breaker. Sells to minors and drunk
ards; sells on Sundays and at illegal
hours, etc.
Scientific. If alcohol is stimulat-
ing food why do arctic explorers re-
fuse to use it? Why are soldiers and
athletics refused it If a food, why do
life insurance companies of Great
Britain give lower insurance rates to
total abstainers than drinkers? 1t is a
narcotic poison, and should be labeled
as such.
Financial. Out of every dollar spent
for alcoholic beverages IS per cent.
goes to enrich brewers and distillers.
Only % cents remains for revenue.
How long would a grist mill run if it
took tire pecks for toll? Crime, pow
erty and insanity (the products of the
liquor traffic. cost more than the rev.
enue.
Social. Debases manhood, defiles
womanhood and sets ban on child
hood. One boy in every eight is de-
stroyed by the liquor traffic. Have YOU
boy to spare?
Reading: Temperance and Missions.
Cooperation is a phase of work
most vital to success in the whole
field of missions and temperance. The
inter-dependence can be shown at a
glance. The United States with each
missionary sent, averages 10000 bar
rels of whisky and rum. A Boston
brewery contracted to supply 100000
gallons day TO trade on the Congo.
DIR. Nassau, the patriarch of West
Africa, said at Clifton Springs:
Heather and Moslem chiefs, and
even traders, protest against the en-
ormities of the liquor traffic"
Rev. Fl. Grafton Guinness (China)
says: There is no question whatever
that this accursed drink traffic has
been one of the greatest hindrances
to the spread of civilization and
Christianity"
DR.. Albert Bushnell (Africa) says:
"Alcohol is the burning curse of At
RIGA"
Rev. Thomas Evans (India) says:
prayer and cooperation alone can
meet the case"
The able editor of Mission Studies,
Chicago, says: at behooves us to
strive with all our strength to abolish
the liquor traffic, the stupendous OBJ
stacle to missionary success"
In Siam, a missionary declares the
church "a great temperance society
In India moral leaders unite with
missionaries in this reform.
Temperance societies and mission
airy societies must affiliate TO develop
the latent power of the church and to
present united front to the foe"
teThe need of the hour is to arouse
the Christian church TO shoulder re-