The Poole Telegram. — 1882-02-10 (Poole, Dorset, England)

UNITED TEMPERANCE MISSION.  The temperance missi .n week in iNeymouth, inaugurated by the Ibreet County Temperance Ass3ciation, secretary Rev. F. Vaughan, Broadwinsor, and Mr. W. C. llolmwood being hon. sec. to the migsion, was commenced on Sunday by sermons being preached in various plaCas of worship as follows Mary'. Church, by Rev. Canon Stephenson, M.A.; St. John's Church, by Rev. J. Hubert Sc itt, M.A.; Christ Church, at 3 (to men only) and 6.30 p.m., by Rev. C. M. Owen, M.A.; Maiden-atreet Wesleyan Chapel, by Rev. W. Andrews ; Glo'ster-stre4 Congregational Chapel, by Rev. J. Ogle (Sherborne); Hope Congre• gational Chapel, by Rev. W. Lewis; Baptist Chapel, by Rev. J. W.Kirton (London); Primitive Methodist Chapel, by Rev. W. L. Taylor. In the afternoon a large gathering of Sunday Scholars, including the Wesl ' eyan, Glo'ster, Bank, and Hope M Scheele, gathered at the aidernatreet Chapel, which was w.ll filled, and the Rev. J. W. Kirton delivered an address from John x., 10 -"The thief cou3eth not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abrindmtly." The speaker considered that intoxicating drink is one of the thieves that come to steal, kill, and destroy. Shakespeare said— " Oh. thou invisible spirit of wine! If I can call thee by no other name, I'll call thee Devil." And the speaker showed it came to kill from the fact that in his insurance society the life of teetotalers was found to be 20 per cent, longer than that of even careful, steady, reepectelle moderate drinkers. In 1836, the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine said—" It is our settled conviction that this sin of intemperance has destroyed more souls than the ministers of the Gospel in Great Britain are instrumental in saving." That was true then, and it is true now. Jesus Christ's religion is designed to make people good and happy; the temperance in •vement has made thousands of homes happy, while on the other hand intoxicating drink brings ruin and death. A Band of Hope boy in • northern city had kept from drink for 21 years yet was induced by the taunts of his companions to drink, a queuel followed, and when he was intosicated he stabbed .a companion to the heart, and was sentenced to die for the murder. Mr. Buxton had said " The struggle between the school, the library, and the church, against the gin shop and the beer shop, is one development if the war between heaven and hell." Some people were very much annoyed at enthusiasm for teetotalism ; but it reminded him of a boy who was shouting, while selling a paper containing the account of a northern victory, "Hurrah for Lincoln and the Northern Army." A southern sympathiser said 'Why shout for them; you might better shout for the Devil." Said the boy "You shout for your governor, and I'll shout for mine." A gaol chaplain told him that if it were not for drink, where they now had ten prisoners, they wouldn't have two. In con. elusion the lecturer said 20,000 people in one city had become teetotalers through the temperance mission, in Bristol large numbers had joined, and he hoped it would be so in Weymouth; they w ,old have brighter and happier homer, God would be glorified, and souls saved.  Positively full was the Concert Hall on Monday night, it being only possible to reserve such passages as were necessary ter the safety of the audience. In front of the plat'orru eatly gathered a goodly number of singers, male ant female, whom Mr. Rogers led,