The Herald of Wales. — 1887-12-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BLUE RIBBON MEETING.  On Saturday evening last the usual weekly gospel temperance mi sting were held at the Albert Hell, dwansea, when the Rev. W. O. Chalks presided. On the platform wee the Rev Morris Morgan, Messrs. W. Williams, William Lloyd, and T. Lloyd D The Rev. W. J. Iditehell read a portion of scripture, and Mr. Williams offered a short prayer. The Chairman, in the mume of a few earnest remarks, said that thenin cf dtankenness was a national sin. There were many other great sine, but this wss the irreotest, yet there were people who sneered at those who tried to lessen its greatress, when there wi re many and many who appeared utterly indiff rent as to its ex• istence. It seemed to him, the chairman, in oredable that this shoal,' b so. As Chrietiaa men and women, as lovers of niaukind, it bchoved all to stand up before God and do all they could to put .the sin of drunkenneiis down.  r Mr William Williams said that it was almost impossible to say anyVeing eew on the tern pe.ance que-tion, especially so, to a Sweneea audience, to whom for over five years the question bed been discussed at evety point. He, the speaker, would not try to find something new—be would pimply speak eh ut kine alcehol proper. The empire over which king alcohol". sceptre swayed was greater there that whieh Queen Victoria's sceptre swayed over. It was no respecter of person.,, it ruled over the high( st and the :• ruined those in a peittee' as well is tboee e • ~• eumblest cot. It had subject, in every rout ot •he globe, of every cellar, and of erey in tienetliny. It was the greatest tyrant, the greateet eeeeiver sod the createst murderer A contemporary, continued tln speaker, asked when it was to be overthrown! 'When every minister of the gavel necame a total abstainer, as well as every e Ins• flan man and woman, when every woman be ime a willing., watchful cater drinker, and worked bard in the cause of temperance, and when every man who had a vote voted when the proper time arrived for the candidate who, pledged himself to support and vote for Local Optime—when all this was done, then King 1 , Monied would be overthrown. The Rev Morris Morgan, who was enthusias tically received, was glad to see the tone the meeting had taken. The work, he said, in which they were now engaged c.,tild only be I accomplished by the strong force of religion and morality. He had been struck with the remarks of "Cosmos" in a recent issue of the Smith Wales Daily News, and before putting his finger on the paragraph, be hid asked himself the same question—. When shall the demon be overthrown." How long, asked the speaker, will thisChrietian community tallow this foe to have its sway in this Christian country? Theo had UM their power to save the drunkard', and hurl the demon of intemperance out of the laud, but the question was were they going to de so. It had been proved over and over again that the majority of the cases which came before our law couea, some of which result in murder, were the result of the liquor trefilio. Their American cousins were doing their duty on that side of the water, and it now remained for the people on this side to do theirs. (Cheers. t The Benediction closed the meeting.