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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1882)
a *> ï ■» 11KK ALD J 9 ^... during the pasty few years is that A Brave Temperance Boy. but eight were saved. As com the liquor orglans afe alarmed, as pared with other vices, it may be Many years ago, when Mr. and said of this, ‘Saul hath slain his never before, at che growth of the temperance sentiment, in the Mrs. C. 3, Hall, the famous writers thousands, but this David his. tens country, x From East to West, the visited Ireland, a bright boy offered of thousands.”’— Church and Home. liquof newspapers are calling for to be their guide. Returning home, The liquor dealers of Cincinnati, united action ag'ainat what th<*y qall Mr. Hall took a flask from his pocket, and offered some whisky to in a meeting held last month,- de lunattvi-Hi. . r. cided- to oppose every canTTidgttF^ “ Circus ’,’ at Glasgow. At one —Eleven years ago temperance the luT As he refused, Mr. Hall, them he-spoke briefly from John G: men were voted into the city offices, to test him, offered him twenty-five who is an advocate of temperance, regardless of the party who may 35. “ lie that belie veth on me of Millville, New Jersey, and the cents, then sixty, then a dollar, and place him in nomination. Those shall never thirst,” ami then called tight against the saloons in that then five; but the boy, though his temperance brethren who make for those who had obtained victory town commenced in earnest. Then jacket was ragged, ‘remained firm, prohibition subordinate to parly over strong dritik to give their tes drunkenness abounded; now the and pulling a temperance medal 1-“ For all the success should understand that timony. ' tow n is sober aiid prwiperous. qqjg- -f^tydris-peek^p-Haid-.* whisky dealers are fully deter- _ One quiet old Scotchman stated member of a large firm there re money your honor is worth, 1 mined to control nominations or that he had been forty years a cently stated that prohibition saved would not break my pledge.” The" halt the party. This makes a clear drunkaid, afol often before the his firm ten thousand dollars a medal had been given him by a issue, and we should not hesitate to magistrates, and ,tben said : ‘ This year, owing to the.gain in regulari father on his dying bed, who used meet it like men.— Old, Path Galdi. new water 1 have gotten is well ty ami efficiency among the Work to be a drunkard, but had become a sober man through the total ab Dr. Willard Parker says, “ The named the living water. 1 hae men. M r. Hall average life of temperance people been drinking it sin’ the 10th o’ —It was resolved at the recent- stinence _ movement. threw the tlask into the lake beside is sixty-three years and two moniriJ . March and 1 am gettin’ stronger state temperance convention held and happier every day.” Another in Ravenswood, Virginia^-to demand which they stood, and both were while the average life of intemper ___ speaker told ImWy.besides being a a prohibitory constitutional amend ever after devoted teetotalers, work _ ate people is thirty-five years and ing with voice and pen. The firm six months. Thus^ the average life drunkard; he had been an infidel ment from the Legislature. —Thiil^-two members of the ness of the boy brought two noble of a drinker is but little more than lecturer. “ 1 rejoice now,” he add half that of a non-drinker, and ed, “ that I have found victory in British Parliament, among whose workers into the ranks.— — - —► • ♦. M we are asked to believe brandy, the blood of the Lamb.” names occur those of John Bright;. One surprising result of the Pro gin, whisky and leer are wonderful '1^7 one rnan whu ha<l stood seven- •■SiE Sir W. Vernon hibition victories in the West is promoters of health.” years, Mr Moody put the question: Harcourt, Samuel Morley, Joseph the pious arid high moral tone sud n You say your companion* never Cowen, and H. C. E. Childers, have On the evening before the day on denly assumed by the Western Dis asked you twice after your conver adopted total abstinence. which the prohibitory amendment sion to enter a public house ; how —-In Portchester, New York, the tillers’ Association. At its late an was adopted in Iowa, Governor ^-dhl you manage that ?” The an- overseers of the poor tried to compel nual meeting, this body declared Sherman learned that the anti ► swerwas: “I just began to tell an old man of eighty-two to pro itself in favor of enforcing the laws Prohibitionists were claiming the . them about Jesus, and they slunk vide for his drunken son of thirty. regarding the Sabbath, and of place whera he resided by 150 making the saloon business more o- away.”— Sunday-School Worker. The father had difficulty, as it was, majority. He at once decided to respectable by placing^the licenses ----- • - -e _ in providing for his invalid family ; make an impromptu speech in so high as to reduce the number of Temperance. and the judge who tried the case favor of the amendment, and the drinking places. This willingness declined to order him to support next day the town gave it 202 —A prohibition bill has been in to shut up the saloons on the Sab his son, at the same time saying ; majority.— Pacific. troduced into the Hawaiian Legis bath shows in what fear the Asso “ The town has licensed the estab lature. ciation stands of being compelled to Charles Nelson, Esq., Proprietor of :—Nearly two hundred thousand lishments where this old mail’s son shut them up for all the other days Nelson House, speaking to us recently, persons have signed petitions to buys his rum, so the town must i of the week. The temperance tri ob .erved : I suffered so much with Rheumatism that my arm withered, and Parliament in favor of the English take care of the drunkard. I can umphs in Kansas and Iowa fore physicians could not help me. I was in not order a man of eighty-two to despair of my life, when some one ad Sunday Closing Bill. token like victories in other States; vised me to try St. Jacobs Oil. I did —There is to be a great temper provide f«»r a son, who, if it were [ and hence the willingness of the so, and as if by magic, I was instantly ance demonstration at the approach not for rum, could and should now Western Distillers’ Association to relieved, and, by the continued use of the Oil entirely cured. I thank heaven ing Church Cimgress of the English be caring for his father.” give up one day that it may retain for having used this wonderful remedy, —A paragraph has been circulat for it saved my life. It also cured my Established Church. six a S. N. Times. wife.— Port Huron Commercial, ing in the newspapers U a tire effect —Temperance camp meetings Dr.. Chalmers arraigned intem A man started in the livery- have been held during this and last that the Bishop of Lincoln, Eng land, had denounced the temper perance in the following words: stable business last week, and tho month at various places in the East. ance movement in Great Britain. i “ Before God and man, before the first thing he did was to have a big The attendance at most was unusu The truth of the statement is I church, before the world, 1 impeach sign painted representing himself ally good, and recent prohibition successes gave tone to the en authoritatively denied by The intemperance. I charge it with the holding a mule by the bridle. “Is thusiasm of the speakeis and hear Church of England Temperance 1 murder of innumerable souls. 1 that a good likeness of me ?” ho Chronicle. i charge it as the cause of almost ali asked of an admiring friend. “Yes, ers. — Here ii an indication of the the poverty, and almost all the it is a perfect picture of you, but —A petition asking for a popular success attending temperance efforts crime, and almost all the ignorance, who is the fellow holding you by vote on the question of giving to in Great Britain during the last and almost all the irreligion that the bridle ?”— Texas Siftings. women the right of “ voting on all few years. The commissioners ©f dISgrace and afllict the land. 1 do questions pertaining to the sale or When about twelve years old said Mr. giving away of intoxicating liquor” customs declare that the falling oil in my conscience believe that these Geisman, of the Globe Chop House to has been drawn up, and will be in tho consumption of spirits is so intoxicating stimulants have sunk our representative, I met with an acci dent with a horse, by which my skull presented to the Colorado Legisla great as to threaten to become a into perdition more men and women was fractured, aud over since I have question of grave importance with than found a grave in the deluge suffered with the most excruciating ture next December. regard to the prospects of the , rheumatic pains. Of late I applied 8t. —One sign of the real advance revenue of the country. Sunday which swept over the highest hill Ju cobs Oil which has given me almost total relief.—Fort Wayne, Ind. Sentinel, made in the temperance work School Times. I tops, engulfing the world, of which Moody, who certainly has had grand opportunities of knowing what is needful in Gospel and Sun day -sëliool Wofk, everywhere makes special services for the dtiflkiflg Classes an important phase of his • 4oHt. Recently he has held Gos- • * I •f > * r I •* 1 \ X