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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont film6s en commenpant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernlAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparattra sur la dernlAre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbole — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmis 6 des taux de reduction diff6rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichi, il est i\\m6 6 partir de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche 6 droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 SHOT AND SHELL FOR TIE TEMPEIUNCE CONELICT. / BY REV. D. EOGEES (OK THE LONDON CONKEKENCE) ; WITH AN » INTRODUCTION BY REV. E. H. DEWART. D.I,., TORONTO. ) ' **ALIPAX : S. F. HUESTIS. I 1884. /^0SBP5 D T . '■' ENTEKKD, accordliiK to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, by David Rooebs. In the Oftlce of the Minister of Agriculture. I /^/?c^rA5 PREFACE. It is related of an individual who attempted to read through a book on :\Ioral Science that he wrote the following verse on the flyleaf : — If there should be another flood, For refuge hither fly ; Though all the world should be submerged, This book would still be dry. It is the humble hope of the author of this volume that none will find it - dry:' It treats a live, throbbing question. The ndmes attached to the "contributed" articles are a sufllcient guarantee that they are worthy of perusal. My object throughout has been to interest and profit both old and young, and incite to a more earnest and continued eflfort to aid in removing the greatest evil that can afflict any people. If it succeeds in this, the highest ambition of the writer will be realized. D. R. KiNTORE, December 20th, 188S. J I INDEX. Advice, Good 181 A Glance at the Situation Rev. J. J. Ricf 115 An Appeal to Voters A. R. Carman, B.A. 154 Blighted Hopes ; or, the Widow's Son, Rev. W.Galhraith^LL.B. 1 18 Boys Wanted 178 Britons never shall be Slaves Rev. E. A. Stafford, A.B. 112 Canada Temperance Act of 1878 73 Children, Take care of the Rev. Charlex Oarrett 1 72 Church and Temperance Rev. E. H. Dcwart, D. D. 50 Close the Saloons Rev. W. K. Boyle 124 Conflicting Corners Jacob Spence 160 Decanter, A Shot at the T. L. Cnyler, D.D. 82 Drink, Strong — (1) Cause of Wretchedness Dr. QiUhrie 14 (2) An Enemy of the Gospel .... Biahop Fohh 15 Enemy, An, at Work 9 False Lights Dr. T. L. Cuyler 32 Hold the Fort W. H. T. 92 License or Prohibition Rev. D. L. Brethour 57 Liquor Bills in the United States 30 Liquor Traffic, The 16 •• Dealing with it . . ..Rev. W. A. McKay, B.A. 56 Described J. B. Oougk 23 How Can We Tolerate It? T.D.Talmage,D.D. 21 How to Deal with it ..Rev. E. H. Dewart, D. D. 25 Its Ruinous Work. .ifsv. E. H. Dewart, D.D. 20 Its Wickedness Rev. J. G. Seymour 23 War against the Dr. Talmage 27 " ' Won't Let us Alone Rev. F. P. Thwing 21 Man-eating Tree of Canada, The Rev. J. A. McGlung 127 « (I <« {« « INDKX. Methodiviu aud Temper»uu« Rtv. M. L, Ptar$on Moderation, Danger uf National Liquor Bills in the United States Only Now and Then Organized Efforts Reo. John /fall, D. D. Our War-cry Pipe, SamMiy Hicks and his Rev. T. E. Thornby Pledge, The Girl's and Boy's . . Pledge, Take the Poison : A Recitation Prayer, A Rev. J. B, Williams Prohibition Prohibition, Benefits of Remuneration to Liquor Dealers Rev. K. Creiqhton Smoke, Do not Smoking, Juvenile Rev. E. H. Dewart, D.D. Song, A. Temperance Rev. Dr. Hatfield Speech, Woodie's Temperance Teetotal Waggon Temperance Cause, A Bed-rock for the Dr. Cuyler •• '* What it has Done Rev. Newman Hall " " Progress of the Gospel of Dr. Talmage Man, A Plucky " Thoughts at Random Strung The Question of the Times Rev. Wm. McDonagh Tobacco as a Medicine Total Abstinence, Safety of " " Benefits of " " vs. Moderation Rev. J. G. ArUliff, B.D. " " Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D. What We Need Which Jug Young Men, An Address to Young, A Few Words to the .R. T. Booth 93 35 30 176 48 66 180 181 166 177 26 60 68 70 179 182 102 171 30 88 47 43 53 184 104 143 179 37 39 132 141 54 178 83 163 \ Introduction. LL who have carefully studied the si^nH of the time», in regard to temperance work and social reform, must be convinced that the difTu^ion of sound arguments and correct information, in relation to the litiuor traffic, the drinking usages of society, and the physical and moral eff'ects of alcohol, is an essential condition of success. A Irrge majority of the people never make these subjects a special study, and have very imperfect ideas of the evil and danger which result from this cause. It is specially im- portant that our young people be early instructed on these points, so that thev may have correct \.t -s legarding the basis of right conduct. Those who are well inlormed respecting the grounds of duty, and the facts and lyumrnts by ' hich total abntinence and reformatory work are VAndicated. T.e less likely to be turned aside from the right vay by plait ible sophistries, or eaonaring temptations. vVe want a gentmlJon trained in sound principles and right habits ; and we will nevpr win a complete victory over the combined forces of selfish interest and evil habits, till we gain this vantage ground, from which to carry on our warfiire against intemperance and the evils which follow in its train. In this little volume, Mr. Rogers presents a valuable contribu- tion towards educating the public mind on thi» great practical question. Here will be found a good collection of stirring and instructive articles, on the different phases of the temperance theme. The importance of abstinence, the evils of the traffic, and the necessity for earnest action are forcibly presented. Neither old nor young can carefully read this book without profit. It is indeed "Shot and Shell" — something that, while it inspires those who read it to greater zeal in reformatory work, will, at the same time, furnish facts and arguments, which they may effectually use in the battle against this terrible evil. I hope it will have a wide circulation, and rouse to action many who are now indolent or indifferent. VIU INTRODUCTION. I would urge all readers of these pages, first of all to give the full influence of their example on the right side. Let no false i 'sas of fashion or gentility induce you to deem the v.ine-cup a harmless thing. In the next place, use every means in your power, social, moral, and legal, to lessen or destroy the evils of tippling and intemperance. The motives that prompt to vigorous and united action have not been weakened by the lapse of time. The baneful results of a legalized liquor traffic are still unspeakably deplorable. What- ever temporary inaction may characterize our temperance agencies in their work, there is no cessation of the poverty, crime, and ruin produced by intoxicating liquors. Personal Christian efi'ort, to reform the fallen and shield the young, should go hand in hand with earnest and united endeavours to enforce the law against the traffic. Unless we are content to stand idly watching the progress of intemperance, and thus becoming in some degree responsible for the terrible consequences, we must vigorously use the legal means which the Parliament of our country has furnished for preventing the evils of the liquor traffic. After we have succeeded in securing what we believe to be a greatly improved local option law, it would be unwise, unpatriotic, and recreant to duty, to neglect to take the necessary steps to bring this law into force, merely because selfish and interested parties are anxious to disparage and misrepresent it. Every available agency by which the work may be forwarded should be vigorously brought into play. Among the most effective of these are the diffusion of sound literature, and the training of the young in our Sunday-schools and homes in right principles and habits, so that they may be a numerous, valiant, and intelligent army, to battle for the destruction of this great enemy to the progress and happiness of our country. E. HARTLEY DEWART. "Christian GaARDiAN" Offiob, Toronto, December, 1883. SHOT AND SHELL. "AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS." HE parable from which the heading of this paper is selected, is founded on something we can all understand. In olden time when a man wanted to injure his neighbor, he would cross his field, after it had been sown in wheat, with a sack full of tiEires, and scatter it all over the field. Of course it would soon sprout up and greatly injure, if not spoil the crop. Our version calls this mischievous seed " tares," but some travellers who have encountered the same plant de- scribe it as the " darnel " — a seed which in its early- growth is somewhat like the wheat, but when the ear is formed the difierence is clearly seen. The mischief was done " while men slept." It may not have been at night, however, as in the East they usually took a short sleep after the mid-day meal, and the darnel may have been sown then. And sometimes we are asleep and waken not until the vicious seeds have taken root and sprouted — indeed, in some instances, have brought forth a frightful harvest. 2 10 SHOT AND SHELL Whether it was by night or by day, one thing is certain, our unwatchfulness is Satan's opportunity. This practice of darnel sowing is still practiced in these times in many ways. 1. The " enemy " makes use of the printing press to scatter his seeds. At no period were there ever so many good books and papers in circulation as at present. But we regret that much of the literature of to-day is charged with insidious infidelity — and that which sneers at religion and caricatures its pro- fessors. The land is full of light, vicious publications. Every railroad train has its agents, and men and women who love money write and push these produc- tions, irrespective of their moral character or religious tone. I could name some such books and papers, but my practice is usually to let Satan do his own adver- tising. It is enough to say that as a Church, and as parents we must not sleep, but put in motion counter- acting influences that will neutralize and destroy the bad influence of these immoral and skeptical issues from a corrupt press. Talk not of religious publica- tions being too dear : no religious book or paper can be too expensive, if by its introduction into the home the destroying influences of a skeptical and licentious press are averted. A preacher recently was urging one of his members to subscribe for a religious paper. He declined on the ground that he could not take any more papers, and that he had taken religious papers and his children would not read them. The preacher suggested if he FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 11 were able to take secular papers he certainly was able to take religious ones, and reasoned that the moral and reliiiious instruction of his children was of more importance than any other interest. As to the second reason, " that his children would not read them," the minister was at a loss to reply. A short time after- ward he visited that family, and the reason why a religious paper was unread was apparent. On the table was the secular paper of the day, with its columns filled with open and insidious assaults on Christianity — a sensational weekly ; and open on the table, with its vicious pictures exposed to the gaze of son and daughter, was a copy of the Police Gazette. No wonder a religious paper was an unwelcome visitor in that home. "An enemy" had been there, and the " tares " of an immoral taste had been sown. There is a very inti- mate connection between this kind of reading and the commission of crime. A few months ago only, a twelve-year-old boy in Alabama, who was a constant reader of the Police Gazette and other such trash, took his revenge upon a negro for a trifling injury by split- ting his head open with an axe. In the boy's pocket was found a copy of a paper containing a thrilling illustration of the Franklin County tragedy of ten years ago, when a man killed '^ne Rackard with an axe. The deed of the youngst. is directly traceable to the reading of those books which give false views of life and make it noble and heroic to do such deeds. Both of the above may be extreme cases, yet I fear there are thousands who are permitting the good impressions 12 SHOT AND SHELL made on the minds of their children by the preaching of the Gospel and Sabbath-school instruction to be supplanted by the sensational and positively infidel literature of the day. The fathers and mothers who are asleep, and allow this " darnel" to be sown in their home, and fail to provide the antidote in the form of sound moral and religious reading, are committing a fearful blunder, aye, more — a sin which will make their hearts ache some day, when its fruit shall be gathered from the lives of unbelieving and irreligious sons and daughters. One of the objects we have in sending out this little volume is, that it may do its part in counteracting the evil influences of such books and papers as are referred to in this paragraph. 2. " An enemy hath done this " finds an illustration also in the drinking customs of the present time. A father and mother may be scattering good seed in the form of advice, prayers, and entreaties, while the enemy scatters amid it all the wretched " darnel seed " of enticing him to drink that which yields a fearful crop of sn.d consequences. He who thus entices an- other is, without doubt, doing the devil's work, and while a terrible responsibility rests upon associates who trap and ensnare each other with drink, we go farther back and say, a great responsibility rests upon the liquor dealer against whom is pronounced the " woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink," — and farther back still, the responsibility rests upon you and I, as voters, electors, and public teachers, if we fail in our duty, for every one who will vote for men who FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 13 encourage this system of darnel-sowing, this traffic in drink, is responsible, so far as his influence goes, for the whole results that follow. Let every one enter into a crusade against this " great red dragon of In- temperance, with its ten horns hooking and lacerating society." We are gratified because of the great change in public opinion within the last ten years, in relation to this form of "darnel sowing." Without doubt this change has been wrought mainly through the inde- fatigable labors of the temperance people, and we intend, God helping us, to work on and pray on until we secure the desired end — Prohibition. At a critical juncture in the American war of 1864, the Cabinet were in session at the " White House," anxiously wait- ing for tidings from the sanguinary conflict then waging in Virginia. A despatch at length arrived stating that the Union forces were driven back and badly demoralized. After a brief silence, in which the members of the Cabinet looked at each other, one of them said, " Well, Mr. President, what next ? " Mr. Lincoln calmly replied, " There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to keep pegging away." This homely yet significant utterance of Abraham Lincoln is especially applicable to us in our work. It was constant and unrelenting efforts that closed the saloons in Jessemine County in Kentucky. There is not a licensed whiskey shop there, and in Tennesee rigorous laws have just been enacted which are working untold good among all classes. " Drunkards cease to stagger 14 SHOT AND SHELL through the streets, drunkards' wives wipe the tears from their faces and take fresh heart, young men cease hanging around the saloons taking their first lessons in drinking, taxation is lightened, and industry increased." These results are a happy surprise to all except a small class who may feel aggrieved that they are no longer allowed to prey upon society, and scatter seeds which overrun the whole nature with useless and sinful habits. Let us seek by every legitimate means — the scatter- ing of good literature, the power of good example — to neutralize and destroy the work done by those who are scattering the devil's " darnel." Let good men and women go on in the work of spreading light, scattering good seed, and helping the good cause by the use of facts, argument, and persuasion. STRONG DRINK. I. The Cause op Wretchedness. -tW HAVE heard the sad wail of children for bread, and their mother had none to give them. I have seen the babe pulling at breasts as dry as if the starved mother was dead. I have known a father to turn a stepdaughter into the streets at night, bid- ding the sobbing girl, who bloomed into womanhood, earn her bread there as others were doing. I have bent over the foul pallet of a dying lad, to hear him FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 15 the tears mg men heir first industry rise to all that they id scatter fh useless e scatter- xample — ihose who i^ood men ing light, cause by or bread, them. I dry as if a father ight, bid- manhood, I have lear him whisper that his father and mother, who were sitting half drunk by the fireside, had pulled the blanket off his body to sell for drink. I have seen the children blanched like plants growing in a cellar — for weeks they never breathed a mouthful of fresh air, for want of rags to cover their nakedness ; and they lived in continual terror of a drunken father or mother com- ing home to beat them. I do not recollect ever seeing a mother in these wretched dwellings dandling her infant, or of hearing the little creature crow or laugh. These are some of drink's doings, but nobody can know the misery I suffered amid those scenes of wretchedness, woe, want, and sin." — Dr. Outhrie. II. An Exemy of thb Gospel. " As a Christian minister I oppose drink, because it opposes me. The work I try to do it undoes. My charge against it at this point is single and simple. It is an obstacle which assails the gospel, and whose com- plete success would drive the gospel from the earth. The chains it forges are the strongest and most gal- ling ever fastened to the human body of the human soul. There is not a sinner on the face of the earth so unlikely to be savingly affected by the influence of the sfospel as the habitual drunkard. He may be a man of delicate sensibility, of lofty purpose, and of towering intellect ; he may have qualities which, un- tainted with alcohol, would adorn his character ; but if he is addicted to his cup his destination is almost in- evitabl3^ to the bottomless pit. The salvation of a 16 SHOT AND SHELL thorough drunkard is one of the mightiest miracles of Almighty grace. I know men who are frequently convicted of their need of experimental religion, but who are held back from a single step toward it by the charms of rum. All other fetters would be as gossamer in the way of their urgent longings : this holds them. Many a poor, heart-broken wretch has staggered up to the alter for prayer, and cried earn- estly for mercy, and reeled away again to drown his sorrows in the bowl which caused them, and which will aggravate them until they culminate amid un- quenchable flames." — Bishop Foss. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. N some villages and rural districts there may be a few who know or see comparatively little of the widespread and tremendous evils resulting from the traffic in strong drink, but the great majority have such abundant evidence that there is no possibility of their remaining in ignorance respecting them. Others see, but are almost indifferent, and may not be aroused until the " rum fiend " enters their home and blasts the character and life of some member of their own family. We propose to give the testimonies of great men who have been awakened to the fact that there is nothing so destructive to the happiness and morals of the people as is this body and soul destroying traffic. The Bishop of Manchester, England — "Beer and wine shops with vaults are gateways to hell." FOR THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. 17 18 SHOT AND SHELL John Wesley — " They murder by the wholesale, neither doth their eye pity or spare, and the inheritance of blood is theirs." Dr. Willard Parker, of New York—" The alcohol is the one evil genius whether in wine, or ale, or whiskey, and is killing the race of man." John Williams, the martyr Missionary of the Pacific Islands — '* I dread the arrival of an American ship, for though she may have more missionaries in her cabin, she brings in her hold the death water of damnation." Robert Hall, a very sober and eloquent orator, following in Shakespeare's line, said — "It is a liquid and distilled damnation;" and in our own day an eminent scientific authority has said, " It is the devil in solution." The late General Dix, Governor of New York — " I am very glad you have allowed the Woodland House to remain vacant instead of renting it for the sale of liquors. I would rather let it remain vacant until the end of time than to have it rent for such a purpose. I consider rum the cause of nine -tenths of all the mur- ders, poverty, and crimes in the country, and no earthly consideration would induce me in the remotest manner to contribute to its sale." Why does not the trafiic come out and tell us some of its virtues ? There are many and serious charges against it : is it guilty or not guilty ? It certainly accomplishes wonderful and sad transformations in society. Who has not seen it as it takes a boy of beauty and promise, teaches him to carouse with gay FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 19 associates, and makes him a bloated, loathsome, worth- less man ? Who has not seen it as it takes a young gill, loved and lovable, and converts her into a miserable, haggish woman, at whom passers-by point with fingers of scorn ? It breaks hearts, blasts char- acter, destroys the happiness of homes, murders citizens, and laughs at all efforts to check it in its deadly tread. Though these are but a few of its ravages, yet to say that it accomplishes these is a serious charge. If the charges are not true, let the traffic refute them. " Thousands are yet distilling The poison of our race, And graves and prisons filling With death and diia disgrace." These facts are sufficient to convince the incredulous and inform the unknowing. But I think it safe to assume that every one knows something of the evils connected with this traffic of poison and death. With every patriot and Christian the practical question is, "Are we to sit by and tamely submit to it year by year ? " As citizens of a Christian country we must bo made to feel this truth, that so far as our influence and vote are concerned, we are responsible for the continuance of it. " In the providence of God the people of this country are the rulers ; their votes control the law-makers and those who execute the laws ; hence they are particeps criminus in all the mischief which this traffic is doing in this land. 20 KHOT AND SHEFiF. " Before the bar of public opinion, and before the Judge of all the earth, we charge that the freemen of this country are responsible for all this waste and ter- rible tide of woe. They have the power to throttle this great ' blood-gorged dragon' and destroy him. If they fail to do so, they must stand charged with being partakers in this dark and terrible criminality ; and if the court of public opinion fails to abate the evil, the guilty must face the charge in the light of the Judgment-fires." 1. Its Ruinous Work, " The liquor traffic is spreading irreligion, idleness, poverty, and crime among the people. Shall we sit tamely by and allow this work of demoralization to proceed unchecked ? Are the financial interests of the liquor sellers, who fatten on the ruin of others, to outweigh the interests of the people ? The principle of prohibition is already recognized, in the various restrictions imposed upon the traffic. It is simply a question of extending the operation of this principle. If the use of intoxicating liquors, promoted by a legalized traffic, destroys a great quantity of food annually, withdraws a large proportion of industry and talent from spheres of usefulness, and promotes poverty, vice, and misery among the people, in the name of common sense, how can it be injurious to the country to arrest this waste of food and waste of talent, or to adopt measures that will prevent the formation of those habits of intemperance that have FOU THE TKMFERANCE CONFLICT. tl prematurely blighted so many lives ? Men of Canada, on! War a good warfare against this demoralizing business. Be not laggards in this moral strife. Let the people, inspired by a true Christian patrotism, rise in their invincible strength and wipe out for ever this blot upon the fair fame of our beloved country." ~E. H. Deivart, D.D. TI. How CAN WE Tolerate It. " How a Christian people professing the doctrines of Christ, professing to be measurably imitators of His life and example, how such a people can wink and blink at the liquor traffic passes comprehension. The thief of a few pennies is sent to jail, and deservedly. A man who strikes another is punished by the strong arm of the law. And yet a Christian people allows its citizens to deal out that which reduces thousands to beggary, which steals the brains, which nurtures and fosters crime, which demoralizes society and ruins souls. Liquor to the right of us, liquor to the left of us, liquor in front of us, drunk at the corner grocery, drunk at the public bar, drunk in the railway trains. And we are a Christian people, and this is the nine- teenth century. It is a long jump to heaven from the top of a whiskey barrel." — T. D. Talmage, D.D. III. It Won't Let Us Alone. " It is sometimes .said, 'Rum never hurts those who let it alone.' Go stand to-night beneath this waning moon, on the south-westerly slopes of Mount Auburn, 22 SHOT AND SHELL and you will see a little new-made grave. Over it bends the branches of a walnut-tree, through which the struggling moonbearas reveal the resting-place of our latest born and earliest taken. It is sweet with flowers and tears, and consecrated by prayer and psalm. Autumn showers have steeped the sod, yet by the cuttings of the spade the stranger sees it is the grave of a child. When I go to the little grave I can- not help feeling a new consecration to the noble reform. Do you ask why ? Startle not when I speak out of my heart. Rum helped to dig my hoy's grave. Indirectly, perhaps, but really. Yes ! intoxicating drink stole away the senses of one who was in charge of these two little brothers while their parents were absent at the death-bed of a mother. Deserting her charge, she wandered about, incoherently talking of unfulfilled duties, and left them without food or drink, companionship or care. Half -starved and chilled, the little convalescent soon relapsed, and passed away ere long to the safer custody of Christ above. I have no curses to pour on any human being, however deeply he may have sinned ; but on the traffic which can not only stultify man but besot woman — which puts pro- perty in peril, and renders life insecure — upon that I heap my hottest hate ! By all the love I bore to that child, by all I bore to others just as precious, that is high and holy, I vow against this trade eternal war. — Rev, F. P. Thwing. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 23 IV. Traffic Described. " I will tell you my idea of the liquor traffic very briefly. God for<^ive me, I do not speak of it boast- ingly, for my sins are ever before me ; seven years of my life was a dark blank. I know what the burning appetite for stimulant is ; I know all about it, and I have sat by the dying bedside of drunkards ; I have held their hand in mine ; I have tried to lead them at the last gasp to the Saviour who never turned any away that came to Him : and yet, in the light of my own experience and the experience of others that I have received through my observation, I could say, Father in Heaven, if it be Thy will that man shall suffer, whatever seemed good in Thy sight of temporal evil, impose it on me ; let the bread of affliction be given to me to eat; take from me the friends of old age; let the hut of poverty be my dwelling-place ; let the wasting hand of disease be laid upon me; let me walk in the whirlwind, live in the storm; let the passing away of my welfare be like the flowing of a stream, and the shouts of my enemies like rain on the waters ; when I speak good, let evil come on me — do all this, but save me, merciful God, save me from the bed of a drunkard ! And yet, as I shall anwer to Thee in the day of judg- ment, I had rather be the veriest sot that reeled through your streets, than I would be the man who sold him his liquor for a month." — J. B. Gough. V. Its Wickedness. "The liquor traffic exists still in our midst. It wields a gigantic power; it is enormously rich in \^_:^i:^ 24 SHOT AND SHELL capital ; it has any amount of desperate pluck ; those interested in maintaining it are legion; the sacred sanction of law still shelters it, and it goes on hourly doing its deadly work all over our land. While this state of things lasts we need not boast much. The truth is we are, after all, only begining to see a little into the infinite wickedness and peril to society of this whole business. The proof of this statement is in the simple fact that we can tolerate such a thing amongst us with so much patience and placidity, while we pretend to be a civilized, intelligent, virtuous, and Christian people. There is enough villany in connec- tion with the liquor trade, in any one day, to awaken such a storm of virtuous indignation from one end of the country to the other, as would never calm down until the whole traflfic were throctled to death. But days, weeks, months, and years of its most infernal iniquities pass before our eyes, and no such storms of righteous wrath awaken, except in the breasts of indi- viduals here and there. We are not as intelligent, as civilized, as conscientious, as we think. It is neither civilization nor Christianity to legalize such a trade as this at all. It is a monstrous perversion of justice to stretch out the mighty arm of the law to defend men in pursuing such a trade as this liquor traffic. What are those great distillers? They are murderers by wholesale of Her Majesty's subjects. That was John Wesley's opinion, and he never said a truer thing. What are these liquor saloons and grog-shops ? Their true classification is houses of ill-fame. Whether it be FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 25 ik; those le sacred )n hourly ^hile this ich. The ee a little ety of this Lt is in the g amongst while we tuous, and in connec- to awaken one end of calm down leath. But )st infernal h storms of ists of indi- telligent, as is neither h a trade as >f justice to iefend men ffic. What rderers hy tt was John ,ruer thing. •ps? Their Ihether it be the liquor-bars of the palatial city hotel, or the rough country tavern, they are one and all infamous dens, that ought to be raided by the police and broken up as a nuisance of the very worst sort. And w^hat are those millions of revenue we so willingly take as a bribe to permit this horrible thing to live? It is accursed blood money, every dollar of it." — Rev. J. C. Seymour. VI. How TO Deal with it. "The liquor traffic can never be satisfactorily regu- lated — it must be suppressed. No matter what the law may be, or how it may be enforced, anything short of entire prohibition will not satisfy the temper- ance community. Christian men everywhere are be- ginning to see more clearly the sin of making legal that which God has stamped with his own word of condemnation ; and even men of the world are being led to question seriously the wisdom of licensing the cause of crime and punishing the effect. So terrible a curse as intemperance should be exterminated — not tolerated. The liquor traffic should be made illegal, and then the war against it could be more consistently and zealously carried on. There is an absurd as well as a serious aspect to our present law on this matter. We make the traffic lawful and respectable by licens- ing it, and then cry out about its iniquity and vile- ness; we give a saloon-keeper authority to make a man drunk, and then, in the police court the next morning, fine the poor fellow for getting drunk ! The 3 i ! I . •tmmmmmmmmmm mil" 26 SHOT AND SHELL sooner we, as a community, adopt a more reasonable and common sense method of dealing with this great question, the better for our country. If the liquor traffic is right, let us place no restrictions upon it ; if it is wrong, the whole system should be put under the ban of the law." — Christian Guardian. i iiiHl A PRAYER. _0D of eternal love. Throned in the world above, Regard our prayer. Behold with pitying eye, The multitudes who lie, Fall'n to the ground to die. In deep despair. Intemperance, like a wave, £ears hundreds to the grave, As moments fly. In this auspicious hour. Display Thy mighty power, Send blessings like a shower, Down from on high. In this our native laud, The sons of freedom stand, And wait to see Their country free from thrall. King alcohol's downfall. And temperance over all, Reigning supreme. l4- FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 27 asonable lis great le liquor on it; if inder the Then shall our country rise, The fairest 'neath the skies, A joy to see. Bright as the morning star, Sending her light afar, Her golden gate ajar, Land of the free. — Bev. J. B. Williama. WAR AGAINST THE TRAFFIC. Who will Help us in this Work? f HAVE to tell you the women will be on our side. " Oh," says some one, " that makes no diflference; they can't vote." They can and they do. Are you not willing to acknowledge that the wives and mothers of America are the mightiest power extant ? The women carried Iowa and Kansas for State Prohibition, and the women will carry the United States for National Prohibition. Every man with a wife who is not a fool is affected by her moral sentiment. If a business man wants business advice he goes to a business man, but if he wants moral advice he asks his wife, unless he is resolved on immorality, and then he asks no one. Woman understands the ravages of this dragon. She has seen one of its feet in the nursery, and another in in the wardrobe, and another foot in the empty bread tray, and the other foot saturated with the tears and blood of a desolate home. Woman knows what rum does by its fiery wake. Charles Dickens laughs at the 28 SHOT AND SHELL F ■ili!;;M I'M punch bowl, and poets garland the wine cup, and many an impersonator has made audiences roar with mirth at the step of the drunkard, but women sees but little fun in that dramatization. She looks beyond the foot lights of the comedian until she sees the blue, cold, shoeless feet of little children, and the daughter by destitution turned into a life of infamy, and the gash across the wife's temples from the edges of a decanter, and a wild, disheveled man standing midfloor, uttering a halloo that makes the children shriek and the wife drop on her knees looking to- wards a God who for ten years has not seemed to care anything for her — that maniac with one fist dashing to pieces the mirror at which his bride once arranged her tresses, while with the other he throws the family bible with the marriage record into the flames, and with cracked lips curses the God who will yet avenge the cause of his children, though his judgments tarry long. There is not much fun in all that for women. Oh, we shall have in this country a million Deborahs ready to help the Baracs in this conflict, and who will go forth and demand of the United States Govern- ment national prohibition. II. Churches of God will come in solidly on the subject. The world may scofi" at Christian people as insignifi- cant, but banded together for any great moral move- ment, they can carry anything at the ballot-box and in Congressional assembly. The trouble is they have FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 29 never yet massed their forces. The rum-drinking pro- fessors of religion will get out of her and go clear over to the devil who owns them now from hat to heel, and the Methodist Church, and the Baptist Church, and the Congregational Church, and the Episcopalian Church, and the Presbyterian Church led on by some Dr. Guthrie, and the Catholic Church led on by some Father Mathew, will come in on this cause, and then the question will be so thoroughly settled, and the work will be so thoroughly done, that after you and I are dead and gone, and far on in the future, in a mu- seum in this country, there will be standing on the same shelf the lachrymatory of an ancient tomb, and the demijohn of a modern wine cellar, both alike curiosities; and the antiquarian in his lecture will ex- plain to his students how one of them was a receptacle of tears for the dead, and the other was the fountain of tears for the living. For the Church of God, for all patriots, for all good women as well as good men, let the battle-cry for the next twenty-five years be, " Down with the rum traffic ! National prohibition ! No quarter for the license system ! Eternal smash for the wine bottles ! Death to the red dragon ! " I take the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and I thrust the old grizzly monster through, and through, and through, and stamp orv the execrable carcase, and cry with the angel that St. John saw standing in the sun at the time the beast was slain, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, " Come and gather your- selves together to the supper of the great God!" — T. D. Talmage. >.:r "I'l M 30 SHOT AND SHELL. TEETOTAL WAGGON. ' HIS good Teetotal Waggon was running rather slow, Until the ladies lent a hand, and then it had to go ; For, when they fight for God and Right, it isn't worth denying They'll have their way and win the day, or else they'll die a-trying. The Opposition waggon is freighted down with woes. Its track is strewn with blood and tears as through the world it goes. It runs upon a downward grade ; Perdition is its level ; Its passengers are drunkards, and its driver is the d — ramseller. And now, good friends, before we start, we've this good word to say : Let tipplers quit that Whisky Cart and go the other ^^'!iJ ; While temperance men and women too, and boys and girls beside. We'll stay on board the journey through, and all take a ride. Sel. NATIONAL LIQUOR BILLS IN UNITED STATES. «-Oj STIMATES are made from time to time, based on returns from the Internal Revenue office, Police and other places, Hospitals, Insane Asylums, Poor- houses and charitable institutions, from which it is calculated with reasonable certainty that the liquor bills in this country amount yearly to not less than 1. Direct expenses, $600,000,000. 2. Indirect expenses, an equal amount. 3. Intemperance bums and destroys property, amounting to $10,000,000. FOB THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 81 4. It destroys 70,000 lives. 5. It makes 30,000 widows, and 100,000 orphans. 6. It makes 500 maniacs. 7. It instigates 250 murders, and causes 500 suicides. 8. It consigns to jail 500,000 criminals. 9. And greater than all this, it endangers the inherit- ance of liberty left us by our fathers, by debauching the voters and making instruments for upholding cor- ruption by means of the ballot-box. The above statements, with a degree of correct- ness are applicable to our otherwise fair Dominion. " These are the days of boasted patriotism, but how can we be patriots if, by word or deed, our example encourages the drinking customs of the day ? A tre- mendous outcry was raised in our fatherland about tithes, and they did not amount to one million a year; but when are the patriots to condemn the appropria- tion of $20,000,000 a year to the purposes of vice and poverty, sickness and crime in the coi?sumption of ardent spirits, liquid death, which has dooded our country, and notwithstanding all the vigorous efforts put forth, the flood of misery rolls on. ! Son of God, stretch forth Thine arm omnipotent, and sweep the earth, redeemed by Thy blood from this soul- destroying abomination, that the beauties of holiness may clothe every region and the songs of heaven float on every breeze." I m Iflp" 82 SHOT AMD SHELL lililiiijil THREE FALSE LIGHTS. ^HE first one is that God's Word approves and '^ sanctions the use of alcoholic beverages! For one hundred years American slavery was buttressed by the same plea, that the Bible sanctioned it. But since the battle of Appomatox the sharpest eye never discovered such a passage. The teachings of Scripture may be summed up in four heads : 1. The Bible in various passages point out the evils and the perils of intoxicating drinks. It never pro- nounces a blessing on an intoxicant, and often warns men against its use ; several passages forbid such use. 2. The Bible in several passages approves and com- mends abstinence from intoxicating beverages. There is nob a single verse in this Book which condemns total abstinence. 3. The whole spirit of the Word of God teaches self- control and self-denial, both for our own sakes and for the good of our fellow-men. The only passage in which the word " moderation " occurs, has no reference whatever to moderate drinking. It has not the faintest reference to the use of beverages. The word itself translated signifies constancy, calmness and quietness. 4. Every passage in the Bible is to be studied in the light of the whole Book. The whole Book teaches the same truths which God has written upon our bodily constitution. If alcohol poisons the body, disorders the brain corrupts the character, damns the manhood FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 33 and destroys the soul, it is forbidden by the whole volume of the revealed Word. The second false light is that wine and ale and other alcoholic beverages are creatures of God, to be not refused, but used in " moderation and with thanks- giving." I have heard that quoted since I was a child. As to alcoholic beverages being good creatures of God and to be used with thanksgiving, I deny as an absurdity. Alcohol is not a "good creature" of the God of love, for it is nowhere to be found in the whole domain of nature. While the Almighty has created innumerable fountains of sparkling water, he never created a gill of alcohol ! It is the simple product of the fermenting vat and distillery. It is born of vege- table decay. God made the golden corn to nourish and sustain his mighty family ; but distillation throws the golden grain into a vat of rottenness, and presses out of the rotting mass the fiery juice of alcohol. God hung the purple clusters on the vine to gladden the human eye and palate, but fermentation turns the pure blood of the grape into the maddening intoxi- cant. God created poppies; but he never created opium. If he did create it, are there not poisons known in nature that may be sometimes sparingly used as a medicine, but common sense forbids them as a beverage. The Song of the Corn conveys its meaning : " I was made to be eaten, And not to be drank ; To be thrashed in a barn, Not soaked in a tank. 1 1) 34 SHOT AND SHELL III! Ill I come as a blessing When put in the mill, Ab a blight and a curse When run through a stilL Make me up into loaves, And your children are fed ; But if into a drink, I will starve them instead. In bread I'm a servant, The eater shall rule ; In drink I'm a master. The drinker a fool. Then remember the warning — *My strength I'll employ : If eaten, to strengthen ! If dmnk, to destroy ! ' " The last false light is that moderate drinking does not lead to drunkenness. I do not say that every one who goes down Fulton-street enters the gate at the ferry, but I do say that those who are in the ferry- house must have gone through that street. If it is said that a very moderate drinker is not an enslaved drunkard and may never become one, we grant it. We grant that Niagara rapids are not Niagara cataract. We grant, too, that some men who have launched their ioats far up toward the head of the rapids have pviied out of the stream and have reached the shore. But this we declare, that just so long as Niagara rapids tend toward the cataract and draw with an increasing suction and momentum toward tho FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 95 cataract, so long by the immiv table laws of God will every use of alcoholic stimulant tend to drunkenness and draw to destruction. That some have resisted it, and have not been drawn over, does not alter the character of the tendency. There is not a moderate drinker in this house who is not constantly resisting the tendency while he remains a moderate drinker. I set before you all the clear straight channel of total abstinence. It is a safe channel, strewn with no wrecks of health, and wrecks of home, or wrecks of hearts or eternal hopes. It has guided millions to competence and comfort and cleanliness of life. It has borne thousands to the cross of Christ. God has blessed the honest efforts of pulpit and platform and press to guide men and women into this safe channel, and, as long as this pulpit stands, the true light shall shine on the safe channel, and no wife or mother, or daughter or sister shall ever call me to account and charge upon my example, or the utterances from this pulpit, the wreck of a son, or a brother, or a husband, for time or for eternity. All I ask is to be on the safe side, on God's side, for this world and the life everlasting. — Rev. T. L. Cuyler. DANGER OF MODERATION. 'HE "Morning" tells this instructive story of a ^^ moderate drinker. "A so-called moderate drinker was once very angry with a friend who claimed that safety is alone in abstaining from the use of ardent 1 1 . SHOT AND SHELL IH ! ill! ill i ^i!;i spirits, and who allowed his fanatical notions to in- sinuate that the moderate drinker himself might then be beyond self-control." " To make plain the question who is in the wrong," said the temperance man, "will you just quit one month, not to touch a drop during that time ? " Said the other, " To satisfy your mind, sir, I will, with pleasure, though I know myself; I will do as you ask, to cure your overwrought ideas." He kept the promise, but at the end of the month he came to his friend with tears in his eyes and thanked him for saving him from a drunkard's grave. Said he, " I never knew before that I was in any sense a slave to drink, but the last month has been the fiercest battle of my life. I see now I was almost beyond hope, and, had the test come many months later, it would have been too late for me. But I have kept the pledge, and, by God's help, I will keep it for life." This incident illustrates the truth that "strong drink is a deceiver," and that many know not the danger until too late. A boy who once went with his father on a voyage to South America was anxious to see the equatorial line, and said to an old sailor : " Jack, will you show me the line when we cross it ?" " yes, my boy." After a few days the boy asked whether they had crossed the line. The old tar said, " Yes, my lad." " Why didn't you tell me and show it to me ?" The sailor replied, " O my lad, we always cross the line in the dark." So the moderate drinker always crosses the line FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 37 between the moderate and immoderate in the dark. Mental and moral night settles down on him as he crosses the line between moderate drinking and in- ebriety, blinding him to the awful facts >i ruin and death only a little way on the road he is travelling. The following lines from Longfellow contain prac- tical advice : — " Touch the goblet no more ! It will make thy heart sore To its very core ! Its perfume is the breath Of the angel of death, And the hght that within it lies Is the flash of his evil eyes. Beware, oh I beware, For sickness, sorrow, and care All are there." SAFETY OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE. 'E hold that total abstinence is positively a safe principle — we feel we are on solid ground. A moderate drinker may become a drunkard, a total ab- stainer never can. That is simple, common sense logic. I think it better, as temperance workers, to rest our arguments on this principle rather than on the danger of moderate d ..^k^ng. Some can give instances of individuals who drank moderately for many years and never bocame drunkards, and in doing so they imagine t] e} have established the ,':■ '^ion that mod- eration is safe. These comparatively few instances I i 1 Qll i j ri 88 SHOT AND SHELL ii ill 'ill '!!;, ill! are nothing compared to the thousands who began on that plan and yet filled drunkards' graves at last. A writer has illustrated it thus : — " A few years ago a vast crowd of persons were assembled on both banks of the Niagara river a short distance below the falls ; probably not less than 20,000 were present on the ground. What was the attraction ? Why, a man had advertised that he would walk across the gorge of the Niagara on a single rope. And he did cross qJckly and safely. But how many pernors in that vast con- course could have done the .same tbing? Probably not one. So we meet here and there a man who has passed through life on the single rope of moderation with apparent safety ; but for every such case there are tens of thousands who, in trying to im^..Lo their example, have perished miserably." Tho true li. le of argument is the superior safety of abstinence. A rotten bridge nvay bear you safely over the stream, but so long as there is a sound crossing, why use the perilous one ? A man who lately paid the penalty of death for his crime, at Springfield, Ohio, before his execution made a confession in which occur these remarkable words : "Rum lies at the foundation of all my sorrows. It found me a motherless boy with no one to influence me to discard its use. I followed on, and before I was aware of it it held me a slave ; I could not maintain a moderate use of it. The more I used the tighter the chains riveted about me, until now I find myself about to be hanged on account of what it has done for me. I hereby warn everybody. I I FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 39 boih those who sell it, or in anywise uphold its use. Let my fate be a warning to both young and old, that the safest way is to touch not, nor taste the cup that has robbed me of home, friends, liberty and Life." Let the motto be " Total abstinence for the individual, prohibition for the State." It is all in these four lines, " Mental suasion for the thinker, Moral suasion for the drinker, Legal suasion for the law breaker, Prison suasion for the drunkard maker." BENEFITS OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE. ©OME time ago the Convocation of the province of ^^ Canterbury, England, called for evidence — from clergy, recorders, governors and chaplains of prisons, of lunatic asylums, governors of workhouses and super- intendents of police — as to the results of the use of liquor. The evidence returned is of one complexion. " I can trace," said one clergyman, " nearly every case of family destitution to intemperance." Another says, " There would be no real poverty here, except from some illness, if there was no drunkenness." The governors of workhouses replied as follows, following ihxi exact order in which they are printed : " Twelve ;^'ears' experience shows that two-thirds of the inmates of this house are victims of intemperance." " Eighty per cent, may be given as the proportion of paupers who are the victims of intemperance." " I should say ! . I j 40 SHOT AND SHELL. I;' 'iliilil that three-fourths of the inmates of this house have been victims of intemperance." " Without hesitation, I should say that seventy or eighty per cent, of the paupers come to that state through drink." And so it goes on, " eighty per cent.," " eighty out of one hun- dred," "three-fourths," "eighty per cent.," in terms that very soon range themselves into a grim tautology. One master of a workhouse says, " I have been re- lieving officer eleven years, and during that time / never knew a teetotaler applying for parish relief.'* The famous athelete, Tom Sayers, was once asked by a gentleman, " Well, Tom, I suppose when you are tra* ing, you use plenty of beefsteaks, and London pori -'d pale ale." The boxer replied, " In my time I l.i'^e drunk more than was good for me; but when I have business to do, there's nothing like water and the dumb-bells." After retiring from " business,'' he took to drink and died a sot. Cold water made him a Samson, alcohol laid him in his grave. As a motto of personal health and long life, "It is good not to drink wine." Dr. Reynolds, the great temperance advocate, says that six hundred of the ablest physicians of the land testify that since they have ceased to give alcohol as a medicine they have had much better success with the patients than before. Phillip Phillips, the great sacred song singer, said in one of his entertainments in Montreal that he had travelled over the world, and though fellow-com- panions drank wine, and beer and brandy for health, FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 41 says land ol as with said had jom- alth. and yet fell by the way for physical care, he drank only water (God's beverage), and had never in all his travels missed an engagement or employed a physician. Dr. David Livingstone's testimony amid one of his terrible experiences of hardship in the interior of Africa, as recorded in his journal, is as follows : — " My opinion is, that the most severe labours and privations may be undergone without alcoholic stimulants, because those who have endured the most had nothing else but water." A gentleman who is a chief in Shoshong, South Africa, sent a letter to the Scottish Temperance League, Glasgow, bearing date of November 24th, 1880, in which he states that since his efforts to stop the use of liquor there, his people are much better for it, and that his duties as chief have been greatly lightened, — for he adds — " Drink is death ; it is that and nothing else." This testimony reminds us of a remark made by a temperance lecturer not long since. He said, "I know a victim to liquor who hasn't tasted food for over thirty years." A hearer said, " How do you know he hasn't ? " The reply was, " Because whisky killed him in 1853." These statements go to upset the theory that liquor is necessary to sustain under great physical or mental strain. We believe it is resorted to,iin most instances, because it is liked. A noted actor in a London coffee house of the old variety, heard one man say, "Waiter, a glass of brandy, I'm hot." In a few minutes another customer cried out, " Waiter, a glass of brandy, 4 42 SHOT AND SHELL ,irii all I'm cold." The actor was exasperated by the general dishonesty and halloed, " Waiter, a glass of brandy, / like itr A good story is told in which a Quaker seems to have discerned the true situation. An elderly gentle- man accustomed to indulge freely in strong drink, entered the travellers' room of a tavern where sat a grave Quaker by the fire. Lifting a pair of green spectacles upon his forehead, rubbing his inflamed eyes and calling for brandy and water, he complained to the Quaker " that his eyes were getting weaker, and that even spectacles did not seem to do them any good." " I'll tell thee, friend," replied the Quaker, " what I think ; if thou wouldst wear thy spectacles ovr/: . tiy mouth for a few months thine eyes would get well again." '' Away, all drink that man distils, So fraught with sin and sadness ; We'll drain the cup that brings no ill, The draught of health and gladness." A moderate drinker once took up a temperance tract and sat down in his family to peruse it. After reading it once the man said, " The author of this is a fool or I am." He read it again and said the second time, " This man is a fool or I am." But after read- ing it again the third time he finished it by saying, " I was the fool," and never tasted a drop of ardent spirits afterward. If the reader of this paper be a moderate drinker I would say, "Go thou and do likewise." FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 43 As to the profitableness of total abstinence Dr. Franklin said, " It puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back and vigor in the body." PROGRESS OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. OT more than seventy-five years ago the first regularly organized temperance society v/as formed in the United States. We are informed that one of its regulations was as follows : — "Any member found drunk will be fined twenty -five cents, unless said intoxication takes place on the 4th of July or some other regular day of military muster." We laugh at that now, but it was then in advance of any- thing we had, and those who advocated the cause suffered for it. But from that and similar organiza- tions there has arisen a band of temperance workers who have made their influence felt in this country for good. Our total abstinence pledge now has no exemptions for the 24th of May or the 1st of July. It is an under- stood thing that if a man is a temperance man he is to be one all the time — abroad as well as at home, that he will work by precept and example for the furtherance of the cause, and thus imitate the worthy example of an Irishman who had taken the pledge at home but afterwards came to this country, and on being asked 44 SHOT AND SHELL to take " a glass " he refused on the ground that he belonged to a temperance society, and had signed the pledge in the old land. The individual said, " O, but that was in Ireland. You might drink here and no person would know it." "Do you think," said he, " that I brought my body to this country and left my soul in Ireland ?" The traffic in liquor is now guarded by many restrictions which have been secured by agitation, though those restrictions do not by any means fully satisfy those who are working for the overthrow of King Alcohol. We are satisfied with them so far as they go, because we believe they are steps in the right direction; but we do not believe that the liquor traffic can ever be satisfactorily regu- lated — it must be suppressed. Nothing short of that will satisfy us. We have been forced to take a lesson in tactics from Bismarck in relation to the advance- ment of our cause. Said he, " In politics I act as I do out snipe shooting. I put my foot on one stone and do not take it off till I see my way to another. When I have found that, I step firmly on to the new stone and leave the old one behind, and so on till I am out of the marsh." So we have taken step after step, and we trust we will soon be out of the bog. These re- strictions, as means of doing away with the traffic, remind us of two boys who had a rabbit, and by acci- dent it got its leg broken, which necessitated its being killed to prevent suffeilng. Tommy, who was a ten- der-hearted boy, said, " John, go behind the house and FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 45 kill the rabbit." After a time Tommy went around to see how he succeeded, and found his brother lightly tapping the rabbit on the head with a small stone. " Why don't you strike it hard at once ?" said he, " and kill it." "Oh," said Johnny, "I want to kill it without hurting it." The application is easy. We shall never abolish the traffic unless we strike heavy blows. It is not a case in which a kid glove style of warfare will be of any avail. It is surely because we have become accustomed to the traffic that so many tamely submit to it. Let us suppose there are 100,000 hotels, or " toll-gates to hell " in the Dominion, occupying the time of 150,000 men. Suppose the same number of men would come over from the United States and do one-hundredth part of the damage to our people, the cry would be raised all over the land, *• To arms ! to arms!" and hurl the destructive foe from our land; but because the liquor traffic is licensed by law our people seem willing to submit to the greatest evil that ever has afflicted any people. At different times long petitions have been sent to the Government asking for prohibition ; but large bodies move slowly, and it seems that legislative assemblies are not an exception. But we will petition again and again, if need be, and make our efforts tell upon the Government of this country. We must not merely pass resolutions de- nouncing the traffic, but we must use our franchise in sending to Parliament only such men as are favour- able to the suppression of the liquor traffic. 1 1' .T 46 SHOT AND SHELL " We boast of education, Of laws to punish ill, Yet license desolation — Yes ! license men to kilL We called for legislation ; How foolish were our calls ! — While drinkers held high station In legislative halls." Let us, as temperance workers, rejoice because of what we have thus far secured, and labour in confi- dent expectation of receiving better and more efficient measures. We endorse the following from one of our leading Canadian journals: — "No cause has within the last five or six years made such progress as this of temperance has done, and nothing is more evident than that within the next decade it is destined to exercise a most potent influencie on the course of political action and legislation on all the most civil- ized countries in .the world. It has fairly got out of the slough of contempt ; and even those who have no sympathy with its objects and operations cannot help watching its movements with interest, sometimes possibly even with alarm, while politicians are fain to trim their sails to the rising breeze, and are beginning to speak respectfully of what they had hitherto ridi- culed, and to endorse what they had till lately both bitterly opposed and imsparingly condemned. The situation is hopeful, and the prospects encouraging. Let all help according to their light, and the result will cast into the shade all that has hitherto been accomplished." i)| ;'^^ FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 47 WHAT THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE HAS DONE. .c^T is an enterprise that has fed the hungry, clothed the naked, healed the sick, taught the ignorant, elevated the degraded, gladdened the sorrowful, and led to the Cross multitudes that had wandered far away ; an enterprise that has gathered again the for- tune that had been scattered, and built again the home that had been ruined, and raised again the character that had been blasted, and bound up again the heart that had been broken; an enterprise that had given peace where there was discord, and gladness where there had been woe; has prevented many a suicide, and robbed the gallows of many a victim that would otherwise have been there; an enterprise that has thinned the workhouse, hospital and jail, but has helped to fill the school, the lecture room and the industrial exhibition; an enterprise that has turned into useful citizens those that were the pests of society ; one of the best educators of the masses ; one of the very chief pioneers of the Gospel. Like some fair spirit from another world, our great enterprise has trodden the wilderness, and flowers of beauty have sprung up upon her track. She has looked around, gladdening all on whom her smiles have fallen; she has touched the captive, and his fetters have fallen off; she has spoken, and the countenance of despair has been lighted up with hope; wave a rier magic wand, and the wilderness has rejoiced and blossomed as the rose. Like the fabled Orpheus, she has war- t'l 48 SHOT AND SHELL i bled her song of mercy, and wild beasts, losing their ferocity, have followed gladly and gratefully in her train. She has raised up those that have been worse than dead — sepulchred in sin ; and she has led multi- tudes to the living waters of salvation. — Rev. Neivman Hall. I iniOl!:: i ORGANIZED EFFORTS. .«WT is admitted that when a vice has become preva- lent and powerful, it is allowable to make organ- ized resistance against it. This has been done in the case of obscene literature, and an almost complete stop has been put to its publication. It has been done in the organization of resistance against cruelty to the lower animals, and also against cruelty to chi'^ren. There can be no question, then, of the wisdc nd propriety of organizing in like manner for the preven- tion of the vice of intemperance. It is obvious, in fact, that such organization becomes necessary in self- defence, if for no other reason. There is no need to expatiate upon the evils of intemperance. It is the foe of industry, and the promoter of idleness and viciousness. It is the foe of human health. In every hospital in the land there lie bodily wrecks which have been made such by drunkenness. It is the foe of intellectual progress. There is not one of you who cannot point to men, bright, genial, witty, who have been ruined by intemperance. There are other sins of FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. which men may be habitually guilty, and yet retain their faculties ; but when a man becomes the slave of this sin the very channels through which his reason might be appealed to are closed up. As I said before, the evils of intemperance are so obvious that they need not be mentioned. Christians rest their argu- ments against intemperance on the Scriptures, and there I think they have found a solid argument. There is no sort of doubt that in the Scriptures we are warned against it as a snare and temptation. Now, can there be any doubt that we can subsist without intoxicating liquors ? To say that they are necessary is childish. If my use of intoxicating liquors will commend them by my influence and example to others to whom they may be harmful, it is my duty as a Christian to avoid them. You can easily imagine the case of a man who is hospitably invited by his hostess to take wine^ In his early manhood he has yielded to excessive drink- ing. He has put the temptation away from him, but now, when it is again presented to him, he is sur- rounded by men who know of his youthful weakness. He wishes to say "No," but he fears to do so. He knows that they will think, "Ah ! poor fellow, he knows his own weakness ; he does not dare accept the proffered drink ! " He is tempted to prove to them that he, as well as they, can drink a glass of wine without fear of permitting it to lead to drunkenness. But let the men who surround him: ministers, law- yers, bankers — men against whom there had never I 1 TTf k ■ I m ! '• I'll!' 50 SHOT AND SHELL been a suspicion of weakness — let them say no, and they place before him the shield of their strength, they render his refusal easy. In conclusion I would say, don't press liquors upon others, don't give the weight of your personal character to the habit of drinking. If it gives you pain to forego your habit of taking liquors, then I say to you that you have reached a point where it is time, for your own sake, to abstain from them. — John Hall. D.D. THE CHURCH AND TEMPERANCE. .c^T is only about fifty years since the first active and united efforts commenced in the interests of the cause of temperance in this country. The work that has been done in this half -century is certainly most encouraging, and although the enemy has not been completely destroyed, yet the results of the aggressive efforts that have been made are enough to warrant us in carrying on the good cause with still greater zeal. Fifty years ago the use of intoxicating liquor, by farmers in gathering their crops, and by mechanics in their shops and homes, was almost a uni- versal habit. Fifty years ago there were very few temperance societies, and the pulpit was almost silent concerning this giant evil. Now the position is entirely different. Temperance Associations have been formed; men of ability and influence have spoken and written on the subject until public sentiment has almost entirely changed. It is no longer considered Ml ;|| .■|lr; illiiiKi FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 51 by a respectable thiug for a man to habitually indulge in intoxicating drinks ; and in all positions of trust total abstinence men are invariably given the preference. The Church now takes a very different stand on the temperance question. Instead of refraining to refer to the matter at all, the evil of intemperance is being attacked on all sides by ministers of the Gospel of various denominations. The press, religious and secular, is giving more and more attention to the subject, and never was there so much good temperance literature being circulated as to-day. In looking at the progress that has been made during the past few years, and considering the pros- pect for the next decade, nothing is more cheering than the advanced position now taken by the Churches, and, we may say, especially by the Methodist Church. The temperance question was regarded very differently by the Church than it is to-day, even within the memory of many of our readers. It is said that a Church in the eastern part of Canada, some years ago, actually rented its basement as a wine and beer store- house, while the upper part still continued to be used for the preaching of the Gospel. The trustees became somewhat ashamed of the use to which they had allowed their building to be put when a wag placed a placard over the front door, on a Sunday morning, bearing the inscription, — " A spirit above, and a spirit below, A Spirit of love and a spirit of woe : The Spirit above is the Spirit divine, The spirit below is the spirit of wine." s* 52 SHOT AND SHELL tip Such a thing as a Church employed, even indirectly, in the liquor business, seems to us now scarcely possible, which simply shows that a wonderful change has taken place in public sentiment, and more espe- cially among Christian people. The Church should not, however, rest satisfied with what has been done. The temperance question is the great living question of the day, and must be dealt with. The Church is an institution which aims at overthrowing evil, and cultivating and encouraging the purest morality. It has the true remedy for vice — the Go el of Christ — and ought, therefore, by example and action, seek to so influence public opinion that this traffic in strong drink shall be declared illegal. Much has been done, there is still room for improvement. There are still many members and adherents in all our Churches who, if not direct patrons of the liquor trade, are at least indiflerent and careless in opposing it. In a pamphlet by the late Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, published a year or two ago, the author makes the following astounding statement. He says: "I have no doubt that the money expended by the Presbyterian Church in the United States for intoxicating drinks amounts every year to more than all the receipts of our Home and Foreign Missionary Societies ; and the total amount expended for drinks in the United States, if devoted to the national debt, would pay it in four years." If this statement be true, there is yet much to be done in the Church itself before we may expect it to enter very energetically into aggressive movements against the I ill iW FOR THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. 53 traffic. In the agitations now going on in different countries, and in the great conflicts for prohibition, the Church ought to lead. The cause of temperance reform is certainly a legitimate field for Christian activity. Let all ministers of the Gospel, all members of Christian Churches, be pledged to total abstinence, and moreover pledged to work for the complete over- throw of intemperance, and we believe the good cause would soon triumph. — K H. Dewart, D.D. or THE GOSPEL OF TEMPERANCE. 'HE Bible declares that " Drunkards shall not in- herit the kingdom of heaven." What it says it means, all " explanation" to the contrary. And with such a declaration how plain is it that temperance work is essentially a Gospel work. And it is doubly so. First, the Bible enjoins it ; and what the Bible enjoins the preacher of the Gospel should advocate. Secondly, it is emphatically " good news" which turns the intemperate man away from his bottle and keeps him to his Bible. What man enslaved by appetite can break his own chain ? Man s will can indeed do much, but there must first come the inclination. And there is where the root of the trouble is. " Let me sleep," says the sluggard ; " Let me swear," says the swearer ; " Let me lie," says the liar ; " Let me drink," says the drunkard. " They will not come to the light," is the declaration of Christ ; and it is as true 54 SHOT AND SHELL to-day as when uttered by Divine lips on the shore of Galilee. Can a leopard change his spots? Can a sinner remove desire for sin ? Neither can a drunkard while living in the depth of his iniquity desire to leave his drink. The devil is always by, and gives him both entertaining company and counsel. " Drink on," he says. And he drinks deep ; he drinks early and late, and then — dies of thirst. And where does he go ? Does heaven claim him ? Is his thick voice wanted to swell the anthems of the angelic choir ? May the Church of Christ arise in its might and preach the Gospel of Temperance, and arouse men and women to their duty ! Then intemperance will not claim its sixty thousand American victims every year. Hell will lose, but heaven shall be the gainer. — Dr. Talmage. WHAT WE NEED. ^E are in favor of a temperance revival, or some- '^^ thing of that sort, to stir the people up. We want something that will keep the people studying over the temperance question, that will set them to thinking, and w« believe nothing would do this better than a temperance revival. We have a temperance lecture once in a while ; but we want several of them at times. We want to keep the minds of the people stirred up so strongly that they will begin seriously to study this great question. We have considerable faith in the temperance party. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 55 but and in its ultimate success ; but we believe we must first stir the people up to a sense of their danger, show them both sides of the question, and let them under- stand that they must decide between the two. Con- vince them that the temperance party are in earnest, and that we mean to make the temperance question a political one. Show them that we, as a party, are in earnest. Ask them for their votes, and do your best to get them. One of our greatest troubles is we have too many resolutions and too few votes. We have been treating the temperance question too much like men of the present day treat what they call extravagance and folly of women, who denounce it all the time, yet keep telling their wives and daughters how prettily Miss W. looked in her silks and diamonds, and still praising their beauty when dressed in the height of fashion, and scolding them for not being dressed as much as one of their neigh- bors. Just so with temperance men — they meet, they talk about the evils of intemperance, pass resolutions denouncing the traffic, and then go to the polls and vote for men whom they know to be opposed to any- thing that sounds like prohibition. Thus we have kept them up until they boast that they do not care for our resolutions, they are sure of our votes, and that is what they care most for. What we want is to show them that the temperance men of the country can make resolutions and then stand by them. That if we say we will not vote for any other but a temperance man, and then stand to it Jill iilii h ! i Mm 111! 1|i HlH I' ' 56 SHOT AND SHELL to the last ; when we do this, then we can make our power felt. To be able to do this we must stir the people up, and keep them so until they give us their votes and their influence. Whenever we get their votes we are sure of victory, and can only gain them by hard, earnest, and faithful work. If holding a temperance meeting every night for a week is not sufficient, keep them going the others. Keep them up until you have stirred the masses up to vote a straight temperance ticket, irrespective of either party. — Sel. THREE WAYS OF DEALING WITH THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. 'HERE are three ways proposed of dealing with the liquor traffic. One is to throw no restrictions whatever around it, making it free, and putting it on the same basis as any legitimate or respectable busi- ness. Another is the license system ; in other words, saying, "It matters not how much destruction you send broadcast, if you will only pay us for it." This system is wrong in principle and inefficient in appli- cation. It is wrong in principle, for, as Lord Chester- field said more than 100 years ago, " Vice is not to be taxed, but to be suppressed." License clothes the traffic with legal respectability and gives it the pro- tection of the State. It is inefficient, for wherever tried it has confessedly failed to accomplish the end sought. There is not a species of crime known to the law which is not hatched beneath its protecting wings. !!iiL nil); ill Tm FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 57 We have probably to-day, in Ontario, the best license system we ever had ; but that does not alter the fact that any license system that can possibly be devised must, from the nature of the case, be utterly inefficient. So long as we have legalized drink-sealing we shall have drinking ; and so long as we have drinking we shall have drunkenness and all its terrible consequences. That Prohibition is the right method of dealing with the traffic is evident, for the State exists to prohibit evil and foster the good. We live not in a savage but in a civilized community, and in such a state every man's liberty is limited by the good of society. The whiskey seller has no right to interfere with the rights of others. Wives have rights ; children have rights ; quiet, peaceable mem- bers of society, who wish to live in security of life and property, have rights ; and these rights must be pre- served even at the expense of denying to some others the right to sell whiskey and get drunk. — Bev. W. A- McKay, B.A. m\ LICENSE OR PROHIBITION— WHICH? WHAT A VOTE MAY DO. ^ AVE you a vote ? If so, who gave it to you, and to whom are you resposible for the use you make of it? The greatest question before our country to-day is, "Shall the liquor traffic be protected and per- petuated, or destroyed?" The question of the settle- 5 ";* .': Bff llillii' 58 SHOT AND SHELL I : ment of the Boundary Award, or the disallowance of the Streams Bill is of small importance compared with the settlement of the momentous issues involved in the liquor traffic. What is your position towards this question ? For or against — which ? " Why do I ask you," do you say? Because you are the proper one to ask; you are a voter — so am I. By our votes this liquor curse lives and spreads itself everywhere. It could not exist for one hour but for these. They give it a legal right to be here, and clothe it with all the respect- ability it possesses. By our votes we have put it upon the throne where it now sits, and have, given that throne its stability. By our votes it reigns and conquers. Do you know we are partners in the busi- ness and sharers in the responsibility for its crimes ? There is not a liquor-seller in the Dominion but can point to our votes and influence as the reason for the existence of his dreadful trade in death-dealing drink. We are responsible for the opening or shutting of the drink shops. " How is that," do you say ? Because the liquor traffic is protected by law, and our votes say who shall make the laws, and approve or dis- approve of them after they are made. If we vote for license we vote to make it morally certain that at least 7,000 per year of our fellow-citizens will die drunkards. We vote for a traffic that makes 75 criminals out of every 100 that are sent to our jails and prisons; that produces three- fourths of all the crime in our land. We vote to FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 59 make thousands of wives widows and tens of thousands of children orphans and paupers. Why should we do this ? Do we hate our kind that we should seek to perpetuate a business that ruins multitudes of them ? God forbid ! With license we are helpless to protect the weak against the strong. With prohibition you can punish the man who sells another liquor; you make the liquor traffic an outlaw, and all who sell pre violators of law and criminals. Prohibition will de- throne the liquor traffic from its place of power as a party weapon in politics, and brand its use as thrice accursed in social life. Are we not our brother's keeper? Let us then shut up the door of this great temptation that lies open at his feet, thereby lessen the probabilities of his utter ruin, and protect his wife and family from cruelty and hunger. It is time as electors that we spoke out upon this subject — that we freed ourselves from complicity in this traffic, by saying no license shall be given with our consent. Shall we do it? Let reason, judgment and conscience answer, and so far as your vote and mine will go, the wrong of license shall be righted and the right shall be sustained. VOTE AS YOU PRAY. — Rev. D. L. Brethour. 60 SHOT AND SHELL PROHIBITION j^HEN temperance people and friends of prohibi- tion advocate the suppression of the liquor traffic, they often hear a great deal about the revenue: " It would be ruinous to any country to adopt such a measure, to kill the hen which lays the golden eggs," etc., but the trouble is, the hen is always hatching troublesome chickens which will not come home to roost. Reliable statistics inform us that in Indiana the expenses of paupers and criminals arising directly from liquor in twenty years have been nearly $15,000,000 ; the receipts for licenses, etc., have been a little more than $2,000,000. This shows a clear loss to the State of over $12,000,000. As we have shown elsewhere in this book, Canada would be immensely enriched if the whole traffic was abolished. It is properly the duty of Governments to take the lead in temperance work by making good laws. It is said, in answer to this, " You can't make men good by any Act of Parliament." That may be true, but it is just as true that the consumption of intoxicating liquors can be controlled by such Acts. The principle of prohibition is already recognized in the numerous restrictions we have imposed on the traffic. We want an extension of the same principle until the traffic is entirely controlled. Just in proportion as the liquor laws are stringent or loose is the amount of drunken- ness, as a rule, therefore any law that would shut up saloons would curtail the consumption of liquor, ^ FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 61 ^ :> because it is here that many learn their first lessons in drinking. " There being fewer gins, the number of birds taken would be smaller, as a natural conse- quence." If the law does not " make men good," it is able to remove the cause of crime and so enhance the cause of virtue. We are told we have " No right to interfere with a man's personal liberty, and his right to eat and drink what he pleases." When a man's definition of " per- sonal liberty " is that he must have liberty to tempt and ruin his neighbors' sons by keeping an open whiskey and beer saloon, every day in the week, he needs either a new dictionary or a new heart. It ought to be clearly understood that we have no wish to infringe on any one's liberty as to eating and drinking. Suppose an ox or a sheep is dying of disease, and the owner kills it and brings the meat into market. A town officer steps up, saying, " The law prohibits the sale of this article." But there happens to be one standing by who is jealous of his own and other's privileges, and he turns and defiantly asks, " Do you mean to interfere with the rights of freemen ? Cannot any one eat unsound meat who pleases ?" The officer replies, " Certainly, he can ; but that is not the question. This man, by exposing for sale what is injurious to health, has rendered the article liable to destruction and himself to a heavy fine." That is the law, and a very good one, necessary for the protection of society. So the object of the law we want is not the regulation of any one's diet, or an m \ Wi IHB 62 SHOT AND SHELL infringement of his liberty as to what he should drink, but the prohibition of an unsound, soul-and-body- destroying traffic." Is not that plain enough ? The purpose for which Qovernments exist is the protection of the people, and when they fail or come short in this, in the highest and best sense, just so far they fail of the purpose tor which they are established. And we can see no reason why intoxicating drinks should be claimed as an exception to the subjects over which Governments exercise authority. If dangerous animals expose human life or property to peril, magistrates adopt measures for public safety by destroying or confining them within their proper limits. In seasons of prevailing epidemics, the authorities of any town or city exercise the right of removing any cause which has a tendency to increase or perpetuate the malady, even at the risk of interfering with the lawful interests of individuals. And yet the tra^c in strong drink is in perpetual operation, withering, cursing and destroy- ing some of the fairest portions of society, spreading its devastations in every direction, and, when compre- hensive measures are proposed to remove the evils inflicted, the patriots of appetite and avarice raise the alarm that an act of unpardonable tyranny is about to be perpetrated. The liberation of thousands from a worse than African bondage is nothing in the estima- tion of such benevolent souls (!) when compared v <^ the gratification of sense, or the gains ' iig from administering to the demands of an ^.erious an depraved appetite. i^ FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 63 to a It is said, too, by the friends of license, that " Pro- hibition doesn't prohibit, because men sell liquor and get drunk where prohibition exists." The West Vir- ginia FreeTnan says : " Suppose we use the same argu- ment in other matters; for instance, Christianity doesn't christianize, because there are sinners in the world. Wisdom doesn't make men wise, because fools are still to be found. Cultivation doesn't cultivate, because weeds still come up in the field. Education doesn't educate, because it does not exterminate the ignorance that persists in such silly arguments as the above." Maine adopted this principle over thirty years agO| and has been fighting away ever since against this " whiskey devil," and the result is that no political party now dares to take issue against prohibition. To assert that the law is broken and that some get drunk where prohibition exists, is simply to charge that it is like any other law, human or divine, for all laws are broken ; but the violation is often the most conclusive evidence of the necessity of the law. Had no one any disposition to do that against which a law is directed, such law would be needless. Therefore to say that a law will be broken is really an argument in favor of the law. That stale old lie that " more liquor is sold under a prohibitory law than under a license law," will not go down with the common people, whose quick reasoning discerns the fact that while the rum- sellers declare their business to be better under a pro- hibitory law, they at the same time try to move heaven rR^VI fl t '. ;. , 64 SHOT AND SHELL nipJ: '111 l:ilB and earth, and tlie other place, to get the restrictions lifted. Prohibition in relation to liquor is not a new thing, for history informs us that in 1733 the trustees of the colony of Georgia enacted that " the drink of rum in Georgia be absolutely prohibited, and that all which sha-U be brought there be staved." In Scotland twelve hundred years ago there was a law that any one who would sell intoxicating drinks should have his house pulled down and he be banished. If he returned and began his business again he was to be hanged. This great evil will never cure itself. It never did that and never will. They who are not in its fangs ought to make it hard for others to be destroyed. Only a few months ago an elderly man said that he had that morning walked ten miles to get whiskey with which to celebrate his fifty-fifth birthday, which was the next day, by getting on a " big drunk ;" but to his sorrow (it ought to have been to his joy) he failed to procure the "celebrating" fluid. So much on the duty of putting the evil out of the way, in accordance with Gladstone's statement made not long ago, viz., "It is the function of the Government to make it easy for the people to do right, and difficult for them to do wrong.*' How is this great end to be gained ? Edmund Burke once said, " When bad men conspire, good men must combine." Let all "good men (and women, too) combine " in this work, and may God help those who are now praying and working to save this land of iiuMll! 11 m FOB THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 65 orators and heroes from " the curse that has blighted its men of genius, murdered its young manhood, and broken its women's hearts !" "There is an evil in the land, Kank with age and foul with crime, Strong with many a legal band, Money, fashion, use and time ; 'Tis the question of the hour, How shall we the wrong o'erpower ! Vote it out ! This will put the thing to rout, Vote it out ! Let us rise and vote it out ! "We have begged the traffic long, Begged it both with smiles and tears, To abate the flood of wrong, But it answered us with sneers ; We are wearied with the scourge — Vote it out ! Loyal people raise the shout. Vote it out ! Let us rise and vote it out ! " 'Tis the battle of the hour ; Freemen show your strength again, In the ballot is your power, This will bring the foe to pain. We have preached against the wrong, We have pled with words of song ; Vote it out ! Vote and pray with heart devout, Vote it out ! Let us rise and vote it out ! ; ill I'i till i ilHl 66 SHOT AND SHELL " Never shall the promise fail, Qod is with us for the right ; Truth is mighty to prevail, Faith shall end in joyous sight. We shall see the hosts of Rum Palsied with affright, and dumb, Vote it out ! Thus we'll put the fiend to rout, Vote it out ! Let us rise and put him out." OUR WAR CRY. *HE war drums are beating ! Up, soldiers and fight ! The despot Intemperance, Hurl down from his height! Oh, gird on your armours. His minions are nigh, I'll give you a watchword — "We conquer or die !" The clarion is sounding From inland to shore ; Your swords and your lances Must slumber no more. Shout, shout in your glory, Your caps waving high, "We are fighting for freedom I We conquer or die." March forth to the battle All fearless and calm, The strength of your spirit Throw into your arm j FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 67 And let your proud motto Ring up to the sky, Till the very stars echo "We conquer or die!" Strike deep and unerring ; Nor dare to retreat, Though thousands by thousands The enemy meet ! The thicker the foemen, The firmer stand by. Remembering your watchword — " We conquer or die !" Go forth in the pathway Your forefathers trod ; Ye, too, fight for freedom. Your leader is God. Fling out your broad banners Against the blue sky. And shout like true soldiers, " We conquer or die !" Not chains for the tyrant. For chains are in vain ; He is planning already To break them in twain ! But raise your deep voices. And shout the war cry — "Death ! death ! for the tyrant ; We conquer — or die!" — Mr$. Mansfield, I -Fl ■\' I i i I I 68 SHOT AND SHELL BENEFITS OF PROHIBITION. 'HERE is a man in the Western States who is in the employment of the liquor party. He goes out on lecturing tours. "Twenty dollars for every speech," he says, "and five dollars a day for expenses; such are my terms, and I am open for any argument, my role being to show that prohibition does not prohibit." Neal Dow says, "There is no place, — there never has been one, — where prohibition exists, in which the volume of the liquor traffic has not been dimin- ished. In many of them greatly reduced ; in many of them entirely swept away." If prohibition vastly increases the liquor traffic the conduct of the liquor men, who spend large sums in resisting it, employing men to write down prohibition, and papers to advo- cate license, is unexplainable. We have testimonies recently furnished by men in responsible positions as to the efficiency of this righteous measure. Governor Robie, in his inaugural address to the Legislature, re- views the growth and success of the State of Maine, in which he says : " Prohibition has worked immense advantages for the State of Maine. The vast sum of money which formerly went to the saloon-keeper is now spent in improving farms, households, and a thousand other ways which benefit society, till both political parties, and a great majority of the people, look upon the prohibition of the liquor traffic as the salvation and safety of the State. The above gives the lie to the infamous statements which the liquor L ^% FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 69 ho is in ?oes out speech," luch are my role .it." e never which dimin- nany of vastly ! liquor ploying advo- monies ions as )vernor are, re- Maine, imense sum of iper is and a 1 both 3eople, as the gives liquor interest persistently sends forth, that prohibition is a failure. It has made liquor-selling a failure, except when they defy both God and man, and are willing to sell their souls to the devil for a glass of rum." The Hon. J. G. Blaine, gives the following testimony : "Intemperance has steadily decreased in this State since the first enactment of the prohibitory law, until now it can be said with truth that there is no equal number of people in the Anglo-Saxon world among whom so small an amount of intoxicating liquor is consumed as among the six hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants of Maine." The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Edwards County, Illinois, lately submitted the following facts: " There has not been a licensed saloon in this county for over 25 years. During that time our jail has not averaged an occupant. This county never sent but one person to the penitentiary, and that man was sent up for killing his wife while drunk on whiskey obtained from a licensed saloon in an adjoining county. We have but very few paupers in our poor house — sometimes only three or four. Our taxes are 32 per cent, lower than they are in the adjoining counties where saloons are licensed. Our people are prosperous, peaceable and sober." Dr. Talmage said : " I don't know how you feel, but I confess I am tired of paying taxes to fix up the work of these infernal grog-shops that are tossing tens of thousands of people into crime and suf- fering." In Kansas a prohibitory law is in force. The Mayor of the city of Paola was determined that it » i 70 SHOT AND SHELL m should not be said that Kansas could not enforce pro- hibition, and he ordered the saloons closed. One or two men refused to obey the proclamation and they were immediately arrested. Thus the work is going on. Prohibition does prohibit, and it always will where the temperance sentiment of the people is strong enough to make legislation effective, as it is in those places where the majority have &aid, " We will not submit any longer that the work of destruction shall go on in our midst." Let the whole traffic be put under the ban of the law. If after that evils come from it, let them be — like robbery and murder — against the law, and not by its consent and appointment — in accordance with law. REMUNERATION. ►tWT is said " if a prohibitory law be passed we ought ^ to remunerate the liquor-dealers for the loss of their business." It would be greatly to the advantage of the country to buy out every establishment in the Dominion, destroy the whole stock, and allow no im- portation, except what shall be placed under the same restrictions as other dangerous articles on the apothe- cary's shelf, rather than permit matters to go on as they are now. But if we begin the work of compen- sation, of course those who have profited by the trade must be required to remunerate those who have been ruined by it. Thousands of our population are groan- m^ rej If agi lice I'! 'I FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 71 ing under injuries and miseries which money cannot repair or alleviate ; how are they to be compensated ? If the Legislature refuse a prohibitory law, will they agree to indemnify those who will suffer by the present license system in the future ? If they do, they will soon have no trouble in distributing a surplus revenue. The idea of remunerating those who have been fatten- ing on the degradation and i:alamities of others is a gross absurdity and outrage. Let them turn to some useful calling as a means of support, thankful that they get off so easily as to be allowed to do so. The trade in strong drink is a root from which grows a rank crop of all moral and social evils ; it is a tree planted in our midst whose spreading branches drip with poison, and in whose deep shadow death reigns. The only effectual protection we can have against its influence is to cut it down and cast it out. I have no sympathy with those timid warnings against " legislating in advance of public opinion." The idea that we are not to proclaim a truth or enact a law until everybody is prepared for it, and the bulk of men think alike about it, is contrary to the whole philosophy of reform and improvement, as well as to the teachings of history. That the law would be vio- lated is no argument against its enactment. What species of crime can be mentioned which prohibitions and penalties have entirely driven from among men ? Not one. The laws against murder, profanity, robbery, outrage, perjury, are disregarded by many. Would that prove the propriety of their being abrogated? n i • w 72 SHOT AND SHELL J I t' » If public opinion is wrong, let the laws be made right, thereby hastening the work of leading the popular mind on to the truth. We may all become educators on this subject. Let the friends of sobriety and good order determine to take a part in the struggle now going on. When thousands upon thousands of the loftiest intellects and the most generous hearts are annually destroyed by rum; when multitudes of broken-hearted wives and worse than orphaned children are imploring us to aid in securing a triumph which will restore to them deluded husbands and fathers; when the drunkard himself is calling upon us, in his misery, to give him that shield which will protect him from the tempter whose siren voice will otherwise draw him on to de- struction, can we longer be silent and indifferent? Never was there a more favourable time for action than now. We must all become agitators on this sub- ject in our own vicinity ; and we must press it upon the attention of our law-makers in such numbers and with such earnestness that they will be compelled to yield. The demon will yet be trampled down, annihi- lated, and the banners of victory will wave over our gladdened earth. Temperance will yet triumph. Both God and man call upon you to labor for its spread. — Rev. K. Creighton, 4 tsfe FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 78 CANADA TEMPERANCE ACT OF 1878 (known A8 the "SCOTT AOT") VERSUS THE CROOKS ACT. [CIRCULAR.]* ^"^AST week a circular, with a title opposite to the ^^ above, was issued and sent to the electors of the County of Oxford. Though it does not bear the name of any individual, it is generally understood to have had its origin among the liquor-dealers and their friends. The writer, or writers, assume at the outset that "some may not be acquainted with the restric- tions of the Scott Act, and that some ** (possibly the Temperance people) " may represent them differently to what they are," therefore they proceed to give ex- tracts from each of the Acts, — though I am sure the reading of the quotations will not militate against the Temperance cause, as it will be apparent to every intelligent reader that the Crooks Act, which they endeavor to extol, permits the granting of licenses (precisely that which we wish to prevent), while the Scott Act does not grant such licenses. This circular informs us as to some of the evil effects which will result from the passing of the Scott Act. 1st. It will promote /ntemperance. They have made this bold * This and the following letter were originally written in answer to a circular sent out in the County of Oxford by the liquor-dealers or their friends. I have though .^ it might serve a good purpose to insert them in this volume, as the same objections have to be met in every contest for the overthrow of the drink traffic. 6 74 SHOT AND SHELL ijiiiii ! ijiir statement without any attempt at proof. Now, as temperance workers, we honestly believe the opposite will be the case, hence we are consistent in laboring for the success of the Act. If the liquor-vendors believe, as they tell us, that it will increase intem- perance, thereby increasing their receipts, why not act consistently with their professed convictions and labor for the passage of the Scott Act ? 2nd. We are told the " Crooks Act is a success." That altogether depends on what is meant by " success." If it is meant that it licenses a system which impoverishes families, creates animosity between husbands and wives, retards the Gospel chariot wheels, peoples mad- . houses, pleases the devil, replenishes the grave, plants the dying pillow with thorns, condemns at the judg- ment day and shuts the drunkard up in hell ; then it is one of the most gigantic successes this age has ever witnessed. Will a Christian people, in this the 19th century, vote for the perpetuation of this huge " success " when a grand opportunity is afforded them to do otherwise? I hope not. I believe not. 3rd. "If you adopt the Scott Act, you are going to grant the druggists licenses," etc. For years, on our Temperance platforms, we have said, if liquor must be sold, let it be kept in its place, alongside other poisons on the apothecary's shelf, and if it be kept there, as the Scott Act directs, " for medicinal purposes," doubt- less it would be pure, which cannot be said of much of that which is sold lu saloons — composed largely, as it is, of blue stone, log- wood, and other vile ingredients. -iii' ; I FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 75 Apart from that, I ask the electors to carefully read and examine the restrictions under which liquor is to be sold by druggists, and I am persuaded you will con- clude it is decidedly preferable to having rum-shops on every corner — with their glittering bottles and soul-destroying abominations to trap and ensnare the young, who are the hope of this country. We are told " if we displayed the Christian spirit which we profess, we would be willing to remunerate for the property we destroy," in case the Act be passed. If the saloon-keepers advocate " remuneration " let it commence in the families who have suffered indescrib- ably through the nefarious traffic. They must remem- ber their license is granted for one year only, and at the expiration of that period, the authority that had power to grant it has power to withhold it, if the trade pursued under that license is found to be in- jurious to the public. During the past winter, a manufacturer in the West marked $700 in new bills which he paid his workmen one Saturday night, and the next Monday afternoon $450 of those identical bills were deposited in the bank by the saloon men. Who will do the " remunerating " there ? The advice to " display the Christian spirit " certainly comes with bad grace from the " whiskey ring," whose business, if allowed, would throttle and destroy Christianity. I ask the electors to read the following parable and tell us who, in this case, displayed the "Christian spirit :" — " It came to pass that as a certain man journeyed from the cradle to the grave, he fell among saloon keepers. , 76 SHOT AND SHELL I :f I'll 9 1,1 :». !i- who robbed him of his money, ruined his good name, destroyed his reason, and then kicked him out wors6 than dead. A moderate drinker came that way, and when he saw him he said, * He is but a dog ; they served him right. Let him die, he is a curse to his family.' And also a license voter came that way, and when he saw him he said, * The brute ! Put a ball and chain on his leg and work him on the street.' And a fanatic teetotaler came that way, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and raised him up, assisted him to his home, ministered to his wants and to the wants of his family ; got him to sign the pledge, and started him on his journey in comfort and happi- ness." Whom, think you, was the greater friend to humanity — the saloon-keeper, the moderate drinker, the license voter, or the teetotaler fanatic ? It is certainly very startling to be told in the cir- cular under review, that " ministers have no interest in the county, they don't mix with the people," etc. They are not hermits, — they mix a great deal with the community, and every minister sees evidences of the sad work done by the liquor traffic, and the necessity of manifesting the " Christian spirit " in doing what we can to save our fellow-men from the crime and curse of drunkenness, even though we are but " tem- porary residents." If it be meant that " ministers do not mix with the people " in bar-rooms, then I am sure we are all grateful for the compliment. You are advised to vote " nay " to the Act also, to save the county from "an immense expense." A FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 77 liquor-seller sold a pint of liquor under the " license " system, and made a few cents profit. The drinker, under its influence, shot his son-in-law, and his arrest, imprisonment, trial and execution cost the country more than $1,000 ; and what expense will be connected with the sad event that transpired, in connection with liquor, six miles from this place, not more than three weeks ago ? Will the liquor-dealers please " rise and explain ?" We are told the Scott Act is a " failure " in Halton. A law is not a ** Uure because of a few viola- tions. I doubt not but the liquor-sellers have experi- enced a heavy " failure " in cash, but when liquor is sold and the law violated (by men such as have addressed you in their recent circular), the authorities are doing what they can to bring the offenders to justice. " The saddest thing in the present legalized liquor traffic is this — it prepares its own victims. If the hotels found men who demanded drink and supplied these only, it would not be so terrible. But they know right well that if they did this only their patronage would soon cease, when 7,000 drunkards in Canada are swept away every year, therefore they set themselves with cool and bloody cunning to prepare men to like liquor and demand it." The man who scatters a trail of corn and coaxes your hog into his pen, you call a hog thief, and you send him to the penitentiary in disgrace. But the men who allure your sons into whiskey dens, and for their money make them drunk- ards beyond the hope of recovery, are called gentlemen j I i 78 SHOT AND SHELL ;i and good fellows, and, as appears in the circular under consideration, "respectable hotel-keepers." I ask, electors, will you in the coming contest, vote that their business is legitimate and ought to be fostered b} this fair Dominion at an enormous expense ? We will meet opposition, fallacious and illogical reasonings, exhibitions of selfishness, because the " craft by which they get their wealth is in danger," but we must work and pray and vote. It will not do to sit down in supine inactivity and mourn over the evils of intem- perance, for while we are doing so the business of the drunkard will go on — for the most conclusive of reasons — it 'pays. There is money in it, and men will brave all shame and all dangers for big money. My ground is squarely taken and here I stand : " Society has a right to protect itself against the business that makes drunkards, and against the drunkards that make the business." [LETTER.]. I have recently written a circular in wnich some of the fallacies of the circular by the liquor party have been exposed. I will no tie a few more of its remarkable statements. We are told the " Scott Act will do away with all light, harmless drinking, such as ale. beer, etc." i.c- cording to that admission the Act is not going to be a " failure " after all ; for we hold it is the use of these, the " treating " and fatal social drinking, that starts our young men on a career, which, in the majority of FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 79 instances, leads to positive drunkenness. Prevent this " harmless drinking " and you will give the weak and struggling victim a chance to reco^^er himself. A man addicted to drink said, this week, that he hoped the "Scott Act" would pass — it would remove the tempta- tion out of his way. He said, farther, that many times he had sent some member of his family to town in his place, to keep out of the snare. Some would laugh at that frank acknowledgment, but those who have had to battle against the desire for drink, acquired by this " harmless " tippling, will understand the force and point of such a statement. Mary of this class will thank us for our endeavors to shut those " traps v-hat catch men." Then, again, it is said " the Scott Act will rob your fellow-citizen" (the hotel-keeper). It ought to be remembered that we are nob fighting against them as individuals, so much as wc are warring against the " license system " which they have extolled. What does that system do ? Not content with " robbing " men of their property, the evil effects of it enter the sacred precincts of the home, and blast the character and destiny of our children. And if this "Act" be passed and fairly tested, we believe that even whiskey- sellers will have the occasion, when their feelings have cooled down and their consciences have been allowed to speak, to be glad that they and their families are from under the shadow and curse of such a business. They ought to rejoice, if by any legal regulation they 80 SHOT AND SHELL •Hi are compelled to follow a more reputable way of making a livelihood. Then "the markets will be destroyed by this Act." I do not imagine that the intelligent farmers of Oxford, to whom this bait is thrown, will grasp at it. To make such a statement as the above is about as reasonable as it would be to argue with an incen- diary that it would ruin a city to put out the fire that was burning it up. Will any intelligent man believe that the prices of grain and other produce is made to depend on the traffic in liquor ? I simply ask the question and leave it to the electors to decide. We are told we will " lose a large amount of money raised by licenses." The question naturally arises, how can hotel-keepers pay these " large amounts " — with occasional fines — unless some of our fellow-citi- zens are badly fleeced ? There can be no doubt this traffic is fraught with untold evils, and the question is — Will we as electors, for the license money, grant its continuation ? When the Emperor of China was requested to legalize the traffic in opium, his memorable reply was : " I will never consent to increase my revenues by the vices of my subjects." Let us say so too, and clear our skirts of the " blood-money " from licenses which grant our fellow-citizens the privilege of dealing out poison, destruction and death. The old argument as to "increase of taxes" has been trotted out. I have not heard it stated to what extent that increase will be. An authority says that the whole revenue from drink is $5,000,000, which repre- FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 81 sents $1.20 per head ; but, according to an unchallenged statement laid before the House of Commons, the drink traffic costs the country over $7.00 per head. I doubt not but this is correct. Even if the opposite were the case, can any country prosper in the long run whose Government lives on the revenues of iniquity ? We ask the people to vote for the " Scott Act " for weighty and substantial reasons. The (so called) argu- ments of our opponents are mostly sweeping assertions, unsustained by facts, and misrepresentations respecting the actual working of this Act where it has been, and is, law. The interests of the sober and law-abiding should far outweigh those of the other party, who wish to force upon the county or country a demoralizing, body-and-soul-destroying traffic, that the majority of voters believe to be, not only unnecessary, but posi- tively injurijus. Let us show them that we so believe. You are asked to " stamp out with an iron hand this uncalled-for agitation," but we believe the duty of every intelligent and right-thinking citizen will be to " stamp out " this nefarious traffic, with its din and clatter, that the fiery breath of the whiskey-devil may no longer scorch and blast the lives and happiness of the people. KiNTOEK, May Ist, 1883. 82 SHOT AND SHELL A SHOT AT THE DECANTER. 'HERE is a current story that a Quaker once dis- covered a thief in his house, and taking down his grandfather's old fowling-piece, he quietly said: "Friend, thee had better get out of the way, for I intend to fire this gun right where thee stands." With the same considerate spirit we warn certain good people, that they had better take the decanter off their table, for we intend to aim a Bible truth right where that decp-nter stands. It has no more business to be there at all than the thief had to be in the honest Quaker's house. We are not surprised to find a decanter of alcoholic poison on the counter of a dram-shop, whose keeper is " licensed " to sell death by measure. But we are surprised to find it on the table or the sideboard of one who professes to be guided by the spirit and teaching of God's Word. That bottle stands right in the range of the following inspired utterance of St. Paul: "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anythir^g whereby thy brother stumbleth." This text must either go out of the Christian's Bible, or the bottle go off the Christian's table. The text will not'move, and the bottle must. — T. L. Cuyler, D.D. % FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 83 TO YOUNG MEN. Extract of an address delivered by Mr. R. T. Booth, in Plymouth, England, 188S. I* HE greatest conundrum that young men have to solve on this drink question is this. They see men occupying positions of honour and trust, respected by their neighbors, beloved by the poor, and they see them drink. These young men may have been taught that in order to succeed they must be honest; that in order to obtain the respect of their fellow-men they must be sober. It may be, if their mother has been true to them, that they have been taught to sigr the pledge — the pledge of total abstinence. When they come out into the world and see these things they are unable to understand how those who drink have got on. The great mistake that young men make to-day is this. They see these things, and do not stop to consider that these men came on the scene of action when public sentiment was different to what it is to-day — when it was not unpopular to drink wine. I thank God the day is coming when it will be just as unpopular as it is disreputable to drink this stuflf. But there was a day when that was not so. But public sentiment has changed and times have changed. To-day is not yesterday; this year is not last year. In years gone by we would hear it sung — My willing soul would stay In such a frame as this ; And sit and sing itself away In everlasting bliss. 84 SHOT AND SHELL i% IS'" But what do we hear to-day — Bescue the perishing, Care for the dying. We used to see a lot of little chubby boys sitting together like cats, with their faces blown out, singing — I want to be an angel, And with the angels stand. Now we hear — Hold the Fort for I am coming, Jesus signals still ; Wave the answer back to Heaven, By Thy grace we will. That is the sentiment and that is the feeling in this land to-day. There is no demand for a young man who drinks. If you pick up a morning paper in Plymouth to-morrow, I will defy you to find an adver- tisement like this, " Wanted, a young man who drinks beer, gin, or whiskey." But you will find scores of advertisements which read like this, " Wanted, a young man, sober and steady," and in some cases there may be added, "Only Blue Ribboners need apply." There is no single occupation in the land to-day which calls for a man who drinks. Even the publicans want people who are total abstainers in their employ. I have got an advertisement in my pocket out from the Bh^mingham Daily Post. An hotel-keeper was there advertising for what we call in our country a "bouncer" — I do not know what you call him here — a man to FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 85 turn out from his house men who, having got the drink in them, became disorderly. In fact the man was to do a kind of police work. Well, this hotel- keeper wound up his advertisement by saying, " Only abstainers need apply." Think of that. That is a question which has been solved and which has been answered. The men who employ labour, the men who manage railways, the men who have the guiding of the great steamers across the Atlantic, should know that there are rights which they are bound to respect. I say, as an abstainer, when I take a railway ticket I have a right to demand that the railway company should put a sober man on the engine to drive it. All the Cunard men, when they go on board the ships of the line, have nothing to drink until the voyage is ended. The White Star line has adopted the same rule. It is on the sea and on the land, in posts of difficulty, that men want clear heads and steady nerves. When I sweep through your country in express trains I don't think of the man who sold me my ticket ; I do not care for the men who own the line ; my only concern is about the man who is driving the engine and the man who is in the signal box. But the mo- ment we talk about thip to young men they say, " Oh, Mr. Booth, it is all very well, you know, but we have will, — power, and strength of mind ; we will keep this appetite under ; " or, " it will never get the upper hand of me." I say, "Talk with that young man earnestly and plead with him to give it up." I met a young man in the train the other day and he said, ( . 1 86 SHOT AND SHELL " I only drink one glass per day, Mr. Booth ; I can drink or let it alone." I told him it was a grand thing to be able to say that, but it was a grander thing to " let it alone." But this is the same song that every drunkard in the land has sung. There is no one lying in a drunkard's grave to-night but has sung it, and has sung it whilst he saw the rocks on that shore where no wreck is ever repaired. Let it alone ; to-night is your opportunity. Heaven will rejoice if you will take this step in the right, and give your heart to the Lord. * * * * Do you ever suppose the young man becomes a drunkard all at once ? Never ! No young man ever took a glass of wine or liquor, and said, "I know what this will do. I know it will make every nerv^ in my body dance with pleasure ; it will thicken my blood and weaken my nerves until I tremble with palsy ; that it will rob me of virtue, fill my heart with woe, and fit my soul for hell below.'' That is never done, and never will be. Tho start is made without thought, and, strangest of all, without fear of the danger. Everything is pleasing and beau- tiful — green fields and waving corn, and the whole world filled with sunshine. That is the experience at starting, of the man who drinks. He sees before him this mirage, this phantom, this delusion, which is beckoning him on. At every step he sees dancing before his eyes this inscription — " This is the way to social, jovial companionship ; this is the way to inno- cent amusement; this the way to freedom from care;" and thus with singing and dancing he has hardly FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 87 cros ed the fatal boundary when the flimsy drapery is dropped, the tinsel and the mask are removed, and the hideous monster stands revealed. It is only then that the drinking man understands the battle ; then, only then, it becomes a thing of reality. He sees he has all the powers of the bottomless pit to contend with and so the fight goes on. Everywhere his enemy dogs his steps ; everywhere he goes it is with him, for ever hunting him down. Yes, every hour of the day, all night long the shattered man cries drink, drink, drink, evermore drink ; and is never satisfied. This sin changes thus as it goes on. There are times when memories crowd in upon him and he longs for better days. Life, youth, and innocence — he would go back to it ; but no, sitting in the house of God and longing for the balm of Gilead, there stands written before him " No hope, no hope." He strives to be free, but it is only to be overcome and overwhelmed again and again, and thus it goes on until by and bye, blessed be God, in his weakness he looks to the Saviour, and finds it is life to look at the Crucified One. His enemies leave him ; God takes possession, and the mighty folds of the blood-stained banner of King Jesus float over the battlements of his soul. Men and women fall into the ranks; our Captain has never lost a battle ; and in this conflict He has sounded a trumpet which has never called a retreat. It is "Onward" and "Forward." Though a great sea of difficulty is before us, and mountains of opposition are on the left hand and on the right. He shall roll 88 SHOT AND SHELL them away as the mist before the sun ; the watert shall separate and roll back as a scroll, and we will stand on the other side with the Redeemer, and there sinpr— " Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea, Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free." A BED-ROOK FOR THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. iJKANY of us are utterly weary of the wrangling — in pulpits, reviews, or newspapers — about half a dozen contested passages of Scripture. Ink enough has been wasted to fill the six water-pots of Cana many times over. It is quite sufHcient for all practical purposes to teach every child that alcohol as a beverage does nobody any good, and sent millions upon millions to perdition. The Bible closes the " kingdom of God " against the drunkard. The Bible declares that wine is a mocker, and warns us against its adder-bite and serpent-sting. The Bible proclaims that noble Chris- tian principle of self-denial, " It is good not to drink wine or anything by which thy brother stumbleth." One of these passages teaches the terrible danger of tampering with what is by its very nature a subtle deceiver. Another pronounces the awful doom of those who are enslaved by the deceiver ; and the third unfolds a most sensible and beautiful principle on which all who have any regard for their fellow-crea- tures should be willing to stand in solid phalanx. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFIJCT. 89 " Why don't you take wine ?" inquired a certain bishop of a neighbor to whom he pushed a decanter at a public table. The reproving reply was, " I do not for the sake of my example." Now, the above-mentioned simple, clear, undeniable principles constitute a sufficient bed-rock on which to build the temperance reform. The acceptance and the practice of these principles would give us a community of abstainers. They would give us the most effectual law to uproot the destructive liquor traffic. They would go far toward removing what is the most terri- ble obstacle to the progress of Christ's kingdom. But we seriously fear that less is being done to spread these undeniable principles than was done forty years ago. A smaller percentage of the American people are total abstainers to-day than at the time when the original "Maine law" was enacted in 1851. This fact can easily be accounted for, but the fact is unquestionable. What amazes and shocks me is to see the wine bottle where it is as flagrantly out of place as a bonfire would be on the floor of a powder-mill. No intoxicant has any business to be on the table of a family which con- tains any boys, or on the table of any miscellaneous social party, or in the cupboard of any professional man, or anywhere else, in short, except possibly in the hands of a very discreet and careful physician. Every bottle that contains alcohol contains a serpent. The serpent in Eden was not a more perfect embodiment of deceit. A bottle of Bourbon or Burgundy will de- ceive the very elect. I am constantly called to labor 7 1 ^ ^. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) .A' 1.0 I.I m 120 1.8 1.25 1.4 i4 .4 6" — ► ^^ % v: V /A Photographic Corporation 4 \ ■^^ ■^ o LV ^ «•>, «^.*:;» o^ <> 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14SS0 (716) 872-4503 1 /j \ X 90 SHOT AND SHELL for the reformation of persons who began with the most honest resolutions to drink moderately ; but their glasses insensibly enlarged and deepened until they became literally a pit of damnation! Some of the hardest cases I encounter are of those whose names are enrolled on church registers. In yonder lecture- room I have heard a man pray most pathetically for deliverance from the tempter, and yet he has been tracked to a drinking-saloon on his way home from the prayer-meeting ! More than once he has been the subject of most loving personal efforts (once or twice of necessary church discipline), and still does he cry out in agony from the bites of the serpent which he de- liberately put into his own bosom when he was a young man. He never whines about being "a poor unfortunate victim," etc., etc. ; he squarely admits that he is a heinous sinner against God and his own soul. But what shall be f^aid of those Christian people who, from thoughtlessness or from the tyranny of fashion, will set wine bottles where they will produce just such conflagrations ? In my honest judgment, Pat O'Raf- ferty, the grog-seller, will have no heavier account to answer for in the "great day" than will those re- putable and professedly Christian people who place bottled serpents on their hospitable tables for the temptation and poisoning of their guests. Half the drunkards in the land had one or more partners at the outset. God's Word solemnly declares, "Be ye not partakers of other men's sins ;" how much worse to be their tempters. FOR THE TEMPEILiNCE CONFLICT. 91 at the '^e not to be The one momentous truth that must be instilled into the minds and consciences of the young is, that nobody can safely tamper with an intoxicating bever- age. On the bed-rock of entire abstinence alone are they safe. I am willing to confess on this public page that I would no more dare to tamper with a wine bottle than I would dare to thrust a fire-brand into one of the pews of my church edifice. The venerable President of my college told me how often in his stu- dent days he used to listen to the eloquent sermons of Dr. ; but those very sermons were delivered under the inspiration of the wine-cup ! The excuse was, " I can preach better with the help of a stimulant." He delivered a discourse once on the sufferings of our Lord that melted his auditory to tears ; but his nerves were all on fire with port wine while he was preach- ing ! How this brilliant minister of Christ fell at last into open intemperance, and how bitterly he repented, and how he reformed and was reinstated, is still re- membered by a few aged people. His temporary fall is a warning — trumpet-tongued to all of us — not to " look upon a cup that stingeth like a serpent." The only gospel of temperance I have yet learned, or which I dare to preach, is — let it alone ; it is a de- ceiver ; it has power to cast both body and soul into hell. This is the principle to teach to the rising generation. On this bed-rock of entire abstinence they can build safely. On that immutable rock let us maintain and enlarge the temperance platform. — Dr, T. X. Cuyler. n ^ 92 SHOT AND SHELL HOLD THE PORT. |0 ! my comrades, see ou? banner Waving in the sky, Hear our rallying hosanna Echoing on high. Chorus — Hold the fort for prohibition, Freedom signals still ; Answer back to the petition, By our votes we will. All our land the foe engages, Let no freeman lag, For the battle fiercely wages — Rally round the flag. Hear the groans of thousands dying On the slaughter field ; By the ensign o'er us flying We will never yield. Hark ! what shrieks of woe appalling Pierce through all the air ; Hear the wretched veterans calling, " Save us from despair." By the land our fathers bought us With their precious blood, By the birthrights they have brought us, Stem the battle flood. By the right which freedom gave us With immortal souls, Crush the foe who dare enslave us ; Forward to the polls ! —W. H. T, FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 93 METHODISM AND TEMPERANCE. {Delivered by the Rev. M. L. Pearson at the meeting of the Montreal Conference^ 1875). .cWT is not of late that the Methodist Church has ^ commenced the advocacy of the temperance cause. From addresses recently delivered, we are re- quired to believe that never until within the last few years did our Church become aware of the prevalence of intemperance, or peradventure being aware of its existence it never realized that it was the deadly and unpitying enemy of mankind. This is certainly a false representation. Our Church's opposition to the use of alcoholic stimulants is co-equal with our Church's existence, and the discipline of our Church always demands as a condition of continuance in membership the non-use of all intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Before any of the tempercnce organizations that now exist had undertaken the Christlike work they are accomplishing, the people called Methodists took ad- vanced ground on the question, and its ministers (at least many of them) have laboured earnestly to mould the sentiment of the people in favour of total absti- nence. It is perhaps more recently that the subject at the Conference has received that recognition which its importance demanded, and it is pleasing to contem- plate that when our children, and our children's children, shall in after years read the history of this Montreal Conference (the first after its organization), 94 SHOT AND SHELL they will notice that the first public meeting held under the sanction and by the authority of Conference was in the interest of the temperance reformation. Times there have been when the introduction of this subject into the pulpit was the signal for the visitation of the heaviest malediction of the congregation on the head of the unfortunate offender, and in too many instances awed by this prejudice, the subject was passed by unnoticed and unexpounded. But now foremost among those who in this great reformation are in labours most abundant, are many upon whom the burdens of ministerial responsibility are resting. The ministry of the day are not sleeping, they have been on the watch-tower making discoveries and ascer- taining the enemy's movements, and as they looked they have seen the sword coming upon the people ; not the sword of war, but intemperance, the heaviest, and deadliest of all; and they have blown the trumpet, and warned the people, and roused by the call of the clarion, the hosts of Israel are gathering for the con- flict, and having at their sacred altars sworn eternal enmity to rum, they are inspired by the prospect of a certain and speedy victory. In the present state of the antagonistic armies is not the duty of the ministry clear and unmistakable ? Who among us can be neutral in the strife, and how can the Christian am- bassador, who fails in the announcement of this mes- sage, however eloquently he may dilate on other themes — how can he, I ask, expect to be greeted by the Sovereign, when the rewards of eternity are being FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 96 by the distributed, or to hear from His sacred lips those words uttered with kingly authority which I earnestly covet for myself when the last labour is completed, and the last battle is o'er, "Well done, good and faithful servant." I appeal now to the followers of the Saviour who are in this church to-night. Is not the work in which we are engaged a part of the work of the Church ? Some answer " No." They suppose it con- flicts with the spiritual character of the Church. The Church, they agree, has been established for the con- version of the world; it aims at the implanting, by the power of the Spirit, a whole new principle of being. The temperance reform, and indeed all moral reforms in general, only deal with specific sins, which are but the symptoms of the world's great disorder. Why, they ask, distract the Church's energies, whose duty it is to destroy the malady, and seek to trouble it with your quackery about the symptoms? Now we are bound to admit that the Church is a spiritual institu- tution. But the Church has been established for man as he is, mind and body. It is adapted to the facts of man's condition as a sinner, and as a being suffering for his sins. Surely it is safe for the Church to fashion its policy after the model of its Divine founder. And how large a portoin of His recorded activity was employed in alleviating the woes and sufferings of mankind. We read of Him going about doing good, removing the sorrow of the people without even hint- ing at His higher character as the physician of the soul. And in the prophetic description of the las4 i 96 SHOT AND SHELL judgment, when the Son of man, sitting upon the throne of His glory, has before Him all the nations of the earth, we have clearly set forth the fact that God will hold His people accountable for failure to carry out His beneficent policy to a suffering world. No one questions the propriety of the Church's actions when a Dorcas Society is formed. But where is the difference in principle between making a society for aiding the poor, a part of the work of the Church, and establishing a weekly or monthly temperance meeting under the auspices of the Church? If either of the two is apart from the profound idea of ^ohe Church's mis- sion, it is the effort for the direct relief of the poor, for the temperance movement strikes at the root of nine- tenths of the poverty of our ls.nd, and there can scarcely be anything done that will be of greater benefit to the poor than for the Church to engage heartily in the temperance reformation. But it is absurd to waste time debating this question. The Church must interfere. It cannot keep out of the con- flict. It has been foully attacked. Intemperance has invaded our territory, and to maintain our position we must be active in this cause. It has destroyed the happiness and extinguished the brightness of many Christian homes. It has thrown down the family altar. It has gone into the chamber where the good man meets his God, and dragged him from his devo- tions. He has intruded into the privacy of the class- room, and laughed to scorn the promises made to resist his power. There is no sanctuary in our land — FORjTHEi TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 97 not one, the wide world over, that has not been pol- luted by his presence. He has forced men out of their pews when for years they have sat and worshipped, where they have wept and rejoiced under the melting influence of gospel truth, and hurled them into wretch- edness and sin ; and having robbed them of the love- liness of their live^ he has given the poor diseased body to the drunkard's grave, and consigned his death- less spirit to the tortures of the drunkard's hell. And then, as if ultimately he aimed at the destruction of the angels in heaven, he has gone up higher than the pew, entered the sacred enclosure of the pulpit, and cast down from their elevation some of the noblest men that ever preached the Saviour's name. Intemperance has severed the heart-strings of some of earth's fondest mothers and brought down the grey hairs of some of her grandest sires in sorrow to the grave. It has blasted the prospects of thousands of our promising young men, led them forth upon a career of wicked- ness and sent them down to people perdition. How many fathers there are who tremble with fear as the son leaves his quiet rural home to enter into business in some of our large towns or cities, as he thinks of the terrible temptation that awaits that boy. Follow that old man into his place of communion and prayer with God, listen to him as he enquires day by day of Him to whom he has entrusted the body and soul of that loved one : " Is the young man Absalom safe ? " And now see that parent again, when after years of absence that boy returns, with his intellect shattered, 98 SHOT AND SHELL I ' M his hopes blasted, his prospects ruined, his health gone, and the religion his mother taught him in childhood disgraced and dishonored, and now hearken to that old man as he looks with bleeding heart upon the remnant of his bright and promising son, and exclaims, " It is my son's coat, a wild beast hath devoured him." Yes, it blasts all that is great, and blights all that is good in humanity. The man of honor it betrays into infamy, and the man of weakness into sin. It destroys the tenderest ties of social life, exiles the sweet endearments of home, and robs earth of its love- liness. In its power, in its influence, and in its fas- cination, it stands like Qoliath among the Philistines, more than any other foe a terror to the host of the Lord; like Saul, it is head and shoulders above its fellows in degrading, debasing, and demoralizing effects. " Oh thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to go by, we will call thee Devil." And all this evil, and places for the production of it> are guarded — are perpetuated b^^ the sanction of law. At almost every street corner there are planted upas trees of poison, under which nothing good and virtuous can have a healthy life, guarded and protected by law. In every direction you meet with these pestilential fountains, sending forth their slimy stream, and these fountains are legalized by Parliamentary enactment, and if we dare remonstrate with these men who are engaged in this traffic of death, they fling defiantly in our face their license from the highest authority, authorizing them to carry on their infernal mission. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. " Licensed to make the strong man weak, Licensed to lay the strong man low ; Licensed the wife's fond heart to break, And make the children's tears to flow. Licensed to do thy neighbor harm, Licensed to kindle hate and strife ; Licensed to nerve the robber's arm, Licensed to whet the murderer's knife. Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain. And rob him of his very last ; Licensed to heat his feverish brain, Till madness crowns thy work at last. Licensed, like spider for a fly, To spread thy nets for man, thy prey ; To mock his struggles, suck him dry. Then cast the shattered hulk away. Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell. To bring disease, and want and woe : Licensed to make this world a hell, And fit a man for hell below." 99 There are two objects which the earnest men of the Churches and of other organizations have in vie w. First, — To persuade every man to pass a prohibitory liquor law upon himself. This is one' constituency, certainly, over which he has control, and though there will be difficulty in enforcing the law, yet he has to aid him the omnipotent hand of God. Our appeal is based upon the ground of self-sacrifice for the good of others. Underlying this appeal is the example of the great apostle "who counted not his own life dear unto him," 100 SHOT AND [shell that it might be employed for the benefit of others, and who declares, " It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." The principal ground of our appeal, however, is love to Christ, and to the souls purchased by His blood. O ! that we could all rise to the dignity of our calling, and identify ourselves with Him whose entire life was one of self-sacrifice for the world's good; who taught that sacred principle in all His actions, and heightened the majesty of it, when on the cross He died in our room and in our stead. The other object in view is the education of the public sentiment with a view to securing " legislative enactment, pronouncing illegal the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors." I shall not discuss the propriety of an immediate enactment. I shall leave to men of more mature wisdom and experience the question: Whether the passing of such a law, in the present state of public opinion, would be beneficial or otherwise to the cause of temperance; whether such legislation would advance or retard the end in view ? The duty of the hour is unquestionably to enlighten the public mind, and educate the opinion of the people. This is being done : the signs of the times are most encouraging and there are clearly describable good omens which cheer us in the conflict, and indicate the triumphant issue of the struggle in which we are engaged. Espousing the cause of prohibition to-day are leading men in all the walks of life. Th« FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 101 merchantman is now convinced that the commercial interests of this country are not wrapped up in the liquor traffic, and repudiates the notion that was a few years ago unanimously accepted as a fact, that the destruction of the traffic would be the ruin of the country's trade. Politicians, too, are being aroused from the slumber of ages. Some of them have, for some years past, been fondly dreaming of their duty to the land. But the people have recently been knocking so distinctly at ih>: halls of Legislation that the honourable gentlemen are getting up, some of them pen^isting that they wer, not asleep md it is evident the day is not far distant when ilie subject of Prohibi- tion will be the main queitiua agitating the country from one end to the other. Every year our cause moves on apace, and the ultimate triumph of the work is guaranteed, not only by recent successes, but by the infallible Word of God. I am not ignorant of the accumulated and formid- able difficulties still in the way, and of the painful prevalence of the drinking customs of society. I hear the voices of many almost discouraged ones exclaiming "What of the night?" But, brethren, it is past mid- night, yes, long past midnight, and through the grey streaks of the morning there comes the answer, *' It's a long night, and murky, and drear, But my faith is strong that the day is near ; There's a gleam of light in the dusky sky, It mvksi be, brethren, that the day is nigh." 102 SHOT AND SHELL hi The last fire in the last distillery in this land shall soon be put out, the last stream of desolation shall be dried up, the last tear from the last drunkard's wife shall be wiped away, the last drunkard's child shall be protected and saved, and the latest in the succession of the slaves of infatuation, shall, in God's name, assert the royalty of his freedom and dash the cup away. There is a fount about to stream, There is a light about to beam, There is a warmth about to flow, There is a flower about to blow. There is a midnight darkness changed into day. Men of thought, men of action, men of Temperance, Clear the wat. Aid it, dawning tongue and pen. Aid it, hopes of honest men ; Aid it, x>aper, aid it, type, k Aid it, for the cause is ripe. But our earnest must not slacken into play, Men of Qod, men of faith, brethren, sisters. Clear the wat. A TEMPERANCE SONG. AOt, "ADLD LANQ BTMI." ^AN we forget the gloomy time. When Bacchus ruled the day ; When dissipation, sloth, and cnme, Bore undisputed sway? The time, the time, the gloomy time, The time has passed away. When dissipation, sloth, and crime, Bore undisputed sway. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. Can we forget the gray-haired sirea, Who sunk, by anguish riven, To see their sons, by liquid iires, To endless ruin driven ? The sires, the sires, the gray -haired sires, No more shall thus be riven, Nor see their sons, by liquid fires, To endless ruin driven. 103 Can we forget the tender wives, Who found an early tomb 1 For, ah ! the partners of their lives Had met the drunkard's doom : The wives, the wives, the tender wives May bid adieu to gloom. For now the partners of their lives Abhor the drunkard's doom. ^i We'll ne'er forget that noble band, Who feared no creature's frown, And boldly pledged both heart and hand To put intemperance down : The band, the band, the noble band. The band of blest renown, Who boldly pledged both heart and hand To put intemperance down. Well praise and bless the God of love, To whom this grace we owe, That living waters flow above. And streams of health below : The God, the God, the God of love. To Him our praise we owe. That living waters flow above, And streams of health below. .AllLl m m 104 SHOT AND SHELL Nor shall the Pledge be once forgot, That 80 much joy creates, — "We'll touch not, taste not, handle not, Whate'er intoxicates : " The Pledge, the Pledge is not forgot. The Pledge that Satan hates ; " We'll touch not, taste not, handle not, Whate'er intoxicates." —Rev. E. F. Hatfield, D.D. TEMPERANCE THOUGHTS AND GLEANINGS, AT RANDOM STRUNG. 1. A Good Creature of God. 'HE Rev. Dr. Guthrie said : " I have heard a man with a bottle of whiskey in his hand have the impudence and assurance to say, * Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be re- ceived with thanksgiving ;' and he would persuade me that what was made in the still-pot was a creature of God. In one sense it is so, but in the same sense so is arsenic, so is oil of vitriol, and so is prussic acid. Think of a fellow tossing off a glass of vitriol, and ex- cusing himself by saying that it is a good creature of God. He would not use many such creatures, that's all I'll say. Whiskey is good in its own place. There is nothing like it for preserving a man when he is dead, but it is one of the worst things in the world for preserving a man when he is living. If you want to keep a dead man put him in whiskey. If you want FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 105 to kill a living man put whiskey into him." The same celebrated divine said : " I have four reasons for being an abstainer from ardent spirits — 1st, My head is clearer ; 2nd, My health is better ; 3rd, My heart is lighter; 4th, My pocket is heavier." Everyone will say they are good and sufficient reasons. 2. Ctrus, the great king of Persia, was a man of good temperance principles and habits, as well as of noble traits of character. We are told that when a boy, being at the court of his grandfather he engaged to perform the office of cup-bearer at the table. He was required, in his official position, among other duties, to taste the liquor before presenting it to the king ; but, without performing the duty of tasting, he delivered the cup to the king, who observed the omis- sion, which he imputed to forgetfulness. " No," said Cyrus, "I purposely avoided it, because I feared it contained poison, for lately at an entertainment I ob- served that the lords of your court after drinking it became noisy, quarrelsome, and frantic." The effects of liquor is still the same, and young men will do well to imitate the example of Cyrus. 3. For the manufacture of thi valuable commodity, pyhlic sentiment, in favor of putting down the traffic, we certainly have an ample supply of matter-of-fact material at hand. The simple process is work up. Without this our cause is lost, or at least indefinitely delayed. With courageous action certain success. 7 liii ii;; : 1 I 106 IS SHOT AND SHELL " Smote by truth, fall ancient error, Reared by power, and propped by wrong ; And earth wonders, when they perish, That they stood the test so long." 4. J. B. GouGH relates the following : — " In one of our sleeping cars in America there was an old bachelor who was annoyed by the continual crying of a child and the ineffectual attempts of the father to quiet it. Pulling aside the curtain and putting out his head, he said, ' Where is the mother of that child ? Why doesn't she stop this nuisance V The father said very quietly, ' The mother is in the baggage car in her coffin. I am travelling home wHh the baby. This is the second night I have been with the child, and the little thing is wearying for its mother. I am sorry if its plaintive cries disturb anyone in the car.' *Wait a minute,' said the old bachelor. The old man got up and dressed himself, and compelled the father to lie down and sleep, while he took the babe himself. The old bache- lor stilling the cry of the babe all night was a hero. And the man who, for the sake of others, gives up a lawful gratification in his own house or in the social circle, is as great a hero as though he stood upon the battlefield." 5. In one of our Canadian cities, a few years ago, a young lawyer became addicted to habits of intem- perance, and finally got so low that one day he fell down drunk in a public square, and lay there with the FOR THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. 107 sun pouring upon his face. A young lady, a stranger to him, passing by, took pity on him and covered his face with her pocket handkerchief. When he came to his senses, and was told of the act of kindness, he was so affected by it that he said he would hereafter be a temperate man. He took the pledge, and soon became a promising man in his profession. Not long after he was introduced to the lady who had done him the act of kindness, and afterwards married her. The parties are living happily together, and the young lawyer is now the Attorney -General of one of the Canadian Provinces. 6. P. T. Barnum says the money spent for liquor in any city would pay all the municipal expenses, and give every citizen two good suits of clothes every year. t I \ 7. A GENTLEMAN travelling in Vermont found the following lines inscribed upon a board near a watering place where he stopped to water his horse : " Temperance fountain, good as can be ; Better far than rum or brandy : If this truth excite your fury, Let your horse be judge and jury." 8. Bishop Asbury having been compelled to spend a night in a log cabin standing in a western wilder- ness, in which night had overtaken him, found himself in very rough company. The cabin was a sort of : -^-' SJHB'IWISWI 108 SHOT AND SHELL ^i:l 11 i desert tavern, to which many hunters and others re- sorted, and was the scene of many ungodly carousals. The good bishop prayed with them, however, and kept them by his reverend presence within the bounds of decency. In the morning the landlord approached him with a bottle and a glass and offered him a little whiskey. " Nay," replied the bishop, " I make no use of the devil's tea." Was whiskey ever more appro- priately named ? 9. In the state of Oregon every man who drinks liquor is required to take out a license costing $5 a year. Unless armed with this document he cannot get liquor at any hotel or saloon, as it is a penal offence for the proprietors of these establishments to sell to any person without a license. Every six months the names of the persons who take out these licenses are to be published in the local papers, so that the public may know who and who are not authorized to drink. 10. An Easy, Sure Way. A Quaker was once advising a drunkard to leave off his habit of drinking intoxicating liquors. " Can you tell me how to do it ?" said the slave of the appe- tite. " Yes !" answered the Quaker, " it's just as easy as to. open thy hand, friend." "Convince me of that, and I will promise you to do as you tell me," replied the drunkard. " Well, my friend, when thou findest any vessel of intoxicating liquor in thy hand, open mk FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 109 the hand that contains it before it reaches thy mouth, and thou wilt never be drunk again." We are told that the toper was so well pleased with the plain advice that he followed it and became a sober man. tij t 'i 11. It is well to keep facts relating to the temper- ance subject constantly before our minds, and in pro- portion as we see the gigantic evils of the liquor traffic will be the earnestness of our efforts to do what we can to suppress them. We do not now propose to discuss this or that method of suppression, only let all patriots, freemen and Christians be awakened to the fact that something must be done. Discussions on the traffic lodges doubt and disquiet in the hearts of many implicated therein. Some of these are partly coming over to the other side — while others will fight for the evil thing with a constantly increasing sense of weakness an,d foreboding of inevitable defeat. Dr. Howard Crosby estimates, that in New York city, there is a saloon for every eighteen drinkers, and, that to support the rum-selling proprietors, each drinker must pay $7.00 per week ; that is to say, about one-half the average weekly earnings go into the tavern bill. The quantity of liquor drunk, adulterated and disguised, in the shape of patent medicines, gives the devil much help in his murderous work of drunk- ard-making. In different ways the enemy urges on his work, and does not refuse help even from Christian people. It is humiliating to know that the worst 110 SHOT AND SHELL obstacles encountered by the missionaries proceed from the drunkenness and vice introduced by nomin- ally Christian nations. Let every good man and woman give liquor-selling a blow at every opportunity by free speech, by the ballot and by prayer. At a late Convention in Ohio, the audience was largely composed of women. They do not vote, but they pray, and in the long run, prayer for a good cause will be stronger than the logic of the beer seller in behalf of a bad one. The red -faced whiskey-seller saw his neighbor's son as he staggered homeward drunk, and then went back inside his '' bar " to mix drinks for the next victim who might call. What were his thoughts ? And yet that is but one illustration of the murderous work that has gone on for years past. Temperance people are not " a lot of fanatics," fighting an imaginary evil. When men and women '^.ease to cry out against this work of drunkard-making, it will be when they cease to have human hearts within them; hearts to feel another's woe. 12. High license for the privilege of whiskey-selling means that the whiskey-devil will strike higher game. It tends also to make an aristocracy of evil. The man who can afford to pay a thousand dollars for the privi- lege of helping the devil in his murderous work, ought to have a seat in his front parlor. FOB THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. Ill 13. As you approach the city of Louisville from the east an impressive scene is presented to the view. Just beyond you, in the valley, are huge distilleries with a capacity for hundreds of barrels of whiskey per day. Farther out to the left, on an elevation, is the city infirmary, where the victims of this business are cared for at public expense. A little farther on, and in full view, is the cemetery, where lie the bones of thousands of victims of the whiskey curse. " Step by step he leads his victim To the veige of dread despair ; Hurls him o'er the brink of ruin, Laughs and leaves him helpless there. Widowed hearts and homes deserted, Helpless children, orphans made ; What a picture ! God of mercy Let the cruel tide be stayed." (112) CONTRIBUTIONS. BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES." BT RBY. E. A. STAFFORD, A.B., WINNIPEG, MAN. •HEN mighty kings with iron hand Enslaved the unsuspecting land, And Freedom's name but newly bom The heritage of man, was torn From sons of toil, to serfdom led ; And rank in fealty bowed its head ; And heirs of noble sires were driven From rights to all by nature given ; Uprose the stalwart l)aron8 then, To claim their heritage as men. And stood before their cowering lord. While gleaming steel enforced their word ; And craven John perforce began An age of liberty for man, — He signed the charter of the free — The shield of ages yet to be : — Thus saved from servitude and woe, Tn common vow joined high and low. And swore while England yet had graves, That Britons never should be slaves ! When length'ning ages sped along. And kings unwatched, again grew strong. Girding by stealth their arm with power. That robbed each man of nature's dower ; THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 113 And Tudon into Stuarf b hand Of iron, pawed their stem command, Who closer drew enslaying chains. And higher heaped extortion's gains. While guardian angels seemed to weep, O'er Liberty's fair form asleep : Then nature moved in laboring throes ; Qreat Hampden, Pym, and Eliot rose, To claim for universal man The rights that with their race began : Then England wrote her history's page In tears, and bled for every age ; Her flaming banner high unfurled Meant liberty for all the world ; And heroes sought untimely graves. That Britons never might be slaves I Such sires as these begat us all ! Here at our feet their shadows fall ! So brave they strove — so near they stand, Their names are worthy to command ! Yet, where they fought and died to save Their latest child from doom of slave, Such guilty bondage is begun As never yet defied the sun ! In passion's chains enslaved, and sold In pleasure's mart — more base than gold — Men drink to curse, and curse to die ; They rush to ills that toward them fly, — They court th' avenging doom of sin, And here their hell of woe begin, — They scorn the happiness of earth, — They shame the diadem of worth, — Their honored name — their high degree — Their manhood's crown — their heaven to be — A'. I ? li 114 SHOT AND SHELL They barter all, like base born-knaves, And Briton's sons are worse than slaves ! O mom of hope from darkness rise ! O pitying light from angel eyes, Shine forth where manhood pities not ! Where kind affections are forgot I Where starving children hopeless pray — And vice seeks out a darker way, — On shadowed homes where womanhood, With blighted faith continues good ! Where filth and rags their signal raise Of sin and shame, where want dismays The hand that gives, the eye that weeps, And demons guard while vileness sleeps ! Let brighter light illume our day I This bondage break, drive shame away I Let nobler inspirations glow In hearts benumbed from self-sought woe ! Let Law with voice of power speak. And stretch its shield above the weak ! Let those who bear the Christian name, Denying self, Christ's way proclaim, In burning word and holy deed, That all who err His help may heed ! Where growing wealth its pride displays — Where voice of power the rabble sways — Where learning's radiant mantle falls — Where statesmen walk the nation's halls — Wherever drink the soul depraves, May Britons bom no more be slaves ! FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 115 A GLANCE AT THE SITUATION. BY KKV. J. J. RICK, OOBOURU. ^HE importance of the Temperance movement is "^ becoming more and more manifest, and has now reached a point at which it is ignored by none. With the increase of light that has dawned upon the question, there has also arisen a very pronounced public opinion, and with it, a deeply sensatized con- science has been created, and that in all grades of society. These active forces have, of late years especially, given greatly accelerated momentum to this mightiest of modern moral and social revolutions, which at length appears to be marching grandly onward to its inevitable consummation. We need not pen the one word which is now felt to be the only one that can express the fitting solution of all past pro- gress in this mighty movement for the emancipation of our well-nigh rum-ruined race. To speak of eman- cipation, implies the degradation and slavery which, as an effect of the great social evil, has for many centuries past settled down with crushing fatal force upon untold millions, who but for it had been a benison to the world, but through the rum traffic's operation became its blight. The wrong, however, must not always triumph. The world's redemption in this regard now draweth near — the day of doom for the rum-fiend is at hand ; and the entire uprooting of this deadly upas tree is only a matter of time. ;li I 116 SHOT AND SHELL Among the mightiest of the forces combining to press this foul fountain of evil, the liquor traffic, to the wall, is the Methodism of this and other lands. Of necessity, wherever "Christianity in earnest" exists, it will largely preponderate on the side of Temperance, as well as every other recognized reform. The dif- ferent sections of Canadian Methodism have hitherto (although severally distinct, organically) always been largely united upon this great question, so much so, that for many years past a Methodist, whether lay or clerical, who was known to tamper with intoxicants has been justly regarded with suspicion and out of place among his co-religionists, and a reproach to his profession. In England, Methodism has the same proud distinction ; and all its sections there vie with each other in effort to advance the cause of Temperance. In this we cheerfully, gratefuly acknowledge that Methodism is not singular, so far as English denomina- tions are concerned, for every religious organization there, Protestant and Roman Catholic, if not to the same degree as Methodists, is nevertheless exerting a powerful influence to-day, which is fast leavening, at least, the church-going portion of the community. A new departure marked the English Bible Christian Conference of 1883, in the appointment of District Secretaries, with a General Temperance Secretary, to whom these make annual returns for Conference. This action so far recognizes the Temperance move- ment as to make it henceforth, more prominently than in the past, as a regular department of Church work — FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 117 a matter in which every class of its officialism will be expected to take a more or less active part. In connection with the late General Conference of the United Methodist Church, in the city of Belleville, while day and night that great representative body was so crowded with weighty matters involving strain, mental and physical, upon the delegates, there was no possibility of affording time, as usual, for public religious services; nevertheless, one public meeting was held, and that an old-fashioned Temperance meeting. It was spoken of by many as the most successful and satis- factory gathering of the kind ever held in the city. That grand old Methodist preacher. Dr. John A. Williams, President of the Conference, occupied the chair as few men could have done ; and he, together with Revs. R. Cade, D. V. Lucas, D. L. Brethour, and J. J. Bice, and an influential and eloquent layman from the Eastern Townships (Mr. W. H. Lambly), gave spirited and most effective addresses. The prominence thus given to the great temperance movement under such circumstances, by a great representative convoca- tion, is a guarantee of the high position this question has reached in the heads and hearts of their con- stituents, and thus a further pledge that the new Methodist Church will tolerate no half-way doings, denominationally, in its share of the work necessary to the securing a legislative measure of general prohi- bition. Our Pioneer Prohibitory Act for the North- West Territory, intended, doubtless, to give Canadians who should make that portion of the Dominion their liJi »t ffi : : I !):| 11 118 SHOT AND SHELL home a retreat forever free from the curse of the rum traffic, and also to test practically the operation of such a measure under circumstances at the time favorable to its proper enforcement. That beneficent Act has been largely and shamelessly voided, and those who placed it upon the Statute-Book stultified, by the privileges granted to almost any one, and especialljr to any Government ofiicial, itinerant or resident, in the way of special permit, to take intoxicants into the territory for personal or party use. Against this out- rage the people resident there are indignantly pro- testing, and it will be the manifest duty of the friends of prohibition to endorse that protest and sustain by every legal means the efforts of an injured people to obtain redress. This, as a first du^.y; and then to labor on, and earnestly and increasingly supplicate the Divine blessing upon such labor, until prohibition be secured, and secured to be adequately enforced through- out the length and breadth of this fair " Canada of ours." BLIGHTED HOPES; OR, THE WIDOW'S SON. BY BEV. WM. GALBRAITH, LL.B., OF MONTREAL. IpRED OSLAM was the son of a respectable widow, ^^ His father died when he was only three years of age, leaving Fred and two sisters — one six months, and the other five years — to the care of their mother. They were in comfortable but not affluent circum- *"ii-4 ^ Hereby ^lifUi^i^ myself thai, God being my ^ Helper, / will abstain from the use of all Intoxicating : Liquors as a Beverage: from the use of Tobacco in any form; and also from Swearing and Profanity. Signed Date KTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTttT*TTTTTTTTt HM T!TTTTTTa iJKTf ANY little boys and young men have taken the "^^ above pledge, and have kept it too. Some men were once working together, and a little boy seemed to be in the way, and they said to him, " Get out of the road, what good are such things as you ? " The little fellow looked up and thoughtfully said, " They make men out of such things as me." Well said; and if you are good temperance boys, and keep your pledge, you will make good temperance tnen by-and-bye. A little boy had signed the pledge. A gentleman — if we can call him such — said, " I can get that boy to drink wine." So he filled a glass and offered it to him, but the noble boy refused it, saying, " I have signed the pledge." " I will give you half-a-dollar if you will drink." «■ FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 167 " No, sir, I will not." " I will give you a dollar." " No, sir." " Will you drink if I give you a $10 bill ? " He looked at him, and it seemed desirable, but no change in his answer. The man then pulled out his silver watch and said, " I will give you this nice silver watch if you will drink." That was the greatest temptation, for most boys, you know, like a watch, but instead of yielding he replied, " Sir, if I don't drink, I may some day have a gold luatch" The boy was right, for many have spent all they made in drink. Instead of spending your money on this foolish indulgence, save it up for the missionary and other good causes, and God will bless you in your givings, and perhaps you may have the " gold some day." A man who once was addicted to drink gave it up, and afterward he was said to look the color of gold. The landlord said to him, " Why, Mr. Garner, you are beginning to look yellow since you gave up drinking ! " Garner (putting his hand into his pocket and pull- ing out five or six sovereigns), replied, " Ay, and my pocket is beginning to look yellow too ! " You may be assured, my young friends, that pros- perity cannot attend the use of strong drink. Solo- mon said, " It clothes a man with rags." Some time ago a youth was put out as an apprentice and often had to go errands for the other and older apprentices. 'i 1^' I, 168 SHOT AND SHELL ' }< i Part of his work was to procure their ardent spirits. But the youth never drank any himself. The others laughed at him and said he was " not man enough to drink." Under their abuse he often cried. But every one of these apprentices, we are told, is now a drunk- ard, or in a drunkard's grave. The young teetotaler is now owner of a large estate, which he has acquired by his industry, and he exerts a highly salutary influ- ence where he lives. Did you ever hear of a dog taking the pledge ? Poor Cesar followed his master one night to the tavern and they persuaded him to swallow some liquor. It made the poor brute tipsy, and he tumbled over, and played such queer antics that the topers roared with laughter. The night after the man took him again to have some more fun, but they could not get him inside the door. They coaxed and drove, and the tavern-keeper offered some cake, but it was no use. Cesar had taken the pledge ; one trial of the drink was enough for him. He was not to be caught in a rum-trap the second time. It proved to be as good as a temperance lecture to all those topers. The dog's master was never known to enter a tavern again. He made up his mind that he ought to know as much as Cesar, and some of the other topers followed his example. Now, in regard to the second part of your pledge, it reads, " I will abstain from the use of Tobacco in any form." We have this as part of our pledge because we know it will be for your good to abstain from its use. 1. It will be good to abstain for health's sake. Some have become such slaves to it that they cannot even FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 169 sit down to think without a cigar or pipe in their mouth. If they undertake to think without it their hands tremble and their heads whirl. You will see, boys, it is better to let it alone and keep the head clear and the hand steady. It makes many who use it pale, puny, and nervous. 2. It will be good for the pocket to abstain. If a boy uses a cigar in a day, at five cents — that will be $18.25 a year gone away in smoke. Would it not be better to buy a suit of clothes, put $5.00 in the bank, and give the rest for the missions and the poor. What do you think of this old verse? " Tobacco is a nauseous weed ; It was the devil sowed the seed. It drains the pocket, soils the clothes, And makes a chimney of the nose." Then you are to abstain from swearing. A higher authority than man has said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," and He will not hold you "guiltless " if you do. I have known some boys who seemed to think it was manly to swear, as well as to smoke and drink, but it is not. The story is told of an errand boy in an office where there were four men. The boy was small of his age, and did not seem to grow much. One of the men said to him one day, "You'll never amount to much, you are too small." "Well," said the little fellow, after a moment's hesita- tion, "as small as I am, I can do something which none of you gentlemen can do." 11 170 SHOT AND SHELL "Ah, what is that?" they asked. I don't know as I ought to tell you," he said. But they were anxious to know, and they urged him to tell what he could do that none of them were able to do. "/caw keep from swearing,*' ^2^6. the boy. I tell you there were some blushes on four manly faces in that office then, and there was not another word on the subject. God will certainly punish those who take Hi» " name in vain " in the future world, and sometimes it is punished in this life, for He will not abide this sin. " There was a young man standing on the rail- road track in New Brunswick, blaspheming. The cars passed, and he was found on the track with his tongue cut out. People could not understand how, with comparatively little bruising of the rest of the body, his tongue could have been cut out." You will see that the pledge says, "God being my helper." And He will help you if you ask. With your Heavenly Father's assistance you will grow up a joy to your parents and an ornament in society. •1 FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 171 WOODIE'S TEMPERANCE SPEECH. I' OME people laugh and wonder ^ What little boys can do To help this temp'rance thunder Roll all the big world through ; I'd have them look behind them, When they were small, and then I'd like just to remind them That little boys make men ! The bud becomes a flower. The acorn grows a tree, The minutes make the hour— 'TIS just the e.'^me with me. I'm small, but I mi growing As quickly as I can ; And a temp'rance boy like me is bound To make a temp'rance man ! — Selected. |t 172 SHOT AND SHELL TAKE OARE OF THE CHILDREN. IS ' '<; i ' ill , 1 • V I BT KEV. CHARLES GARRETT, PRESIDENT OF THE ENGLISH CONFEBENCK. An extract ofanAddess be/ore the Band of Hope Union of England, 1883. ENTLEMEN, the children of our country are in danger. Oh ! would that I could say words that would make every man and every woman in this audience understand me. The children of our country are in danger! Do you doubt it? Then I ask you for a moment to look at those who were children with us — the children of the present generation. Where are they ? Were they in no danger ? Turn over the tablets of your memory. Ask for your old companions. Where are they ? Go and look in the graveyard, turn over the green turf. Find the coffin lid, and there in hundreds, in thousands, aye, in tens of thousands of instances you will find out that those who were boys and girls when you were did not live out half their days. What do you read there ? " Died, aged 22," "Died, aged 23," "Died, aged 24." The days of our years are three score and ten ; but they did not live so long, they are gone. Let us look for some more of them. Go to that workhouse. There is a surging crowd waiting for relief. They were boys and girls as bright as any of us. Look at their faces. Look at the dull and passionless look they bear, and at the rags they carry. They were once bright and promis- ing little children, but there they are at the workhouse , ^ FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 173 door. And turn across to the prison. There is the revolving treadmill. Miserable work ! Look at those men in their yellow striped dress. They were once bright, bonny boys. And go down your streets to- night, and there you will find the outcast, and you draw up your skirts lest the touch should be pollution. Yet even she was once the bonny girl. Once a mother blessed her, and a father prayed for her. They were all as bright as an;' of us, but now look at the surging mass. Picture their faces if you can, and then turn round and look at these children behind, and turning from the one to the other is like turning from hell to heaven. Do you see it, gentlemen ? Look at that crowd at the workhouse, at the prison, at the tread- mill, at the lunatic asylum, and down in the grave- yard, and then look at these bright and bonny faces, and remember they were once like these ; and now I go with trembling, an** I ask what hellish potion has transmuted fair children into beings like that ? Some- thing has done it. God has not done it. Oh, no! God says, " It is not My will that any one of them should perish." Then I ask, what has been the cause c£ this terrible transmutation ? I speak to them as they hustle at the workhouse door for a night's lodg- ing. "How is it that you are here?" "Oh, it's the drink that has done it !" I go to the man as he comes off the treadmill — I did do so, and I said, " How came you here ?" " Oh !" said he, " I was once a scholar in your school, but the drink has done it." I speak to the poor outcast on the street — as I did 174 SHOT AND SHELL ■ -Li i-- Pi'' H the other night — and ask, "How came you at this terrible work ?" The tears stole down her young face, a bright, bonny face, as she said, " Oh ! sir, the drink has done it." And then came the sad story, a story tha,t might be written in blood. She said, " My father is a Wesleyan Methodist local preacher and a class- leader. [She told me where he was.] I was brought up a teetotaler. I went out to a Sunday-school holiday and they took us into a public house." Oh ! gentle- men, when will you understand that where there is drink there is always danger. I wish every one here could have seen that tear-bathed face and that quiver- ing lip as the child said to me, "We went into the public house and they gave me something to drink, I don't know what, but," she said, " I was insensible. I don't know what happened ; and then, in the mornin^ , I went home and we had family prayer. I knelt dowi* with the rest of the children, and while father was praying I felt I was staining them all. I said ' I can- not tell them. I will leave them. They shall never hear of me again,' and I fled from home. The drink has done it." Dragging her down in her beauty, as well as the young man in his strength. And so the answer comes in horrible monotony, " The drink has done it," " The drink has done it." Nothing but the drink could have done it. And now, brothers, I turn and say, " What ! were those once like these ? Then in God's name shall these be like those ?" Go, and look at that hustling crowd round the workhouse door ; do you want them to be ' i FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 175 like that ? If somebody could do that before our eyes ; if somebody could take that fair girl before our eye, and by the administration of some potion trans- mute her into what she is, would not the whole nation rise up in indignation against him ? But it is done surely though slowly by strong drink. Then what is to be done? "Oh !" you say, "is it possible to save the children ?" It is possible ; yes, brother, it is possi- ble. It is possible to save every one of them. You say, " Give me the remedy and I will pay any price for it." You have nothing to pay. It is like the Gospel, without money and without price. You want to know what it is ? It is a remedy as certain as it is cheap. What is it ? There is but one. You may search all through the world to find another, but there is none. I guarantee you, in the sight of God to-night, that if you will only apply one remedy not a child should perish from intemperance. What is it ? Total abstinence. Keep the child from the drink, and drunkenness is impossible. 176 SHOT AND SHELL f ONLY NOW AND THEN. :i ? 'HINK it no excuse, boys, Merging into men, That you do a wrong act Only now and then. Better to be careful As you go along, If you would be manly. Capable, and strong ! Many a wretched sot, boys, That one daily meets Drinking from the beer-kegs. Living in the streets, Or at best in quarters Worse than a pen, Once was dressed in broadcloth, Drinking now and then ! When you have a hahit That is wrong, you know, Knock it off at once, lads, With a sudden blow. Think it no excuse, boys, Merging into men, That you do a wrong act Only now and then ! — Selected. ^ ! FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 177 POISON ! POISON ! BY A BOY OF THIRTEEN YEARS. .tW WAS going along the street one day when I met three little children coming out of a lot with their hands full of dandelions. They were little bits of children, two little girls not more than five years old, and a boy still younger. The little girls were carrying their flowers in their hands, but the little boy was putting his into his mouth. The little girls turned around and saw him doing this, and you should have seen how excited they became in a moment. They sprang at him and pulled the flowers away, crying out in little shrieks, both together : "O Benny! It's poison it's poison ! Spit it out ! spit it out ! " and then how frightened Benny was ! He threw every stalk away, and tried to clean off* his tongue with his dirty little fingers, and I passed him still spitting and sputtering most resolutely. I was interested to see how quickly the warning cry, "Poison ! poison !" was understood and heeded. Now we tell you, children, the same about wine, beer, cider and all the strong drinkh. " It's poison, poison ; don't touch it !" Will you mind ? do you feel afraid to take a drop inside your lips ? and when you see any one else drinking it, do you try to stop them with the cry, "It's poison! it's poison ! Spit it out ?" 178 SHOT AND SHELL S'-l BOYS WANTED. g'HERE are always boys enough in the market, but some of them are of little use. The kind that are always wanted are : — 1. Honest. 2. Pure. 3. Intelligent. 4. Active. 5. Industrious. C. Obedient. 7. Steady. 8. Obliging. 9. Polite. 10. Neat. One thousand first-rate places are open for one thousand boys who come up to the standard. Many of these places are trades, and are already filled by boys who lack some of the most important points; but they will soon be vacant. One has an office, where the lad who has the situation is losing his first point. He likes to attend the drinking saloon and the theatre. This costs more money than he can aflford, but somehow he manages to be there frequently. His employers are quietly watching, to learn how he gets so much spending money ; they will soon discover a leak in the money-drawer, detect the dishonest boy, and his place will soon be ready for some one who is now getting ready for it by observing point No. 1, and being trutliful in all his ways. — Selected. WHICH JUG I ?ERE I come, father, temperance in one hand and intemperance in the other," said a little boy as he trudged into the hay-field with a water jug in one hand and a cider jug in the other. FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 179 ** Now who's for intemperance?" he asked, glancing at the faces of the workmen. The question went home to the father's heart ; he decided for temperance, slaked his thirst with pure cold water, and never sent cider into his field after that. DO NOT SMOKE. ^MOKING boys, like smoking chimneys, are likely '^ to be out of order. Smoking is an offensive and filthy habit. What right has the smoker to pollut*^ and poison the air which I must breathe or die ? What right has he to sicken others with the fumes of his tobacco or the stench of his breath ? Touch it not, boys, and keep your brain clear and your breath pure. [oy in TOBACCO *'AS A MEDICINE." GREAT many bad habits are persisted in, under the plea of sickness. Now, if tobacco and liquor are medicines, they ought to cure the sick within a reasonable length of time ; and it is customary, when people have used a medicine for years without being cured, to employ a new doctor or try a new remedy. It is said when Bishop Janes was once examining some candidates for admission to the Providence Conference, they were closely questioned as to whether they used tobacco. All said they did not use it except one ; he confessed he did use tobacco, but " only as a medicine." 180 SHOT AND SHELL 'I " Well, brother, I hope ifc will cure you quick,** said the Bishop ; and the Conference said " Amen." When will these things cure ? In a week ? In a year ? In ten, twenty, or fifty years ? Oh, no ; per- sons have tried these medicines from childhood to gray hairs, and they were worse at the end than when they began to use them. SAMMY HICKS AND HIS PIPE. -cWT is said of that good man, Sammy Hicks, the Macclesfield blacksmith, that " as he understood the words of the Lord Jesus, it was quite enough for him to see the path of duty steadfastly to travel in it." An instance of this feature of his character was exhibited in his sudden abandonment of tobacco. One day he gave sixpence to a poor widow. She blessed him and could hardly find words enough with which to express her thanks. He said to himself, " Well, if sixpence makes that poor creature so happy. Oh how many sixpences have I spent in tilling my mouth with tobacco !" He made a vow instantly never to let a pipe enter his lips again. Soon afterwards he was taken very ill, and a doctor said to him, " Mr. Hicks, you must resume your pipe." " I will not," he replied. " Then," said the doctor, " if you do not you will not live." " Bless the Lord, then," said Sammy, " I shall go to said FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 181 heaven. I have made a vow to the Lord that the pipe shall never enter my mouth again, and it never shall." Sammy Hicks kept his vow, and lived to be an old man.— Rev. T. E. Thorshy. THE GIRLS' AND BOYS' TEMPERANCE PLEDGE. ^JCm^E girls and boys ri^ Do not think It wise to taste The drunkard's drink. We therefore promise To abstain And firm to temperance Will remain. This pledge I take, And hope that I Shall sober live And sober die. — Selected. GOOD ADVICE. ^SE tobacco only in months that have a "z" in '' their names, and use strong drink only in the months that have a " k " in their names. ^^ When you study this out you will laugh, and say, " He does not want me to use it at all." A professional chemist says : " In men, small doses of tobacco-smoke excite the intellectual faculties; 182 SHOT AND SHELL repeated doses produce palpitations, disordered vision, and decrease of memory." The railway engine is the greatest abstaining traveller. He can keep up for hours at the rate of forty or even sixty miles an hour — and whistles over his work all the while — and yet he never takes any- thing but water when he wants to wet his whistle. i I JUVENILE SMOKING. ■*MT is evident to every observant person that the ^ evil habit of smoking is not decreasing. The rising generation bids fair to be a generation of tobacco users. All will admit that this is most undesirable. Every parent, except it may be the degraded, would very much prefer that his boy should abstain from the weed, although he himself may be addicted to its use. Indeed, those who use tobacco are often more anxious about this matter than those do who not use it. They know the evil of it and would shake off the shackles of the habit that bind them if they could. Medical testimony is all against the use of tobacco in youth. The evidence is unanimous against it. It is the cause of many diseases. The seeds of weakness are sown for future years. The delicate, sallow appear- ance of many boys and young men is caused by tobacco. The clear ruddy skin and the bright sparkling eye have often been sacrified on this selfish altar. More information is needed. The boys should be instructed in our schools concerning the physical and moral effects FOR THE TEMPERANCE CONFLICT. 183 of the tobacco habit. This would do much to stop its spread. But the habit is perpetuated by the force of example. Parents, teachers, even preachers delight in their pipes, and of course their mouths are shut on this question. Even those who are without the habit are not free to speak, because prominent members of the Church, and perhaps the fathers of the children, are slaves to the habit and would be offended if much were said about it. But this is a serious matter. It is time more vi<(orous efforts were put forth. Many a lad who has gone to ruin was led astray through this habit. It led into evil company, and it created an unnatural thirst which induced drinking. There is no doubt that smoking does create a thirst for strong drink. Sta- tistics show that the smoking teetotaller is five times as liable to break his pledge as the non-smoker. A crusade against smokers might do good ; but, at all events, earnest efforts to save the children from the vice would be profitable labor. — E. H. Dewart, D.D. ^, J"- IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) .«-.,V4' C