A A s ^SS c= Al : c/5 = n = — _ -L Hall An Old Story THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES «aNia X3iHdWVd j.E..\iillais, R.A] [ J. IJ. Cooper. "WATCHIXG AND AVAITING. A TEAIPEPvANCE TALE IN VERSE. By S. C. hall, f.s.a. etc, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, EDITOR OF THE ART JOURNAt. '\\Tiom resist : steadfast in the faith."— Sr. Peter. " For it must needs be that offences come : but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh." — St. Matthew. LONDON : VIRTUE, SPALDING, AND CO., 26, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. i.OTmoN : PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., CITY ROAD. Hsno< The Press is — almost universally — indefatigable in efforts to manifest the miseries incident to Intemperance : every Journal of the Kingdom is earnest in worli for its diminution or suppression. The " time is not yet " when traffic in alcohol will be suspiciously and effectually restrained— or prohibited— by Law. Meanwhile, it is counselled that public opinion must pioneer the way to legis- lative enactment : and a duty is inculcated on every writer to contri- bute aid towards a consummation — that cannot fail to be mighty in its influence on human kind. Thus exhorted — and especially stimulated by a "call" in the Times of the 9th of August, i872-'in this book, and the book that preceded it, " The Trial of Sir Jasper," I have humbly striven to help on the work : trusting I may assist the many other " writers, talkers, preachers, workers," to " abate this nuisance and scandal, our national drunkenness." I have tried to make this book broader and more comprehen- sive in details than its predecessor : to treat, indeed, as far as my knowledge extends, every phase of the "horrible vice," adding notes from the " authorities " by whom I am principally guided. 917990 Hitlieito, .ART, to say the least, has seemed but an indiffeient looker-on, while the contest is proceeding : a contest iliat has been described, and not by exaggeration, as a struggle between Heaven and Hell : the powers of darkness against the angels of light. Always remembering, however, that George Cruikshank, more than half a century ago, commenced a crusade against it — so picturing " the Curse " as to have achieved an amount of good almost incalculable. Other artists have given help : notably, John Tenniel, who, in the most popular of weekly periodicals, has been the frequent, and powerful, exponent of Intemperance. From the position 1 have long held, I am enabled to bring ART to the aid of a Cause that may be rightly termed "Holy." My thanks, the thanks of all Temperance Advocates, the thanks of the public generally — it is scarcely too rnuch to say the thanks of Humanity — are, therefore, due to the twenty-SIX artists who have worked with me in order to exhibit the abhorrent vice in its hideous deformity, and the beauty and blessing — the rewards, physical, social, moral, temporal, and eternal — of Temperance. ir. III. rv. VI. " W.ATCHma Axn Waiting." {Frontispiece). Drawn by J. E. Millais, R.A. Engraved b}' J. D. Cooper. "And Called the Pictuee 'Innocence.'" Drawn by Birket Fosteu. Engraved by J. D. Cooper. "In the Bleak Wind, Unsheltered." Drawn by Gustave Dore. Engraved by J. D. Cooper. " Taught their Children thus." Drawn by Alma Tadema. Engraved by J. D. Cooper. "Tag Glory Days of Devils." Drawn by L. J. Pott. Eng. by Bl'tterworth & Heath. •Alas! for Desolated Homes." Drawn by N. Chevalier. Engraved by J. C. Griffiths. VII. 'rtain — that vast and powerful machinery is actively, energetically, and successfully, striving to do that holy work. WA ' What ! ' quoth the Seller ; ' leave it all to me, And you, yourself, have neither vote nor voice ? ' I do,' replied the Devil : ' take your choice ! ' ' What ! burn my father's house ! I won't, that's flat I may be bad, but not so bad as that. What ! kill my mother ! no : at once, I say, I won't — on any terms — for any pay. But to get drunk 's a pleasure : that I'll do.' ' 'Tis well,' quoth Satan : and the Devil knew The Soul was his : the gudgeon took the bait. The Devil bowed : he had not long to wait. n. And what, on his side, was the man to gain ? What was the price of body, soul, and mind ? This : when he wanted money, he would find His pocket full : and never seek in vain For means by which the Devil's work is done. The Legend tells us what he lost and won. III. And so he sought ' the Grapes : ' and entered in, Where "jolly" Bacchus sate, 'twixt Death and Sin. IV. They were a happy lot : one had a wife. Whose Sunday gown was in the landlord's till : One had six children, fighting hard for life : He paid the landlord's, not the baker's, bill : PTJBLIC-HOTJSES.— Nothing- strongrer can be written concerning: public- houses than this — copied from the Times, July, 1872 : — " It would be im- possible to find anything which stands for so much loss to soul, body, and estate, for so much discomfort and ever\-thing that is disagreeable, as the public-house. Even if we accept the best case that can be made for it in principle, the fact is still a huge nuisance and misery. It is not only the quiet religious family, or the respectable householder, that regards the public- house as one of the enemies of his peace, but it is almost everybody except the publican and his landlord. It is the wife and children who see the day's or week's wages spent there. It is the neighbourhood disturbed by nightly broils. It is the employer who finds his men demoralised and enfeebled. It is the honest tradesman who sees the money that should come to the counter go to the bar. There is not a vice, or a disease, or a disorder, or a calamity OF ANY KIND THAT HAS NOT ITS FREQUENT RISE IN THE PUBLIC-HOUSE. It degrades, RUINS, AND BRUTALISES A LARGE FRACTION OF THE BRUTSH PEOPLE." \'^" ■'■ •■^lfc-4 »¥* W , 1 \N U^ v^#^^' -Vv! P;a^C5^i^;/^»j^^: Hirkcl 1 o^tl•^.] [J. U. Cooper. "AND CALLED THE PICTURE 'INNOCEN'CE.'" xAV A<. ■J^ -K^l^A ^^^ .^/ ^-^ One with full purse — how furnished no one said : The parish poor-house gave his father bread : One had a son in jail : another, worse, — The madhouse bore the burthen of his curse : One had an old, and blind, bedridden, mother : And one a crippled, paralytic, brother. The moans in suffering homes they did not hear : Nor did they see the Devil who stood near : Chuckled and laughed : rejoiced to mark how well They did his work on earth and peopled Hell. Outside, the women and the children were : Some with the marks of blows : some — without shame For sinful lives, ragged and filthy — came By_^ hideous, loathsome, wiles, to claim their share. Some, wives and mothers, sober, honest, good : Bearers of babes who die for lack of food : Who ask, in under-tones of dull despair, If God, as well as man, were heedless there ? Answer them : teachers of God's word and will : Ca.n you say to this tempest — 'Peace, be still !' V. So days and nights went on : the man became A sot : a blight to an unblemished name : The father grieved : the mother wept : in vain : She bore that worst affliction — hopeless pain. GIN-PALACES.— Neither can anN-thinj? stronger be written concerning the gin-palaces that glare upon us in ever}' leading street of the ■Metropolis, and the cities and large towns of Great Britain, than these words uttered by J. A. Roebuck, M.P. for Sheffield, in the House of Commons :— " You close the picture-gallery and museum on holidays and feast-days, but you leave wide open the gin-shop and the beer-shop ; you make the people unsocial drunkards. This gin-shop that you love because it increases your revenue, look at it, go into it, and behold its horrible appearance. A flaring gas- light is over the door, which door nkver shuts. Push it aside ; go in ; look around — splendid windows, brass rods and ornaments, a fine showy counter, immense tubs of spirits, and gay damsels ready to serve them. But no chairs. Xo one sits in a gin-shop. The customer comes in, pays for his glass of POISON, drinks it off at one gulp, and goes away, to make room for a suc- ceeding customer. Here you have the vice of drunkenness, with all its deformity, without one shadow of a redeeming circumstance." 4ife^- And one who might have been than either dearer, Shuddered to see the foul fiend drawing nearer : For well she knew the curse that mildews life Is hers— death- doomed to be the drunkard's wife. VI. So days and nights went on : his health and strength And manly bearing, all succumbed at length : Bleared eyes, and quivering lip, and shaking hands. Are signs that mark him as he sits or stands : God keep from those we love the drunkard's brands ! VII. I'll show you how he acted, looked, and spoke. When Reason dozed, then slept, and Passion woke. The Spartan matrons taught their children thus : Showing their Helots drunk : to them : to us : For lessons do not lose their force with time, Whether they lead to Virtue or to Crime. Eternal Truths there are that influence ages. I'll show the Vice in its revolting stages. And tell you how he earned the Devil's wages. First, Pleasure held the cup :— ' the flowing bowl,' Wreathed, sensual poets say, with ' flowers of soul.' See him : how gracefully the glass is raised, As all his guests he praises — and is praised. BEER-HOTXSES. — "If lam asked topoint out the great cause and encourage- ment of intemperance, I have no hesitation in ascribing it to that most disastrous Act of Parliament which set Keer-shops on foot. It has inflicted a terrible curse on this country." "The Beer-houses are a social pest." "The Beer-houses are an unmitigated nuisance." "Abolish Beer-houses, the seats of Vice and Intemperance."— Report : Canterbury Convocation. Chancellor Raikes on the Beer-shop Art : " He had seen its effects spreading like a blight all through the country; villages which formerly were like the creations ot romance had become the scenes of every evil." "There is abundant evidence to show that burglaries and all other outrages on society are for the most part planned in Beer-houses, where thieves of all orders find shelter, protection, and direct encouragement. The great bulk of your informants advocate the entire suppression ot Beer-houses as distinguished *■■ ^ubhc-houses, describing the former as 'nests of corruption and the of unmitigated mischief.'"— Renort: Convocation Vnrt from Pu source -Report : Convocation, York. o "^ f 1 health they drink with one continuous roar : Hip, hip : ' and ' three times three,' and ' one cheer more.' The next stage comes : and the drink-madness shows The dark beginning of the darker end : The he direct ; confounding foe with friend : Proceeding thence to blasphemy and blows : While seething fury yet more furious grows : The Bacchus-crown is nightshade, and not bays : Mad — raving — heedless — passion strikes and slays. Reason is now burnt out : the gaslight glare Shows but the drivelling mouth, the senseless stare : The stagger right and left, and left and right : And then the grovelling fall— to utter night 1 The morrow comes : deliriitni tj'cmens seizes The victim — fearfulest of all diseases. Earth has no greater horror : Hell none worse Than that — the self-brought, self-inflicted, curse. Remorse, the blood-hound staunch— its deep-mouthed bay Is heard at last ; its fangs are in the brain : Even Hope has left the soul : Heaven sends no ray Of light : and mournful angels pass away. Grieving for teachings futile : warnings vain : The spirits of the damned have triumphed there : Augmenteci ranks whose leader is Despair ! GROCERS AND CONFECTIONERS.— It was a terrible aggravation of th' cursf — the Act by wliicb the Legislature permitted licences to grocers and contoctioners to sell alcohol. " It has wrought an incalculable amount of evil." Men and especially women enter these shops " on the sh," ostensibly to purchase wholesome necessaries. There is ample evidence to sustain this assertion. We quote only that of the Mayor of ]5;ith : " These places," he said, " afford facilities for se<;ret drinking by females, who have been known to obtain drink and have it cliarged for as groceries in their account." It is certain that many ladies habitually visit confec- tioners — several of them during the day — and buy at each a glass of wine and a bun, putting the latter into their reticules. The Good Templars have endeavoured to negative the evil. In several cities and large towns they have adopted a resolution, " Pledging the members and their families not to deal with any grocer who sells wines, spirits, or beer, and recommendmg the whole of the lodges to vote and act in the same manner." In several, varied, ways, the Devil taught The Soul he meant to have, the Soul he bought. Some of those varied ways this tale will tell ; They are well known : the drunkard knows them well : So does his Public patron : but he knows — Or says he knows — as all experience shows — That drunkards are the drunkard's only foes ! VIII. He'd ' lots of money ; ' no one cared or asked How got : the sun in which his spirit basked Was sun without a shadow : so it seemed To those who knew no better — those who deemed He had 'the one thing needful ;' no one knew — For certain — that the Bank, on which he drew His cheques, was furnished by the Fiend, who pays — In his own coin, and in his special ways — Large prices where small prices will not do. And yet the very outcasts of the streets, The men all good men shun and no man greets. He might have envied : a perpetual dread Of the Hereafter haunted him ; the debt He knew must be paid some time, though not yet ; ' The day of reckoning ' — tJiat might be postponed And, possibly, the sin, in time; condoned. THE FOUR FERTILE SOTTRCES OF TTNMITIGATED EVIL here de- scribed have produced an amount of crime and misery of which the daily newspapers, every day, give us details appalling and repulsive. To " abate the nuisance and scandal," several societies are hard at work ; at least fifty periodical publications are issued by the advocates of Temperance and Total Abstinence ; millions of tracts are circulated annually — to sustain or convert ; several liundred lecturers, 'paid and unpaid, are continually addressing assemblies ; the clergy of " all denominations" throughout the Kingdom are ardently labouring for "the Cause;'' there is hardly a town in the British dominions that has not a combination of earnest and good women and men who propagate Temperance principles ; and in Great Britain and Ireland there are, according to a just calculation, three millions of j-oung and old Temperance, or Total Abstinence, members, who practise and teach Temperance. The organization is indeed powerful in every way that infers power ; yet the vice not only continues but increases, as these notes, when they are finished, will convincingly show. Z^rryO^^i^ Jr Alma TaJciiia.] [J. D. Cjupi.1'. "TAUGHT THEIR CTIILDKI.X TllUii." ' ' e health they drink with one continuous roar : Hip, hip : ' and ' three times three,' and ' one cheer more.' The next stage comes : and the drink-madness shows The dark beginning of the darker end : The he direct ; confounding foe with friend : Proceeding thence to blasphemy and blows : While seething fury yet more furious grows : The Bacchus-crown is nightshade, and not bays : Mad — ravjng — heedless^passion strikes and slays. Reason is now burnt out : the gaslight glare Shows but the drivelling mouth, the senseless stare : The stagger right and left, and left and right : And then the grovelling fall— to utter night I The morrow comes : dcliriic7n tremens seizes The victim — fearfulest of all diseases. Earth has no greater horror : Hell none worse Than that — the self-brought, self-inflicted, curse. Remorse, the blood-hound staunch — its deep-mouthed bay Is heard at last ; its fangs are in the brain : Even Hope has left the soul : Heaven sends no ray Of light : and mournful angels pass away, Grieving for teachings futile : warnings vain : The spirits of the damned have triumphed there : Augmented ranks whose leader is Despair ! GROCERS Ain) CONFECTIONERS.— It was a terrible aggravation of thi; curse — the Act by whicli the Legislature permitted licences to grocers and confectioners to sell alcohol. " It has wrought an incalculable amount of evil." Men and especially women enter these shops " on the sly," ostensibly to purchase wholesome necessaries. There is ample evidence to sustain this assertion. We quote only that of the Mayor of Bath : " These places," he said, " afford facilities for secret drinking by females, who have been known to obtain drink and have it charged for as groceries in their account." It is certain that many ladies habitually visit confec- tioners — several of them during the day — and buy at each a glass of wine and a bun, putting the latter into their reticules. The Good Templars have endeavoured to negative the evil. In several cities and large towns they have adopted a resolution, " Pledging the members and their families not to deal with any grocer who sells wines, spirits, or beer, and recommendmg the whole of the lodges to vote and act in the same manner." In several, varied, ways, the Devil taught The Soul he meant to have, the Soul he bought. Some of those varied ways this tale will tell ; They are well known : the drunkard knows them well : So does his Public patron : but he knows — Or says he knows — as all experience shows — That drunkards are the drunkard's only .foes ! VIII. He'd ' lots of money ; ' no one cared or asked How got : the sun in which his spirit basked Was sun without a shadow : so it seemed To those who knew no better — those who deemed He had ' the one thing needful ; ' no one knew — For certain — that the Bank, on which he drew His cheques, was furnished by the Fiend, who pays — In his own coin, and in his special ways — Large prices where small prices will not do. And yet the very outcasts of the streets, The men all good men shun and no man greets, He might have envied : a perpetual dread Of the Hereafter haunted him ; the debt He knew must be paid some time, though not yet ; ' The day of reckoning ' — iJiat might be postponed And, possibly, the sin, in time, condoned. THE FOTTE FEKTILE SOTJECES OP TTNMITIGATED EVXL here de- scribed have produced an amount of crime and miserv- of which the dailj' newspapers, every day, give us details appalling and repulsive. To "abate the nuisance and scandal," several societies are hard at work; at least fifty periodical publications are issued by the advocates of Temperance and Total Abstinence ; millions of tracts are circulated annually — to sustain or convert ; several hundred lecturers, paid and unpaid, are continually addressing assemblies ; the clergy of " all denominations" throughout the Kmgdom are ardently labouring for " the Cause ; '' there is hardly a to-mi in the British dominions that has not a combination of earnest and good women and men who propagate Temperance principles : and in Great Britain and Ireland there are, according to a just calculation, three millions of young and old Temperance, or Total Abstinence, members, who practise and teach Temperance. The organization is indeed powerful in every way that infers power ; yet the vice not only continues but increases, as these notes, when they are finished, will convincingly show. o Such, Temperance friends, such is the rigmarole By which they prove each loyal man a fool. Shun them — where'er they work, \\hoe'er they be ; Shun them, and their base teaching ; giving thanks The foul defamers are not of your ranks. XI. He sent him nightly to the boozing den Where evil women fish for foolish men. Saloons, where gilded pinchbeck mimics gold, And coarsely painted charms are bought and sold. Safer the lowest pot-house of the street, Than ' Halls' where youths and sinful women meet ; Where hideous evils don a thin disguise, And seem all innocence to ears and eyes ; Where outcast actors scenes of shame rehearse, With music forced to aid indecent verse. Go in, 'tis ' entrance free,' there's nought to pay ; You pay for glare and gas some other way. Such dens you dare not bring your sister near ! Such songs you would not let your mother hear ! 'Tis half-past twelve : go : having had your warning, And your last 'glee,' 'We won't go home till morning Kor do you ; you will sleep — you know not where. THE JAILERS. — Take a single example — the town of Liveqjool : In om: year 13,914 persons {5,930 being females) were taken into custody, charged witli " drunkenness," 1,389 with the additional offence of " assaulting the police," 3,078 were described as "habitual drunkards;" 1,907 were committed to jail for three days in default of payment of the fine of five shillings — 836 males, and 1,131 females. Well might the chaplain of the jail thus comment on that fact : ".Were it not for drunkenness a jail one-third the size of this would suffice." The Heputy Governor of ^\■inchester jail writes : " .Seventeen out of every twenty owe their incarceration to drink.'' The jail chaplain of Manchester writes : " Of 1,000 criminals whose cases he had invcstig.ated — 714 males, 286 females ; of the 286 females, 157 confessed they were drunkards, and man}- arc not yet 20 j'cars of age ; of the 714 males, 554 confessed they were drunkards, and a large number of these are not 20 years of age ; so, out of the 1,000 prisoners, 711 admit they are drunkards." In 1873, the " apprehensions for drunkenness" in the United Kingdom were nearlj- double those of 1863. The Devil loves these MUSIC halls : for there He finds his hot-beds of precocious vice. Bodies are vendable at any price, And souls are had for nothing ; vi'ell he knows That appetite by what it feeds on grows. He takes no trouble there, nor wastes a breath ; Merely looks on, and lets his lures entice To moral, social, intellectual, death ! You magistrates of Middlesex — how well You aid the cause of Sin, and Death, and Hell ! Say, have you heard the filthy songs, and seen The dances lewd, you ' license' ? Have they been — Your wives and daughters — where their neighbours go ? Answer to God and man ! and answer ' No ! ' xn. Of course, he made him Prompter to 'the strikes/ Where thinking hands direct the working head ; Where Trade is palsied — mute ; Invention dead ; While Labour does exactly what it likes. Oblivious of the Truth that all should know — The friend is Capital and not the foe ; That when employers thrive the workman thrives ; That when the workmen fail employers fail ; In the same boat they row : with oar and sail That must be often mended ; he who mends THE CORONERS.— "I think intoxication likely to be the cause of one-half the inquests held.'' — ^Ir. Wakle)', Coroner for Middlesex. On another occasion he said: " Gin may be thought the best friend I have: it causes me to hold annually 1,000 inquests more than I should otherwise hold." A communication appeared in the Liverpool RIemtry, from the Coroner's clerk in Liverpool, from which we gather that " in seventeen out of every twenty inquests, drink has had more or less to do with the cause of death." Dr. P.rowne, of the Crichton Asylum, Dumfries, states that "of 222 cases of suicide taken as they came, at r.andom, 158 sought death under the influence of drink." Statements to the same effect might be quoted from the published reports of many other coroners. As one of them said, "The suicides give us nearly all our fees." " Seven persons had been drowned, or had drowned themselves, after leaving that public-house in a state of intoxi- cation, within not many years preceding." — York Convocation Report. There arc numerous statements to the same effect in The Cantcrbitry Report. 10 o J3 u on whom depends The issue of the voyage — and their Hves. It is a mournful sight, of grief and gloom, To see the furnace cold, the silent loom : "While hands are wanting work, work needing hands : Till Contracts speed their way to other lands. Alas for desolated homes ! alas ! For wives whose hungry children crave in vain ! For stalwart men grown haggard ! months must pass Ere they get back their household gods again. Body and Soul, meantime, are kept together By taxes levied on some half-fed brother. While occult despots, no one knows or sees, To maim or murder issue their decrees. The Prompters strike in safety, while their tools Work out in blood their bloody laws called " RULES." Where do the " Unions '' meet ? where are they planned — Those manacles of Labour — trebly banned, By God, by man, and by their victims .'' where ? In dens to enter which you would not dare. XIII. The Devil sent him to the Park, of course. To desecrate the Sabbath afternoons : For that is one of his especial boons ; Where a dull chairman roars till he is hoarse. FROM LUNATIC ASYLUMS.— " The alarming amount of madness in the United Kingdom is well known to be in great part owing to the abuse of fermented liquors." Lord .Shaftesbury states that " having been for sixteen }'e.ars chairman of the Lunacy Commission, he has ascertained that no less than three-fifths of the cases of insanity, both here and in America, are from this cause." " The worst cases of general paral3sis and diseases of the brain and mind which came under my notice in a certain class of society, arose from this most pernicious practice." — Dr. Forbes Winslow. "Intemperance is the most prolific cause of insanity, especially amongst the labouring classes.'' — Jh-itish Medical Jottnia/. "From thirty-five to forty per cent, is a fairly approximate estimate of the ratio of insanity directly or indirectly due to alcoholic drinks." — Dr. Edgar Sheppard, dating from Colncy Hatch. " From an experience of twenty years of asylum life, I .im strongly of opinion that at least in one-half of the inmates of lunatic asylums the cause of mental impair- ment is due, directly or indircctly,to intemperance." — York Convocaiionlicport . II Aided by several other evil spouters, Echoed by thoughtless, weak, or wicked, shouters, And gangs of sottish, ragged, worthless, fellows : Each of whom — at his own will — bawls or bellows. Their Leader boasts himself an infidel. And scouts all notions of an after-state— Such idle dreams as picture Heaven and Hell, And give us Providence in lieu of Fate. Shun them, dear Temperance-brothers : men who tell The shallow lies — that man is but a clod : Responsible — perhaps ? — but to no God, In whom he may have faith and hope and trust : That animated dust is only dust. 'Philosophers' (!) will tell you CHANCE designed A world — a million worlds — without a plan : That jumbled elements created mind. And of chaotic atoms formed a man. They limit the Omnipotent to acts That Science calls 'the possible :' and thus, Bounding the Infinite by rules and facts, Explain ' the fable of the soul ' to us. A MOLECULE became the ' Great First Cause : ' The GoD-CREATOR, mud, gave Nature laws : Tl\ie moulded clumsy forms to settled shapes — Adams and Eves, — ' anthropomorphous apes.' TESTIMONY OF THE CLERGY.— This declaration was signed by 3,000 ministers of the gospel : " We, the undersigned, ministers of the gospel, are convinced by personal obsen^ation within our own sphere, and authentic testi- mony from beyond it, that the traffic in intoxicating liquors as drink for man is the immediate cause of most of the crime and pauperism, and much of the disease and insanity that afflict the land ; that everjTvhere, and in proportion to its prevalence, it deteriorates the moral character of the people." " The clergy everywhere, but in our large towns especially, are discouraged, cast down, almost driven to despair through the prevalence of the vice, and the tempta- tions that are multiplied for its encouragement on ever\' hand under the protection of law ; it thwarts, defeats, and nullifies their Christian schemes and philanthrophic efforts to such an extent that it is becoming a matter of grave question whether infidelity, religious indifference, and social demoralisa- tion are not making head against us in defiance of all our churches and clergy, our Scripture readers, and our schools." — Canterbury Convocation Report. 12 Thomas Facd, R.A.] [J. C. Gritlitlis. 'A STOUT ITSHKR WIFE." The whale and shark were oysters once, no doubt : And elephants were magnified from — mice : Eagles were beetles ere their plumes came out : And trees were fungi — when the sun was ice. Ten thousand thousand things exist, we know, By Science tested and by Reason tried, With no conclusive issue : save to show How much we need a better light and guide. Can Science gauge the influence that draws The needle to the magnet ? Can it see The perfume of the rose ? or measure laws By which the flower gives honey to the bee ? Woe be to those who push the boat from shore, And leave no guiding rudder, sail, or oar : Woe be to those who bid us darkly grope In storm, or fog, without the anchor — Hope ! In tortuous paths, with prompters blind, jv/^ trust One Guide, who cannot err : your prayer will be, ' Give us. Lord God ! all merciful and just ! The Faith that is but Confidence in Thee ! ' XIV. A few words more, the mournful story ends : Need we detail the when, the how, the where The Devil gave him work, till ' time was up,' And he had seen the bottom of the cup 1 WHAT THE NATION GAINS.— The gross amount of revenue collected in the year ending ^larth 31, 1S74, from alcoholic liquors and malt, was; — From Home-made spirits ;^i4,63q,562 ,, Foreign and Colonial Spirits 5,129,899 Total from Ardent spirits 19,769,461 -^lalt 7,753,617 „ Wine 1,790,572 29,313,650 From licences to sell liquors (about) 1,700,000 / ^3i,oi3,6so An increase of more than two and a-half millions above the " gain" in 1873. You guess the issue. He was in the chair One merry night, when, drink-mad, with his ^friends,' A rabble- rout, wallowing in self-made mire — Wilful or not — they set the house on fire. His broken-hearted father was in bed. And, when they sought to rescue him, was dead. His mother — she came rushing down the stair : He thought he saw the Tempter, saw his foe : * It is the Fiend,' he cried, and struck the blow ! The mother gave him birth, he gave her death : She knew who killed her ; with her latest breath She murmured, ' Lord ! have mercy on my son ! ' The Devil laughed : he knew his work was done : The victim was beyond the reach of prayer. The Soul was his : he had his choice, and he Of Three things proffered for that choice did three. And when he died at Newgate, not a tear Fell on the drunkard-murderer's soddened bier ! XV. What does the MORAL, as you read it, say ? What he will do the Drunkard never knows. He robs himself of Reason, and he throws The very highest of God's gifts away. Men will be judged according to their deeds. For with the crime the punishment they bring. WHAT THE NATION LOSES.— That is what the Nation " gets : " see what the Nation "pays " to got it. During the eight years ending 1873, the money directly spent upon intoxicating liquors, is thus estimated by Mr. Hoyle (Author of " Our National Resources, and How they are "Wasted ") :— 1866 ;{;ir3,92S.45« 1867 II0,I22,2b5 1868 113,464,874 1869 112, 88s, 603 1870 118,836,284 I87I 118,006,066 1872 131,601,400 1873 140,014,712 It is worthy of note that in these eight years a larger sum was paid directly for drink than the entire amount of the National Debt. 14 Marcus Stone.J [Duttcnvoiili & Hoath. "TO MY HOME-COME.' ^ There are diseases that men imcst endure, Diseases death, and only death, can cure : But tJiat disease nor skill, nor doctor, needs ; The remedy is easy, simple, sure — (The prophet-counsel seemed but low and mean To him, the leper-servant of the king, 'Wash seven times in the Jordan, and be clean') — Tis TASTE NOT, TOUCH NOT, THE ACCURSED THING ! XVI. He had abundant warnings : none too late : As he drew nearer to his self-brought fate : Some of these warnings, let this Tale relate. XVII. He had his warnings ! Yes : the Pastor spoke : Like snow on water were the thoughts he woke. His lamp is lighted in a mist, and throws Its rays on mud : what harvest can he reap From acrid soil where nothing healthful grows ? As well to plant the sea, and plough the deep. He had his warnings ! Yes : but none could reach The closed ear, the soddened heart and brain. Vainly the Pastor strives to guide and teach The drunkard : vain all warnings ; less than vain : His hope is in the mire to which he sinks, His God is in the poison-cup he drinks. THE nraiRECT loss.— To the direct loss of 140 millions, must be added the indirect loss of the Nation from intoxicating drinks. The combined annual amount thus lost is estimated by Mr. Hoyle at 285 millions, including: i. Loss of labour and time to employers and workmen by drinking-. 2. Destruction of property by sea and land, and loss of property by theft and otherAvise, the result of drinking. 3. Public and private charges, by pauperism, destitution, sickness, insanity, and premature deaths, traceable to the use of intoxicating liquors. 4. Loss of wealth arising from the idleness of paupers, criminals, vagrants, lunatics, &c. 5. Loss of wealth .arising from the unproductive employment of the judges, magistrates, lawyers, policemen, jurymen, gaolers, &c., cost of keeping criminals, &c. 6. Loss arising from non-productiveness of capital in money spent upon drink. Dean Boyd, preaching at P^xeter, expressed his belief that the loss to the workpeople engaged in the woollen manufactures, the cotton trade, and the bricklaying trade, alone by " Idle Monday" amounted to ;^7,3oo,ooo per annum. XVIII. He had his warnings ! Yes : the spark had Hfe : For Conscience cannot die : and inner strife : The Soul was by an Angel briefly stirred. And the controlling voice a moment heard. The pest-house — tliat was close at hand : and there Drink stilled the self-reproach and stifled prayer. He heard the church bell : for the Sabbath-day Must not be desecrated all day long ! The law gives ten hours good for sinful pleasure : Two hours that law concedes — to think and pray. Then widely open doors let in the throng. It is God's day ; enlightened statesmen think It may not be kept ' Holy' without drink. Besides, the day is one of special leisure, When daily work is held from Toil's hard hand, And traffic is forbidden : all obey The law that stops the traffic : where are they — Workmen — to spend their wages ? Statesmen say Only where liquor — licensed — may be sold. And that is Wisdom's teaching, we are told : That is the path our great forefathers trod ! That to Eternal Life the narrow way ! That is the law to bless a Christian land ! And such ' the Sabbath of the Lord thy God ! ' HDIIEBITAKY DISEASES. — " It is scarcely necessary to say that the actual existence of intemperance in an individual member of societj' does not represent the mischief which this unit inflicts upon it. There is the ' transmission to posterity." — Dr. Edp-ar Sheppard. "Idiocy is the sin of the parent visited upon the children." " There is no singfle habit in this country which so much tends to deteriorate the qualities of the race." — Sir Henry Thompson. " Those who are habitually addicted to this revolting vice not only injure their own bodies and minds, they likewise injure the minds and bodies of their progeny."— V>x. Darwin, F.R.S. "The sin of the parent is visited on a stunted, sickly, and debilitated offspring-."— Canterbury Con- vocation. "The drunkard entails mental disease on his family." — Sir W. A. F. Browne, M.D. Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., expresses a very strong opinion as to the ' hereditary transmission ' of the drunkard's disease. A declaration has been signed by twenty-one physicians, that 'the use of alcohol entails diseased appetite upon offspring.' i6 in I i filM !llS!!!ll!l!l!l!i'''|!|ll|lf!ill|i!til'1i{| II III Q o Q iL 1-1 w 1/1 ►J -a o CO He had his warnings ! XIX. Yes : the drunkard's room He entered often : knew the hingeless door : And, in an atmosphere of fcetid gloom, Had seen the children grovelling on the floor : Naked and hungry : heard the wretched wife Curse the foul fate that gave these children life : Heard drunken daughters with their latest breath Curse drunken mothers : seen a girl, self-drowned, Drawn from the slimy river's noisome bed : — There was no owner for the thing they found : (The landlord gained a shilling by her death :) Had seen the wretched, drink-mad, mother-nurse, In the bleak wind, unsheltered : heard her curse The God — forsaken — in her dull despair : (Let the great artist tell her story : tell — ■ To warn and scare — the state to which she fell.) Had been in mad-houses, where living-dead — Remains of stalwart men and women fair — With beckoning fingers bade him welcome there. Had seen in jails, drink-furnished. Christian brothers- Men who had wives and children, sisters, mothers. Had stood at doors of ' Casual ' wards ; all closed ; All full ; and in the muddied street had stood. Where fellow men and women — drunk — reposed ! With children fighting for imagined food ! CRIMINAL TEETOTALERS !—" Lot me quote .1 fact quite well known. Th..- Governor of Canti-rbury Jail stated that in 22,000 persons who passed through his jail in fifteen years he had never met with a single teetotaler." — A\'. S. Caine. " A gentleman wlio has been for tliirty years on the Hoard of Guardians at Newcastlc-on-Tyne ((Jeorge Charlton, I'-sq., Mayor of Gates- head) states that in the whole of that time he never knew a single total abstainer to apply for relief." I quote the following from answers to the Canter- bury Convocation : — "During twenty-eight years of official life_ (as a Jail Governor) to the best of my Icnowledge 1 never had a total abstainer in cus- tody." "I do not remember, in my career as a policeman during nine years, to have had a teetotaler in custody for anv offence whatever." " I have been master of workhouse and relieving officer for eleven years," said one witness, "and during that time I never knew a teetotaler applying for parish relief." The superior of an insane asylum writes, " I never saw a lunatic who had been a total abstainer." 17 He had his warnings ! Yes : he saw and knew, In all their dealings faithful, firm, and true, Good men, and women good, who sought and trod The path that leads to virtue and to God ! He saw what temporal and eternal gain Is theirs whose motto is the word ' refrain' — The nobler and the better word — ' abstain ! ' They live in peace, in competence, in health, With that sufficiency which is true wealth. Enough they have, and more ; something to spare ; And such small luxuries as all may share. Aprons of leather, fustian coats, are worn By nature's gentlemen, not gentle born : To what high station may not men attain By work of hand no less than work of brain ? There is no peer who owns surrounding soil More independent than these lords of toil. The Saviour on no borrowed bounty fed : The fruit of labour was His daily bread. What said 'the Great Apostle ' of His creed ? ' With mine own hands I satisfy my need.' Toil ! 'tis the loftiest of God's gifts to man. The groundwork and the bulwark of His plan. HEALTH FROM TEMPERANCE — It would be easy to adduce proofs that total abstinoncL' rcmuvos disease and restores health ; that, however sudden may be the change from inebriety to sobriety, it is attended by no danger. Is'o evidence can be so conclusive as that of the masters of workhouses and the chaplains and governors of jails ; inasmuch as in workhouses and jails total abstinence is compulsory and continuous. Hearwhat the masters of workhouses say ; I might quote a hundred answers to the same effect given to the Canter- bury Convocation, and to that of York. " The change from excess to total abstinence which ensues on admission here is highh' beneficial." " The health of paupers is greatly benefited by total abstinence from intoxicating liquors." And hear what the chaplains and governors of prisons say : — " In the majority of instances, if you wish to prolong the life of a drunkard, send him to jail, — which is, in every sense of the term, a temperance establish- ment, — and you will achieve your object." " 77ie-;vo7)ien of/en recover their fo)-nier good looks, even if they looked ugly and hideous on their admission." I8 y XXI. He had his warnings : Yes : he heard and read Of that pure, gentle, yet heroic, band Of women-workers in a distant land, Who stand between the living and the dead : Like Israel's prophet-priest, like him who prayed — Prayed for the stricken,—' and the plague was stayed.' What are these women doing .' Who are they ? God's Temperance-teachers, who — persuade and pray ! Why are they kneeling in the public way ? W'hat is their mission .' — to persuade and prav ! No angry words of bitter thoughts they say ; Christ's simple sisters who — persuade and pray ! Theirs is no stately tread, no proud array ; In humble meekness they — persuade and pray ! Wide is the gate and very broad the way That leads to ruin : — they persuade and pray. And children yet unborn will bless the day That saw their mothers thus — persuade and pray ! They fight — these women fight — for more than lives, For they are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives ; And know the moral and the social bhght To every hearth and home the drunkard brings. They only with the woman's weapons fight. In armour given them by the King of Kings ; VIGOTJH FROM TEMPEEANCE.— Thomas Brassej', M.P., states :— " Some of the most powerlul anioiiij tlie na\Ties have been teetotalers. On the Great Northern Railway, there was a celebrated gang of nav\'ies (teetotalers), who did more work in a day than any other gang on the line, and always left off work an hour and a half earlier than the other men." John AVarc, J\I.D. (Boston, U.S.): — "None endure so well hardships and exposure, inclemency of weather, and vicissitudes of seasons, as those who totally abstain." "The experiment had been tried — by the reapers in the har\cst-field, by the navvies who make our railways, bj- the forgemen of our vast ironworks, by soldiers in long and difficult marches and sometimes for days together in ceaseless and pitiless rain, by sailors amid the regions of Arctic winters, — it had been tried on the burning plains of India, by the lumberers felling the gigantic trees of Canada,— and, wherever fairly tested, the result was that men were better and stronger, and healthier, and more fitted for physical and intellectual labour." — Rev. Richard Hardy, one of the Army Service Chaplains. Jy Love, Patience, Hope, Endurance : these prevail When earthly weapons, that seem better, fail : Strong in His strength, and mighty in His might ! To send them a ' God speed ! ' a warm ' All hail ! ' Have they no sympathising sisters here. In the old home, the honoured mother-land ? Millions ! who dearly love the women-band ! With countless hosts of Angels — very near. God bless ye, sisters — each a dear loved friend ; Take the ' all hail ' and the ' God speed ' we send. Go on — your woman's sword you will not sheath ; Go on — and gain the Amaranthine wreath. You may not win the Victory to-day ; But it viust come, for you — PERSUADE AND PRAY ! XXII. He had his warnings ! Yes : he heard the voices Of children, blended in thanksgiving-praise : Earth-sounds at which Heaven's Hierarchy rejoices The just, made perfect, join their simple lays. And as the joyful Hope-bands passed along. The guiding, guarding, Angels heard this song :— Within the Temple slept the child, The after-prop of Israel's fame, When o'er his slumbers calm and mild The summons of Jehovah came ; "THE WOMEN'S CRUSADE.'-Thcre is hardly a woman in these kinfj- doms who does not, in some degree, suffer from the effects of the plao-ue It may not have crossed herown threshold ; may not have blighted her own domes- tic peace ; the souls and bodies of her immediate family may not be tainted by It; but who is there, in any household, rich or poor, who cannot point to one at least ot her iriends or relatives to whom it has been the blight of pros- perity, and the ruin of character ? The work these heroic women are doing in Ohio, and in other States oi America, is, of a surety, woman's work; they arc doing It, as women ought to do it— always and in every cause; not by usurping the duties of force and power that rightly appertain to men, but by the weapons that are essentially theirs— by Persuasion and Prayer. If their efforts achieved only this— to make it disgraceful for a man or woman of any grade to enter a public-house, a vast deal will have been accomplished. That, at all events, they have done; of such work there is ample proof. It is but the beginning of the end. Assuredly, this work is woman's work."— :Mrs. .S. C. Hall. 20 W. Cave J hom.is.] [N'icliolls Hrothers. "THE GUIDIXG AXGEL HK \RD THEIR SONG." The call was heard, the child awoke ; With beating heart and bended knee, The future judge and prophet spoke : — * Speak, for Thy servant heareth Thee ! ' So when we hear the Almighty voice Breaking the slumbers of the soul : So may we hear and so rejoice, So bend our will to His control ; So may each instant ansMer be, .'- Speak, for Thy servant heareth Thee ! ' Well are they named the Bands of Hope : for theirs Are promised boons and blessings : fruit of prayers I And they are our great Future : planted seed. Trained up to hallowed thoughts and acts : their creed Is this — Do right, and leave the rest to God ! So shall they trust His staff — nor fear His rod. Thus, the stream, pure and fertile from its source, Cheers, purifies, and strengthens, as it flows. Who knows where their example may have force ? It may be in some palace-home — who knows ? Here is your holiest harvest, Temperance friends ; Here is the recompense the Master sends ; Sow ; ye will amply reap ; and gather in To garners — pure from taint, or guilt, or sin. YOTINGf- DETrNKARDS.— " It appears tliat in many parts of the country the evil bcfjins at the carlii-st age, and that youths and children may be lound among its victims." " The ages of this band of juvenile drunkards range from under twelve years to twenty -(me, among whom are 25 girls and 32 boys Irom fourteen to sixteen years old. ihe public-house thus blights two generations at once." " Lads of nine and ten begin to frequent public-houses with their parents." " The men drink, the women drink, the children drink ! Jiabes at the breast learn to drink. Infants are brought to the public-houses." — York Convocation Report. " I know" said Archbishop Manning, "there are boys and girls of twelve who arc beginning to be drinkers of spirits." "The Rev. Henry lierken deposed that he had seen boys of twelve jears old staggering home, from the public-house, drunk." Mr. "Weylland, missionary to the public- houses in a London district, writes: — "As regards }outh and the gin-shops, I would observe that multitudes of children are as certainly trained to be drunkards, as heathen children arc to worship idols." XXIII. God bless the children of the Sunday Schools ; Where Virtue teaches, and where Order rules. I heard this story of a little child ; A Sunday scholar — tender, gentle, mild : One Sabbath morn her father bade her go And buy his beer : she meekly answered, ' No ! ' No, O my father, do not send me there ; ' The day is holy, and I may not dare ! " ' Go, or ni flog thee : do as thou art bid ! ' Again the child, with clasped hands said, ' Nay, ' God's law forbids it ; that I must obey.' ' If not,' he said, ' I'll flog thee : ' and he did. She sought her humble room, but shed no tear : The father went himself and bought his beer. While he sate drinking it, he heard a moan, Symrthing between a murmur and a groan — At least, he thought so : and went up the stair : To hear his little kneeling daughter's prayer : 'Teach me, Almighty God, to bear my part : ' O, dear Lord Jesus, change my father's heart ! ' He heard and went ; but soon was on the stair — To hear again his kneeling daughter's prayer : ' Teach me. Almighty God, to bear my part : ' O, dear Lord Jesus, change my father's heart ! ' BANDS OF HOPE AND JUVENILE TEMPIAKS— In 1847, the Rev. Jabez TiinnicliH'e, assisted by a lew ladies, oriijinatcd the first Band of Hope, at Leeds. It is impossible to overrate tlie value of this ijrand movement — they are emphatically the Future. A bare list of these "societies" would occupy some pages of this book. There is not a town and hardly a village in the king- dom that has not such a socict}-. They are earnestly' guided and governed, morally and religiously taught, and will grow up to be the blessings, not only ot their own homes, but of the world. It is estimated that in England, Wales, and Ireland there are 5,000 societies, 900,000 members, and 7,000 helpers or teachers, lecturers or aids. Scotland adds largely to this enormous list. In every one of our colonies such societies are doing similar work for the young. The auxiliary objects are, to secure regular attendance at Sunday-schools ; to inculcate all good habits — honest}-, truthfulness, obedience, cleanliness, kindness, &c. ; and to discourage and create a disgust for all bad or offensive habits ; in short, to make the cliildren honest, upright, loveable, Christians. 22 James Sant, R.A.] [J . IJ. Cuopcr. 'THE PRAYER WAS HEARD" He sate alone — alone : what made him think Some bitter mingled with his usual drink : And that he saw a light, dispelling gloom — Filling the cheerless and half-furnished room ; And then a hand that pointed to the stair ? And who will say nor light nor hand was there ? — He rose and went : a third time heard the prayer : ' Teach me, Almighty God, to bear my part : ' O, dear Lord Jesus, change my father's heart ! ' His Guardian Angel, though unseen, was near ; What whisper was it entered heart and ear ? Heaven's ray was shining on the tear he wept ! On the stair-head he also knelt — to pray : ' Teach ///<' Almighty God, to bear jiiy part : ' O, dear Lord Jesus, change her fathers heart !' The prayer was heard : from that God-blessed day He drank no poison-drop ; and never more Cross'd he the threshold of the drunkard's door : The pledge he took, and well that pledge he kept. And dearly does the good man love to hear His little kneeling child's thanksgiving-prayer ; That fills the house and makes all sunshine there : * Thank thee, O God ! I bear my easy part : ' For thou. Lord Jesus, changed my father's heart ! ' Wnra, SPIRITS, AND BEER AS " FOOD."— The idea that wine, spirits, and beer are to be classed among the good things given of God for the enjoyment of man is exploded by science as well as experience. " Alcohol can in no sense be regarded as a good creature of God ; " it is an artificial, not a natural pro- duct — "a product of fermentation, an educt of distillation." It is a gross slander to describe alcohol as a production of Nature ; "alcohol does not exist in plants, but is a product of vinous fermentation." Aftcrsketching out certain of the special diseases which spring from the action of alcohol, B. W. Richard- son, F.R.S., thus concluded a lecture at Birmingham : — "Alcohol, like chloro- form, is a narcotic ; it is in no sense a food; it reduces the animal heat and force ; overtaxes the heart ; weakens the muscles ; paralyses the brain and nervous system generally; destroys the vital organs; induces many bodily an >"? ^i i^'^ He cannot be all evil, who is good *'-' To the dependent : I had wanted food, Yet always managed to get food for them ^ One day I went out early : day had gone. And I was drinking when the night came on ; I laid me down beside some sheltering door — Drunk : and I rose at day-dawn to drink more — Deaf to the work-call early morning brings. The next night came : with no foreboding gloom — As yet — I staggered to my wretched room. I stopped — to hear the flutter of their wings : They knew my step upon the broken stair : Where was their welcome chirrup — twit-twit — where .'' No water I only husks of eaten seed ! My little, loving, pets were starved and dead ! But were they birds or angels ? who can tell ? God's messengers they were, I know that well, Missioned to save me in my direst need, When the drink-madness swayed the heart and head. Angels or birds, they died to set me free : Angels or birds, their wings I often see. And hear their chirrup — twit-twit — cheering me. Their empty cage is now my sacred shrine : I kneel and pray there : pray to Love Divine ! ' II. There rose from out the crowd a tiny boy ! ABULTERA'^ION.— " The certain truth that our alcoholic hcvcrages— notably, whisky, i^in, brandy, and rum — contain a deleterious agent which is decimating our population. . . They are largely mixed with amylic or fusel oil, ingredients which condition, for the most part, the miserable consequences of habitual sottishness. All the spirits in use are nothing more or less than alcohol thus flavoured." — Mr. Phillips, principal of the Laboratory of the Analytical Department for the Inland Revenue. "The ingredients put into the drink encourage thirst. I believe that the beer at all the houses is more or less drugged to excite thirst." — Vor/c Convocation Report. "Upwards of sixty persons expressed belief in the adulteration of beer." " The worst kind is a cheap liquor popularly called ' clink.'" — Cantrrbtny Convocation Report. Of Wines, Arthur Hill Hassall, M.D., gives the results ,of the full analysis of nineteen s.amples of sherry, of which eight were of the highest quality pro- curable. The whole of tlie wines were "tortified" with extraneous spirit to ;i large extent — in fact, to nearly double the natural quantity. 31 A poor street stray he was, a child of shame, Who had no mother-welcome when he came. His life had never known a single joy. Was he a drunkard 1 Yes, they gave him drink When he was hungry — with incipient crime. O'er the dark pit he stood : upon the brink : When Mercy stretched an ever-helping hand. And the poor waif was floated to the strand. It was a ' ragged school ' that saved the youth : Low as he was, it taught him what was good — To earn by daily labour daily food : And laid foundations of all virtue — Truth ! One of the shoe brigade the boy was made, (God bless the man who formed that helpful trade !) He spoke no word : but one to whom was known His present and his past, said this alone ; In common words, but such as touch the chord In ever)' heart, when earthly music vies With Heaven's own sympathetic harmonies : 'Twas this : * Behold ! A brother of the Lord ! ' 12. Ignotus : 'Once, I was a man of fame ; And some of you would stare to hear my name : I sent my daughter out to beg : and drank The pence she brought me : drank and did not shrink rOREIGN MISSIONS.— " Few have any adequate conception of the im- mense hindrances tu missionary success which are presented by the foreign trade of this country in strong drink The native mind, seeing that it is the same nation which offers both Christianity and strong drink, classes the two things in the same category, and regards the Gospel as sanctioning drunken- ness." — Canterbury Convocation Rrport. " Wherever we go, there goes with us the Englishman's curse — the drink, and the Englishman's sin — the intempe- rance which flows from it. From the African negro; the North American Indian, whose lands we are inundating with the unholy traffic ; the New Zealander, whom we had well-nigh won to Christ, but whose noble race we are demoralis- ing with the drink more certainly, than we are evangelising it with the Gospel, there is going up one great wail of distress, one sorrowful witness of shame and reproach against England." — Rev. Canon Ellison. "The beautiful islands which gem the bosom of the Pacific, in peril of being flung back into the scathed and blighted desolation of spiritual death."— John Bright, M.P. J- 3 33 < a < H a a H c "3 That daughter sits beside me now : we thank God and you — helpers — with no sense of shame : For Death would be more welcome than the drink.' There rose a palsied, haggard, ghastly, man. Branded by outer marks of Nature's ban : The huge frame was a wreck : these words he spoke ' I knew not what I'd done, till I awoke — From sleep that gives no rest — at break of day : There, on the blood-stained floor, a woman lay. Just twenty years have passed since that dark night : And she — my wife — has never left my sight : Sleeping or waking, she is always near • I see her as I killed her : she is here ! Nay, shun this red right hand : but have no fear : Hark ! to her words of warning : for you may Be MURDERERS — hke me — ere break of day.' 14. Another rose and said : ' I gave no blow : But of the drunkard's work I did my part : I only broke a loving woman's heart ! 'Twas sure : although, in coming, Death was slow. I saw her pining — on the way to die : And well I knew the fatal reason why. THE SOCIETIES,— I have intimated that a mighty force is arrayed to destroy intempoianco, labouring not only in the ^letropolis, but in the Provinces, in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and in our Colonies. The principal National organizations are the British Temperance League, the National Temperance; League, the Scottish Temperance League, and the Irish Temperance League. These societies hold meetings, employ lecturers, and issue serial andother pub- lications in great numbers. To the Bands of Hope I have referred elsewhere. There are also a number of " Orders," such as the Rechabites, Sons of Tem- perance, and Good Templars. The last named have about 5,000 " lodges " in the United Kingdom, with 350,000 members. Among various religious denomi- nations, societies exist to carry on the temperance work. "The Church of England Temperance -Society'' was reconstructed in February 1873. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are presidents. JIany of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, and in England Cardinal Manning and other zealous enemies of drunkenness, are waging a vigorous war against the vice. 35 They said I was not wicked : merely weak : Yet none the less I know her heart d/d break. It is a dreary tale of sin and shame : Drink— the soul-poison— always leads to crime. We had a Stately Home : an honoured name : I saw her there— on earth, the latest time : Waiting and watching : she had left her bed, To warn me — and, at break of day, was dead. That wretch — I read his story, every line : His wife he murdered, and I murdered mine ! ' 15- Another rose — a soldier : all he said Was this : ' Upon the battle-field I lay : Friends, it was Temperance saved my life that day.' Soldiers and Sailors may be led to think Their deadliest foe, in war or peace, is Drink : The social bane : the moral blight : the curse That palsies discipline : the fatal nurse Of crime : its prompter : that dishonour brings To men of honour : faithful, loyal, true. Worthy of trust and faith — in other things. If still in vain their earnest pastors preach, They learn the lessor, simple women teach. God bless them I God will bless them ! so will you, Soldiers and sailors — knowing what they do ! SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.— It is gratifying to know that, mainly through the instrumentalit}- of one ot God's missionaries, a good lady (INIiss Robinson), Regrmental Temperance Societies, in association with the National Tem- perance League, exist in 140 regiments, into which 7,730 total abstainers have been enrolled. The number is continually increasing. In the Navy, another excellent lady (^liss Weston) is doing similar work, and with like result. The admirable lady, Miss Nightingale, writing of the Crimea, grieves over the sight she often saw— of men not maimed in battle, but defaced by a foe more dreadful and deadly than the Russian or the plague. That soldiers and sailors can do, and are expected to do, without liquor, is proved by the results of the expedition to South Africa. This was the order: ''No spirit ration will be issued, except on the requisition of the medical officers." "No spirit ration means no crime; from the absence of liquor, no troops can have been healthier." — " Narrative of the Red River Expedition." In fact, all the reasoning of these notes has especial bearing on our soldiers and sailors. 34 In hlli/llllKa. 4 An old man rose : I do not name his name, Nor do I tell my readers whence he came. 1»his was his tale : 'A painter drew a child And called the picture ' Innocence : ' a grace It was : the soul was pure and undefiled : And, therefore, lovely were the form and face. At his dear mother's knee, in earliest youth, He knelt and prayed, in simple love and truth. After long years had passed, the painter tried A different theme — to picture Guilt — and found His model in the jail : one deeply dyed In evil thoughts and acts : low on the ground He lay, a mortal image of Despair. Nor love, nor faith, nor hope, existed there. If you count life by years, yet in his prime : But he had lived a century of crime. At length, some faded clue of memory brought A ray of past, yet not forgotten, thought ; ' Surely,' he said, ' those features I must know : ' Yes, 'twas the boy he painted long ago. From the close scrutiny he did not shrink : That man of sin — for whom a Saviour died : ' What brought you to this pass ?' he asked, and sighed. The answer was one word— that word was 'Drink !' A STTMMARY DT FEW WORDS.— I might give as a summary of these notes, a passage from an essay, " How to stop Drunkenness," by the late Charles Buxton^ !M. P. (a brewer). It embodies all I desire to say as a con- clusive comment on the " Facts" I have quoted : — " Not onlj' does this vice produce all kinds of positive mischief, but it has also a negative effect of great importance. It is the mightiest of all the forces that clog the progress of good The struggle of the school, and the librarj-, and the church, all united, against the beerhouse and the gin palace, is but one development of the war between heaven and hell. It is intoxication that fills olr jails; IT is intoxication THA r FILLS OUR LUNATIC ASYLUMS ; AND IT IS INTOXICA- tion that fills our workhousics with poor. "wlire it not for this one causi;, paul'krism would bk nearly extinguished in england The intellectu.^l, the moral, and the religious welfare of our people. THEIR material CO.MFORTS, THEIR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, ARE ALL INVOLVED." The pamphlet is published by Partridge, Paternoster Row. 35 j»f^^' More years went by, and Mercy came at last : Came, even after the ele\cnth hour — ■ Came, with Repentance, the soul-healing power. Shame and remorse were only of the past : For he who was the ' INNOCENCE' you see, And ' Guilt ' now stands before you — I am he ! ' XXV. And were they silent— sisters, wives, and mothers. Who sate beside their husbands, sons, and brothers ? No ! with full hearts they hailed that happy day. Hear what those thankful women had to say. I. A woman rose — a hearty, handsome, wife : And this is what she said : ' Look at my son : Ruddy and strong, and full of healthful life : And will be so, please God, till life is done. My eldest born, alas ! I could not bring : He is a paralytic — poor young thing ! ' 2. Slowly, another woman rose and said • " I was as bad as he was : quite as bad : We drank the poison cup that made us mad. It was an awful, wicked, life we led. To sober neighbours we were plagues and pests : THOSE "WHO MAKE THE DRINK,— "Where, in theeye of Eternal Justice, is the difference betwein liim who strikes the blow of death and him who knowingly maddens the brain, and tempts and fires the soul to strike it?" — Report American Temperance Societ)-. " He was satisfied that every manu- factory for spirits was a manufactory of poison ; that every spirit-store was a magazine of death ; and that every person who was concerned in the trade of making or selling spirits was a distributor of disease and death.'' — Judge Crampton. " I know that the cup is poisoned: I know that it may cause death : that it may lead to crime — to the tortures of everlasting remorse. Am I not then a murderer — worse than a murderer — as much' worse, as the soul is better than the body?" — Rev. Dr. Beecher at Boston. "If any man has priority of claim to a share in this work of death it is the manufacturer." — Rev. Dr. Fiske. The difference between death by simple poison and death by habitual intoxication may extend to the whole difference between everlasting happiness and eternal misery." " It is the worst kind of murder." 36 W. C. T. Dobson.R.A.] [Dalziel Brothers. I MUST BE A THIEF." Foul objects every honest man detests : And every decent woman : day and night They'^heard us snarl and wrangle, swear and fight. ' Our children — yes, we heard our children cry ^ For food — and drank : and left them at the door : Pitied of happy children, passing by : Well, that will happen — never, never, more.' It was a child who saved us : that's the truth And here he is : our son, our honest youth. ' Mother,' he said, with sobs of heavy grief, ' Mother, I'm hungry : I must be a thief. To-night I shall go steal : I cannot die.' We heard the words : my husband heard and I. 'To-night.^' I faintly murmured, 'wait until To-morrow : ' and he bowed and said, ' I will.' That night we took the pledge : and since that day Our boy has never hungered : and they say — The neighbours say — we help them on their way. Dear husband, do we ever quarrel .'' ever .'' ' A rough voice from the crowd said, ' never ! never ! ' 3- The next who spoke was a stout fisher-wife One who had lived with Nature all her life. What brought her to that meeting — can you think ? There sate beside her three who, with their wives, THE HORRORS OF THE VICE.— At the risk of repetition, I print the fol- lowing passage from an ussay liy Russell T. Traill, jNI.D. : — " Innumerable spectacles of woe — ten thousand sights of horror — countless scenes of degrada- tion and miseri' — and all the blackening train of vice and crime, beggary, devastatioi, and undistinguished ruin that follow in the wake of the drinking fashion and folly, have brought this subject home, in all its frightful phases, to our thoughts and feelings ! We have all heard the sounds of drunken revelry mingling with the night winds ; we have all heard the wail of the suffering woman borne on the breeze; tte orphan's cr)' echoed from a thousand barren tenements of want and wretchedness; we have seen the outcast offspring of the inebriate running wild and woe-strickcm through our streets. . . . We liave listened to the maniac's scream upon the burdened air, and beheld the human form divine despoiled of ne.irly e\-ery manl.v attribute, and we have said, truly, all i his IS the -work nj Alcohol ; and many of us have said, i.vith this foul thing tve 7t.'tll ito more .'" 2>7 Came to give thanks to God for altered lives. She said : ' My husband's mates may have for drink Some small excuse ; for often rain and storm I\Iake them believe the whisky keeps them warm. Ah, no : the women know what drink will cost : For one man saved — if one— a hundred lost. Come to our home— our cottage by the sea, And know what Temperance gives to him and me : While my good husband toils, by night and day, — Ploughing what poets call the wild sea-foam, And gathering there a harvest — to bring home. His precepts guide— but his example teaches His comrades — with a single word he preaches, — Not saying j^t> — but come — he leads the way.' 4- A WIFE : ' He was no drunkard, — that I say — My husband ; but his wages went the way That brings no comfort, docs no earthly good : Only gives patch'd-up clothes and stinted food. Enough he spent to make and leave us poor : But still we kept the wolf outside the door. When he went out, each day, for many a year, He gave vie fourpence for viy pot of beer. One night he came home, seeming very low : And sigh'd and said — ' Ah ! Mary, we must go : THE MAINE liaUOR LAW.— Tlie subject ordinarily treated under the heading- " Maine Liquor Law " is so large and comprehensive that it is better to pass it over entirely than treat it cursorily ; but any reader can obtain full details. Its brave and eloquent advocate, General Neal Dow, has been for some time in England addressing numerous meetings in various parts of the country ; he docs not rest his right to belief on his own high character, but sustains his testimony by evidence indubitable that, instead of being a failure, " the law" has produced enormous and prodigiously beneficial results. Even the Solicitor-General, when contending that the law is inoperative, said it was because drink could be had "on the sly." "The law compels all dealers to carry on their nefarious trade secretly." " Oxford County, in Maine, the home of the Governer of Maine, has no grog-shop, and its jail is without an occupant. Several other counties arc without grog-shops and with empty jails." Other energetic American gentlemen have been in England giving their experience to the same effect. W. Ileraslc}-.] "PITIED OF HAPPY CHILDREN." [J. C. Griffiths. The lease of this poor house will soon be sold.' I asked, ' for how much ? ' ' Twenty pounds in gold ! ' * Bu^it yourself,' I said ; ' I'm more than willing,' He answered, 'but I have not saved a shilling.' I opened an old box — my mother's gift. Bought with the hoarded produce of long thrift. I opened it — and slowly poured out thence Shillings and sixpences, and pounds and pence. They were the fourpences he'd given me, thinking I'd spent them all upon my private drinking. And that's the way our own the house became. You guess what joy I had to hear him say, ' Henceforth no pence of mine shall find their way Into the till — from this God-blessed day.' Most of you, friends, may do the very same. And now that Fortune smiles, and seldom frowns. Our fourpences are magnified to crowns.' 5 A woman asked : ' What fills your streets with sin ? Whence does the, so-named, ' social evil ' spring ? The Devil has no helper like the gin. I have a child ; but have no wedding-ring. To my dark soul was brought a burning light ; By One whose loving words were, ' Sin no more ! Who also said to sinners, ' Come to me ! ' THE SHATTESBiniY ESTATE, a south-west suburb of London, is an experiment that has been a larg-e success, and will be a vast blessing-. It was a truism, that which yir. Disraeli enunciated in July, 1874, when it was formally opened— that " the best security for civilization is the dwelling : that it is the real nursery of all domestic virtues." It is unnecessary to describe the "estate," fcfr it is free to public inspection. No arguments are needed to sustain this evidence, taken from the " Canterbury Convocation Report : " — " I have found almost invariably that a sluttish and uncomfortable home created or fostered intemperance amongst the working-classes, while cleanliness and cheerfulness on the part of the wife fostered home affections." Thus IMr. Hepworth Dixon describes the village of St. Johnsburj', Vermont, U.S.: — "No bar, no dramshop, no saloon defiles the place. Nor is there, I am told, a single gaming-hell or house of ill-repute The workman's paradise remains ; a village in which every man accounts it his highest duty and his personal interest to observ-e the law." 39 He led me to the ever-open door, And bade repentant sisters welcome me ! Will you ask me for counsel — you who write, And paint, and talk, and teach, and preach, and pray ? Prevent : spare useless labour, idle breath ; Wait not to save the lost : close up the way That leads to social evil — social death ; Close up the drinking dens by night and day. So shall you find the prize you seek is won, And more than half the work of Mercy done.' Contrast with this, the maiden in her prime : Ere sin and grief had done the work of time : The artist takes his theme from ' long ago ' : 'Tis truth to-day : and it was always so : Corruption thrives where Taverns flourish : there Sin opens Hell-gates to the young and fair. 6. A woman in her prime rose up to speak : ' I drove my husband from his home, to seek The cheer he paid for dearly — warmth and light. So he was absent — spending— every night. ' Can I not change to what a wife should be. And so change him.'" I asked myself : ' I'll see : ' So when he home came in his work-day dress, I met his greeting with a warm caress : His shoes were heavy with the clogging mire : THE TJNITED KINGDOM AILIANCE.— Of the associations that directly seek the assistance of law, by far the most influential is the United Kingdom Alliance, formed in 1853 for the Legislative Suppression of the Traflic in Intoxicating Liquors as beverages. Its president is Sir W. C. Trevelyan, and for some years past it has exerted itself most laboriously in support of the Permissive Bill of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, which, if enacted, would allow the ratepayers of every district to stop the sale of alcoholic liquors in their own locality, if the votes in favour of such action were in the proportion of two to ONE. This direct appeal to Parliament is that of the Church of England, in so far as it is represented by the Report of the Canterbury Convocation, as shown in this passage : — " Your committee are of opinion that as the avowed object of licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors is to supply a supposed public want, without detriment to public welfare, a legal power of restraining the issue or renewal of licences should be placed in the hands of the persons most deeply interested and affected — namely, the inhabitants themselves." 40 Fred. Pasraorc] "THE MAIDEN IN HER PRIME." [\V. liallingal H«'found his coat and slippers by the fire, And the tea made — of which he seldom took : A clean cloth on the table, and a book. So passed an hour : he deemed it then too late That night to join his comrades : there he sate, While I my needle ply'd ; ' A night like this,' He said, and kissed me, 'and I shall not miss The public-house : and so save half-a-crown ; And that goes some way to get you a gown. Such as I've seen the landlord's lady wear ; A month like this will buy an easy chair.' And so it did : and when his work is over, 'Tis very sweet to see him seated there. Though ten years wedded, he is still my lover. A good man taught this happy truth to me : Home comforts bless the given and the giver : They are what streams are to the fertile river : And what the roots are to the leaf-clad tree.' The husband rose ; and said, ' Ah ! you should see The wife and children to my home-come run. With joyful greeting, when my work is done ! Picture that HOME-COME, painter, do, and teach Thousands — that printed warnings cannot reach. ' LADIES DRINKING.— A volume might be written on the text I copy from the Fractitiotwr, 1S71 : " the proposal to do away, entirely or for the g-rcater part, with the psovisron of alcoholic drinks at evening parties for women." It is a heavy grief to know that " drinking customs " are terrible temptations to ladies, in society and in comparative secrecy at home — habit seems to beget impunity, but the penalty is of a surety paid. Dr. W'ilks, physician to 9".^'^ Hospital, writes this : " That diabolical compound styled absinthe is ruining the bodies and souls of many ladies in France." I have elsewhere referred to the allurements of cimfectioners' and grocers' shops. Rut there are strong authorities for the dismal fact that among ladies the abhorrent vice is rapidly, extensively, and awfully increasing — that, in plain truth, the 'custom' of wine and dram drinking' by ladies is becoming an intolerable curse. " There is hut one chance ot salvation— actual bodily restraint ; voluntary seclusion at a "Home" meant especially for this class of cases.'' So said several medical doctors at a meeting for establishing a Dipsomanic Home in London. 4i D A LADY spoke : a veil concealed her face ; She said, ' I earned dishonour and disgrace. To men, the public-house may be the curse, But to the women, grocers' shops are worse. They, with a lure invisible, entice To shame — and add hypocrisy to vice : Teach her to act a lie : for who will think A woman goes there — as she does — for drink .'' No wine is named in the week's bill or book ; Nought to alarm or startle those who look. The husband marvels so much tea is taken : Suspicion comes at length : his faith is shaken : The signs are there ; conviction follows doubt : Of all our sins that sin ^\ill ' find us out.' Take warning : dearly bought, yet simply told, Let no one purchase tea where wine is sold ! A doctor made a drunkard, when he gave The alcohol to me, and called it food ; He said a falsehood when he said 'twas good : His poison doomed me to a living grave ! ' A doctor, sitting near her, rose and said, ' She tells the truth ; there is no poison worse ; Better a doom of death, a woman dead, Ere children and their children share the CURSE.' WHAT MIGHT BE !— In 1874, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said :— " If the reduction of the nvenue be due to the increasing- habits of temperance and abstinence from the use of ardent spirits, he ventured to say that the amount of wealth such a change would produce would utterly throw into the shade the amount of revenue now derived from the spirit dut}-, and we should not only see with satisfaction a diminution of revenue from such a cause, but we should find in various wars that the Exchequer would not suffer from the loss that it mia:ht sustain in that direction." The Rev. Dawson Hums, in a letter to the Times, adduced the figures of the drink-bill of the British people in 1874, amounting to " one-third the declared value of all the imports of 1X73, one-half the declared value of all the exports, ;£'55,ooo,ooo above the gross Imperial revenue in the 5'earending j\Iarch 31, 1875, twice the gross receipts of our entire railway traffic in 1873 and eighteen millions over, twice the united capital of our savings banks with seven millions to spare, and nearly twice the estimated value of all our coal and metals at the places of production in 1873.'' ^ XXVI. The Nobleman, who took the chair that night, Rose, and looked proud and happy : well he might. They knew him : all who had been sick or poor, Or sinful, or in suffering : they had found A messenger of mercy at their door, Who tendered healing balm for every wound. Achieving holy power and high renown By levelling — raising up, not lowering down. The loftiest lord of England is his peer, Is the good, sober, working-man less dear ? None are too high to be his co-mates : so To be his brothers there are none too low. He may lead millions to the 'great white throne,' And say, ' Hail, master ! these are all thine own ! ' The waifs and strays of earth who, saved by him, Augment the armies of the Seraphim. These words he spoke, — 'Hail, brothers ! he who brings Honour and glory to his native land — It dignifies my hand to take his hand ; His rank is grander, loftier, far than mine : A noble he of Nature — half divine : He has his patent from the Kings of Kings ! Sinner — for whom is joy in Heaven and Earth, To whom Repentance gives a second birth. SALOONS. — " In some the songfs and singers were too disgusting to be dangerous : in others it was verj' different." " The songs were highly spiced with licentious hints, which were applauded by a mixed audience of both sexes." " Youths of thirteen learn habits of intemperance at the music- halls and dancing-saloons."— C««/^r3ttr)' Report. "The granting of licences for the sale of intoxicating drinks in music-halls, is producing an amount of demoralisation that cannot be exaggerated." " There are public gardens here which demor.ilise the whole district." — York Report. " These saloons, now so numerous throughout the country, are all of them more or less nurseries of drunkenness." — Mission House Report. " A deputation of .about 200 clergy of Glasgow waited upon the Lord Provost and magis- trates, and presented a memorial pointing out the evils connected with the music-halls of that city. Wr John Burns, of the Cunard Company, said he had visited the worst places of Glasgow, but he never witnessed anything so revolting and so demoralising as the sights presented by the MLSIC HALLS." 43 Mightier than they who conquer Kingdoms they Who o'er their passions and themselves hold sway.' The very souls of that assembly stirred, As the few words of that good man were heard. There rose a cheer, a manly, hearty, cheer, ' Hurrah ! hurrah !' in voices loud yet clear : The good old English cheer, renowned in story. That heralds fame, and leads the way to glory. XXVII. Total-abstainers, Templars, Temperance-brothers ! What you won"t take yourselves, you grudge to others. What ! will you ' rob a poor man of his beer ? ' He is the owner of himself — that's clear — And has the right to make himself a beast. To desolate his home, to beat his wife, To starve his children, and to taint his life. Give the free Englishman his choice, at least ; Your Legislators tell you that you ought : Laws if they C2.n't do all, they shall do — nought. And if their sympathetic counsels fail. They send him to learn Temperance — in the jail ! What ! will you ' rob a poor man of his beer ? ' The liberty all free-born men hold dear ! The right to spend his hard-earned wage in drink ! Wise Legislators very wisely think " THE SOCIAL EVIL."—" The public-house is the mainstay of the ' Social Evil' as confessed by unfortunate women, when, from time to time, they have been led to the penitentiaries ; and after they have been reclaimed, the danger of a relapse hangs almost entirely upon a return to drinking habits." "To the effects of liqupr, multitudes must refer both their Jirsf deviation from virtue, and their subsequent contiiniance in vice." Mr. J. Wilson, overseer of St. Margaret's, Westminster, deposed, that as to the causes of their fall — " Almost, if not always, they have attributed it to the excitement of liquor." It is as certain that sin has its most effective sustainers in the public-house as it is that sin exists. It is from the "last half-hour " the publican gets his gain : then miserable and sinful women have lost the last grain of shame ; then the tempters put out their glaring gaslights and count their gains, heedless of the miseries, the degradations, the crimes, the murders, the suicides — ripe produce of moneys heaped up in the till. " She drowns her remorse in drink, till a short life is finished by a loathsome sickness ending in death, or by suicide." 44 G. S. Storey. J [J. D. Cooper. "GIRL-EXAMPLES, RICHLY DOWERED." That cure is better than prevention here. Rob him of beer, and give him — what ? instead — A prosperous present, freed from future dread : Respect of neighbours : gradual rise : no fall : • And SELF-RESPECT, the best good gift of all : A wife who loves him, toils with him, and shares Half of his joys and more than half his cares. The Retrospect — life bright at every stage ; The Prospect — honoured and revered old age. You, folk of ' THE Allianxe ' — how you rave ! What are the wild things you are wildly telling ? The one half-hour the Legislature gave The Publican, fills many a pauper-grave ; Brings wretchedness to many a cheerless dwelling ! XXVI n. Take one line from the song — ' the Nation's song ! ' A line — sung often by the Circe crew : ' For he's a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny,' And" take one portrait from the horror-throng. Terrific — nay, appalling — and yet true. Thus ART may do what letters cannot do ! And genius sway the many : not the few. XXIX. We claim the aid of those who represent us— To crush the Hydra they alone may reach. " THE LICENSING OF SIN is not the way to prevent orrestrain it, but it is the way to sanction and perpetuate it, by declarinij to the community that, if prac- tised legally, it is right, and thus ignoring the efficacy ot truth and facts in producing the conviction that it is wrong." It has been well said (Rev. Dr. AIcKerrowat Edinburgh): " The publican is an educator as well as the school- masfer;" and it is a memorable passage in one of Mr. Gladstone's speeches, "The law oughi' to makh it easy for men ro do right, and difficult for THKM I o DO WRONG.'' " The Permissivc Hill " — or some "Bill,^' its equivalent — mav become the law of the land ; and these Kingdoms be relieved from an incubus infinitely more disastrous than was negro slavery, gaining a thousand- fold more than was gained by free trade — a boon to which the ballot is as a mere drop in the ocean to secure independence of thought and action. Y'et these were the gains of minorities that became majorities. A time may not be far distant wlien men will no more think of tolerating a dram -shop than of poisoning a well from which their neighbours and themselves draw water to drink. 45 -•^A J> ^ i, on the other, by successive prohibitory statutes, appivacliing an rapidly as possible the point of entire lethal proscription. While prejudice and appetite and cupidity can prevail to keej) up the traffic, our duty is to hold it strictly down to the mtuiiniini, and oiitlazi' it as speedily as possible.'^ — H. O. Kitchel, 1>.I). 49 XXXIII. And you, dear Temperance friends, you give a part Of what the PubUcans no longer take : Give it for God's, and for your neighbour's, sake : Give it with open hand and hberal heart. These Tracts, by miUions, and these Lectures, they Do Temperance Work : for which you gladly pay. 'Tis a frail Christian love that giveth nought— Or giveth little — of the MUCH received : Yet those who ' freely give ' have but believed They ' lend ' to God : nor have they idly thought : They take His WORD for payment — when they tioist. They will be paid : even here : while with the living : Paid in the joy of heart that comes of giving : Paid, not, perhaps, in perishable dust, Paid, where there's no corrupting moth nor rust : Paid ' at the Resurrection of the Just ! ' Give back to Temperance some of what it gave : You will not miss a TITHE of what you save. To grudge a part, to meanly keep the whole, Would show a stunted mind and shrivelled soul. When you thank God for Rescue, friends and brothers, Think of the blessings you may SHARE with others. THE ATJTHOEITrES on whom I have chieflj' relied are, Frederick R. I,ees, Ph. D., whose work, " The Condensed Argument for the Legislative Prohibi- tion ot the Liquor Traffic," is so conclusive and convincing that none can read it without deep and fervent desire to aid the cause of which he is the eloquent and philosophic advocate. Another valuable work is "Our National Re- sources: How they are Wasted," bj' ilr. AVilliam Hoyle ; an appalling picture, indeed, but one that must do enormous service and carry conviction as to the. prodigious spread of the curse. The other books are a " Report by the Committee on Intemperance for the Lower House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury," and a similar Report from the Convocation of York, containing " testitnonies" from judges, jailers, coroners, doctors, magistrates, parochial clergy, superintendents of lunatic asylums, chaplains and governors of prisons, masters of workhouses, and the constabulary-, "in answer to forms of inquiry " as to the extent, the causes, the results, and the remedies of intem- perance. These " testimonies " were received from all parts of the Kingdom. 5° XXXIV. A few words more— Good Templars, Temperance friends, Before we part : before my story ends : Tt needs no aid of art, or prose, or verse, To show what we should be — without THE CURSE That drags our country down, and keeps it down. Uprouse ye, then! with stern resolve, decree That England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, be free — And all Dependents of the British crown. The work is yours, and that work YOU must do. It must be done — and will be done — by YOU ! Resolve— to mould A future I If there lurk Perils beside your path ; or wiles allure ; Or open foes assail you ; be ye sure God ^VILL take care of those who do his work. Take these concluding words : my task is done : A tale may teach you what to seek and shun. This is- THE MORAL — solemn, awful, true ! The DRUNKARD NEVER KNOWS WHAT HE MAY DO ! m THE TRIAL OF SIR JASPER, a temperance tale, in verse. By S. C. hall, f.s.a. The whole of the Illustrations have been engraved in the most finished style, and were specially designed for this work by the following distinguished Artists : — E. M. Ward, R.A. Mrs. E. M. WaiId. Alfred Elmore, R.A. Thomas Faed, R.A. W. C. T. DOBSON, R.A. Sir Noel Paton, R.S.A. Sir John Gilbert, A.R.A George Cruikshank. John Tenniel. F. D. Hardy. H. Anel.w. BiRKET Foster. W. Cave Thomas, g. h. boughton. Charles Mercier. P. R. Morris. N. Chevalier. Walter J. Allen. H. R. Robertson. E. Sherard Kennedy. John Morgan. E. ]\I. Wimperis. GUSTAVE DORE. The Book is designed to answer this appeal : — " Laws will not do the work which has to be done. We want men for that, and these men must see their work before they do it. Among all the writers, all the talkers, all the preachers, all the workers, all the names we see blazoned in the roll of English fame, are there none that -00111 sei about to abate this nuisance and scandal — OUR national drunkenness?" Times (Lead ing^ Article, gth Aug., 1872). ONE SHILLING. A LIMITED EDITION, small 4to, with 36 pages of prose Notes, handsomely bound, printed on fine paper, is published at the price of five shillings. "A good, useful, valuable, and elegant gift-book, to be recommended for prizes in schools, or rewards in Temperance Societies." LONDON : VIRTUE, SPALDING, & CO., 26, IVY LANE. may be ordered of any bookseller. Sir J. Noel Paton, R.S.A.] [W. Ballingall. ' Fs it too late to save him ? God, we pray His Guardian Angel may not pass away.' BOONS AND BLESSINGS. THE ADVANTAGES OF TEMPERANCE. Stories nnti ^ktdjES By Mrs. S. C. HALL. CONTAINING FIFTEEN STORIES OR SKETCHES, ILLUSTRATED BY FIFTEEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, FROM DRAWINGS BY E. M. Ward, R.A. Alfred Elmore, R.A. Frederick Goodall,R.A. Erskine Nicol, a. R.A. R. Thorburn, A.R.A. Mrs. E. M. Ward. George Cruikshank. P. R. Morris. G. H. Boughton. F. D. Hardy. E. Sherard Kennedy. N. Chevalier. H. R. Robertson. A. J. WOOLMER. W. J. Allen. WITH THIRTY-TWO HEAD AND TAIL PIECES, DESIGNED BY W. J. ALLEN. " I have been induced to collect into a volume these Stories and Sketches, some of which were written so longf ago as to be almost as old as the Temperance movement in England and Ireland. They have been in circula- tion ever since, as " Tracts " issued by Temperance Institutions ; and in that form have, I humbly trust, aided a cause that is of the highest and deepest importance to every class and order of society." — Author's Introduction. PRICE SIX SHILIINGS. LONDON: VIRTUE, SPALDING, AND CO. may be ordered of any bookseller. E. M. Ward, R.A.] [Dalziel Brothers. THE FIRST DROP. A BOOK OF MEMORIES OF GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE AGE, FROM PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE. EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS, BIRTH-PLACES, BURIAL-PLACES, AUTOGRAPHS, ETC. By S. C. hall, F.S.A., aided by Mrs. S. C. HALL. This Volume contains nearly Two Hundred "Memories " of the most illustrious Men and Women of the age, with whom the Autlior was personally acquainted. There are few men and women of letters, and not many artists, by whom the Century has been glorified, who are not in the list. The Author has acted on the principle laid down by' Thomas Carlyle : he has " undertaken to discourse here for a little on great men, their manner of appearance in our World's business, how they shaped themselves in the World's history, what ideas men formed of them, what Work they did : " and he has acted in accordance with the view of Samuel Johnson, that " lives can be only written from personal knowledge.'''' These " Memories " go a long way back : between the birthday of Hannah More and to-day there have elapsed more than one hundred and thirty 3'ears : more than eighty have passed since Rogers published his first poeiT\ : Alaria Edgeworth was born in 1767: and Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey were born thirty years before the nineteenth century commenced. Yet these are among the many with whom the Author was "personally acquainted." Among tlie two hundred "great men and women" of whom personal memories are given may be named the following : — Thomas Moore ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Charles Lamb ; Hannah iMore ; James Montgomery ; Maria Edgeworth ; Thomas Hood ; Theodore Hoolc ; Amelia Opie; Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor ; Svdney, Lady Jilorgan ; Leigh Hunt ; Lsetitia Elizabeth Landon ; William Wordsworth ; Professor Wilson ; George Crabbe ; Thomas Campbell ; FeHcia Hemans ; AVilliam Lisle Bowles ; James Hogg ; Sydney Smith ; Theobald ]Matliew ; Allan Cunningham ; Samuel Rogers ; Mary Russell IMitford ; Catherine Sinclair; Lady Blessington ; Horace and James Smith; Samuel Lover, &c. ; with memories of thirty of the most eminent artists of the age and country. LONDON : VIRTUE, SPALDING, & CO., 26, IVY LANE. 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