Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TEMPERANCE IN THE SCHOOL. MEETING IN EXETER HALL. A SPECIAL Public Meeting of the National Temperance League, to advocate the introduction of temperance teaching into the ordinary curriculum of Elementary Schools, was held in Exeter HaU on Wednesd ay evening, February 13th, 1878, under the presidency of the Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter. The audience included a large number of teachers, and others who are practically engaged in promoting the education of the young. The Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded to deliver the foHowing address: I must begin by expressing my regret that one or two whom we hoped to see here this evening, and whose advocacy would have been of great use to us, have been prevented from coming. The Dean of Bangor intended to be here, but has been called sud- denly away to the South of Europe. We rather expected also to have heard Canon Farrar—(cheers)—but he is unfortunately absent from London ; and I have also a letter from one who sympathises much with this cause, and who perhaps might have given us very good advice on the subject—Canon Duckworth— (cheers)—and there are others besides these whose hearts are with us, although it is not possible for them to give us the advan- tage of their bodily presence and their spoken words. Never- theless, there are not a few whom I think you will be very glad to hear on such an important subject as this is, because the fact is that there is a great deal to encourage us in the pro- gress of the movement in which we are all intei'ested ; but at the same time there is a great deal to impress upon us, more than ever before, the absolute necessity of not slackening our exertions, but that time after time we must seek for new modes of operation, in order to continue to maintain, with the same vigour as has been maintained hitherto, the steady progress of this great cause, on which so much of the happiness and of the prosperity of our country depends. (Cheers.) I do not doubt that we are making steady progress. Day by day I see plain indications in all ranks of society that the cause of temperance is better and better under- wood. Day by day we can see what effect the advocacy of the cause has even upon those who once resisted it, and resisted it not