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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    that in one }7ear alone 204,820 were arrested for crimes in which drunkenness was noted as part of the charge, and that last year 5,131 women were arrested in West- minster alone ! Do I speak to any teachers labouring in Westminster ? Dear friends, that legion of 5,000 drinking women must not be perpetuated, and if, as we may well believe, some of their poor children are now under your care through the energetic action of your London School Board, will you not, in pity to their condition, starting in life with a love of drink bred in them, teach them the evils of the drink in its inherent properties, that they may not, like their unhappy parents, be deceived by its false promises of strength and exhilaration ? The drunkenness at home is not the only thing we have to bewail; we feel a sense of tingling shame as English people, when we know how reproofs are fast coming back upon us from the heathen world, and how, from both India and Madagascar, sermons come which ought to sting us to the very quick, sermons in short sentences like the following, ex- tracted from a temperance lecture delivered by a native gentleman in one of the leading towns of Bengal, quoted by Canon Duckworth in a sermon preached at Sheerness recently—“ ‘ That our country has been ad- vancing in civilisation and enlightenment is indisputable. All classes of the community are sharing in the general progress of the nation. But it is a matter of extreme regret that while our society in many respects enjoys