Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perhaps, feel it too great a labour to undertake a Band of Hope in your own school once a fortnight. It can be done, for the head master of one of our largest Brighton board schools, by his own desire, is holding a weekly meeting for the boys and girls of that school. An assistant-master from another school helps him by teaching the children to sing, and one of his senior pupil teachers gives a reading of fifteen minutes or so in the course of the evening. Other friends look in occasionally to assist. I was present on the opening night, and I never saw a Band of Hope conducted in so disciplined, orderly, and cheerful a manner. I need scarcely say that the masters are abstainers themselves. The advantage to the temperance cause of such trained and educated superintendence for Bands of Hope needs only to be mentioned to be recognised. If the masters and mistresses could only give their presence, and allow younger persons to work the meetings, much good would result. The children can be encouraged to learn good selections from English literature, and they will occupy a good deal of the time themselves, so that little would be required of the superintendent but to keep order. At least fifteen minutes of temperance instruction should be given each evening by some competent person. A series of short lessons on physiology would be ex- ceedingly useful, and in your schools you have many facilities in the diagrams, etc., now in your possession to make the lessons most successful and interesting.