Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    30/172 (page 26)
    It will not be lost time, having regard to the exami- nation by it will sharpen the children, and give them more intelligence, and will be a good exercise for pupil teachers in reading aloud freely. It will attach children to your school, and make parents feel that you care for their boys and girls well enough to make some sacrifice for their benefit. A summer outing might be arranged, or a quarterly tea to be subscribed for by the children, and there is little doubt but that on all your boards of management there are those who would take a kindly interest in any such movement for the welfare of the children. It is quite needless for me to go into detail, as the excellent manual, published under the direction of the Union, gives all needed information, and may be had for sixpence from the National Temperance Publication Depot, 337, Strand. Allow me to say one word in conclusion. An instru- ment has recently been invented in America by means of which the sound of voices hundreds of miles away can be heard distinctly. If I were able to make this hall for a moment such a telephone, and cause you to hear all the voices of agony that are wailing far and near, through England, only at this hour, on account of sorrows wrought by this subtle deceiver, you would recoil in horror from the awful sound, and strong drink would cease to appear in your eyes the innocent, harm- less tiling that you now take it to be ! I cannot forget that when I last spoke in this hall on