Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

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

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    .12(3 ever got possession of the mind of a great people. They are neither required to give vigour of mind nor strength of body. They are not in the least degree necessary, and one effect, we may hope, of a sound education on this point will be to banish such a superstition to the moles and to the bats, where it ought to go and ought bo stay. We want to spread abroad a knowledge of the real effects of the habitual use of these drinks, whether the use be in what is called “ moderation,” or in what is called “ excess. The facts people ought to know, and many people are in most perfect ignorance of them. It is time, therefore, for us to enlighten them, and I hope we shall succeed. I am afraid I have trespassed on the patience of the meeting ; but I hope I have succeeded in showing, first, that there is a need for the step we are taking, and then that it is a practical and possible thing to do, and well it reminds one of a few lines of Pope, when he says : '1 Reason's whole pleasure, all joys of sense, Lie in three words—health, peace, competence j But health consists with temperance alone, And peace, oh, virtue ! peace is all thine own.” MR. MARRIAGE WALLIS’S SPEECH. Mr. Marriage Wallis, Chairman of the Brighton School Board, said: Ladies and gentlemen,—After the speeches we have heard, I should not commit so large a fault, I trust, as to add to what those have said who have gone before me. I will only say to this meeting that I have had great pleasure to-night in coming up from the shores of the English Channel simply by my presence to show my sympathy with the movement for which this meeting was specially convened, and that is to endeavour to promote, each one in his respective circle of influence, the introduction of tern - perance literature into our elementary schools. Having the pleasure and responsibility of occupying a seat at the Brighton School Board, I shall feel it my duty more than ever to endeavour to introduce this most excellent book to the notice of our own boys. (Cheers.) The remarks of my friend Mr. Wright respecting the value of this book I would entirely endorse. I also would say that we may look, I trust, tq Dr. Richardson to give us a book, perhaps, more to meet the capacities of our young children, to whom we would try to impart lessons of temperance in their very early years. In giving us the present book, the Temperance League has not only laid temperance reformers, but the whole British nation, under a debt of gratitude. I hope the League will go further, and en- deavour to encourage Dr. Richardson not only to do more for us, but will also themselves see that this book which is already before us, is introduced to such schools as the girls’ high day-schools, the grammar schools, the old grammar schools, and the proprietary
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