Volume 1

The temperance movement and its workers : a record of social, moral, religious, and political progress / by P.T. Winskill ; with an introduction by F.R. Lees.

  • Peter Turner Winskill
Date:
1891-1892
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    ance and Christian Friends of the Indepen- dent Chapel, Heniel Heni))stead, as a token of their regard and esteem, Mai’ch 4tl), 1843.^’ Tl)e Rev. Janies Price virtually laid down his life for the cause, and by overwork brought on a painful illness whicli terminated in death, February 11th, 1863, in the 58th year of his age. He was buried in the ground adjoining the chapel where he had been a faithful pas- tor for more than thirty years, an impressive funeral sermon being preached by the Rev. Newman Hall. Another of the early converts of Mr. John Cassell was Mr. Henry Holland of Buck- ingham, who was one of the first in that loca- lity to fiut his name to the total abstinence jiledge after one of Mr. Cassell’s lectures. From that time, through evil and good report, Mr. Holland was an able advocate of the cause, and his home was always open for the entertainment of friends of the movement. He was a subscriber to the funds of the United Kingdom Alliance from its establishment, and an unflinching sujDporter of its objects. He died October 23d, 1886, aged sixty-seven years, leaving behind him twelve children, all strict abstainers and active tempei’ance workers (Al- liance jVeivs, 1886, jx 715). James Earner was born at Stoke Ferry, in Norfolk, in 1817, and in 1832 removed with his parents and family to Framlingham. He was brought up a Wesleyan Methodist, and in 1836 was accepted as a “ local preacher,” and in the same year became a total abstainer. He was in every sense the father and apostle of teetotalism in Framlingham and district, and passed through many conflicts in the advocacy of these “ new-fangled notions,”often having brickbats, rotten eggs, and the like a.s the only arguments his opponents were able to bring against him. He was a man of a fine commanding appearance, and after the movement was established he was in great demand at the monster temperance gather- ings in all parts of the kingdom, and his voice was heard in the largest halls of the land. He was vice-president of the Fram- lingham Mutual Impi'ovement Society, and for some years an active member of the Peace Society. He was taken ill in the siting of 1871 while preaching and lecturing at Leek in Staffordshire, and died on the 7th of Octo- ber, 1871, in his fifty-fourth year, and was buried in the family vault at the Framling- ham Cemetery, Mr. Thomas Whittaker of Scarborough preaching a special funeral ser- mon at the Castle Hall to a crowded assembly on the 28th of October, 1871. Of the heroic women whose lives have been a joy and blessing to the temperance move- ment and to society in general, few are moi-e worthy of recognition than Mrs. Catherine Cozens, of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Mrs. Cozens was born at Swaffham, in Norfolk, in 1802, but spent most of her early life at Terriug- ton. Her father was a custom-house officer, and tike many of his class in that day was addicted to drink, and thus Mrs. Cozens had the evils of intemperance early brought under her notice. Unhappily her husband was also a man of somewhat intemperate habits, and when she heard of teetotalism she readil} signed the pledge, and became a worker in the movement in 1836. Her example led Mr Cozens to take the pledge and become an ardent supporter of the temperance cause. With a view to minister to the wants of some of the townspeople, Mrs.. Cozens turned the living-room of her cottage in Norfolk Street, Kings Lynn, into a coffee-room, thus estab- lishing in an unpretentious way one of the very earliest “ public-houses without the drink.” So successful was the venture that in a short time—1841 — a large house in Blackfriars’ Road was taken and opened in a similar manner. With enlarged space she saw her way clear to make provision for the entertain- ment of travellers, and succeeded so well, that eventually the site on which once stood a house with four entertaining rooms and a few bed-rooms was covered with a splendid tem- perance hostelry, having forty-one bed-rooms, commercial, writing, dining, and coffee rooms, and accommodation for stabling 100 horses. On market-days every stall was occupied, and it was no uncommon occurrence for late tra- vellem to find every bed taken. As years rolled on Mrs. Cozens had to face trouble and sorrow, one of the heaviest strokes being the loss of her beloved husband; but she stood to her post, and with added zeal and industry applied herself to the work before her, earning a name that became a “ household word ” in temjierance circles. Her “ Home ” was truly the home of all temjierance workers, and her life was one of generous, earnest, Christian chatity. She was a generous contributor both to national and local religious, temperance, and charitable institutions, and a true friend to the poor.
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