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June 23, 1909. THI
THE DRINK TRAFFIC.
The drink traffic constitutes one of the
worst problems of cities. It constrains
good citizens to arm for the encounter,
and forget all party lines and local limits,
in the fight with a foe that is perhaps
on the whole the most malignant and
dangerous. Whether it be the Blue Ribbon,
Red Ribbon, or White Ribbon that
we wear; whether it be the banner of
Good Templars, Sons of Temperance,
Father Matthew or other organizations,
under which we march; whether we adhere
to the policy of Canon Wilberforce,
with his renunciation of alcohol even as a
medicine; or to that of the late Dr. How1
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all forces on the saloon; we must think
only of that on which we agree, and in
view of the present and awful peril put
a stop to intemperance. ,
Even the slower and conservative Britishers
are waking up to the perils of
drink. There is one church in a Scotch
city whose four successive pastors were
victims of drink, and three of them died
drunkards?and all, men of brains. The
question of suppressing strong drink
presses on all alike. A merchant in St.
Louis, urged by a temperance deputation
to join them in the fight, turned
them off abruptly, saying, "It's no business
of mine!" Soon after, an accident
on a railway sent home his own wife and
two daughters mangled corpses, and that
accident was due solely to rum! Where
law is r t adequate, we must have legislation;
wnere the law is adequate, it must
be enforced. We must not imitate the
Irishman, who said in reference to certain
legislation, "I'm in favor v ..e law,
but agin its execution."
The conflict is growing closer and hot
ici. yjn iuf une siue nui umy lensyeruuce,
but total abstinence is gaining ground
with the intelligent and virtuous classes.
Wine drinking, that was almost universal
in 1838, had become exceptional in 1888.
Fifty years thus saw it banished from
the sideboard and the table, in thousands
of homes where it used to be a common
fashion to offer it to callers and use it
as a beverage. Where a quarter century
before, not one total abstainer could be
found in the British House of Commons,
there were afterward fifty. The United
States had at least one president in the
White House whose noble wife dared to
banish it even from state dinners. Congressmen
and Senators are not ashamed
to appear on the platforms of great public
gatherings as the advocates, not only
of total abstinence on tne part of the individual,
but of prohibition on the part
of the state. In Scotland, fifty years ago,
ministers cf the Gospel got tip3y at in
sutnaiions, wnere now it would be regarded
as a scandal and disgrace.?Missionary
Review.
BIBLE BEES.
The "Bees of the Bible" are very numerous.
They never 3ting; they yield a
grest deal of honey, and It is their nature
to be found "together In swarms.
Here is a specimen of Ihem:
"Be kindly affectioned one to another."
"Be sober and watch unto prayer."
"Be content with such things as you
have."
"He strong in the Lord."
"Be courteous."
"Be not wiBe in your own conceit."
Z PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU'
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