Saturday May 6th, 1882
HOLME – TEMPERANCE MEETING
On Tuesday night last a temperance meeting was held in Holme Schoolroom. The Vicar, the Rev. W. Robinson, presided. After a hymn and prayer the Chairman said he was glad to see so many present. There was coming over the land a temperance or teetotal wave. He believed that many were discontinuing the use of alcohol not only for example’s sake but because they found themselves to be better without it. – Miss Dixon, of Ambleside, Secretary of the Ambleside Juvenile Total Abstainers’ Union, said that wherever one went they heard people talk about temperance work, and she believed that the temperance cause would flourish more than it had ever done. She was very much struck some time ago with the sad effects of drink when looking at Cruikshank’s well known pictures. Drunkenness was invariably accompanied by disease, dirt, debt, and death. A few years ago when in the south, instead of attending church she visited the public-houses, and from her experience she could endorse the saying that the “public house is the drunkard’s church.” She believed that more women drank heavily than formerly. Many women complained of their husbands being drunkards, but they (the women) were not willing to part from the bottle, and would not take up the cross by abstaining themselves. In conclusion the speaker requested her hearers to seek out amongst their friends individual drunkards and try to persuade them to renounce drunkenness and drink altogether, for whatever their views on alcohol might be, it is said “The drunkard shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” – Mr. Mahon referring to Miss Dixon’s remarks about Mr. Cruikshank, believed that the caricaturist had done eminent service to the temperance movement by his pictures. He thought that we ought to endeavour to enlist the young in the ranks of the Band of Hope movement, for in them there was hope.
But alas, in many of the old and advanced drunkards they seemed to have lost all hope. He also thought it was dangerous to employ children for carrying beer from the public-house. – Mr. Briton recited an interesting piece, “The Wife of the Drunkard,” depicting the old sad story of drunkenness and its fatal results, the rendering of which was well received. – The Chairman in conclusion said that they were all much indebted to Miss Dixon for her earnest and practical address, and also to the other speakers. At the close a few children joined the temperance juvenile section, and one or two adults signed the pledge.
HOLME – TEMPERANCE MEETING
On Tuesday night last a temperance meeting was held in Holme Schoolroom. The Vicar, the Rev. W. Robinson, presided. After a hymn and prayer the Chairman said he was glad to see so many present. There was coming over the land a temperance or teetotal wave. He believed that many were discontinuing the use of alcohol not only for example’s sake but because they found themselves to be better without it. – Miss Dixon, of Ambleside, Secretary of the Ambleside Juvenile Total Abstainers’ Union, said that wherever one went they heard people talk about temperance work, and she believed that the temperance cause would flourish more than it had ever done. She was very much struck some time ago with the sad effects of drink when looking at Cruikshank’s well known pictures. Drunkenness was invariably accompanied by disease, dirt, debt, and death. A few years ago when in the south, instead of attending church she visited the public-houses, and from her experience she could endorse the saying that the “public house is the drunkard’s church.” She believed that more women drank heavily than formerly. Many women complained of their husbands being drunkards, but they (the women) were not willing to part from the bottle, and would not take up the cross by abstaining themselves. In conclusion the speaker requested her hearers to seek out amongst their friends individual drunkards and try to persuade them to renounce drunkenness and drink altogether, for whatever their views on alcohol might be, it is said “The drunkard shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” – Mr. Mahon referring to Miss Dixon’s remarks about Mr. Cruikshank, believed that the caricaturist had done eminent service to the temperance movement by his pictures. He thought that we ought to endeavour to enlist the young in the ranks of the Band of Hope movement, for in them there was hope.
But alas, in many of the old and advanced drunkards they seemed to have lost all hope. He also thought it was dangerous to employ children for carrying beer from the public-house. – Mr. Briton recited an interesting piece, “The Wife of the Drunkard,” depicting the old sad story of drunkenness and its fatal results, the rendering of which was well received. – The Chairman in conclusion said that they were all much indebted to Miss Dixon for her earnest and practical address, and also to the other speakers. At the close a few children joined the temperance juvenile section, and one or two adults signed the pledge.
