A temperance society, in which the Rev. Mr. Acworth, who is a "Bright water for me" believer, has taken praiseworthy interest, has furthermore got a footing in St. Paul's, and beyond that there is a band of hope society in the district, which does its share of work.

I dare say your temperance men are ingenious, but let them answer that if they can.

The leader of the great temperance movement in EnglandJoseph Livesey, of Prestonhad a very bad start in life.

" Struck by his manifest sincerity, the gentleman introduced him next day to a friend who took a warm interest in the temperance cause.

When women get the vote the horizon of the home will be both brightened and expanded, and their influence on moral and social and educational questions, especially on the temperance question, and possibly on the peace of nations, will be constant and humanizing.

Besides, in this instance, the powwow and the expected flow of turgid eloquence were both moderated probably by the conduct of the entire transaction on temperance principles.

But by his wife's earnest entreaties he had been persuaded to sign the temperance pledge, and had gone on prosperously keeping it for a year.

In the evening, seeing that a temperance meeting was to be held in a hall off the Westminster Road, he went to it; and asked to be allowed to speak.

When the temperance publications tell us that candidates for office buy men with whiskey; and the oracles of street tattle, that the court, district attorney, and jury, in the late trial of Robinson were bought, we have no floating visions of "chattels personal," man auctions, or coffles.

" "Yes, my boy, so I am," said he; "I was to deliver a temperance lecture to-night, but no lectures for me when there is a prospect for a fight.

He was not only a temperance advocate, but an earnest worker for the good of others in various directions.

He was as forlorn and unheeded as a temperance lecturer would be on the boulevards of Paris.

Miss Cumberland is a well-known temperance woman.

After that followed temperance work.

And as this is a temperance hotel, and not a licensed house, I'll be obliged to you if you'll have that body taken away to the mortuaryI shall be having the character of my place taken away next, and then where shall I be I should like to know!" He swung indignantly out of the room, and his wife, murmuring that it was certainly very hard on innocent people that these things went on, followed him.

" "Oh!" responded Joe, "this is purely a temperance drink; it's made up from wheat, just the same as you get in your white bread.

To depend on slaveholders to give the lead to public opinion in the anti-slavery enterprise, would be no less absurd, than to begin the temperance reformation with drunkards, and to look to them to produce the influences, which are indispensable to their own redemption.

Since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no native apple-trees, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up around them, are set out.

The temperance reformers insisted that the use of alcoholic liquors in all cases was a sin.

If he is to be compelled to deliver a temperance address every time he plays Rip Van Winkle, let us compel Mr. GREELEY to play "RIP" every time he gives a temperance lecture.

It requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage, temperance legislation, liberal divorce laws, or for women to fill church officesthese battles have been fought and won and the principle governing these demands conceded.

" "This evening," said Mrs. Gough smiling through her tears, "reminds me of a little temperance song I learned when a child, I think it commenced with these words: "And are you sure the news is true? Are you sure my John has joined?

John B. Gough, the great temperance orator, the greatest the world has ever seen, said to me one evening at his home that he would lecture for forty years, and then would stop.

Sometimes they guessed right and sometimes wrong, and when they guessed wrong they were cast aside, as appeared dramatically enough in the temperance agitation.

"These were not temperance days, when conscience took so firm a stand between the bottle and the lips.