and convert others to their belief; it was therefore obligatory upon every member of the Band of Hope to try and induce others to attend public meetings, and other social gatherings, where they will get good. 10. That they should endeavour to attend all meetings held for their enlightenment and good at the exact and proper time, and that the lukewarmness and negligence of other members, who might be absent from the meetings, would be no excuse for them acting in a similar manner. 11. That all mortals who have ever lived a life of self-denial, purity, and uprightness, in this world, have ever been subject to the reproach, and derision, and slander of their fellow-creatures, and that if they themselves ever intend to cleave unto that which is good, they must not expect to find any material difference in old human nature now, to what it has been. 12. That as the principles of total abstinence are based upon the rock of truth, they may be sure that a great reform in the opinions, habits, and practices of society will ultimately be produced; and that if they want to have the approbation of God, and the future gratitude and praise of their fellow-creatures, they must do what they can in their day and generation, to bring about this great, grand, glorious, and desirable event. AIDS FOR SPEAKERS. you NO BETTER." Sam," said a minister to his man-of-all-work, must bottle the cask of whisky this afternoon; but as the vapour of the whisky may be injurious, take a glass of it before you begin, to prevent intoxication." Now, Samuel was an old soldier, and never was in better spirits than when bottling whisky; and, having received from his master special license to taste, went to work most heartily. Some hours after, the minister visited the cellar to inspect progress, and was horrified to find Sam lying his full length on the floor, unconscious of all around. Oh, Sam," said the master, "you have not taken my advice, and you see the consequences. Rise, Sam, and take a glass yet, it may restore you" Sam, nothing loth, took the glass, and having emptied it, said "Oh, sir, this is the thirteenth glass I've taken, but I'm no better." 66 A NOBLE CONVERT.-The Hou. and Rev. Lord William Russell stated at a Soldiers' Temperance Meeting in Regent's Park Barracks, that he had practised total abstinence for some time past, and that although an old man he was quite as well without strong drink as with it. KIND WORDS.-Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips; and we have never heard of any mental trouble arising from this quarter. Though they do not cost much, yet they accomplish much. 1. They help one's own good-nature and good-will. Soft words soften our own soul; angry words are fuel to the flame of wrath, and make it blaze the more fiercely. 2. Kind words make other people good-natured; cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and sarcastic words irritate them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. There is such a rush of all other kinds of words in our days, that it seems desirable to give kind words a chance among them. There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and silly words, and empty words, and profane words, and boisterous words, and warlike words. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet, and comfort the hearer; they shame him out of his sour, and unkind feelings. morose, Jeames couldn't HOW TO RUIN SERVANTS.-The London Review has brought to light an abuse which touches the pockets of the nobility and gentry. The statement is, that the fashionable shopkeepers of London have tables laid out in a back room, and covered with the delicacies of the season, for the use of the Jeamses and other upper servants of the aristocracy. Oneestablishment is pointedly alluded to as keeping a cask of wine constantly on draught; no liveried servant can deliver a message without expecting a glass or two of the ruby or golden fluid. Jeames, of course, would take nothing so vulgar as common claret. patronize Mr. Gladstone-it isn't fashionable. The cost of this treating comes, of course, by no very circuitous method out of the masters' and mistresses' purse. That drinking should form the soul of this abuse is not astonishing; high life below stairs is proverbially dry, whatever draughts are consumed, and they are not like angels' visits in the sense of being "few and far between "- -or in any sense. The intemperance and profligacy of kitchen life in the houses of the rich is an answer to the pretence, that good food and lodging would put drunkenness into the shade. A DISSIPATED PRINCE.-The Cassel newspapers announce that the affairs of the Prince Frederick Hanan, son of the Elector, have been placed in the hands of trustees, in consequence of the dissipation of the Prince. OPIUM AND DRINK.-"The sight of opium-chewers in China is a pitiable one—a sad one-but not so repulsive nor so heartrending as that I once witnessed, in what might be called a public-house, on a summer's afternoon in Stamboul, where the opium-chewers were at work and going on like men possessed with demons, until they subsided into lumps of paralytic imbecility, fagging a year of nature in an hour; neither does it affect one half so much as the glare and misery, the garish display and the ragged brutalised mob, the stir and commotion, the ribald and profane language, or the indecent quarrel and the savage bulldog-like fight, that may, alas! too often be observed by the stranger who traverses our own land, and who at a distance-for we should advise him not to enter-surveys the life at the gin-palaces, the taverns, public-houses, dramshops, and taprooms, decorated by their gay luminous show and superb fittings, to be found in all our great thoroughfares in manufacturing towns and cities, and providing plenty of occupation for the policeman, the gaoler, and the hangman.” 46 THE HEAVENLY CALL. 'My son, give me thy heart."-PROVERBS, c. 23, v. 26. Floating here-floating there Floating around us everywhere— To every heart doth a messenger go. It reacheth the bond, it approacheth the free, It pauseth at cottage and palace door, And this the word which the message doth speak Whoever thou art, Or child in thy weakness, Whispering there-whispering here- The summons thus borne from thy King on high: Whoever thou art, Or child in thy weakness, Kindly given-kindly meant, Benevolent is its whole intent; Earnestly spoken-earnestly prest, Authority woos thee to make thee blest; Thou may'st have in thy bosom a shadowless peace, Whoever thou art, Coming again-coming near, The summons approacheth, it reacheth thine ear, A viewless one pauseth thine answer to know; Whoever thou art, Or child in thy weakness, SOCIAL SHIPWRECKS. In the grey dusk of the twilight, a ship had been seen far away in the offing, making merrily for the port whither she was bound, and many hearts on board beat high at the thought of meeting, in a short time, with the friends from whom they had long been sundered; but as the night darkened down, the wind gradually swelled into a gale, until at length it blew a hurricane; and before midnight there was little hope that she would live out the storm. Everything was done that the skill and energy and determination of British seamanship could accomplish, but all was vain; and the blue rocket, flying like an ill-omened comet through the air, had scarcely given the signal of distress, when she struck upon a ragged reef, and immediately began to fill. Some noble fellows on the shore had seen the signal, and hastened down to render what help they could, but the darkness was so great, and the storm so furious, that they could do little till the morning dawned, and then it was too late to save them all. About noon we visited the spot, and never shall we forget the scene which then we looked upon. The gale had partially subsided, but the swell still remained upon the sea, and the roar of the surf was absoJutely deafening. All around us lay fragments of the wreck which the waves had floated in, and there was an eager crowd of willing workers, anxious to do anything they could to mitigate the sufferings of the poor survivors. There, with a sad and settled melancholy on his countenance, was the master of the ship, who, seeing all other hope vain, had leaped into the sea, and was saved almost as if by miracle. On one hand the country doctor was seen kindly exerting himself to bring round a sailor who showed some hopeful symptoms of returning life; on the other, friends from the neighbouring farmsteads were reviving with some stimulating cordial the faint feebleness of a passenger who had all but perished; and yonder, in a place by themselves, were the bodies of the dead. And what a sight was that! The big stalwart man lying side by side with the tender maiden! the mother, with her hand still convulsively clasping her infant child! and the young sailor boy, whose first voyage this had been, and whose heart had been so joyous at the prospect of returning to his mother's home; there they lay, and many more beside them, a ghastly spectacle, which, once seen, can never be forgotten. Often since, have the horrors of that day come up before our memory, but never so vividly as when, a few weeks ago, after an absence of ten years, we paid a visit to our native town. No sea, indeed, is visible from its streets-no "stately ships go past it to their haven under the hill"for it is far inland. Yet, as we walked through its old familiar haunts, we seemed to be stepping over the fragments of human shipwrecks, and all around us lay scattered the sad remains of those who, in the voyage of life, had struck upon the rock of intemperance, and perished among the breakers. As it happened, just at the time of our return, one such case had occurred, which was in the mouths of the whole community, and which was peculiarly saddening to us. A young man, originally of great natural ability, amiable d sposition, and good prospects, at whose marriage we had been best man not long before we left our home, had died a victim to strong drink, in circumstances especially distressing. Led away by evil companionship, he had acquired the appetite of the drunkard, and as that grew upon him, his uature became besotted and cruel, so that even his devoted wife was not safe from his assaults. The loss of business, consequent upon his neglect of it, aggravated this evil temper, and eventually he became an habitual tyrant in his house, and an habitual toper out of it. All this preyed upon the spirits of his wife, and dried up the fountain of her life, so that, broken in heart, she died at the birth of her fifth child, and she and her infant were buried in the same coffin. Unappalled by all this, however, he still continued in his evil course, nay, it seemed as if his bereavement only added fuel to the flame of his appetite, for he became worse and worse, until, in the frantic madness of delirium tremens, he expired; and in four short months after the death of his wife, her grave was opened to receive his ashes-yes, we say his ashes; for strong drink had burned up everything that was combustible within him, and left his body like a blackened ruin. Oh, what a wreck was there! Two young lives, first rendered miserable, and then cut off in the very mid time of their days, and four helpless orphans cast upon the shore, and left to the cold charity of an unfeeling world! Confronted with this melancholy case on our first arrival, we were naturally led to look around and ask after others whom we remembered, and with some of whom we were formerly acquainted, when, to our utmost horror, we discovered that not a few of them also had perished in the same dreadful manner. We cannot give the particulars of each history; we will simply indicate the separate instances. H. D., a respectable draper, with a tolerably extensive trade. He was a prosperous man, but addicted to periodical drinking. For a long time it was kept hid from all but his most intimate friends; but death revealed the secret, for who knows not delirium tremens? On his gravestone are the words," aged 45." |