on the various factors which have led to the growth of temperance in this country has just been made by the Rev. Dr, Donald Fraser, the well-known missionary. And it must have required some courage to deliver, because his audience held somewhat extreme views—-they were all members of the British Women's Temperance Association at, present. in conference in Edinburgh. Dr. Fraser is engaged in foreign mission work, it is 30 yenrs since he was resident in this country, and he said that what struck him most in comparing the Scotland of the past with the Scotland of to-day the greater sobriety of the people. What was the cause? He did not find it wholly in negations and prohibitions: The world was not to be purified in that way. ne of the greatest, tem in the land said this plain-spoken and courageous divine, of athletics and sport. Millions are now active in the open air who formerly loafed away their Saturday afternoons in the public-house. A second strange new ally had arisen in the cinema, where hundreds of thousands of people now spent their evenings along with their own familles, And yet another thing, he added, which they must reckon a8 great temperance ally was the wireless. Millions now had this new attraction in the home, and need rot go to the public-house or license ed club to meet their fellows, but there in their own rooms they could make a club of the whole world.
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