not considered, it being the purpose to limit this inquiry to the secular magazine of general interest." Of the sixty editors who were asked whether their periodicals accepted or refused the advertisements of intoxicating liquors, forty put themselves on record as absolutely excluding such advertisements. While the list does not approach completeness, the Sunday-school Times claims for it that it is typical.
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TEMPERANCE, RESULTS OF
The social results of Father Mathew's temperance reform in Ireland were as follows:
In four years from 1837 to 1841 homicides
decreased from 247 to 105; assaults on the
police, from 91 to 58; incendiary fires, from
459 to 390; robberies, from 725 to 257. The
sentences of death were decreased from 66
in 1839, to only 14 in 1846, and transportation
to penal settlements from 916 to 504.
Father Mathew said: "Every teetotaler has
gained morally and intellectually by the
movement, but my immediate family have
been absolutely and totally ruined by this
temperance mission."
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TEMPERATURE
Many things depend upon temperature—the
psychological climate of the soul. Sometimes
in mountain regions you will see clouds
gathering around the mountain peak, and staying
there in spite of a strong wind blowing.
You wonder how that is. It is cold up there,
and the warm air, vapor-laden, climbing up
the side of the mountain, reaching that cool
region, makes clouds as fast as the winds can
blow them away. Which thing is an allegory.
There are psychological climates which
make clouds, and there are other psychological
climates which make clearness; and
cloud and clearness do not depend upon
purely intellectual and syllogistic operations,
but upon something deeper by far—the attitude
of the will toward God and righteousness.
That is the significant thing. And
there we come upon a doctrine which we
have only recently begun to emphasize speculatively,
a doctrine of pragmatism, a doctrine
which Christianity has always held, that "if
any man wills to do the will of God, he shall
know." And I fancy he will never know in
any other way. It is the will. One must
"will to do the will" of God; then he shall
know. Of course, it does not mean that he
shall know all about the metaphysics of the
Athanasian Creed, or the "Thirty-nine
Articles." But it means that he who thus
wills to do the will of God shall come out
into practical assurance, on the right track.
It means that he is not alone, but the Father
is with him.—Prof. Borden P. Bowne, Zion's Herald.
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Temple Extravagance—See Egotism.
Temples, Christian versus Heathen—See
Religions Contrasted.
Temporary Helps—See Shoring Up.
TEMPTATION
C. G. D. Roberts tells of the capture of
a great eagle at the head waters of the St.
John River in the Northwest. The eagle occasionally
found its food at the edge of a
lake where the fish came into the shallow
water. One morning he found on the spot a
great stone which aroused its suspicions, and
perched on the stump of an old tree to watch
matters. Nothing further happening, it went
down and hopped on the stone and breakfasted
as before. It did this for several
days, when one morning he found a stick
laid across the stone in a slanting position
with something hanging loosely from the
upper end. Further suspicion led to a closer
examination, but, satisfied again, he ate as before.
This he did for several days, becoming
more careless and confident, until one
day while enjoying his morning meal on that
stone and hopping about, an Indian hidden
in the reeds pulled two strings, dropping the
stick and unloosing the meshes of a net
around the eagle and caught it.
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A little Jewish newsboy was selling evening papers among the clerks in a large office in one of our great cities. Unawares, as he approached the cashier, he found himself right next to an open cash-drawer overflowing with coin. The little fellow's eyes shone at the sight. But, quicker than a wink, he stept back beyond reach, and nothing would induce him to approach any nearer, even to sell a paper, until the drawer had been shut.
I happen to know that this little fellow comes from a home of poverty, where there are many children and little time or strength is left for parental training of the children, and that the poor boy often goes hungry, finding it too far to go home for a bite, and not daring to spend a copper of his hard-earned treasures for any self-indulgence.
But how many native boys of ten years of
