Chapter M: E. Hume-Griffith, in her “Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish (10)

They began with a little meeting in the friar’s school-room,
when Father Mathew, after his address on temperance, said,
“I will be the first to sign my name in the book which is on
the table, and I hope we shall soon have it full.” He then
approached the table; and, taking the pen, said in a loud voice,
“Here goes, in the name of God!”

In three months from the day that Father Mathew signed the book
“in the name of God,” the number on the roll was 25,000; in
five months it rose to 131,000; in less than nine months it was
156,000.--EDWARD GILLIAT, “Heroes of Modern Crusades.”

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John B. Gough, the temperance orator and reformer, asked that on his monument the following sentiment should be cut:

I can desire nothing better for this great country than that a
barrier, high as heaven, should be raised between the unpolluted
lips of the children and the intoxicating cup; that everywhere
men and women should raise strong and determined hands against
whatever will defile the body, pollute the mind, or harden the
heart against God and His truth.

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See ABSTAINERS LIVE LONG; DRINK, PERIL OF; LONGEVITY ACCOUNTED FOR;
PERSONAL INFLUENCE.

=Temperance and Prosperity=--See PROHIBITION.

TEMPERANCE IN THE PRESS

So far as their advertising sections are concerned, our great
magazines are rapidly “going dry,” asserts the _Sunday-school
Times_ (Philadelphia), after an investigation of some
sixty of our popular monthly and weekly publications. In this
investigation “strictly agricultural and other class papers,
whether trade or religious publications, were 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