sk no better name than that of an humble lighthouse builder,
who here and there from the shore-points of life's ocean, has sent out
a friendly beam, to brighten the darkness of some brother's night.

VII

THE DEFEAT OF THE NATION'S DRAGON.

Joseph Cook said in one of his Boston lectures: "Whenever the
temperance cause has attempted to fly with one wing, whether moral
suasion or legal suasion, its course has been a spiral one. It will
never accomplish its mission in this world, until it strikes the air
with equal vans, each wing keeping time with the other, both together
winnowing the earth of the tempter and the tempted."

I congratulate the friends of temperance upon the progress both wings
have made since the beginning of their flight.

The first temperance pledge we have any record of ran thus: "I
solemnly promise upon my word of honor I will abstain from everything
that will intoxicate, except at public dinners, on public holidays and
other important occasions." The first prohibitory law was a local law
in a village on Long Island and ran thus: "Any man engaged in the sale
of intoxicating liquors, who sells more than one quart of rum, whiskey
or brandy to four boys at one time shall be fined one dollar and two
pence."

A sideboard without brandy or rum was an exception, while the jug was
imperative at every log-raising and in the harvest field. It was said
of even a Puritan community,

"Their only wish and only prayer,
In the present world or world to come,
Is a string of Eels and a jug of rum."

When Doctor Leonard Bacon was installed pastor of the First
Congregational Church in New Haven, Conn., in 1825, free drinks were
ordered at the bar of the hotel, for all visiting members, to be paid
for by the church. Today all protestant churches declare against the
drink habit and the drink sale. Pulpits are thundering away against
the saloon. Children are studying the effects of alcohol upon the
human system in nearly every state in the Union. Train loads of
literature are pouring into the homes of the people. A mighty army of
as godly women as ever espoused a cause is battling for the home,
against the saloon. The business world is demanding total-abstainers,
and fifty millions of people in the United States are living under
prohibitory laws.

Not only in this but in every civilized land the cause of temperance
is growing. Recently in France it was found there were more deaths
than births, whi