Van Diemen's Land temperance herald : for domestic and foreign intelligence

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Launceston, Tas. : Henry Dowling, 1845-
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No. 13 (July 1846)
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VAN DIEMEN’S LAND  

TEMPERANCE HERALD  

FOR  

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF COMMITTEE.  

It is good neither to eat jlesh, nor to drink mine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth  

or is offended, or is mads weak. —Horn. xiv. 21.  

No. XIII.  

JULY, 1846.  

Price 4d.  

CONTENTS:  

State of the Cause .. .. .. .. .. .. 135  

Principles of the Total Abstinence Society. Rev. G.  

Wilkinson’s lecture .. .. .. .. 187  

Dr. Campbell’s Creed 190  

emperance Tales—“ The Victim of Excitement.” 191  

Domestic Newsl  

Launceston .. .. .. „ 194  

Oatlands .. .. .. .. 195  

Port Phillip .. .. ’’ 195  

Foreign —  

Ireland .. .. .. .. .. 195  

Scotland .. .. .. .. .. .. 196  

Germany .. .. .. .. .. 196  

Mr. Duttereau’s lecture at Hobart Town .. .. 196  

Poetry 198  

Miscellaneous .. 198—200  

Advertisements, Notices of Meetings, &c 200  

THE STATE OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.  

It is not unfrequently alleged that the cause  

ol teetotalism is declining. We have been  

delighted to find the friends of our cause in  

England successfully combating this error.  

Ihe following article sets the question at  

rest. We feel we cannot do better than  

commence second year of our publication  

by reprinting the important document:  

Is the emperance Cause in prosperous  

or adverse position  

An answer to this query involves the  

following considerations:—The number of  

its pledged adherents; —the activity or apathy  

of its members; and the standing which it  

occupies in the public mind, and more par-  

ticularly in theeslimation of men distinguished  

for their intellectual greatness or moral ex-  

cellence.  

Now, as regards the number of members  

included as within its limits, the matter stands  

nearly in this condition. In the spring of  

1834, there were seven pledged abstainers  

from all intoxicating liquors; in the autumn  

of 1845, there are not fewer than seven mil-  

lions Eleven years ago, the temperance  

movement, as it at present exists, was begun  

in the town of Breston, and it has now ex-  

tended to almost every portion of the globe  

which owns the dominion of man.  

The South Sea Islands have been by its  

influence rescued from the torrent of fire  

waters, which had well nigh overwhelmed  

them In the Sandwich Islands there are  

two periodicals devoted to the advocacy of  

the cause; the king and the majority of the  

chiefs being practical and, we believe, pledged  

abstainers New South Wales, Van Die-  

men’s Land, and New Zealand have felt its  

power, as is evident by the existence of more  

than ten thousand teetotalers In Persia,  

Siam, and Burmah, the missionaries are  

teaching and practising abstinence, and are  

organizing societies In British India,  

there are about 5000 European members,  

the majority of whom are soldiers; and this  

calculation totally excludes the millions of  

Hindoos, who rarely, if ever, use intoxicat-  

ing liquors ......Tn Africa, there are large  

temperance societies, especially among the  

aborigines; many of the missionary stations  

being the head-quarters of teetotalism in  

their respective districts In Jamaica,  

Dominica, St. Vincent’s, Trinidad, Antigua,  

&c.; and in British Guiana, on the South  

American coast, there are thousands of  

zealous and consistent teetotalers But it  

is in the United States, next to Ireland, that  

the greatest triumph have been achieved.  

In Massachusetts there are fourteen counties,  

and only one grants licenses for the sale of  

strong drinks. Moral and legal suasion are  

being put in active operation throughout the  

Union; and according to late computation  

there are ten thousand societies, with lour  

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