Liquor Bill of the United States in 

 $1,000,000,000. 



The Small Square in the Corner Represents 

 the Amount Contributed in 1890 by Evan- 

 gelical Churches to Home and Foreign Mis- 

 sions, $10,695,259. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PERILS. —INTEMPERANCE. 



To touch SO vast a subject, and only touch it, is diffi- 

 cult. Let us consider briefly but two pointsr— the dan- 

 ger of intemperance as enhanced by the progress of. 

 civilization, and the Liquor Power. I. The progress 

 of civilization brings men into closer contact. The 

 three great civilizing instrumentalities of the age, moral, 

 mental and material, are Christianity, the press and 

 steam, which respectively bring together men's hearts, 

 minds and bodies into more intimate and multiplied 

 relations. Christianity is slowly binding the race into 

 a brotherhood. The press transfoj-ms the earth into an 

 audience room ; while the steam engine, so far as com- 

 merce is concerned, has annihilated, say, nine-tenths of 

 space. 



Observe how this bringing of men into closer and 

 multiplied relations has served to increase the excite- 



