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the wonderful growth of temperance sentiment ren- 

 dering the existence of such establishments possible. 



Australia is beginning to realize, with the whole 

 civilized world, that the liquor traffic is a disgrace to 

 the civilization of the nineteenth century, and a curse 

 to humanity as well as a continual insult to God; and 

 our antipodean cousins are making most commendable 

 efforts to oppose and restrict, with strong hope that 

 they will at no very distant day abolish it. 



There are many noble workers hundreds, whom I 

 should be glad to name if space permitted. The Rec- 

 habites are a strong body; the Good Templars, the 

 Melbourne Total Abstinence Society, the Women's 

 Christian Temperance Union, are all doing grand ser- 

 vice and embrace hundreds of God's true nobility. 

 The Victorian Alliance is the central organization in 

 that colony (Victoria), which unites the various forces 

 for legislative purposes. The very efficient Secretary, 

 Mr. John Vale, has the rare faculty of winning the 

 good will of all who love the temperance cause. 



The Hon. James Munroe, the President of the 

 Alliance, and Mr. J. W. Hunt, Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee, with our very dear friend, Mr. Gordon, M.P., 

 formerly of Canada, are gentlemen who leave nothing 

 undone to secure success in their noble and self-deny- 

 ing work. 



