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a certain lodge of the Sons of Temperance passed 

 a resolution that they would not lay aside their 

 tobacco even during the hour they were gathered 

 for temperance purposes ! ! God be praised that 

 woman's crusade against intemperance has never 

 been set back by any such marvellous incon- 

 sistency ! 



The author of Temperance Tales tells a story of 

 the accredited agent of a temperance society. He 

 was one day soliciting contributions with tobacco 

 in his mouth, when he was accosted by a gentle- 

 man, — " You, sir, are not a proper person to be an 

 agent in the cause of temperance, for you are not 

 a temperance man yourself; you are enslaved to 

 tobacco." No answer was made ; but some one 

 present afterwards told the rebuker that the lec- 

 turer was one of the very best men in the country. 

 He was surprised to hear this, and would have 

 sent an apology, had he known the agent's ad- 

 dress. Some time after, meeting this same agent, 

 looking like a different man, he was beginning: to 

 apologize, when he was interrupted, — "No apol- 

 ogy is needed. Your reproof led to much reflec- 

 tion and to new resolutions. As the consequence, 

 you behold me to-day a free man ; and you are 

 my deliverer." 



Gough, who became a temperance-lecturer while 

 still a smoker, relates that on his way to an out- 

 door meeting a friend offered him cigars. "No, I 

 thank you ; I have nowhere to put them." "You 

 can put half a dozen in your cap." This he did, 



