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"STIRRING PEOPLE UP. 



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Mr. G. Buckton that he should not discourage him from 

 writing on the subject of temperance, he says that they had 

 sold, within three months, eight thousand copies of Pro- 

 fessor H. Ware's sermon, at Harvard College, U.S., on the 

 Moral Principles of the Temperance Movement, about which, 

 next to religion, he felt the deepest interest. He adds : 

 " Now, I suppose I must tell you about myself. I take care 

 not to let my people go to sleep with their eyes open. I 

 often preach sermons which give offence, which does them 

 good, and makes them think. I am a great advocate for 

 stirring people up, and making them uncomfortable : it's the 

 first step to improvement. My honeymoon is not past, so 

 they will take from me now what they would not at another 

 time, from an unaccountable fondness they have for me. The 

 congregation is improving a little. I have got some poor 

 people, and hope to get more. The school is nearly full, 

 and pretty well supplied with teachers ; but we are in sad want 

 of a new room, and where the money is to come from, I don't 

 know. We are beginning to collect weekly subscriptions. I 

 generally preach twice on a Sunday, and have three classes — 

 of lads in the congregation, of old lads in the Sunday school, 

 and of young female teachers. Also one, once a fortnight, on 

 Saturday evening. Also preaching, once a fortnight, in Miss 

 Mason's school-room. Also a meeting of the choir, to practise 

 every Friday. This, with teetotal meetings, pretty well fills up 

 my evenings. 



"In teetotalism I have had some very heavy disappoint- 

 ments, but many encouragements. I often think of you that 

 night at the Sugar Lane room. We are now promoted to 

 the Mechanics' Institute. We have a branch society at 

 Chapelfield, which has done immense good, and so altered 

 the whole appearance of the village, that every one is now 

 obliged to speak favourably of teetotalism. They have hired 

 a room, where they hold meetings twice a week ; and have 

 a night and Sunday school, conducted entirely by working 

 men. They also hold meetings, weekly, in Park Lane, White- 

 field, and other places in the neighbourhood. We have also 



