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part of my salary—-we thought fifteen dollars per month if

they could—and the amount paid me by the Association would in ©

this way keep the school several months longer. ,
“ Waterford, 4th mo. 6th, 1868.”’

COMPOSITION ON TEMPERANCE.

I have selected the subject of Temperance for my composition
this week. <I do not think myself capable of doing justice to —
the subject, but I will endeavor to dothe best I can. One of
the arguments that is afforded to my mind is the success our
temperance cause has met with, which has not been in motion
but a short time, and now it numbers over sixty members. I
think if men would only look and see what a vast amount of
misery and disgrace is caused by using the intoxicating cup, —
they would not hesitate any longer, but would come and join the
temperance society and raise themselves in that state of society
‘ which we should all occupy. Look at Alexander the Great, one
of the greatest conquerors the world ever saw, but was lowered
from the highest position into the drunkard’s grave. How
shocking it is to think that a man like Alexander, who had
subdued so many nations, would allow himself to be conquered
by whiskey. It is the lamentable truth, that more men are killed
by the sin of intemperance than by the sword. What is a more
pitiful sight than to see a drunken man reeling along the street
or laying in the gutters ; why it is the most pitiful sight the eye
can behold; and what is that man’s feelings when he gets sober. I
cannot tell, for I never experienced it. I never was drunk inmy
life, and now, since I have joined the temperance society, I never
will be, and I hope all of the rest have the same determination,
and will not be persuaded to drink. ‘Tell them that you have.
given up the poisoned cup; it is not the drink for you. What
does the Bible say ? “Look not upon the wine when it is red;
at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”’
‘‘There is nothing so good for the youthful blood as the clear

and the sparkling water.” ne
Henry RoBinson.

Our friend Samuel M. Janney, who has recently visited some
of the Virginia schools, speaks of them in these terms:

“At the request of Capt. S. B. Smith, the agent of the Freed-
man’s Bureau, at Leesburg, Va., I have recently paid a visit to
- the school for colored people, taught in that place by Caroline
Thomas, of Philadelphia. I found it in a flourishing condition,
about forty pupils being in attendance, most of them children. _

‘¢The exercises of the school in Spelling, Reading, Writing,
Arithmetic, Geography and Grammar, were very interesting and -