sage of the resolution, but that Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., of Boston, be the Chairman of the Committee of Seven.

The resolutions were passed by a unanimous vote.

Mr. POWELL, of New York, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, reported that sixty letters, representing fifteen countries, had been received, a few of which, frou.ninent friends of the cause, he proceeded to read, and to announce the names of the writers of others. Some of these letters in full, and extracts from others, will be found in their appropriate place in this volume.

The Chair appointed the following Committee of Seven to present the resolutions offered by Dr. Miner to the Centennial Commission: Rev. A. A. Miner, of Massachusetts; Hon. James Black, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine; Rev. James B. Dunn, of Massachusetts; Rev. H. W. Conant, of Rhode Island; Hon. S. D. Hastings, of Wisconsin; Rev. Daniel Read, LL.D., of New York.

On motion of Rev. Mr. DUNN, the Chairman and Secretary were added to the Committee. J. H. Raper, Esq. of England, and Rev. Mr. Simpson of Scotland, were also added.

Hon. JAMES BLACK, of Lancaster, Pa., who was to have read a paper on the necessity for a prohibition party, said that owing to indisposition, the lateness of the hour, and the desire to hear from others before parting, he thought it would be well to dispense with the reading of his paper. He hoped Mr. Raper, whose whole heart and life had been engaged in the cause of temperance, and who stands to-day as the agent of the Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor-Traffic in Great Britain, might be heard from. That brother, he continued, and myself stand shoulder to shoulder with you in laudable effort for the suppression of the liquor-traffic, and I trust that in a very few years, by the blessing of God, success will crown our efforts wherever the English language and jurisprudence prevail. I give place to Mr. Raper.

Mr. J. N. STEARNS moved that the paper of Mr. Black be published with the other papers, which was agreed to. As Mr. Raper came forward, the CHAIRMAN remarked:

"Mr. Raper scarcely needs an introduction; he has already become an adopted citizen."

Mr. RAPER remarked that this was an exceedingly anticlimactic arrangement. He could say some bitter words, he humorously remarked, at this maltreatment, but it is of no use. He had been waiting for thirty hours to hear that paper read. If he had heard yesterday that his friend Black was indisposed, physically, he thought he could have obtained an arrangement by which the paper should have been submitted, and if it were not written then, it should have been before now.

I have heard, he continued, the suggestive words of Mrs. M. B. O'Donnell to-night, in which she slightly, in tone and construction, reflected upon the general current of the Convention since yesterday morning, in kind words; we understood them. It was to the effect that we had come down, down, down until at last we had got to the right thing that is, education. Therein lies a misconception. From the first word of this Convention till now, almost the last, the whole affair is one of education in the true and full sense of the word. It is not a work of instruction, but advisedly, I say, and etymologically, a work of education, of discussion, of drawing out the faculties; and, whether we touch the drunkards of the present day through the fiery agency of Brother Murphy and the stirring appeals of Dr. Reynolds and reform clubs generally, or whether we touch the general sympathies of humanity through the movement now in the hands of the Women's Christian Temperance Associations, or through the youthful department, it is all one great system of education; and the work we have to do is to persuade humanity that there has been a mistake for some thousands of years with regard to the value of alcohol. We have had some remarkable papers this morning. There was a startling paper on the question proper I had the luxury of sitting near a gentleman who didn't believe in it, and that is a comfort to me always, because it enables me to get the other side when we are taking everything for granted; and while the grand points were coming from the platform, he

was jotting them off with all the force of a logician. And I was interested in discovering how one of us mighty reasoners could be checkmated by a man with trained inteľlectual logical faculties, and, I was trying to help the paper as much as it needed. Now, that gentleman left this church very far from being convinced as we are upon some of the main points. He hadn't made up his mind that every drop of alcohol was necessarily evil as a beverage. There was still a lingering conception that there was a right drop if you could only find it.

Now, I felt all the time how wonderful a work it is, and how amazing an amount of bearing and forbearing we require to carry on this work aright; how these good persons of the Reform Club have born with us who, I was going to say, are politicians, but I must not. What is the word for the same thing?

A VOICE: "Legislator."

Mr. RAPER: "No."

Another suggested "Demagogue.'
The SPEAKER: "No."

"Radical" and "philanthropist " were suggested, but the Speaker said "No; 'radical' can't be the word, and 'philanthropist' won't do"; and proceeded: Now, I want the Reform Club men and the Good Templars and every one to remember there is no human being in the enterprise at this moment that is covering the entire circle. Therefore, whilst some of us are intensely anxious about the legal, and others about the juvenile, and others about the statistical departments, let all unite in this work that requires all our efforts. Now, I wanted my friend Black to point the moral of education—that is, "drawing out" the faculties-and he has gone and deserted. He was a candidate for the Presidency four years ago; and the illustrious Bishop Haven, in Baltimore, two Sundays ago announced to his audience the distinctive conviction that he held a third party, holding aloft the banner of prohibition, was what we needed in this country; and he went further, and said that though he felt interested in General Grant, he thought he might take care of

himself; that at the last election he voted for Black and Russell. I am not sure he voted right, but that is the fact. I wanted Mr. Black to tell us something in these eventful months of our duty in this respect.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have come to the conclusion that the true temperance reformer will be true to his principles on the second Tuesday in November as well as the first, and that he cannot afford to strip off his temperance regalia on election days. The time has come when temperance reformers must provide men, and not wait for dictation from Cincinnati and St. Louis. I know the difficulties are terrible and in all directions. Some of us have had to go through them. I am intensely interested in all temperance work; I am interested in the efforts to get men to sign the pledge. I believe this agency of the reform is as powerful now as formerly. I am not disposed to give up the 600,000 drunkards and say, "There is no hope for them, you must educate the young"; no, there is hope; let them take the pledge and keep it, with the help of the Lord, as our brothers Murphy and Reynolds have done. But I say that it is the bounden duty of some of us to stem the source of the flood higher up-higher up!—HIGHER UP! People talk about intemperance as though the drinking custom was first, and intemperance afterwards. Our safety requires us to go back and stem the importation and sale. It is true men may sell liquor where prohibition exists, but they will be the exceptions therefore we, who have the responsibility of suffrage, must meet it, carrying our principles to the polls.

Party must be sacrificed to prohibition. Without sacrifice there is no remission. Salvation is obtained only through sacrifice. We may be repulsed in the conflict, but not defeated.. Repulses are sometimes precursors of victory. We may be driven back, but we re-form again and renew the attack. Bull Run, though apparently a defeat, was your greatest victory in your civil conflict. It brought men up to the front. I want the Conventions at Cincinnati and St. Louis to be compelled to consult you, as they will if they find you are practical and carry your principles

into your politics. If you are wise, they will yet say, "Come, we must be careful; those men are marshalling; they have given us a kindly hint that they are about; cản we take their plank in?" If so, all right. If they put in our plank, that is the party for temperance men and women to pray for; and while the men vote, the women who cannot vote may yet strengthen and help the cause by their influence, as the ladies did on a certain occasion, where they erected a tent and spread a breakfast, and, as the gentlemen came up, they said: "You are going to vote on our side, ain't you?" and when the men said: "Hadn't you better go home?" they replied: "We haven't a home; the rum-sellers robbed us, and to-day we appeal to you to redress our wrongs and protect our rights at the ballotbox." Some of you, my friends, I know, don't believe a word of it, but this is what we have got to come to before we shall succeed in banishing this curse from our midst. I remember, when I gave my vote for a third party, the abuse heaped upon us was good for sore eyes. I said, "Dear me, what a row they have kicked up about one or two votes!" but at the next election they counted us; they said: "What will those fellows do?" and we became potencies at once. I made a solemn vow, after the settlement of one great question, that my vote should be in the interest of temperance. I didn't ask permission of any party, and I say to you, Do your duty to God and your country under the circumstances. Your votes will educate the people. But remember, while you attend to this duty, that no other may be neglected.

Hon. NEAL Dow said there had been a remark made by one of the speakers that the pew should teach the pulpit, and afterwards, by another, that the pulpit ought to teach the pew. The great need in this country just now is, that the pulpit should teach the pew. I am very much afraid the pew will have to preach to the pulpit. I do not understand how it is. I am quite willing to say it here, I have no faith in a man professing to be a Christian and standing aloof from this movement, when every one knows that the liquor-traffic is the great obstacle in the way of the prog