A MINISTER having charge of one of our largest city churches, made the astonishing statement that during the year that particular church had lost more members by the use of intoxicating liquors than by death. An aged missionary, returned from foreign lands, stated in a public meeting that, for each convert made from heathenism by the preaching of the gospel, many drunkards were made by the importation of alcoholic liquors from Christian lands, by the sanction of Christian governments. And then to think that this liquor traffic, the curse of curses, the "sum of all villainies," is licensed in Connecticut with her hundreds of Christian churches, and thousands of church members! And how many of those church members voted to have it so—to sanction this dreadful business? As Jeremiah says, "They set traps to catch men, and my people love to have it so!"—Golden Censer.