AT the International Anti-Alcohol Congress that recently held its ninth session in Bremen, the teachings of science concerning a moderate use of alcohol and the effect of its use on every phase of human progress were discussed. Two schools of thought were represented—the moderates, who called themselves the “Temperate School,” and the total abstainers, who called themselves the “Abstinence School.” By common consent the congress passed no resolutions, but the applause for the testimony of science and experience on behalf of total abstinence showed the moderates to be in the minority. The statement of Dr. August Forel, one of the foremost authorities in the world on brain and nerve diseases, that neither science nor experience furnishes evidence to justify calling alcohol a food, called out prolonged acclamations. In a paper on “Alcohol and Art,” Professor Berens, director of the German School of Art at Düsseldorf, says that alcohol, by dulling the spiritual aspirations essential to the greatest work, is an enemy of the highest attainment in art. A paper on “Scientific Temperance Education in the Public Schools in the United States,” by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, led in a discussion in which twenty speakers took part, and nearly every one of them commended the extension of the American method for the prevention of intemperance.—Sabbath Recorder.