Dead to Temperance Sentiment.
At the annual Connexional Temperance meeting in Wesley’s chapel last week, says the London Present Truth of May 8, Lady Henry Somerset, referring to a meeting in the same place seven years before, when she stood by the side of Miss Willard, said: “We thought then that there must surely be coming over this nation such a wave of feeling as would awaken England to her true position; but if I were frank, I would be obliged to admit—tho I am no pessimist—that England is further asleep, that the Christian conscience is deader now than then, and that the temperance cause has made scarcely any headway.” These are sad words. When will people see that despite earnest efforts of many reformers, the great trend of the world, even as God has foretold, is downward?