The Anti-Saloon League Convention
By Editor
Some weeks ago we promised our readers a report of the great Anti-Saloon League Convention at Washington. They will find it in a report from our own correspondent on page 10. We let Mr. Colcord's article on the Johnston Sunday Bill wait to give it place; for that is current while the bill is pending. The Anti-Saloon League report is greatly condensed, but we apprehend that it clearly reflects the spirit of the great gathering, and the excerpts from the addresses presented indicate those not reproduced. Intemperance is a mighty evil, and earnest men see it and feel it, and are using all their powers to do away with it. But it is sad that there is so little real progress in so much nominal progress. The difficulty lies, it seems to us, in the lack of moral tone, in a failure to sense the moral evil of the traffic. By appetite, by custom, by greed, men's minds are blinded and their hearts hardened. There ought to be a revival of moral conviction which would clutch the hearts of the individual members of the church of God. A "civic" righteousness is worthless that has not a base of personal integrity, of Christ-begotten conviction of righteousness. May God bless every right effort for the suppression of the liquor traffic.