OF THE TENTH National Temperance Convention. HELD AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., JULY 15 AND 16, 1891. CONTAINING THE PAPERS PRESENTED, SPEECHES DELIVERED, RESOLUTIONS AND REPORTS ADOPTED, ROLL OF DELEGATES, ETC. NEW YORK: NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY AND PUBLICATION HOUSE, 58 READE STREET. ON TEMPERANCE. THREE $500 PRIZE ESSAYS, The Seventh National Temperance Convention, which met at Saratoga, endorsed the effort of Job H. Jackson for an American Standard Work on Temperance, in three parts, and a committee of examination were appointed, as follows: A. M. Powell, James Black, Hon. R. C. Pitman, Rev. Dr. A. A. Miner, and Hon. Neal Dow. A large number of manuscripts were submitted, and the following were accepted and are now published, viz. : Alcohol and Science; or, Alcohol, What it Is and What it Does. By William Hargreaves, M.D. 12m0, 366 pp. Paper, 50 cents; cloth. 1.50 This able essay is divided into ten parts, embracing the chemical, physiological, medical, historical, statistical, economical, political, social, educational, and religious. This prize essay embodies a vast amount of well-authenticated information, derived from a great variety of sources, the result of most thorough research by the ablest exponents of science of our own and of other lands concerning alcohol, its history and chemical composition; its physiological effects as an alleged food, as an anesthetic, and a poison, and its use and function as a medicinal agent. The results of many important experiments are given, and the views of eminent scientists in relation to points of fundamental importance are presented with great fairness and impartiality. It is intended to be a complete compendium of all the essential scientific knowledge which painstaking research has thus far developed in relation to the alcohol question. As such it will be a most valuable contribution to temperance literature in its scientific aspect. Alcohol in History. By Richard Eddy, D.D. 12mo, 481 pp. 1.50 "Alcohol in History" is a most valuable addition to temperance literature, and invaluable to students of the great question. It embraces the historical, statistical, economical, and political phases of the reform. It contains many rare documents otherwise inaccessible except in the largest public and college libraries, and has very namerous marginal and reference notes, representing a vast amount of careful research and painstaking labor. The work has a general index, making it of easy reference. Alcohol in Society. By Richard Eddy, D.D. 12m0, 398 pages. 1.50 This volume considers, in five chapters, the special question of the Evil of Intemperance in Society, taking up the subject in the following order: The Evil in its Social and National Phases; in its Relations to Religion; its Influence on Education; the facts in regard to the Two-Wine Theory; a consideration of the Old and New Objections to Total Abstinence and Prohibition. It aims to be an exhaustive treatment of the various phases, amounting to a hundred or more, involved in these general headings, and to bring to the illustration and defence of the positions taken by the essayist, facts which have long been undisputed, as also those of the most recent date, some of the latter being first brought to light while the volume was going through the press. These standard works cover every phase of the Temperance Question, and should be in the hands of every temperance worker, student, thinker, writer, or speaker, and in every library in the land. The entire set sent to one address for $4.00. Published by The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 58 READE STREFT, NTMTM VORK. OF THE TENTH National Temperance Convention, HELD AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., JULY 15 AND 16, 1891. CONTAINING THE PAPERS PRESENTED, SPEECHES DELIVERED, RESOLUTIONS TENTH NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. (CALL.) THE Ninth National Temperance Convention, held in Saratoga Springs, 1881, requested and empowered the National Temperance Society to call another Convention in the series, when, in their judgment, the exigencies of the case should require. The Board of Managers of the Society, believing the time has fully come for such a Convention, appointed the following Committee to issue such a Call. We do, therefore, earnestly and cordially invite all Associations of Ministers and Churches, all General Assemblies and Synods, all General and Annual Conferences, Classes, Presbyteries, and religious National or State Conventions, all National and State Temperance Organizations, all Woman's National and State Unions, Grand Divisions Sons of Temperance, Grand Lodges of Good Templars, Grand Temples of Honor and Temperance, and other State Temperance bodies, to send delegates to a National Temperance Convention to be held, commencing at 10 o'clock A.M., July 15, 1891, in the First Methodist Church, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Each body to be entitled to send seven delegates, of which the presiding officer and secretary shall be two. In the Methodist Episcopal Church, where the bishops severally are presidents of a number of Conferences, this rule may not be binding. The same variation of this rule may apply to other organizations similarly constituted. In case any Presbytery, Association, Conference, or Organization shall not be in session after the issue of this Call and prior to the meeting of the Convention, or shall fail to appoint delegates, the presiding officer, or, in his absence or failure to do so, the secretary, may appoint the same. All delegates must have credentials duly signed by one or both of the officers of their respective bodies. Vacancies in delegations may be filled by the remaining delegates. It is proposed that this Convention shall be composed entirely of delegates from delegative bodies and not from subordinate organizations. |