OCTOBER 23. 1953

National Temperance Study Course

MB. SMITH AND THE COMFORT . INN

(Junior Lesson)

Once upon a time there was I ziian called Joseph Hercules Smith, but he always signed himself Joseph 1-1., and hope?! people would think the H. stood for Henry.

Mr. Snilth was a very kind man. He threw out crumbs for the ;p;u'l'OWS in winter, and gave pen- ::;cs to beggars and he was so fond at children that he used to stop Mid pat them on the head and ask them how old they were. He iiPl)i a public house, a veiy plea- tlllli.-iO0kiIIg public house; it was sriiled "The Comfort Inn."

One day a traveller came to the illll and asked for a cup of tea.

"Tea!" exclaimed Mt. .Smlt.h. '('i)lllC now, let me draw you a iiiss of beer; nothing like beer 0 give you Comfort Inn-side, you riimv!" '

-I never found beer .1. comfort. iii.scli'," said the,traveller.

"Well, well, there's no accounting u.v- tastes," said Mr. Smith, and i"Ull2ili. the tea. "You're a strang- r: to these parts, I take it?'

'”l'li.-it's right," said the travel- lnr "I've a special line in spectac- Jrs that I'm trying to get people 'tI iisc."

"i"lll(;i it a paying business?" ask- rvl Ml'. Smith.

"Not yet, but it will be a. pay- i business for everybody in the P .d." said the tnaveller. "The fact is I'm so anxious to get people to see things straight that I'm gltlllg the spectacles awayi" '

”You don't say!" exclaime(t;:Mr Sniitli. ' I

"Yes, I do," said the traveller. 'l.' people could only be led to see things as they really are, and mi: as they think they see them, iticred be a lot less trouble in the um-id, especially for the children."

'”I'here you get me on a. tender spot," said Mr. Smith. "When you talk about the children you can do allytilillg with me: I wouldn't hurt one for a fortune."

"l-lumphl" said the traveller. "I saw some children playing in the gutter at the end of the street- ruriy hair and bad shoes." i

"Blue eyes?" asked Mr. Smith.

"That's right." said the travel- -Pl'; "I noticed the eyes because they were the only part clean nnough to show the colour. Know them?"

"Know them!" echoed Mr. Smith "Of course I do, bless their little hcartsi Name of Thompson. Moth- er's a regular customer here, very .'ogula.r." ' , "There were some other child- ren playing a little lower down the Street." went on the traveller, ”four of them; they looked as though they didn't know. what it was to have a square meal."

things agreed Mr. Smith: "I know the ones you mean. Father's a day-labourer - Dickson, iBill Dickson - comes every night for il.5 bit of Comfort Inn liere-ex- (Ilse my Joke! Very poor wages. iiny-labouring. and with food so dear it's no wonder the children WW0 Y-0 K0 htmery. Manyb A tall mt! of a Joint at mutton. or the ii-it-over half of 1' rabbit-pie my 'i.tc's sent 'em-she's as soft-heart- cri as myself where children come in.”

”HUmPh!" said the traveller for the second time. "I'm thinking l'd

moles!" so the traveller lei't'the spectac- ies on the bar, paid for his ten, ind went out. Mr. Smith rubbed the spectacles on his handkerchief and put them nn. Everything looked Just as it al- ll'n.Vs didwbright fire. gleaming ijrasaas. everything clean and neat. They don't seem to make much diffeirencet" he said and strolled out into the porch to see if tho Itreet. too. would look as it usu- H-'-'.V did. v.Ili5i. at that moment twelve o'- hock began to strike from the Market Hall. and Mrs. Thompson name out of her house higher up the street. '- "-'”b9Yfr Etbprt. come out of the Illiief there. you naughty boy," We cried angrily. 'No one would PVFF think I'd given you I bath Wily last Saturday as ever was! Maud. Annie, you um them all in "10 house this very minute!" And '”)' Slapped the nearest child and Wkrd up the baby and thumped 1' hurt the doorstep. I ill: I deal too soft with them. Wm - I110 said. as she came to- llltrds the inn. "There's not many mothers would make the sacrifices do for the ungrateful brats." Mi. Smith felt himself getting wile red with indignation. "Pm ouigifiriggthe sac:-ificesmuc on the . as o o l . .n'mmpmn.” n mic say, Mr: y 'Wh.v. what do 'if'f- Thompson. . , Me-in!" said Mr. Smith. "I mean ”5 the childrenithnt have made :1 sacrifices. not you. Look at the fl 73181 Look at the dtrt on R1" 11 you hadn't fuddled your (HM into a rioe-pudding .with I 1 youd never have let the-poor ””" thins: irei. into that mm" ..,;i,f”r Thompson stood and stared. ji" thelmpudcnoel" she gasp- , 10911 your old (mn- ' Inn: I'll..never come near it And may she flounced. ,0 Sm"-ll! took off the spectacle: mc t0lD his, ace. "Now what made .. .." so ..u. mu W M -- nnd tuse.f.v Its bad for,,.bualneu- mumlff l.-dontiknow what one I ,,mdm:'VO.lIid5Ptid no so fond of

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"No more they do, poor littlei

better leave you, a pair of spec- "9

i-hi-nil you kindly. because there wasn't any money lelt to get any- thing else to eat, and please. me and Bobby and Sarah and Joe liked it very much, only there wasnt enough of it."

"Well, welli" said Mr. Smith, and patted her on the head again. ','We'll have to take care there's more left for you nextitime, eh? See, here's a D8hny- you know where the sweeties are sold."

Violet Armando. ran off down the street, and Mr. Smith was left with the pie-dish in one hand and the spectacles in the other. That meant he had no hand to do anything else, which was awkward, so he put the spectacles back on his nose.

No sooner were they in place than he nearly dropped the pie- didi. ”G-out gracious!" he ex- claimed. "What was it the child said about there being no money left to buy anything else to eat? Why, Bill Dickson spends money here every night, and when I've got his money I've the impudence to give the children pennies and send his wife scraps of food I don't want to eat myself, and think I'm being generous! Not another glass does Bill buy here while those children go short," exclaimed Mr. Smith, "but it will be bad for business." he added, ruefully. "It must be these spectacles that make me see things so differently!"

And Just then he looked up at the irn sign over the porch-he looked a second time: no, there was no doubt about it, the sign said plainly, "The Discomfort Inn.

,"Weii, welli" sighed Mr. Smith. "After all the other things those spectacles have made me see, I don't wonder. even the sign looks different. The Discomfort Inn; yes, that's the right name for it when you see things straight; it's dis- comfort people buy here for them- selves and the children, and it's only discomfort I'd get out of it for myself now, if I went on sell- ing beer. I'll have to turn it into an ordinary shop and sell green- groceries and bread-and sweets. because I am so fond of the child- ren. There may not be much money in the business, compared to sell- his beeifbut I'll know that I'm doing what Loan to be a Com- fort Inn the neighbourhood." he added, with his jolly laugh, "and that will give me Comfort Inn- inside, you kndwl" said he.

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(1) How does lntemperance cause poverty? Value, 10 marks.

(2) What have drinkers to show for money spent on alcohol? Value, 10 marks.

(What Does It Matter, by Mar- garet Baker.)

SOME CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM

'(Int.ermcdlale-Senior Lennon)

The earliest name by which the Ghristlan movement was known was "the Way," and the followers of Jesus were spoken of as ”Peo- pie or the Way." What their neigh- bours noticed about those first cen- tury Chrlstisns was not their doe- trlnal beliefs but the way they lived; it was different from the lite around them. In other words. their new loyalties and convictions were effective in their daily lives. 'Ilhat was surely as it ought to

It is still true that Christianity is I way of life, that there are reugious principles set forth in the New Testament which in their ap- plication have a bearing on our social ps0b1OInl, a.nd' which will help young people today to find a satisfactory answer to the qumtlon of beverage alcohol.

Christian Stewardship

Ont" of the principles of Christ- ian living is that of "stewardship." It means that the resources of the earth, and all the personal , . and abilities we pouess are I scored trust from God. We are not owners, but tnisteu. It is as if a father should entrust I son with a field of his farm or a sec- tion of his garden that he might produce for the family's needs.

According to government figures, the people of Canada spend an- nually on alcoholic! drink: more than 378,000,000. That amount of money represents A great deal of beer. wine andspirlts. Those oom- moditlu in turn, represent vary large quantities of grain, n-uif.

manufacture of the beverages. Con- sideration of the principle of Christian stewardship raises the question no to whether or not, in a world where some folk are dying of starvation and many others are undernourished, that use of grain and fruit is justifiable.

This principle of stewardship applies to our individual lives as well. We are entrusted with intelli- gence, powers of Judgemont.'Ib1ml' to discern right and wrong. and various other aptitudes. Any wil- tul impairment of these powers by the use of alcohol or by any other means is surely 9. betrayal of trust.

Man, the Temple of God

lln writing to this people of Car- inth, Paul stated another Christ- ian principle which should help us in dealing with the alcohol pro- blem, "Ye are the temple of thl living God." and "If my man de- file the temple of God, him shall God destroy." That is, man's nip- ramo value lien in the fact that he. includiijhis bod! Ind 1301'- tcnality in aqdk talnplo. Theroforc. theltumanbod7iIncrod.1tiloIlt of this View of man that tho idea of liberty, freedom and dancers-.v that we ohlrish -no dearly .hIVe grown. Why should man be free? Not because of those features of his

existence which he shares with the animals. but because of his uniqueness in being the temple of God. From that view stems our de- termined resistance to any form of society which would make the state sulireme. and make persons merely tools working -for the state.

Today our way of life. based on the Christian teaching about God's purpose, is endangered both from outsideour country and from with- in. From the outside we are threat- ened by world communism; from the inside that threat comes from anything that would defile man as the temple of God, anything that would violate the sacredness of ma.n's personality.

Now. the scientific study today of alcohol and its effects shows clearly the diefilement of bod and mind which takes place when alcohol is used. There is a loss of physical skill and ability, a be- fuddllng of the mind which Shakesphere noted when he said that people who drink "put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains," a slackening of moral power and Judgement, "the gradual wearing out of the worthwhile parts of the human personality."

History provides abundant evi- dence to support the last part of the quotation ii-om saint Paul - "hlm shall God destroy." One thinks of gifted persons like Lord Byron, Stephen Foster. Alexander the Great, and others who were

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destroyed by alcohol. The same has been true of empires. One night a ruler in the ancient world nam- ed Belshazzar gave a very large banquet where wine flowed freely This Babylonian tyrant ordered

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that the gold andiailver vessels.

taken from the temple in Jeru- salem should be brought to him, and these scored. vessels were used to drink toasts to their idols of brass and stone and wood. That night their enemies the Medes at- tacked the city. Belshazzar was slain in his drunken stupor, Baby- lon fell, and the course of history was changed. .

coming down centuries later, :- mong the causes assigned by his- torians for the fall of the mighty Roman Empire was included in- dulgence in wine.

On the ova of the Battle of Wa- terloo, Napoieoni "General of Armies" Marshall Ney is said to have spent his time drinking wine, and the next day he had such A "hang-over' that his befuddled mind failed to grasp the serious- ness of the situation and he failed to bring up his reinforcements at the right time. The result for the French forces was defeat, although from a military standpoint Napo- lea.n's forces had the advantage in both position and training.

when Marshall Petain broadcast the fall of France in World,War 11 his mczsage contained this state- ment: "Our men were drun-k and could not fight." so one could con- tinue tracing the path of destruct- tion across the centuries caused by alcoholic drink.

For the Sake of Others

No one lives to himself alone. We are all tied together in the bundle of life. What others do af- fects your life, and what you do iii- fluences the lives of others. From the first, the Christian church was

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vitally aware of these inter-pen sonal relationships, and set a high standard in 'the matter. This standard was expressed by Saint Paul in a. way that has become a classic in Christian history. "If meat causeth my brother to stum- ble, I will eat, no flesh for ever- more, that I cause not my brother to stumble," The eating of meat

that had been offered to idols was .

a problem in the early church, the use of liquid is a problem today. But the principle is the same. Paul was acting under no exter- nal compulsion. There was no dic- tator or official telling him what to do. He was a free man acting under the direction of his own conscience. His conscience told him that the highest exercise of his freedom was to refuse a right for himself for the sake of an- other person for whom the exer-

cise oi the same right might be

dlszistrous. That principle has a very definite application to the liquor traffic today.

We hear much in our day about personal liberty, especially in con- nection with one's right to drink alcohol if one wants to. But per- sonal liberty is not an absolute thing. If we live in a society our liberty is hedged around with lim- ltaiions on all sides, from how we shall drive a motor car to how we shall behave if we contract a communicable disease. As someone has put it, "My right to swing my arms end where my neighbour's nose begins." The highest way of 1-cjarding our liberty in the matter of alcohol, as in other matters, .s not as an opportunity for sell- lndulgence, but as a chance to be- come our best-tn live for the

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