NOTES AT THE ALABAMA STATE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION, MARCH 23.
BY REV. A. W. CURTIS, MARION.
At Alabama Furnace, there is much interest on temperance in the Sunday-School, and frequent talks on the subject in church.
Mobile. Temperance organization growing, also the sentiment against the use of tobacco.
Shelby Iron Works. Temperance society doing well. Whiskey has been driven out of the beat for nearly a year.
The Cove. There is a temperance society of 46 members. The children have turned their backs on strong drink, tobacco and snuff.
King’s Chapel has a temperance society of 34 members, and is struggling against whiskey, but so many love it that the fight goes hard.
Childersburg. Rev. A. Jones had his church burned after giving a temperance lecture, but instead of surrendering, his people have rallied and they are building better than before.
At Lawson, the pastor has preached against liquor drinking, but can do very little to stay the tide. There is a vast deal of drunkenness. Men will buy whiskey first, meat and bread afterwards if there is money enough for both.
At Marion, there is a regular temperance catechising in the day-school against rum and tobacco, also in the three mission Sunday-schools, frequent preaching on the subject, and mass meetings alternating at the different churches for free discussion for some weeks before Christmas.
Montgomery. Doing thorough work in temperance, especially in the Sunday-school, using the Careful Builders and other literature of Dr. Cook’s temperance library. The same is true of Selma where they are also putting in strong licks for temperance in the Burrell day-school. Here, too, temperance concerts and recitations are frequent.
Talladega. Their Union Temperance Society holds monthly meetings full of interest. All of the Sunday-school and all the college students are members, many of the students going out into the neighboring beats to lecture. They keep the work lively among all their mission schools. Next August comes the test vote for prohibition.