"YOUNG MEN, AHOY"
—Temperance Day
—Dissipation
John B. Gough's Thrilling Word Picture a Remarkable Temperance Lesson.
THE LESSON—That we dare not trifle with the devil's poison.
The world has known no greater foe to intemperance than John B. Gough. No words of this great leader have left a more lasting impression than those which he used in his striking picture of the young men drifting in a boat on the Niagara river. Happily, it adapts itself to the requirements of a chalk talk.
The Talk.
"The great temperance leader, John B. Gough, devoted the best years of his life to an earnest endeavor to save hoys from the evil of strong drink, of which he knew so much through long, bitter experience. Familiar to all of us, perhaps, is the thrilling word picture of the young men who launched their rowboat upon the quiet, smooth waters of the broad Niagara river a few miles above the mighty cataract. [Draw the boat and the young men, completing [Fig. 96]. It might be well to prepare this first scene in advance.]