In endeavoring to remove the saloon, it is the duty of all philanthropists to do their utmost to provide safe places of resort--as the Holly-Tree Inns and other temperance coffee houses--for the working people.

And another beneficent plan is for corporations and employers to make abstinence from drink an essential to employment.

My generous friend, Mr.Andrew Carnegie, when he recently gave a liberal donation to our National Temperance Society, said to me: "The best temperance lecture I have delivered was when I agreed to pay ten per cent premium to all the employees on my Scottish estates who would practice entire abstinence from intoxicants." The experience of three-score years has taught me the inestimable value of total abstinence; the benefit of the righteous law when it is well enforced, and also that the church of Christ has no more right to ignore the drink evil than it has to ignore theft, or Sabbath desecration, or murder.

Let me add also my grateful acknowledgment of the very effective and Heaven-blessed work wrought by that noble organization, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

As woman has been the sorest sufferer from the drink-curse, it is her province and her duty to do her utmost for its removal..