Welsh Journals

he ABSTAINER A Monthly Temperance Magazine for circulation in South Wales and Monmouthshire. f Communications for the Editor should be addressed to the Offices of the Union 35, WINDSOR PLACE, CARDIFF. Vol. XXI. ii. NOVEMBER 1910. ONE PENNY = Campaign. = ^"V^E wish to call the special attention of our readers to \g\g the series of important meetings arranged to take place at the Cory Hall from November 12th to 19th. bis is quite a new departure. Hitherto missions have been >ld with the same speaker for the whole of the term, bis time fresh speakers, all of the first rank, will be present tch evening. Large crowds should be assured. The series commences on Saturday, November 12th, by a >nference in the afternoon and a public gathering at night, be speakers on this occasion will be Mr. R. B. BATTY, the Rev. F. Luke Wiseman (Birmingham). ative Races Committee, with Mr. DONALD MACLEAN i the chair Sunday, November I3th, is Temperance Sunday, and lurches and Sunday Schools are being appealed to to make this deed a Temperance Day. Last year some 300 addresses and rmons were delivered and right through the churches a very :althy spirit prevailed. Workers are urged to make this dav " Baud of Hope Sunday," and to urge >ou the church the importance of giving up this day to "the advocacv of Band of Hope work and tnperance, just as they allow the Sunday School an anniversary; all over the average collection >mg to the Band of Hope work. On Sunday afternoon the service should be devoted to the advocacy temperance, and suitable recitations and singing, interspersed by a good address, ought to make an teresting service, and one effective of good. The pareuts and friends should be specially invited by a :atly printed circular. Sunday School teachers should be supplied with pledge books, and the lportance of signing the pledge placed before the scholars. On Monday afternoon, November 14th, at 3, a Women's Meeting will be held when SISTER AGGIE, of Bloomsbury Chapel, will be the speaker. She will also be present in the evening with Mr. TOM WING, M.P., one of the most eloquent of speakers, and noted for the famous temperance victory secured at the last election, no doubt largely through the intervention of Mr. D. Lloyd George on the day of the election. On Tuesday, at 7.30, we have Mr. FRED MADDI50N, ex-M.P. for Burnley, and the Rev. MOFFATT GAUTREY, superintendent of the Nottingham Mission. For Wednesday, 3.30., there will be a sermon by the Rev. F. LUKE WISEMAN, the leader of the great Central Mission at Birmingham, and he, with Mr. J. WIGNALL, J.P., of Swansea, will speak in the evening at 7 30. For Thursday, at 7.30, we have the Rev. WILL REASON, M.A. (of London), and the Rev. TOLEFREE PARR (of Surrey Road Chapel, London), and an ex-President of the Christian Endeavour Society. There will be no meeting on Friday, but on Saturdav, at 7.30, Professor G. SIMS WOODHEAD, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. (of Cambridge), and an ex- President of the British Medical Association, ana the Rev. DANIEL HUGHES, with Mr. WILSON RAFFAN, M.P., presiding, will conclude SV.MOFFAT GauTrey what we trust will be a unique series of meetings which, with the hearty (Nottingham) " co-operation of temperance friends, will be a record one for the movement.