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The New Zealand Evangelist

Temperance.—

Temperance.—

J. S. Buckingham, Esq., the celebrated traveller and earnest advocate of Temperance, has been delivering a series of lectures on Palestine, Egypt, and other Oriental Countries, in several of the principal towns of England and Scotland, with the view of raising funds to assist in erecting a large and elegant hall in London, where by the aid of science, the charms of music, and other attractions, the higher classes may be brought to hear the claims of the Temperance Society, and lend their aid in arresting the fatal progress of the great national evil—intemperance. Mr. B. says, “There is a difficulty in getting the temperance principle introduced into high quarters, the lords of the land holding it to be a low thing to abstain, because it was first propounded by working men. But many of the nobility,” he says, “would be ready to assist this cause if their judgment were properly enlightened on the subject.” His lectures appear to have been well attended.