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The Cathedral Chapter and the Standing Committee (without whose valuable help I made no plans for this Synod) and I had hoped to have had a Public Meeting on the subject of Temperance during Synod week. We decided to wait until you had adopted some Resolution upon the subject, and upon that to build the future. The subject is a very important branch of Christian conduct. It is well that we should adopt a policy as comprehensive as our Church, a positive and not merely a negative policy. It is unfortunate that, in some minds, Prohibition and Christianity are convertible terms. Whatever we decide, we must just be careful not to lean in the direction of trying to make a part greater than the whole.