Christian Endeavourers and Prohibition.

The third convention of the Wellington Christian Endeavour Union, attended by delegates from all parts of the Colony, terminated in Wellington on October 8, with a thanksgiving service. Before the delegates dispersed, the following resolution was passed by the Convention :—"that this Convention expresses its disappointment at the unwillingness of the legislative Council and a section of the newspaper press to trust the moral sense of the community in the matter of National option declares that it is no wrong [unclear: raint] of liberty to prohibit by popular [unclear: ists] a traffic which is responsible for most of the immorality and destitution in [unclear: fled] society, appeals to Christian [unclear: urers] everywhere to vote no [unclear: ses]' at the coming polls, and to support candidates for Parliament who will increase the power of the people by National Option to deliver this Colony from its greatest wrong—the Liquor Traffic; and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Premier."

Dr. Thomson, Archbishop of York, said: "We who use port wine in the Lord's supper may be right; they who use the unfermented juice of the grape cannot be wrong.

Canon Wilberforce, in Ms excellent book "The Trinity of Evil," speaking of the [unclear: lical] meaning of the precious stones of the twelve foundations of the City of God, the Holy City, the Heavenly Jeru-[unclear: selem] to be founded on earth, writes thus upon the words "The [unclear: twe] an ame-[unclear: yst] (Rev. xxi 20) "'An amethyst,'and why an amethyst? Put aside for the moment the unbroken chain of legend which has clustered round the amethyst, and which corroborates the application I would make, treat if from the matter-of-fact scholarly point of view, put imagination on one side, and translate the word amethyat literally; it can bear but one interpretation—a combination of two [unclear: lior]" Greek words—a not, and [unclear: tos] a user of Strong Drink. Its [unclear: Literal] common sense translation is Abstinence from Strong Drink, The twelfth an amethyst'—the twelfth re-[unclear: geaing] principle upon which., as upon a foundation stone, the New Jerusalem alone can stand, Abstinence from Strong Drink How manifest to the meanest comprehension that one of its foundation strong must be the victory over that everwaiting destruction which, accompanied by the sigh of helplessness and the groan of pain, is [unclear: brutatisJng], raining, pauperising, and maddening thousands for whom Christ [unclear: airland] for whom Christ's followers are in a large measure responsible,"

Christian New Zealanders, up and strike out the top line on the voting paper and let the beautiful translucent purple amethyst become New Zealand's symbolic national jewel—symbol of the foundation [unclear: kid] for a holy citizenship in this sunny [unclear: tian] of the south!