NBWTA Report 1903-060
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114 he went further than they knew, for God called him forth, and before he went, as he lay gently waiting for the final summons, he said these words, and I have treasured them, for they seem to me to be a legacy of golden wisdom :— ‘This sense of God is the only thing we are able to take with us up to the end. Everything else leaves us, speculation leaves It is like the play, ‘Every Man,’ us, imagination, knowledge. which I have been reading—‘Sickness undressing the soul for death.’ Nothing is left but the sense of God. Whatever a man has felt about God all his life, that is what will be with him at the end. Nothing else lasts. If he has thought of God as a Judge, then there will be judgment; if as a Father, then there If he has not thought of Godat will be the sense of Fatherhood. all, then there will be nothing with him, he will go out bleak and solitary. It is the only thing we can keep. We know God to be the Lord of this world as of the next, and whatever we have learnt about Him here, that we can carry on with us.” God grant that we may learn yet more and more until the lesson is. perfected by God Himself when these school days are over. { — APPENDIX TO PRESIDENT’S f ; ADDRESS | / : j Rit 4 e : LEGISLATION TEMPERANCE OF RESUME GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES FROM | } FOR 1888-1902. Te \ ' A Cider Bill was passed which was to prohibit the part payment of agricultural labourers’ wages in cider, beer, or other intoxicants. A Scotch Early Closing required the public-houses to Scotland. Bill was also passed, which be closed earlier throughout Local Option by direct veto was enacted for Canada by the Dominion Parliament in 1878, and was put in force throughout more than sixty cities and counties. ce hh it The North Sea Fisheries Act of 1888 was adopted, which was to prevent and suppress the system of coopering or drink-dealing between Continental and British fishing vessels. A more complete Bill was afterwards passed confirming and embodying the previous measure. in 1893 The Habitual Drunkards’ Act was adopted, a measure for making permanent previous enactments dealing with this question, The Protection of Children Bill was passed, which con- tained a clause forbidding children under ten years from singing, playing, performing or selling in any place licensed for the sale of intoxicants or for public entertainment ; and j that no boy under fourteen, or girl under sixteen, should employed on licensed premises for any performance offering anything for sale after 10 p.m. from April September 30th ; or after 8 p.m. from October ist to Hi i i be or for ist to March ont |