"Ye girls, ye girls of England,

Lead, lead! point out the way!
Men look to you for guidance,
Although they do not say.
They measure by your measure
The evil and the good.
Oh! look ye, look ye to it,
Ye measure as ye should.

"In fellowship let women
Of every race unite,

That none may be uncared for,
Or lonely in the fight.
So sympathy unfettered

Shall point all hearts to good,
And all the world be bettered

By banded womanhood!"

F. B. M. C.

CHAPTER XI.

Drink's Doings in the Home.

"Look not upon the wine with its ruby glow, Tho' its gurgling wavelets shine:

There is treachery and shame, there is want and woe, In the smile of the blood-red wine.

At the last it biteth like a serpent,

It stingeth like an adder,

Look not upon the wine.

"Look not upon the wine in the festive throng,
As it flows at folly's shrine;

There is but a hollow joy in the dance and song
That are born of the maddening wine.

"Look not upon the wine at the sacred hearth,
When the loved ones round thee twine;

There is mockery and pain, there is blight and dearth, In the home that is stained with wine."

Rev. R. Lowry.

EW people are insensible to the value of a happy home; but very many seem to suppose that this blessing ought to exist as a matter of course; that nothing need be done to secure it; that if home is not happy, the fact certainly is sad enough, but what can be done-it is a mis

fortune, and we can only regret it. This is a great mistake. The feelings, and dispositions, and habits of fathers and mothers, of sons and daughters-these make the happiness of home. And these feelings, and dispositions, and habits, what are they but the results of cultivation,—of thought and training? Let the parent, then, who fails to make home happy set to work and learn, as he or she would set to work to attain any other thing upon which welfare and happiness depended. While it is true that

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;'

there is a reverse to this as to every medal; for unless the desire and capacity to make home the storehouse of the domestic affections is carefully studied and developed, it too frequently happens that man and wife both chafe under the matrimonial bond, the family are rendered miserable, and the natural consequences follow of a house divided against itself; and when once a home is regarded as only a place to eat and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in public-houses and a downward career.

Among the causes of unhappy marriages, and consequently of unhappy homes, there is none so prolific as strong drink; and in a work of this character it would be little less than criminal to pass over in silence, or with a few uncertain sentences, the one giant evil of our times.

In the present day, happily, the temperance reformation is making rapid strides, not only in the lowly walks of life, but in influential and fashionable society-amongst the wise, the gifted, and the religious. It is not an unfrequent occurrence for thousands or tens of thousands to sign the pledge as the result of a single "mission " ; and attention is being directed to intemperance and its remedy, by those who a few years ago stood aloof from the temperance reformation. The Legislature, the medical profession, and the Church are all alive to the momentous issues depending upon the increase or decrease of the drinking customs of society.

It is in the homes of the people that the effect of the blighting, withering curse of the fiery fiend is to be seen in its full development. It is here that its ravages are to be witnessed in all their awful desolation. It is here that children suffer, starve, and die prematurely. It is here that worse than widows weep. It is here that the cry for recompense ascends continually to the righteous and long-suffering Father of mankind. "Hark to the bitter cry! See the deep misery, Sorrow and agony

Of the drunkard's sad wife!

See her bow'd down with grief,
Anguish without relief,

Hopeless the moments brief

Of her fast fleeting life.