I. O. G. T. AT NEVADA.
The New Hope Lodge of Good Templars at Nevada in their District convention held June 28 and 29, 1887, was a success. Dr. Hutchins, of Des Moines, and F. B. Raber, of Baltimore, Md., were the principal speakers. Dr. Hutchins spoke to a full house in the Opera House on the evening of the twenty-eight. He spoke eloquently and forcibly on prohibition, and in favor of the enforcement of the law. Hutchins is hard to beat as a speaker.
Mr. Raber spoke to an interested assemblage at the Park on the evening of the twenty-ninth on Prohibition and the Constitutionality of the Prohibitory Laws.
As an orator Hutchins can beat him, but as a forcible condenser reaching every point of the subject in well chosen words I do not think I ever heard him beaten. Both speakers are a tower on prohibition. I am not a member o£ the order, but if such principles as their speakers vindicated are theirs, I trust in God they may do a noble work. Both speakers were proud of Iowa. When Dr. Hutchins was in England he desired a noted Englishman to show him through his large business establishment; the Englishman excused himself by saying he was so hurried in business he could not. He asked Hutchins where he was from? The Doctor said, "I am from Iowa, one of the United States." The Enlishman at once approached him with cheer and gladness and said:" " Yes, sir; I am at your service; for Iowa is the grandest country in the world. It has power in England on the temperance question over all other countries."
The New Hope Lodge of Good Templars of Nevada now (July 1, 1887) number seventy members.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL FOR MORAL TRAINING.
The Sabbath School has more to do in training the young mind than any other organization. It is said a preventive is better than a remedy, especially when the remedy is of doubtful character. The young when properly trained and properly taught-connected with proper government-controlled for good while the mind is susceptible of moral training, and while a wholesome and saving influence can be impressed on the mind with noble and saving principles. But if permitted to grow up to mature years in reckless and dangerous amusements from youth, the mind becoming unsettled from a seared conscience and bad associations, it becomes difficult then for any instructor or ministerial influence to correct his doubtings after his doubtings become fixed. The training of the mind when it is susceptible of wholesome influences is surely much safer for the future than to depend on producing a safe and permanent change of mind when the mind is matured in visionary conclusions.