The same may be said of the Temperance Reform. Church mem bers looked upon it as a wild, visionary and fanatical scheme. But the truth was, Bacchus had erected his altar in the holy sanctuary, and often had his most servile devotee in the pulpit and instances have been known where the minister has taken the bottle in the sacred desk, that he might be filled with the spirit.'

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