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Show Dr. STEBuix.tlic popular I'nitarirm minister of Sm Francisco, lectured in that city on Sunday evening last on the subject of Intemperance. A tier treating at sonic lristh upon tho various causes which lead to drunkenness drunken-ness he spoke aa follows concerning the remedies: When wo talk of prcvL-Diiun, we nv-A lirit del! with prima Jy chil-us, thec;ui-e o' causes; and to use a medial 1 phrase, we must li:ive eoustiLuliotiftl treat men t, rot Fymptomalie. There nciiit t)rtofalI In: moral treatment for the building up ami Etrongtheninj of eliarnctor. This begins : in the ehildlioud, in thu family at'thjl mother's knee find the father's leading I t of the hand. It includes homo intlurueu ! and & parental i railing. What we want j and nliat we nni-t have, is not speei'd j training ngain-t ejjixrnl vice, but general training lor th ) etabli;hment of conLrol-ing conLrol-ing virtue. J J ere is where wo ail err nni i'.iii. iVom want of conviction in tbo grett power of education. The home influence ver children is a power which should mouiiXiheir lives and give them force of character to licijtiit them-fc-Iv.s wiih principle and henor, and vjf-rontrol vjf-rontrol in. the arl'ai's uf and wo ;hou:d tsiuip our ciiihlrun frllie world as if they were to receive no help tVom anywhere any-where out vf home. Of immediate reim-ilu--. he did not f.ivur' fntiro fciij.pri-sii.m uf drinking, and confessed con-fessed tb:' lie himself wa-, nut a total aUthiner and did nut see the n.ve-s ity fr it. lie U:uuplit the sale of li.pior chcniM tc reguhikd I.y I.l-.v, ilt the number num-ber of taou-es should he redu-'p-d say to Sou ftd the whole tmde pIscL-d in the lipids of decent, Mibstanlial men. A tax might bo put on them nnd if bv this mesi:-S00,(iOnnniislIycijii:d mesi:-S00,(iOnnniislIycijii:d b-j rai.-cJ,agood n ol to which to devote the mom-v would t e t.. ' euppjrt a well maiug.jd home fir th : in- i cbnate where thoie who were beyond ' self-ejntrol mig it receive proper hospilal I treatment. A, n the r'ruHkru.i, he could only hi reached bv llr- iLillui-nce of per- J p-nt fr.-TnIi and his Ihmily. lie believe. I that if twenty prominent cit i.f-na would j . mtXc it a rule to banish wiiie from their hude. it wo-ild have a w!i .h-o rne eil',.ct in H-ltirg an cxamph: ior r. f ir.n. j |