Show temperance addiss Adda oss tho the methodist church was laet last evening filled to its utmost capa city the rev T 0 iliff discoursed upon total abstinence of which ho he is an uncompromising ad vocata he graded the different degrees of responsibility lity beginning with the least at responsible as follows viz the drinker the seller the cis tiller the inv maker and tind lastly the voters who by casting their ballots for men in league with the largo manufacturers contributed to keep up thia this terrible system which resulted in such waste of natures county and such sorrow and misery which the speaker mathematically mati cally presented to the audience upon a en large blackboard he then went into an exhaustive argument upon the proper remedies ea for the curo cure of the evil which he thanked god had already received a great check inasmuch as sixteen states are now virtually committed to prohibition hibi bibi tion and the southern states are notta as taking a lively inter est in the movement mr iliff paid a splendid tribute to the memory y of john B gough the recent recently li deceased standard bearer odthe temperance cause and stated that under ander the existing dispensation no minister could occupy the desk and no lay member could be admitted to fellowship with the M E church if it were known that be he or she W was as in the habit of touching tasting or handling liquor axce except t and only as a medicine he ile adverted adverted to the late war in touching og terms and expressed the conviction that inside of as m many any year years as he be had fingers upon one hand prohibition would come out victorious every one left the church seemingly freathy greatly edified by what they bad had beard eard and feeling certain that the speaker did not lack li ck in earnestness I 1 nor honesty li of purpose i |