festly come; the world, in its need, is ready for the truth against alcohol, and for the most effective methods of teaching it to everybody.

The story of this movement in many lands during the two years that have intervened is its own commentary on these words.

OUR MISSIONARY HELPERS.

The Report of 1888, with its story of the beginning of this work, was sent out to all organizations of the World's W. C. T. U., and to all missionaries laboring in foreign fields whose addresses were obtainable. As soon as the mails could return the answers, letters of warm response and appeals for suggestions and aid were returned, and much of the work recorded on the following pages is the story of missionary labor.

THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

In 1890 this Department placed in the World's Fair in Paris an exhibit of its literature for school use, with leaflets explaining its object and methods, in the French language, for free general distribution to all visitors. Above it all hung a large silken flag of the United States, with the statement in letters of gold on a field of blue, that "In the United States of America there are more than 12,000,000 children under Temperance Education Laws.”

The fact that this Department was awarded a gold medal by the judges is evidence of appreciation of the idea which the exhibit represented. Subsequent results have shown that this effort has lodged seed thoughts that are destined yet to bless nations.

A CALL FOR WORKERS.

A prime essential in getting anything done is to have somebody to do it. What is now needed to complete the rapid extension of this movement in every land is some one connected with either temperance, religious or educational organizations, or otherwise representative of the humane desire to lift humanity Godward, who will act as sponsor for this movement in his or her respective country.

We earnestly call upon all Woman's Christian Temperance Unions who have not already done so, in loyalty to their organic relations, to appoint National and Local Superintendents of this Department and to report the addresses of the same to the International Superintendent.

Where there are no organizations of this kind, any one who realizes the need of educating the children away from the use of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, and who feels, in this realization, a call to

do what he or she can to start such a movement for his or her country, will, by opening communication with the International Superintendent, receive formulated plans and methods, the outgrowth of experience in this behalf, that may be adapted to any locality.

Any such person who is a representative of an organization will do well to secure the endorsement or co-operation of the same, thus strengthening his or her efforts, and giving the movement organic existence. Local circumstances, however, must decide as to the wisdom of this suggestion.

[N.B. The name and address of the International Superintendent is given at the opening of Part III., page 99.]

A list of the literature which has been from time to time issued to meet the needs of this Department, outlining its plans and methods, will be found on the last page of this volume.

THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Our Canadian neighbors have been especially active, aggressive and successful in their efforts to secure Scientific Temperance Instruction in their schools, as may be seen by the following extracts from the last annual report of Mrs. Lucy Merry Noyes, Dominion Superintendent of this Department.

QUEBEC.

"During the last three years the teaching of this subject has been compulsory by order of the Board of Education in all Protestant model schools and academies throughout our Province, and has been prescribed for the elementary schools, where through the exertions of our white ribboners it has been largely taught, but in these last it has not been compulsory. Last October a recommendation to the effect that the regulation concerning the teaching of temperance physiology and hygiene in model schools and academies be extended to the elementary schools was adopted by our Board of Education. This new regulation respecting the elementary schools. will come into effect in July of the present year." "The authorized text-books for use in the Province of Quebec are those of the Barnes Series."

ONTARIO.

"Our Ontario sisters have labored long and earnestly for Scientific Temperance Instruction, and now consider the introduction of this subject into the public schools by a 'Regulation' of the Educational Department, the greatest achievement of the W. C. T. U. This regu

lation reads as follows:

"Temperance and hygiene. These subjects should at first be taught by familiar lectures.

"The nature and effects of alcohol upon the system and the importance of temperance, and a strict observance of the laws of health, as set forth in the authorized text-book, should form part of the regular instruction of the school from the second form upwards; and should be taught, either by the use of text-books, or otherwise, as thoroughly as any other subject on the programme.'

Learning that there was a class of individuals, including some school inspectors, who did not deem the teaching of this subject compulsory, the Minister of Education was written to about the matter.

The following letter is his reply:

"TORONTO, 16th of October, 1889.

In reply to your enquiry, the Minister desires me to state that the subject of temperance, including hygiene, is obligatory; as stated on pages 101 and 102 of the School Act and Regulations, whether taught orally or by means of the authorized book.

ALEXANDER MARLING, Sec'y."

NEW BRUNSWICK.

"The Board of Education of New Brunswick has recommended the teaching of Alcohol and its Effects upon the Human System in all our schools from the fourth grade upward; and has prescribed Dr. Palmer's Temperance Teachings of Science for use in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

"This is not altogether satisfactory to the white-ribboners; and each Union in the Province is now preparing a petition to present to the Provincial Parliament praying that body to make S. T. I. compulsory for all pupils in all schools; and, also, that the Pathfinder Series of temperance text-books be prescribed-oral instruction being given until the children are able to read, then the books to be placed in the hands of every pupil.

"About 160 copies of the Pathfinder Series have been placed in the hands of teachers by the Unions in different parts of New Brunswick. The universal testimony of teachers is favorable to the books."

NOVA SCOTIA.

An act to provide for the more thorough study in the public schools of the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system: Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

1. Appropriate instruction shall be given in the public schools as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, including tobacco, and special instruction as to their effects upon the human system in connection with the several divisions of the subjects of relative physiology and hygiene, all of which subjects shall be taught as regularly and thoroughly as other branches are taught in said schools. Such instruction regarding physiological and hygienic laws and the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics shall be given orally from a suitable text-book in the hands of the teacher to pupils unable to read, and such instruction shall be given to all others with text-books in the hands of the pupils, and from text-books as well graded to the capacities of the pupils as other text-books are, and such instruction shall be given as aforesaid in all public schools in the Province to all grades.

2. The text-books to be used for instruction required to be given by the preceding section of this act shall be prescribed by the Council of Public Instruction, who shall notify the secretaries of the respective Boards of Trustees and of the School Boards of the several incorporated 'towns and cities within the Province of the choice of the text-books so

selected by them as aforesaid, and said text-books used in the primary or intermediate grades shall give at least one-fourth of their space to the consideration of the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics; and the text-books used in the higher grades shall contain at least twenty pages of matter relating to this subject.

It shall be the duty of school officers and school inspectors to report to the Council of Public Instruction any failure on the part of the trustees, or the teachers of the schools under their control, to carry out the provisions of this act.

Upon its being shown to the Council of Public Instruction either by such school inspectors or school officers or any rate payer, that any teachers or trustees have failed to carry out the provisions of this act, any such failure shall be deemed sufficient cause for withholding wholly, or in part from any such teacher or trustees, Provincial and County grants.

[NOTE.]-EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.

A previous statute that required all teachers before receiving certificates to be examined for all studies they are required to teach, will require examinations in the branch specified by this act.

During the months of March and April, 1892, the International Superintendent of this department went to the Maritime Provinces of Canada at the request of the Provincial Superintendent, Mrs. R. A. B. Phillips, for a campaign for Compulsory Scientific Temperance. As one of the results the above admirable statute was enacted.

The first important steps toward the enforcement of this statute are the prescription of the right text-books by the Council of Public Instruction and the recommendations by school superintendents and school officers of an adequate course of study that will comply with requirements of the law. If these steps are rightly taken alcohol has received a deadly blow in that province, and Nova Scotia may reasonably expect a coming generation of intelligent total abstainers.

Law.

PRINCE EDWARDS ISLAND.

As passed by the House of Assembly, the bill to provide for the study of the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics upon the human system, enacts:

1. That in the Prince of Wales College and Normal School of this Province, in addition to the subjects now taught, instruction shall be given as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruction shall be given as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of relative physiology and hygiene.

2. No license shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of this Province, after the first day of July, A. D. 1893, who