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summer he signified his acceptance of the position. Graham is described as a man of great executive ability, of a catholic spirit, and himself a total abstainer, and his enlistment gives an assurance of success to the society.

SECRET OATH-BOUND TEMPERANCE ORDERS.

The Thirty-eighth Annual Session of the National Division of the SONS OF TEMPERANCE was held in Boston July 10, 1882. The report of the scribe shows that the net gain in membership the past year was 2,017, the largest gains being 614 in Illinois, 443 in Nova Scotia, 283 in Massachusetts, 281 in New Hampshire, and 272 in South Carolina. The largest losses were 414 in Minnesota, 346 in Wisconsin, 195 in Kansas, and 183 in Quebec. Since the beginning of the year 1882 supplemental returns show gains of 4,939 members and 107 divisions, and the only losses reported were in Wisconsin, 72 members. The largest recent gains are in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia, and the largest of all in Michigan. The total number of divisions in operation is 1,149; number of members admitted, 21,688; reinstated, 1,209; withdrawn, 5,003; suspended, 6,814; expelled for violation of the pledge, 1,229; expelled for other causes, 3,117; deaths, 313; present membership, 49,732; number violated the pledge, 2,697; lady visitors admitted, 379; total lady visitors, 1,655; total receipts by subordinate divisions, $81,777 84; benefits paid, $11,294 38; cash on hand and invested, $125,748 49; per capita tax to grand divisions, $13,912 77; to national division, $2,550 80; representatives in grand divisions, 7,425; in national division, 649; public meetings held, 1,856; tracts distributed, 65,230.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS.

The Thirty-seventh Annual Session of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars was held in Topeka, Kansas, with 93 representatives and members, and 43 visitors from 38 grand lodges. The session lasted five days, and was pleasant and harmonious. The report showed 124,368 new members

initiated, 7,137 admitted by card, 9,944 restored, 11,928 retired on card, 18,496 withdrawn, 70,921 suspended, 12,281 expelled. 40,693 lost in surrendered lodges, 1,178 deaths. The total number of members in good standing was 310,115 in 6,512 lodges. Receipts of the year, $11,923 98; expenses, $11,054 38. A large amount of business was transacted for the good of the order at large.

TEMPLARS OF HONOR AND TEMPERANCE.

The Thirty-fifth Annual Session of the Supreme Council Templars of Honor and Temperance was held in Indianapolis, with 45 representatives from 13 grand temples. The session was one of harmony and much interest, although not much business was transacted; 3,416 new members had been admitted; total membership, 13,417. Total receipts in subordinate temples, $48,525 57; amount on hand and invested in subordinate temples, $59,424 51; total receipts, $2,175 26; expenses, $2,178 35. The following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That as there is no law of our order prohibiting the free discussion of prohibition, such discussion is admissible as one of the phases of temperance work.

The Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America held its Twelfth Annual Convention at St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2 and 3, 1882.

This Union has 22 subordinate unions and 24 detached societies, with about 35,000 members. Philip A. Nolan, 2110 Tower Street, Philadelphia, is the secretary. The Right Rev. John Ireland, Bishop of Minnesota, delivered before the Convention an address of great excellence and power, recommending, with cogent arguments, total abstinence as the only remedy for intemperance. He estimated that, "counting all Catholic total abstinence secieties in America, whether connected with our Union or not, we have 100,000 total abstainers." Bishop Ireland's personal influence over the Irish at St. Paul's has been

very salutary, so that, according to the St. Paul's "Pioneer Press," "it is very rare now to find an Irish saloon keeper in St. Paul's."

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY AND PUBLICATION HOUSE. President, Rev. Mark Hopkins, D.D., LL.D. Treasurer, William D. Porter. Corresponding Secretary and Publishing Agent, J. N. Stearns. District Secretaries: A. M. Powell; Rev. D. C. Babcock.

Board of Managers: T. L. Cuyler, D.D.; J. B. Dunn, D.D.; Hon. John O'Donnell, Rev. Alfred Taylor, Rev. Albert G. Lawson, D.D.; B. J. Warner; A. D. Vail, D.D.; A. A. Robbins, Rev. W. C. Steele, W. W. Newell, D.D.; D. C. Eddy, D.D.; Peter Carter, J. N. Stearns, James Black, C. R. Blackall, J. P. Newman, D.D.; J. O. Peck, D.D.; C. L. Wells, D.D.; W. T. Sabine, D.D.; J. R. Sypher, S. L. Parsons, J. Finley Smith, Joshua L. Baily, Norman W. Dodge, A. S. Barnes, R. R. Sinclair, T. A. Brouwer, F. A. Palmer, Rev. Halsey Moore, James Talcott, Clinton B. Fisk.

"This Society and Publication House was organized in 1866 for the special work of creating and circulating a sound temperance literature, and is located at 58 Reade Street, New York city. It is composed of annual and life members, life directors, and life patrons, and is represented by a board of thirty managers selected from the various religious denominations and temperance organizations in the country; and has stereotyped and published over one thousand varieties of books, tracts, and pamphlets upon every phase of the question-textbooks containing lectures, essays, arguments, history, and statistics upon the moral, physical, religious, scientific, political, and financial aspects of the question; discussing the nature and effects of alcohol, as well as its place and power; presenting the different phases of the wine question, giving the Bible view and argument, together with quotations from the first authorities in the world; the results of the liquor traffic; the political duties of the hour; essays on beer and light wines; books for Sunday-school libraries; stories, papers, tracts, and picture books for children; books, pledges, badges, etc., for juvenile societies; temperance song books, catechisms, hymn