TEMPERANCE Orders

The first seems to have been founded in 1517 A.D., under the title of the Order of St Christopher, in Germany; and at the end of the same century the Landgrave of He e formed an Order of Temperance. Both these orders were literally ' Temperance,’ and not merely an impertinent appropriation of an honourable title by ‘Total- Abstainers.’ Their idea of ‘Temperance’ was—-the Order of St Christopher were pledged not to drink ‘toasts,’ and the others were pledged not to drink more than seven gla es of liquor at a time, and not to drink seven at a time more than twice a day. The modern T. movement originated in U.S.A. by the formation of the New Jersey ' Sober Society ’ in 1805. The first society definitely founded to promote temperance was also in U.S.A. about 1826. The first temperance hall founded in England was the Bradford one in 1837, where the first temperance society had been started seven years earlier. The year 1830 may be called the starting-point of the movement in England.