ALL efforts at eradicating evil must, to be successful, begin as near the beginning as possible.

It is easier to destroy a weed when but an inch above the ground than after it has attained a rank growth and set its hundred rootlets in the soil.

Better if the evil seed were not sown at all; better if the ground received only good seed into its fertile bosom.

How much richer and sweeter the harvest! Bars and drinking-saloons are, in reality, not so much the causes as the effects of intemperance.

The chief causes lie back of these, and are to be found in our homes.