Leader. “They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.” Isa. 24:9. Girls. “For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.” Prov. 23:21. Boys. “Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” I Cor. 6:10. Leader. “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babblings? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?” Prov. 23:29. Girls. “They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.” Prov. 23:30. Boys. “At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.” Prov. 23:32. Leader. “But now I have written unto you, not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard; with such a one, no, not to eat.” I Cor. 5:11. Girls. “Restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” Gal. 6:1. Boys. “Young men likewise, exhort to be sober minded.” Titus 2:6. Leader. “And every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things.” I Cor. 9:25. Girls. “Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.” I Thes. 5:6. Boys. “For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.” I Thes. 5:7. Leader. “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor. 10:31. Prayer. Singing. POSITION SUSTAINED BY A. M. A. Leader. What has been the attitude of the American Missionary Association since its organization in 1846 on the temperance question? Girls. It has always taken a decided stand against the use and the sale of intoxicating drink. Boys. Its missionaries have been instructed to advocate the cause of temperance, and to organize societies to promote total abstinence from the use of alcoholic drink. Leader. Does the Association assist missionaries, or students, who refuse to abstain from the use of ardent spirits? Girls. It is the rule of the Society in its work among the Indians, the Chinese in America, and the Negroes at the South, to employ only those who have good habits and settled convictions on all moral subjects, including that of temperance. Boys. In its collegiate and normal schools, where there are large numbers of boarding students, all are required to observe habits of total abstinence. TEMPERANCE WORK AMONG INDIANS. Leader. Have the Indians been subject to peculiar temptations to intemperance? Girls. Yes. On many of the reservations, our agents complain that whiskey is a great curse. At the Leech Lake Agency, six Indians were killed in drunken quarrels among themselves in six months. Boys. Rev. Myron Eells, of Washington Territory, says he convicted quite a number of persons for selling liquor to the Indians, which aroused the fierce opposition of the whiskey ring, which had done its utmost to prevent his success.