Boys. They now have the privilege of working for wages, and most of the grocery stores as well as the saloons keep liquor, and are glad to get the Negro’s money for it. Leader. Are there not laws in the different Southern States, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to minors and to drunken persons? Girls. There are in quite a number of those States, but these laws are not often enforced. Boys. In some States they have local option laws in which the counties can vote prohibition, and when temperance measures are carried it is largely the result of Negro votes. Leader. Has the American Missionary Association found an open door for temperance work in its missions South? Girls. It has. Some years the pupils in attendance have numbered 40,000, among whom were persons of all ages. Boys. Not unfrequently the enthusiasm for establishing temperance societies has been very great. Middle-aged and gray-haired men and women have eagerly sought to enter the Bands of Hope established by the children, and when admitted have been lifted up from their vices and advanced in sobriety and usefulness. Leader. Can you give some statements relating to the work in particular missions? [Illustration] Girls. At Talladega, Ala., they have a Union Temperance Society, which holds monthly meetings full of interest. All the Sunday-school and all the College students are members. They keep the work lively among all their mission schools. Boys. At Marion, Ala., there is a regular temperance catechising in the day-school against rum and tobacco, also in three mission Sunday-schools. For several weeks before Christmas, mass meetings are held in different churches, at which addresses are made on the subject. Leader. Are the churches of the Association committed to the cause of temperance? Girls. They are. Many of the churches have distinctive rules, requiring abstinence from the use as a beverage of intoxicating drinks, and forbidding the selling of such. Boys. The churches and conferences of the Association are practically temperance societies. They hold temperance as an article of their faith and undertake to exercise discipline on that principle. Leader. Are they peculiar in their treatment of the subject of temperance? Girls. They differ from many churches South in this particular. A pastor in Savannah writes: “No one can tell the importance of these Congregational organizations here except those on the ground. Our church has taken an open bold stand against liquor drinking and liquor traffic. Our little temperance society has become a power in the city and surrounding country. It has provoked others to good works. Two other societies have been organized in the city and one at Belmont.” Boys. At Childersburg, Ala., Rev. A. Jones had his church burned after giving a temperance lecture, but instead of surrendering, his people have rallied and they are building better than before.