3. _In the School._--We have faith to believe that the schools
will yet constitute one wing of this great temperance army, for we
can never succeed fully without them. The voters of the present day
may place a law upon the statute book, and temperance men and women
will do their best for its enforcement, and find it a task beset with
more or less difficulty. But the boys and girls in our public schools
will be the masses of to-morrow. Let them be taught _now_ the
nature and effects of alcohol on the human system, and to-morrow they
will vote intelligently on this question, and will stand by the laws
they have made.

Many of our best women are engaged in teaching these boys and girls,
and thus have a grand opportunity for good work in the temperance
cause. If a text book on this subject be not in use, there are still
ways in which a conscientious teacher, thoroughly alive to its
importance, may convey to the minds of her pupils much of the truth
about alcohol. She may procure Dr. Richardson's Lesson Book, or Dr.
Ridge's Primer, so largely in use in the schools of England, Dr.
Steele's Physiology and Hygiene, or the book authorized by the
Educational Department of Ontario, now in course of preparation, and
from any of these prepare a lesson, occasionally, for her scholars.
Different phases of the temperance question might be put before them,
in a very simple form, as subjects for their compositions.

Recitations, with this end in view, might be had from time to time.
In the town of Pembroke, Ont., one of the public school teachers has
enrolled all the children willing to join, in a Band of Hope, with
the name "Pembroke Public School Prohibition Army." The W.C.T.U. of
that place contributed a very handsome banner to be carried by the