Last evening in Sever 11 the Rev. Louis Albert Banks addressed the Harvard Total Abstinence League on "The Progress of Temperance Reform in America." Mr. Keeler before introducing Dr. Banks stated that it is the intention of the League to hold these meetings once each month and to secure some prominent speakers to address the meetings.

It occurred to me, said Dr. Banks, that it would be of some interest for us to see just how much progress we are making in the temperance reform. Old people of ten tell us how very much worse things are now than they were many years ago. Let us look along the line and see for ourselves. Look at the attitude taken by church its whole position has changed in the last hundred years. We find that the church in the early part of this century was accustomed to pay. as a matter of course, bills to inn keepers for the lodging of the ministers who might be visiting a town, and on these bills we invariably find charged drinks of all sorts. We often find in those days that ministers frequently ran distilleries, and yet no comment was ever made. It would be, of course, useless for me to say how much advancement has been made since then.

Society now assumes that if a man is to pose as a preacher in abstinence he at least must be an abstainer himself. Sixty years ago it was the custom to drink free y at meeting of nearly every sort and it was no disgrace for a young man to be seen drunk, yet how different it is at the present time. A man is ashamed of himself if found intoxicated.

The change of attitude which the law is gradually taking against the liquor dealers is very gratifying. A brand is always but upon one who sells liquor. It is taken for granted that he is a scoundrel, and it takes two men to swear that he is not before he may secure a license.

It would not be marvelous to find some day that there is not one licensed saloon under the American flag, greater things than this have been done before. Science, medicine and all are against the liquor trade and some day the people will realize its awful workings and it will be crushed.