Part 12 (2/2)

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A TEMPERANCE LEADER

THE STORY OF JOSEPH LIVESEY

The leader of the great teland--Joseph Livesey, of Preston--had a very bad start in life

He was quite poor; he lost both father and hth year; he was frail and delicate; his brothers and sisters all died young; so that he seemed ill fitted to randfather, who adopted him, failed in business; and Joseph Livesey co the work of a do at the loom

”As ere too poor to keep a servant,” he says, ”and having no female help except to wash the clothes and occasionally clean up, I may be said to have been the housekeeper”

But, whilst he eaving in the cellar where his grandfather and uncle also worked, he was at the sae day by day

When his pocket money of a penny a as increased to threepence, he felt hi he was the possessor of a Bible and a graet a spare moment

One can scarcely realise the difficulties that lay in the way of a studious boy in those days A newspaper cost sevenpence; there were no national schools or Sunday schools, no penny publications, no penny postage, no railways, no gas, and no free libraries, and no free education! Yet so resolute was he in his desire for education that, though he was not even allowed a candle after the elders went to bed, he would sit up till late at night reading by the glow of the eh to see the number of families that are ruined by drink at the present time; but in Livesey's early days people suffered even more from drunkenness than they do now

The weavers used to keep Monday as a day of leisure; and the public-houses were crowded froht with s to the last penny

In the church to which Joseph Livesey belonged the ringers and singers were hard drinkers, the gravedigger was a drunkard, and the parish clerk was often intoxicated!

Living amidst so much sin and misery, this frail lad determined to strive his hardest to assist others He found Sunday a day of rest and rejoicing to his,” and became a Sunday-school teacher and preacher

So far as worldly matters went he was not at all successful in early life Weaving was so badly paid that he tried several other trades, but only to e of twenty he received a legacy of a few pounds; and soon after, having saved a little ood and true wohout life