Band of Hope, the name given about 1847 to societies of young people, pledged to abstain from all intoxicating liquors. Now nearly every town and village of the United Kingdom contributes its quota of adherents, and since 1889 qualified lecturers give lectures in thousands of day-schools. The United Kingdom Band of Hope Union (1855) had affiliated with it by 1894 over 20,900 societies of juvenile abstainers, having more than two millions and a half of members. See TEMPERANCE.
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