The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-07
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History sSths Uniea Reform Assesiatied,p
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Al the U. r. A. is the fruit Of more thsh
twenty years of cousultation, correspon-
dence, experience, observation, reading,
prayers, s.sdg and work IN Anssica, Europe
Aria, Afsiiea and the Isishdsiof Ne SsAs, its
history naturally presents many items from the
personal experience o.. IL fSasder ma Gets
sral Secretary, Rev. VIM. White Williams.
This Editor and 0snsssl essssts nf the
Union Reform Association frst took the Tenn.
perance pledge At his mothers knee when
about four year, Of age.
WhA shostssvsn yeses Of age Astsnewed
the pledge BY raising his right hand with
many other scholars in the First Presbyterian
ssssss,;ss<,s..E 80. Il ~. 60 as
He thus joined the "COLD WATER AR
MY" which numbered over one million and
half of Sabbath School scholars in its gio-
rious host. With eight regiments Of this
Cold Water Army from the eight Evangelical
0sbAatk Schools &hss y Jacksonville, Illi-
nois, he marched in triumphant psocession
to celebrate our Nations natal day in ls4S
and 1e49. 2sessS9& ka<f&
Rev. ALBERT BARNES, the creates. and
best Of commentators on the Bible, did not
then say, as he did say at another time, that
"The Fourth Of Jnly is \ Satarsalia uorse
tAsn he 1SeSn a tSiltAada u places
thvushont oaf iAAls' 4 tftss lissa Asfl
drunkenness which marred the greatest gala
DAY IN any Nations calendar led Ar. Barnes
to ~ ihAs. 1Esey CAa~eA Of Casist, tks
world oper, ought to be in deed andiatsxsA an
orsaaisa,ies Of Sts aTempefoAss asdsr tle
A<adship o,S pstrersQe Of JESUS CHsrsr,
the friend and tie model Of MORAL purity.
TA<pnlpt1 mud peak .os.t asd tssessn m,sst
speak, and yos }ellow Christians avs ssm
moned By the God Of purify to taksy or. stand
and cause yoat fn,iasss>to b Jek"
In the year ls4s, the General Secretary Of
the U. R. A., then eleven years Of sge, drove
horse and bogu ninety niles ffon jack
sonyille, Illinois, to Keoknk, Iowa, and Get.
tied with his parents in the white frame cots
tage, corner of Third and High streets, in
block 50, in the new city Of keokuk. He
mentions this fact because this cottage and
the best halt Of Octagon Square, of which this
is q part, are now offered to Board Of Trus
tees, who are Life Directors Of the Union
Reform Association and owners of valuable
- oL.L - l.,
prudent parents in keokuk-who now spend
over $4,000 every year in sending many of
their daughters 70 Eastern Schools-will raise
$4,000 for the exclusive purpose of erecting
. suitable school building for FIRST class Fee
male Seminary, which will save their $685.
600 year, and to which the widows, sisters
and children Of Union Soldiers and Sailors
and Christian Ministers and Mission
aries shail be admitted By paying half Of the
price charged other classes of pupils.
1t always pays best to do right, and Ger.
tainly in this case We shall be richly rewarded
in time and eternity If We once for al raise
the means to build FIRE proof building. in
which our dear daughters can be educated so
that they will become polished stones pol.
ished after the simihtude of palace
On February I'd, 1851, the General Secre-
tary, united with the First or New School
Presbyterian Church of keokuk, OF which his
father, Rev. VIM. II. Williams, was then
Pastor. One condition Of membership in
that Church was that every member should
take and keep the Temperance pledge. Every
Church must determine. its own discipline,
and we do not, therefore, dream of debating
TO Church officers, but we do testify that this
condition Of membership has always worked
we'll in the First Presbyterian Church OF Keo.
kuk and in every other Church that has main.
tanned it. One fact ssrikingly illustrates the
truth of our statement: An lrshman from
the North Of Ireland wished to unite with this
Church, but hssitated because he believed IN
she occasional and moderate use of
Intoxicating liquors.. he pleaded that the
Bible nowhere formally established the Tenn
perance pledge a. test Of Church member
ship, and he hssoaeht the Session or officers
of the Church mot 10 exclude him from the
table OF His Lord. The Pastor replied that
Christ loved sinners 90 much that he left His
throne and crown Of glory in Heaven and
willingly, yea. gladly came down to this
earthly footstool to suffer hunger, thirst, pov.
erty, persecution, MISREPRESENTATION, and be
finally betrayed to an ignominious death by
his own chosen disciple after being denied BY
another Of the chosen twelve whom He had
solemnly forewarnsd, and, therefore, FORE
armed, against temptation only few brief
hours before. If Christ could endure oil this
and the cruel agony OF the sccursed cross,
and could die praying for His murderers,
surely any lover Of Christ can BY Gods grace
obey the Divine command, "Destroy him NOT
rith thy meat for rhom Christ died
Surely if the early Christians we're not to
eat certain perfectly healthy articles Of food
because the tender consciences Of some weak
brethren might Be offended, We sssst NOT drink
rAa Rer. Robert Hal called CLOUD
DEATH AND DISTILLED DAMNATION."
The Pauline platform, "K meat make my
brother to offend, will eat no meat while
the world standeth," was pressed home on
this Christian, but still whisky loving Irish
man, until be clearly saw his duty, and took
and kept the Temperance pledge and then
united with Christ's Church, and has adorned
his profession for over fifteen years Many
Of his countymen, Is we'll - ours, who
joined the Church without becoming Temper.
ance men, that 10 strict teetotallers, have
been utterly ruined for time and eternity, BY
afing liquors moderately until craving
was created and confirmed, which finally and
often speedily eo,spmed it, victims.
In the grest s.ttie for the Maine Law,
IOWA took the ,r'i in 1851 by boldly pro-
claiming intoxicsflsz liquors NUISANCE
Wherever they W. sept for ale - : bever>
age, and authorizirs the local civil authori-
ties TO aba,e thu saisance BY destroying the
liquors.
MAINE followed with Gen. NEAL
DOW'S world renowned Prohibitory Law
AwhjsA our moet Casters Stsss znSSly. ex-
snpaiAse hss mouo DIRl0O, i DIRuO1