Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-03-30
TEMPERANCE PRAYER MEETING.


in the beautiful room of the Young
Mems Christian Association, under the
leadership of Rev. Mr.. Boswell Of Full
ton st. NJ. e. Church. The meeting
was particularly interesting, the adj
dresses and celebrations being to the
point, and the appeals for Gods aid
manifesting a fervent desire for the
Divine assistance in this work.
After hymn, and the invocation by
the leader, Mr.. Boswell made an earn
est address in which he portrayed some
of the evils of intemperance in glaring
colors.
Gan evil to be removed must be felt
and feeling the evil brings desire for
its removal The more the evil is felt,
the stronger becomes the desire for its
removal" Intemperance is not only
the greatest foe to domestic bliss, but
it is the greatest enemy the church of
God has to meet, and yet it the
church, is guilty of harboring, if not
drunkards, yet those who encourage
drunkenness, and those who are en-
gagged in the business of drunkard max
ing.
He spoke of the universally of the
evil the wealth it had to back it; the
political influence it had to advance it !;
of the social drinking customs to sup
port 1t F'social customs are great I'M
written law universally obeyed and re-
spected." He spoke of the weapons to
be used against this great evil. While
wit and ridicule might be successfully
used against the follies and foibles and
some of the vices of the human family
they had thus far proved incapable of
copying with this greatest of all follies,
most vicious of all vices, this sin of
sins and wrong of wrongs. We must
look elsewhere for weapon by which
it may be overcome, the word OF
God. Let every man of God-every
christian minister arouse himself to the
task and use all the powers that God
has given him to stay the tide of in
temperance. The power of prayer
must be used against it if we hope to
succeed in staying it, the power OF
prayer is illimitable and can. be WELD
ed successfully by even the most hum
BILE of Gods creatures.
The speaker could tell. by looking
over his congregation, who gave the
most money to the church, who attend
ed most to the temporal interests of the
church, but he could not tell who
welded the spiritual power that
brought the reviving and strengthen
ing visitation of Gods Holy Spirit up
on the people.
Often revival was begun by some
poor widow who lonely and friendless
cried to God continually, ooh, Father,
revive this work in my heart -
We must be earnest and constant in
prayer for the purpose that has drawn
us together, and God will hear us.
Rev. Hollis Reed then made brief
address. The Temperance army is
this day ordered forward by the Great
Captain. We must all be watchful, and
not weary of the duties we are called
upon to perform, but keep our banners
flying, and press onward and upward to
victory" Word hard; get new recruits;
let every member of the army get only
one, and what a large accession would
that be to the ranks The great enemy
we have to contend with is sin. Intem-
perance is only one of its forms, neither
more or less the advance is upon the
enemy's camp, not only upon one of the
outposts, though it may be necessary to
capture the outposts first.
Temperance is the first step in the
Christians life the mistake of many is
that they make it the last one. No safe
ty for any of us except in Jesus-feel-
ing we are all sinners, under condemna-
ton, let us go to Him who alone can
save us, and instead of stopping after
acquiring the grace of Temperance, let
us go on, making this the stepping
stone, and rise higher and higher, until
we are free men in Christ Jesus.
Prayers were then made by Messrs.
Walton, Hunt and Reed, and the meet
ing was dismissed with benediction
God has blessed these meetings by an
advance of the interests of the Temper