New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-12
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drunkard shall inherit the Kingdom of God THIS great
question unoovers hell but 1t is physical question: tenn
But aside from physical arguments they bringing
up moral arguments, from moral sources Alas, that
pck ont those that give an for the qualification
Of lust Men will through Gods WORK with search
warrant, looking for texts that they can use.
/ am fresh tonight from having been permittedto
unite one Of the most beautiful OF your maidens TO one
that house was opened tonight there was not sign Of
any intoxicating drink whatever There were dap hiS
and n and M ae as ssss 81 N e oa that
yonng couple gone of port to-day with the pay
TnS Mag Of fSs mani ha Before him. win
get into the Penitentiary nor the yT know
the woes OF the drnkards WIFE, and that nous in IT,
never have any broken hearts nor desoIa'e no'' ''
But to come back They say that our Lore made
alcoholic dT niS tSeT Did our there
for the first time in nature, make nat newer In al
strong drink leave the burden OF Rro9fn Upon
those make such asseTy9Gn; nfo Wine changed
the Lord when me pot into that which hteh lke ser
pont Friends will Ge yO nse ,HJ il real intoxicating
drink just such as you can gtS s0 ANY ias nt
SnaDe table, care or in y %my call ii it Wine or Newark
cider or Bourbon anything else You say our bc Ta
l20 gallons for one w @SV DO Yes we'll christ
went one day the week and worshipped IN he Jews
Vent Tor wise purpose and blasted fruit tree. Does
that Justify you III doing tho same Shllst "oII ,
want 10 do that too You say no. II Christ hyed mere
now he would MT do these things.
An emn. mt clergyman has SAID that Cnikt nVeu III
New York to-day, where you have a million OF men
poisoned by these intoxicating drinks he would not 60
example and apply it nowi say tits disingeuous, it.
outrage to stand and say that our Lord, IN ts el
eating liquor, and yet quote his action as warrant lor
using o To Of sin and sorrow in
the land is the decaner and the dran-sHop ana Imo
pXil
why do not hear word Sr,,u Of PRAYER f9m lTr
tine Tor 6s GsE Of or Total U aosSnce the spread Of this
kind of reform. There have been men who fought Tor
ii before the American people Albeit Barnes lived and
died its chambion and when the alc0hOnc takers cam
show man who has lived as long and worked as wen
on wine as be on water; editor that works az long
and well wine as Horace Greeley works ON wafer;
or a preacher who will preach long and as well on
wine as Henry Ward Beecher on water; man who Will
speak as long and well wine as John b. Cough on
water or a man who will make his light shine as far on
VINE a. William Z. Dodge water, will 20 down TO
The Nation Office and acknowledge that am an I'M
The Rev. Dr. Herrck johnson was then introduced,
and said;
SPEECH OF DIR. HERRICK JOHNSON.
The temperance cause Is not success, though it has
had successes The trouble is not with the cause there
is no cause on behalf of which 80 much can be said In
the way OF fact statistics, and arguments which ap-
peal to the mind to the conscience and 10 the heart Of
the community. leaned at time in favor Of
alcoholic drinks but to-day it is against them and in
of God, as we have heard tonight, in the
increasing light Of better exegesis, Is coming
the cause SUGGEST want 10 say to say two things
First: That the facts in connection with il must he
brought before every man, wonan and child IN TINS
community and they must be made to feel that they
have duty to perform in view OF these facts. sixteen
million dollars, incredible though 1t seems, was spent
annually in Philadelphia i'll Intoxicating drinks There
OF %efG in drinks There have been as
as 81 murders there IN year los' NOT All OF thtn
traceahle to liquor. We have 5000 licensed grogshOps
and 1000 unlicensed These 1000 allowing 20 feet
front for each one, would make line OF solid gTOgshOp
Der New-YOrk. 1t has been said that 100000 lives
annually sacrificed 10 alcohol But suppose 1t were but
sOOC9 You remember the ilghtlul railroad accident On
the Hudson River road lately when about 70 lives were
lost What Until OF horror ran through tne foni iS
when they heard OF II the next day one such accident
a month would make $50 IN n year If one happened
on the road If he could help IT. II such an accident nan
pened every day 1t would make 1909 llySs year Ana
utterly destroyed and more cars be al,
lowed 10 run on that line: Aud yet 1t would
sacrifice of life 10y alcohol These facts show that It is
the duty OF every man to abstain. ne owes II 10 ms
Christianity could never have pushed It's way around the
tated it must not content itself with letting evil
He who fellOwheng in danger and does nothing
to assist is guilty of the next thing to murder ZAP
pause We must put forth hand 10 save our perish
Ing brother. II is our duty not only TO abstain from
strong drinks, but to fight against their use by others
would say finally and the tendency Of all my speech
this Men and women if you believe in Temperance,
you believe in total abstinence there Is something Ior
you do there something for Inc to do there Is some
thing for every Christian minister and every Christian
and woman to do. What right have as Christian
minister TO stand place and carp at the advocates
of this because, forsocth, they do not conduct
Just according 70 my own CONVICTIONS, ana so set
all the "runnes" in the city to crying ont, Hulrah
for DR.. and SO is side3 ought 10 be so out
spoken, Free so frank and so hearty III regard 70 tins
matter, that no one shall mistake my position Let ns
all Christian ministers be flaming apostles Of Tenn
perance like good Dr. Cnyler and not only stand under
the flag hut fight under il, and carry into the thick OF
the battle everywhere until the cause is made success.
THE REV. MR.. TALMAGE's SPEECH.
think is time for temperate people, said he, TO go
home do not wish to talk to you at this lace hour.
am like the minister who said to his audience, who were
about departing: have been travelling preacher for
25 years. aud I like the work Of the travel
ing preacher very much, but do not like
talk 80 a travelling audience j think that TINS
Everything has combined TO make good time. Here
we are this PLATFORM where 20 many OF our good
brethren have addressed from time 10 time, not one
Of them blowing trumpet with uncertain sound. And
here We are the center Of NewloIk, which, with all
no city in the world that equals in the works of charity
it supports, the churches Il builds, and
the philanthrOpic institutions II patrOnlZes. L
cannot understand why all rOmance-wrters, when
they begin TO talk about good time always gather
not have good time without they got drunk. l don't
believe there is one here upon this platform who has
a merry time we mad. If it not for the sOlen
nifty Of the occasion we should al 20 of III grand teto-
tai gallOp Presbyterian breakdown. Cold water Is
good for the constitution 1t puts no gou into me toes
dimness into the eyes trembling into the limbs.
post, turns respectable gentlemen into gutter IN
epecOrs II never turns domestic arrangements upside
that Of his children took after him but his eldest
daughter, and she took after hm with the broom stick
think that cold water is not only good for the body but
il keeps are tonight iii good heart, in peace
with all the world, and iii the words of the only Outand
&" witlr1naiice toward none charity toward all"
For those fellows who victims OF strong drink
have heartfelt sympathy, and TO them would
tend helping hand. For those who sell rum have
deep sympathy that they should bring upon themselves
The sQOru Of OF