The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-26
CHURCHES In WASHINGTON.
Dr. Newman on Temperament Stirring Appeal
to Moderate Drinkers Among the Wealthy
Classes-The Race Course, the Gam
bler's He'll and the Drama
METROPOLITAN METHODIST CHURCH.

In compliance with the request of the General
Conference. DR.. Newman preached this morning on
the subject Of temperance, the special point on
which he invited attention being selt-denial for the
promotion OF temperance, duty and pleasure.
Tie text, taken from First Corinthians chapter vn.
verse 13--.If meat make my brother to offend,
1 win eat no flesh while the world standeth'-
suggested the line or thought, an appeal to mag
nanmty, philanthropy and selfdenlal. The
speaker proposed to consider
THE DUTY OF THE HIGHER CLASSES OF SOCIETY
in relation to the temperance cause. First he de-
sired TO make certain cOncessions-frst, that wine
and liquors have heir legitimate uses, that they
not necessarily evils not that they indispensable,
but certain places and for certain purposes they
are beneficial. Had he time he could establish the
fact that there are two kinds OF wine designated
the Bible, and thus relieve certain passages of;Scrip
ture from doubt and misapprenension. Secondly.
we are bound to cOncede that the man who drinks
Wine aud liquor moderately is not drunkard as de-
nominated denounced In the Scriptures. Scrip
tural drunkenness implies ruling passion, de-
grading slavery; and we are bound TO 'concede
further that
ALL MODERATE DRINKERS
do not become confirmed lnebrlates. The reason is
found in difference OF physical organism. An inhaa-
ton OF chloroform viii set one man asleep; similar
inhalation Will set another man wild, the difference
some men remain moderate drinkers on account Of
the pecullarv of their organism Is not to be placed
to their credit but 10 the credit OF their Creator
With these concessions made 1t may be asked
the better classes Of society to discontinue the
moderate use OF wines and liquors, would that
diminish the habit and the evils OF lntemrerance,
ana nowa First, it would be the expression
OF apprehension that confirmed inebriety
might follow; II would sound the t0csn OF alarm; 1t
would be the re-asserton Of two facts, that all
uru lkaras were once moderate drinkers ana that
all moderate drinkers may become confirmed drunk
ards 1t would tend to diminish the proIit tnat mas
arisen from the sale OF intoxicating liquors. tie
supposed it to be TACT that the larger profits accru
In 20 the business OF wines and liquors comes to the
proprietor from those which are US by the better
classes OF society; that the propretors OF spen
did saloons and hotel barrooms derived
LARGER PROFIT FROM FANCY DRINKS
than from ..whiskey straIgats." Stop this use by
the DeJter class and the trade and the manufacture
would diminish, and the supply of drunkards CONF
ing from the RANKS OF the moderate drinker would
pc @ o May aa not ting or
love OF liquor as from cupldity, and the RESPONSE
bility rests largely upon those who patronze them.
Thirdly, such q discOntinuanCe would be TO make
drinking questionable. Fashion Is only another
name Tor puDc sentiment.
FASHION Is A MASTER AND A MONSTER,
master in the e supremacy OF power, monster In
eat our style OF Dress the construction or our dwell
ings, modes travel all inspired by fashion.
II IL a truth that fashions most always come down.
They never come mp. They pass from the upper
classes OF society ana go d0wnwards TO It's bottom.
Extravaganza in the rich begets extravaganza The
poor. Many clerk has endei MS
DAYS IN THE PENIrENTIARY
from aping The customs OF those above him. What
fashionable The elements which control society
with the upper classes. Their virtues anu vices
flow through 1t. Revolutions are SIMPLY the up
rising OF the oppressed against u corrdpt ariStoc-
racy. Fourth, 1t would increase the power TO per-
suade.
The lie OF Christ Is OF more value to the world than
HIS teachings: Without His lofty, symmetrical
ience, His most erse aud beautiful lessons Would Would
be to mankind as sounding brass and
nkng cympa, There is an front objection
personal lives. Personal liberty is q grand right,
and that it Is fact is one OF the blessings OF the
age. IL Is right that man should be jealous OF IL.
But even personal liberty Is bounded. A man can
grow only SO high. He can only eat or sleep within
bounds and especially limitation growing out of
the duty of philanthropy and self-denal. There are
tan man and every man may enjoy but the true
prefers TO sacrifice or 70 deny himself that
which, though innocent In ITSELF may be abused by
and become criminal passion IN others. You and
HAVE FAST HORSE,
made for neetness made by the Almighty, and the
Almighty only can make last horse. We are on
the road, ana try their speed whatever II may be
two.ifty or neutrality-suspicious. is nothing wrong IN
that sc. Those horses were made by the Creator
for neetness, and what is more delightful than to
ride behind that noble creatures But young men
US On an se aon 70 % a 70 be e
dred dollars on the result They transfer their
habits from the road to the race course and we see
before them
GAMBLERS END AND GAMBLERS HE'LL.
Would not magnanimity rather rein up Its fiery
steeds2 The same thing Is true in regard to games
or chance. Doubtless YOU and could behold some
grand creations oil the Bard OF Avon, and there
would belno sin In 1t, per sc; for
GOD MADE SHAKESPEARE
and gave him ms marvellous genius, ana may not
the day come when men may behold those things
without deeterious innuencesP But take the ass0-
cations OF
the associations Of those connected with IT, and the
influence uDonsociety and the good man IorRoes the
that may be traced to the drama and the stage. Ii
Is higher pleasure TO know that by self-Ienial
we nave saved osmers rom SIN anu deaah IMAM
ourselves. Perhaps the highest question man can
put to himself Is. How snail suffer aud thereby
save othersY And he only has reached the true
humanity who can answer that question by deeds Of
philanthropy and self-sacrince. Dr.. Newman then
presented some motives to induce this sell-denial.
First, the fact that nothing great and good Is ac-
compshed In any department OF life without the
practice OF se-denia, which was well illustrated by
Is the only safety of some,
THE SURE SAFETY OF ALI.
Every OF crime has its starting point In some
small offence. Where IS woe, where IS sorrow,
where are wounds without cause? Where Is redness
OF cyesY
Re induced to this selfdeniall by the happiness
infer the happiness by contemplating the misery.
Satisiclans tell US that IN the United States there
thousand places licensed to sell Intoxicating liquors.
employing three hundred and ninety thousand
persons. Add to this number those engaged IN the
manufacture and wholesale traffic and the total
number Will reach five hundred and seventy
thousand persons Yet the whole number Of clergy
men and teachers In the United States IL only
hundred and fifty thousand, or only about one
fourth as many. Il Is estimated that
THE TOTAL COST or INTOXICATING LIQUORS
each 4 year In our country Is seven hundred mil
lions TO which must be added forty million dollars
for cri na.s while the entire clergy or the United
m
perance sends to prison every year one hundred
thousand persons, reduces two hundred thousand
children 10 worse than orphanage adds six hundred
thousand to the long list Of drunkards, and sends
sixty thousand citizens 10 premature graves.
IN NEW YORK
within the last ten years, out OF a hundred and
thirty three thousand persons arrested for ntoxica
ton, sixty-six thousand we're women. This Is but
mere outline OF the picture OF misery which In 1t 8
ful la a God only rive. Nut race can he