New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-04
ACTIVE MEASURES AT HOME.

CONFERENCE or THE SONS or TEMPERANCE.
A conference of delegates from the Divisions
Order anna nf Temnerance was """ - -" o.
mel Chapel the Bowery last evening to consider what
steps they should take TO advance the temperance cause
Fourteen or fifteen Divisions represented by nearly
two score delegates. Grand Worthy Patriarch Samuel
L. Parsons presided and began the meeting with an sd-
dress illustrating the new power OF the temperance
the aspects 1t has taken and urging the
Soma OF Temper join hands for effort both outsde
and Inside tue order TO help on the temperance work
He advised that each Division should take immediate
action 10 secure full attendance at its meetings. and
should hold frequent public meetings az many now DO
II eminent speakers not TO be procured tho mem
her. Of the Order by appeals can often do great good
He also advised that the Divisions should provide them
selves with temperance literature and scatter H.
A letter from the Rev. W. G. Steele which was read.
,,ested that public meetings should DO held every
where Throughout the jurisdiction OF the Order ana
that tracts aud pledges should be widely crcuated ne
also that each Division should procure books
and newspapers that the literary element might DO
attractive to those gained 10 temperance
considerable number OF the delegates made remarks
all showing a lively zeal for temperance work and
freshly inf imed Interest All favored general agitation
nv meetings to influence public sentiment W. T. Par
sons p. o. w. p spoke OF bis recent work on Long
Island where he has organized two DIVISION, OF the
Sons Of Temperance within few days, one OF 81 mem
her, at Centre Morches, and ono OF Al members at
ManOrvile. He nad 1Ounu churoh nuon
reader to take active part Ia the movement thah
aver before He thought IL best first TO hold church
meetings Throughout the city to secure the
co6psration OF the ministers and church mem
bers and then 10 hold large mass meetings
| Al Cooper Union elsewhere Levi Dedrick dld
not favor demonstration OF the Order az
first as a great central gathering OF those already
nlsded temperance would not oheny reaon the CLASS
who sboud reached First the ministers should be
Gained he said then the churches, and through them
IN, nbc be worked upon AT every church in the city
a temperance experimenting should be established
witch would center OF influence and or the cfcuia
ton OF the pledge Public sentiment must De controlien
nv gradual cultivation. The methods used In the VII
! ready failed Chicago where the rumsellers have
ORGANIZED mock meetings 10 bring them INTO con
| temnt III the ladies take in hand the WORK IN new
York them besege the churches before they ATTACK
the shops, and the alter csn aief""tu Vo "o'o o
| fectually assaulted.
| INTEREST IN OTHER QUARTERS.
| The morning prayer-meeting In the seventeenth-st
Church was we'll attended. and many personal expert
snr., were reced. At the Temperance Rooms In Reado
ar there WAS less stir than Monday. meeting OF
all the ministers OF the city about to be called 10 con
| siaer what steps ought be taken by the united
crchea The Of either the parlOrs or the hall OF
tbe Yonng Mems Christian has been granted
for this purpose and probable that this rally OF the
MINISTER'S viii as Iosry Monday night This even
nC the third anniversary OF the East River Bethel lem
| ner,noe Society will DO held at No. "a Plke-st. The
bOys OF Society entirely IN behalf OF the sea
men Al he meeting this evening Mr.. Meade reformed
sailor and Law and representatives of the Neptune
and Standard Divisions OF che Sons OF TEMPERANCE and
the Women's Temperance Movement will be discussed
| A meeting will be held tomorrow night, al OliVet
CbapeI In Second-st., near Secondaye., under the
auspices o. City Mission IL Is expected that ad-
dresses will be delivered by the Rev DR. John Hail. the
! Hon, WIN T. Dodge, and the Rev. George j. Mingns