The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-10
The Temperance Movement.
CLIPPINGS FROM EASTERN PAPERS.


the clergymen of Worcester, desire
unitedly to put or record our deep sense
ofthe appalling evil ofintemperanee and
our full conviction of the pressing need
at this time to bring to bear the entire
Christian and social sentiment Of our
city against it.
At meeting of the elergymen of
Providence, the general expression was
that they were not called upon to in
dorse any particular means, but that
they recognized In the movement call
from God for renewed activity on the
part of all Christian men and women.
1t was voted that the churches be re-
quested to send the pastor and two dele
gates to a general conference, and a
committee was appointed to propose
some plan of work.-C Christian Era.
Success is also reported from many
towns in Indiana, though great oppo-
sition is manifested at Jacksonville,
and the police have with difficulty pre-
vented riot. In Tennessee the move
ment began at Greenville, and only two
groggeries hold out. 1t is spreading,
and thousands have signed the pledge
Examiner and Chronicle.
In Elizabeth, y. J., the saloons have
been closed on the Sabbath. Several
large temperance meetings have been
held.
In Brooklyn and several other places
on Long Island thare is deep and
growing interest in the cause. Tenn
perance meetings are held almost
nightly at different places, and a daily
temperance prayer-meeting is held in
the Hanson Place Methodist church. A
few saloons have been visited. A mass
meeting of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence Societies was recently held in the
Academy of Music. Then speakers advo-
Gated united effort under the protection
of God and the Church, and predicted
success for the present movement.
The ladies gained an important legal
victory at Morrow, where the proprietor
of saloon had obtained an injunction to
prevent the ladies from singing and pray
ing in front of his saloon. The injunc-
ton was dissolved at the cost of the plain
tiff. Three propositions have been in
troduced into the Constitutional Con-
vention, with the intention of allowing
them to be voted on separately. The
first forbids the manufacture or sale OF
liquors in the State; the second forbids
it in quantities of less than one gallon,
the sale to be regulated by license; the
third provides for a license law to sell
in any quantity.-Ibid.
A private letter to the editor of the
Baptist Weekly, from Philadelphia, con
tains the following:
must tell you about our "crusade'
meeting at the 10th Baptist church, yes
terday afternoon; or rather a temper
ance prayer meeting, under the auspices
of these wOmen-only women being ad
mitted. 1t was a powerful meeting
simply praying for Gods Spirit to de
scend upon them to teach them the bes
plans. Then requests were made by thosl
/ present and those absent for individuals
who were drunkards. Just cried my
/ self sick over the heart-rending appeals
and then such wonderful prayers would
/ follow, such complete dependence upoT
God, and such pleadings for the descent
/ of the Holy Spirit, 1 scarce ever hearC
exceeded. One lady of refinement arose
and said she had never spoken in any
meeting in her life, but she was com
/ PEELED 10 speak; she said that one she
loved better than life had fallen a victim
of drink, and was now in his grave, q
man of high attachments and of a lovely
disposition, and she wanted to be told
what she could do to save others; she
was ready to work. Another poor pale
hOludu IOSt anu OtRBCu prayer
for her "dear husband, who was a hard
drinker;n she said no one knew all the
sorrows of her heart, and as she talked
the tears streamed down her face. Oh!
how l wish / could see you and talk all
about my feelings on this subject. God
surely will hear such prayers, and will
give light to these dear fdnGticdL women.
1t wouldn't have been my chosen way to
visit saloons and hold prayer meetings,
but | dare not oppose it, for l learned
yesterday, from letter received from
Ohio, that little band of women prayed
for two weeks before starting out, and
how do / know but it may be Gods
plan; certain am / that the public would
not have been so agitated and aroused to
the subject had any other plan been
adopted, and have not all mighty re-
forms had their origin in fanatieism
Why look at one weeks work here
seventeen dram-shops closed in less than
week And then the men are so
aroused. pve Just been told by a gentle
man that his lodge temperance which
has only numbered thirty or forty at the
most i'm attendance, last meeting had one
hundred and seventy! So much for the
"Woman's Crusade.n
The women of Worcester, Mass, in
stead of uniting in bar-room prayer
meetings have determined to circulate
pledges of abstinence, and employ moral
suasion and legal power to suppress the
traffic.
These are but examples of the way in
which the work is progressing undel
female auspices all over the land.
1t seems that by the force of prayer
aud Christian song there were in little
while-3O0 saloons shut up, and in some
OF the villages all of the drinking places
were closed. You say they will Oper
again soon. l reply, is it nothing to
SHUT UP THE GATES OF HE'LL
for six weeks? 1t would appear that
the rum-sellers do not know how to
fight these new weapons. They can
Withstand the Maine liquor law, and
the Natioal Temperance Society, bat
they cannot contend aginst prayer, and
Coronation" !" and "Old Hundred" ana
''Battle Street." and "Bethany." In one
OF the cities German regiment was
brought out to disperse the women.
They came down in battle array, put,
oh, with what poor success For thal
German regiment was made up Oh gen
tlemen, and gentlemen don't like to
shoot women with hymn books IN their
hands. They found that cunning Tor
| female PRAYER meetings was very poor
business. No real damage has been
done, although there has been threat
after threat of violence all over the land.
Let US give fair warning to all military
companies, to all mayors, to all courts
of law, that on the very day that one OF
these Christian women engaged In this