The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-10

and asks IN faith. In every city in tho State
of Ohio where the people Of God were bap-
tized with his spirit the work had gone for
ward, but whenever disposition was mani
tested to gain power or preference, the spirit
of Christ left It'll moment. God could take
this League ami with it close out every saloon
in Fremont in 80 days. They would be "iiko
giants filed with new vine"
1t is solemn sight to behold hundred
women marching two and two. Even skep-
ties have wiped tho tears from their eyes, as
the solemn procession moved by, and while
they were unwilling to admit that Gods spirit
ia in the movement, attribute its wonderful
effect to psychology. They can't understand it,
but suppose it is a psychological influence
emanating from these women. That's so too
But it is the spirit of God manifosting itself
in the soul of man. Yes, they nav cali it
Psychology, say it is something in the air. but
there never was a time when the wicked felt
SO much in danger as now. They feel cross,
and as they have expressed it afterwards. feel
would be stronger than Sampson, or stronger
than David when he hurled the stone from his
sling at the giant Goliah. God promises that
he will endow you with his spirit for this work.
Don't go, therefore, until you feel you can't
stay back any longer. Don't go out uztiI YOU
feel you can bear insults without reviling
And when you go tell the story of the cross,
Of Jesus and his love. Don't 20 till YOU feel
so permeated with love, that 10 bitter word
viii escape you; or should you feel so 20 back
and pray until all such feelings are all gone.
If when on your knees you feel like employ
ing epithets or telling these men how wicked
they are, you had better 60 home at once.
The prayer winch has power with God has no
invective in it, but feels the danger Of souls
that the prayers of these women had taken
hold Of them. In conclusion he would say,
don't go out until you have so much of the
Masters spirit that you could bear the insults
of mob without railing against them, That's
it. When you have the spirit Of the Lord
God with you, it cuts through the coated mail
and touches the spark of humanity hidden in
the secret recesses of the human heart And
He will lead you to victory. All over this
country wicked men feel impressed that if
they do otyield to this power that God viii
become the avenger of his people.
After singing and prayer Rev Chance was
called for and said he had not come TO talk
but to listen and drink in the pirit Of this
reform: Like Brother Jones he felt that mans
talk was not the kind that was wanted now
He had been engaged in the cause for 95
years, and had tried to put down the evil by
law. Laws to justify the sale of liquor were
a crime against God and man. We had had
legislation to protect US against the traffic for
years past, but the executors OF the laws had
failed TO carry them into effect, and they were
virtually trampled under foot. We now had
crusade against King Alcohol By those whose |
hands were unstained by the crime of making
drunkards. Good women on their knees had !
gone before God and asked his blessing, and |
He had heard their prayers and blessings upon |
their efforts were descending like the dews Of
heaven all over the land. Many rum-selleIs |
had thought the women were coming to kneel |
and pray to them but they only prayed to
God for them. One of this kind said, when |
he saw them coming his quilts all began to
turn the wrong way; and when they came /
and spoke to him as kindly as his mother, he |
felt he could not get mad at them. And when |
they asked him if they might sing he answered
yes. And they sang sweet and pleasant
hymns, and when they knelt and prayed that
God might save him, hot tears dropped from
his eyes and he knelt with them and cried out
"Women take this whiskey away" No, no
the won en- don't kneel and pray to man but
to God, that He might save the drunkard from
a drunkard's grave. This system of prayer
had spread all over the country, and if per-
sisted in here would render Fremont as clear
of dram shops as Findlay. Iu Fostoria the |
ladies had put out their piczsts at o'clock in
the morning. One saloon keeper had placed |
q savage dog at his back door to scare the Ia
dies, but when they came round, the dog made
friends with them and sat between them at |
the door harmlessly. God had closed the |
mouths of lions when the prophet Daniel was
cast among them, and He had changed that |
savage dog into friend of the ladies. The |
women had "come up to the help of the Lord 1
against the mighty" and were doing a good |
work, and all denominations OF Christians had |
shaken hands and united in the cause. He pray |
ed that he might be spared to witness the tri-
umph Of the Crusade, and then he would be |
ready, like one of old. to say now Let thy |
servant depart in peace"
Mrs. Rawson and Rev. Bushnell each made /
short speeches on the subject Of duty, when
the doxology was sung and the meeting dis
missed with the benediction.