The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-15
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from the several seats of war ovorrun the loo
press. The method adopted by the crusade
IN. Is simply grand. Wives of pastors and teacl
eIs OF lawyers, bank presidents capitalist
"a the wealthiest and most reputable of womer
II, meet in the morning ut some rendezvous, an
rs after worship. form themselves into bands, an
Iy march, from 20 to 300 strong, against the TO,
n When band reaches a noted drinking-place
pt IL halts on the sidewalk the leader enter
us who by that time are usually in. Th
ID leader asks permission to pray. Some
8. times, if this permission be CURLY refused
IL there, facing the staring windows, alternate,
It in unison with prayer and sacred song unit
something happens: Various things happen
40 you VIII see hereafter; But sometimes the
vices shall be hold in his beer room The
leading lady, or perhaps a gentleman, immedi
ately kneels and his flock with him, regardless
OF nnciean floors, and the first thing that pro.
Prietor knows is that he is being interceded
TOT by name before the throne of grace. His
SINS are pointed out indirectly to him, as they
are laid before the Lord for a few minutes.
when the congregation rises and sings n hymp.
II the proprietor is still good natured but un.
Iip nnpn ms some gray-haired woman,
a SHOWN ior her good works throughout the
| communlty-some sad mother of dIssipated
son. hlled with the intense enthusiasm gath
cred from the crowded room-pleads with him
emu him, tearfully and solemnly beseeches
nim 10 SOL no more of the poison that is ruin
ing the Young men, the sons, brothers and
husbands of the community. They will net be
shaken on; they cluster round him, holding
up on the one sido the perils of eternity, and
on the other the beauty of holiness. Some
pray alond, while others exhort; sobbing and
singing beset him round about, and in about
UhJ,ah' perhaps two-thirts, of the he
good society, utterly unused to having the best
women OF the place now almost at his feet in
en,,eaty, now exhorting him to remember the
singing, some hundred strong perhaps. ali with
their eyes fixed his face, and Mi ready
70 70 60 away if ne will say but one word.
the I door pana gets no admission it besets
attempt to enter, begging them to turn |
PACK In Gods name-begging them to re- |
for rm ana Riedge Themselves to quit drinking
torment i' e One after another they are reached
ny :" Tie Cause" and break ont frat in moss
tmIee.ings Then the mass bubbles over into
fnll and the sound of strange singing comes
from the lowest and vilost drinking places. In
RIPLEY the men gather in protractel PRAYER
uss, NV WINE tneir wives go out to the har-
tne great home missionary work, and here ut
least the workers have encountered no rude
work an" haa nave nIn met with great The
gealers were conquered that day. In New
Vienna John Calvin Van Pelt was the anti.
snrlst. Sometimes he received the ladies
Kindly, sometimes he threatened to cause their
arrest; once he emptied key of lager beer
1pon them once he met them With brandished
IKE, but yield he would not. He was no whit
,xaWeo Dy the nunbers or social rank of his
,isltors, and as for talking, he was as good at
as they. Ihey came in the rain Monday
mo ne handed them out beer kegs to sit on in
o oer ram All Ieusday they stood guard at his
front of it and watched his movements. d
raying and singing always, while at home t
n9 In the churches hundreds we're nraying e
he n sgng fG h;s Them Then they took down
aen man with pledge. Thursday came. and ::
AN teit renounced his evil, and turned from
lbis SIN %nerein ne had sinned, broke up his
curse, and deilvered a temperance lecture in u
ne evening at a special th an ksgivipr meetiny il
inc w now H 70 s.ars on lecturng tour, begin
druggist, Dunn by name, who is an onnonnnt' a a
'ortby the sword of the most yiooraps crn'
, ,'l ne sells about sixty dollars worth of =
i'm A. t tHa trs every day The ladies visited ~
oInlnS that was not set down in the law So el
10 praying bands beseiged him. They wrote 81
~. notes specifying the hour when 500 people d.
oa i pe praying not only for the conyersion W
tne wicked but for the conversion of Dr O,
J.. u: II. Dunn. That was moral inanence' a.
.e oiner weapon of the praying bands is Der ~.
'tual presence. They interrupted His hnsipness I'll
ID he threatened to sue out a writ aS,a;nat it
EN- Tor conspiracy: They established sent;' tn
rs at his door, blocking tho doorway and Al
,ans of sr none TO enter who might by any pc
", - rnacle OF old boards before his windows al;
q held protracted meetings, singing and ~
aylng from the time the shutters cama dorn VI
me shutters went up again. That uas co
to,dy Monday the doc tor procured an in tn
action from the only judge whose services I'M
We been invoked against this class of mali me
Jus trespass. Judge Stafford, of ChiIlicotba he
An ted the injunction and moreover decIare2 do
~ arrest and imprisonment would foilow tn
ns.;tempts at continuing the street services ne
u failure to remove the tabernacle Mt once La La
says too, that should Dunn apnly for sncE ou
order he would enjoin the ladies' from ns;nn wi
IN name IN their prayers whenever tboss bel
yers should be offered, o mans name heinz to
property and not to be used lichtIv or is on,
mn triumphed but of nine saloons in His. wo
o SIX have closed. The streets are fnIi of IN
praying professions, and the churchea ara w
n every night. There is no lacls oF The
'ws OF war with these new crusaders IT, Il
= VIII not be prayed out they get their hns- tho
~ 70 puy MIN out. That has been done in tbo
sTniington and Waynesvflie A beer WAGON ina
y iihinGton was surrounded, ladies' stand1ng 9ue
~ the horses heads and refusing to Lndges Ih'
10 everybody but the driver PRAYED or sa11 of
ltnal songs. The man finally 6roI,e oTraS Der
nh eI ~ ioad 70 sabine. The ladies tele- pas
PHeS word and another band met him inst of
OF, Gi sabine and prayed him into Town 1T crit
It crazy. "i7o that ne the
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