The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-30
THE MONTHLY TEMPERANCE MEET.
INA

4Ho regular MOutLly temperance
Meeting of the County Union was held
on Sunday night last at Miller Hail.
The evening was fine and there was a
large attendance. The Methodist Choir
sang several appropriate pieces with
unusual effect. Prayer was offered by
Rev. b. H. Crever.
Prof. HumistOn opened the meeting
by calling for volunteer addresses. He
said the day was not distant when the
great political issue of the country
would be the temperance question:
The people had fought through the an
ti-slavery fight and had conquered, and
he believed they would do the same in
the anti-liquor contest.
Rev. j. w. Lewis said he was glad to
see that the temperance sentiment was
growing in the community. But we
had a work to do beyond Mobiles coun-
ty. Our influence must be felt upon all
the surrounding regions.
Mr.. Howard said he had lived most
of his life in communities where liquor
was sold, and lie had at length fled in
disgust to this community as I; refuge
from the crime aud danger of commun-
tiles in which the liquor interest pre-
dominated. lie did not want his boys
to become drunkards.
Mr.. Husselton said taat the effect Of
the liquor traffic was seen most in the
mining districts where he was brought
up. The earnings of the workingmen
went for drink. he related the case of
a man who drank in winter to keep
warm, and in Summer to keep cool, and
kept it up until it finally cooled him
off for good.
Is. N. Carrier was called out ard
gave an account of three Temperance
lectures in his own experience and Oh
servation. The first was when he was
a boy and drank from 4 jug in the fields
until he was helpless; the second was
where two friends were arrested for
drunkenness and taken to the lookup
and during the night one got hold of iii
AK and cut the other one to pieces; and
the third was the sight of drunken
man at Mankato lying in the broiling
sun covered with blood.
Rev. B. II. Crever spoke next in a
most earnest and fervid address of
some twenty minutes in length. lie
said there were several aspects Of this
community. One was the material as
pect, in which most of the settlers have
been disappointed in their expectation
Of a sudden realization of prosperity,
owing to :he grosshopper calamity
But there was ;ln aspect of this com.
munity in which there was no failure.
AS a moral and intelligent community
this was success. This was the true
success. AS Mr. Webster said of the
sterile portions of New England, when
they could do nothing else, they built
school houses and raised men, so we
notwithstanding the grasshopper calam
ity, could raise moral and intelligent
men and women. lie had set out in
the temperance work with great en-.
thusiasm expecting quick results, but
he had had his expectations sobered as
to this. But he found his interest in
the cause and his sense of the magni
tude the evil of intemperance deepened
every year. At last the temperance re-
form had adopted the true method and
taken on the true phase. He had not
much faith in making it a political is.
sue. We might as we'll expect to effec;
the regeneration Of mems souls without
the Gospel, as to expect the success OF
the temperance reform without giving
it a deep religious direction. The Tenn
perance Crusade, as it was fifty called
of the women was therefore the truest
and most important phase which the
reform had assumed. Woman, the
greatest sufferer, co2fessing her utter
inability to stay or conquer the great
evil, had thrown all upon God, and
kneeling in rain, and mud and snow
was closing the grog-shops by tears and
prayers. Other attempted social re-
forms had come and gone, but the tenn
perance reform remained. Everything
noble and good in man was at wal
with the giant evil and men could not
and would not rest until it was con
quered.
Rev. Vim. NJ. Bear spoke next. He
remembered when ministers of the
Gospel thought it no harm to drink
wine, and when he was rebuked by &
brother minister for joining secret
temperance society. AS far back as the
wise man, men were warned not to look
upon the wine when it was red. 1t is
said that the evil came from the adul
teration Of liquor, but while there
might be more of the devil in the adul
terated liquors Of the present day than
in the purer liquors of other days, still
the devil was always in it. The tenn
perance reform would succeed when
every Christian man, woman and child
went to work. It had been said OF
the Methodists that they succeeded be-
cause they were all at it and always al
it, and when all temperance people
were at it and always at it, the temper
ance reform would succeed.
Read the letter from Hersey. It re-