The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08

viii tonus WIS. nOocTtsOH WAS introduced
and delivered
THE WELCOME ADDRESS.
She said: Christian men and women of
Indiana, L come forward in behalf of the
@. w. T. U. to bid you a cordial welcome
welcome to hearts and homes-yea, thrice
welcome to the precious fell ,wship which
we shall have in Christ Jesus our Lord. I
do not say ladies and gentlemen-I saw men
and womer, for when we step out from the
ranks OF busy life to become coworkers with
God, we lay aside the tinsel and trappings,
the roth and foam of fashionable life,
and have right 70 60. bacs TO the
grand old names that God gave
us at the beginning. when he looked
upon his work and said we were very good
Aye. then the morning stars sang TO ketner
for Joy. How methinks the crimson clouds
veil with bushes this Keeling, staggering
drunken world lest the whole universe
should burst into wall to see how Gods
image has been defiiled, degenerated. Why,
to-day il is said there is not a nation on the
globe that has not intoxicating beverages.
Our Antipodes riot in opium and has
heesh. while our Antiscian neighbors send in
the ruder but not less deliteriOus beverages
bearing the unpronouDceable natnes of Az
rican barbarism or South American jargon
But while the opium eater lies almost in
sensible in his drunken SAUNDERS, and the
hasheesh votary ravels in elysian fields, it is
reserved TO the refined, cultivated, enlight-'
ened nations of the earth to prepare the dia-
bolical compounds that transform man in
to ravlng mailman or an incarnate fiend.
There are some exceptions to the first part of
this statement, know, bus in the main tits
true, and to-day the enlightened nations of
THE BEST ALLIES
satan Las in the work of running men
n,
the darkness how great is that darkness
Aye, its high time that the christian ma
tons of the earth should rise and put away
their darkness. And for that purpose we
are convened to-day. For all great results
are the aggregate of Individual action. The
sun shine has its brilliant rays, and the fear
full devasting flood is composed of drops of
water. 1t is to excite and intensity
individual action that the friends
of Temperance have agreed to meet, talk
over and pray oyer our work, and sympa-
thiZe with and for each other. Blest be the
tie that buds our hearts in mutual love.
This work begets a kinship a fellowship
that makes every earness worker reach out
to every other earnest worker, and call him
or her friend. :
THE DEVASTATION OF THIS KING
OF poisons. We fear our faith is in vain.
My brother! my sister! surely the blood OF
Christ has not lost its efficacy. The stone
that was cut out of the mountains without
hands, and promised to roll on till it should
fill the whole earth, surely it has not met an
insurmountable barrier. Oh, We fainting
one, listen to Jesus! Does your latin trem-
BILE tonight.
The Vanguard of reform is already in
sight, hear the onward tramp of her armies,
shouting as they come. Men have a
right TO say whether death shall be dealt out
to them. Our hearts to-day are full of joy
at the very sight of your faces and vet Ian
guage is so barren and our tongues so weak
we cannot express our welcome as we ough
But faith carries us forward in though
to the time now many DAYS hence, when we,
our work done, shall gather at the river,
and our Jesus, for whose dear sake we have
tried to work hare, shall bid us welcome to
heaven, welcome to mansions, welcome TO
crowns, welcome to rest, welcome to peace,
welcome to everlas ing life no pain, no sor-
row, no signing, for all tears shall be wiped
off from all faces. And they that be wise
shall shine as the brightness of the ferma-
ment and they that turn many to righteous
ness as the stars, forever and ever.vl Zap
plause. fu..a,.f f.s.s. .,rtf ,.-.i-.,-.. II.
Mrs. Jane r. Downey, of Greencastle, was
introduced, and delivered the response, as
follows: % Hu
Mr.. PRESIDENT; 1t is almost needless for
me. on behalf of the temperance workers of
our State, to say that we heartily respond
tC your call, and meet IN convention at this
time, and that we gratefully acknowledge
and highly appreciate the cordial welcome
extended to US, and the generous hospi-
tally of your city homes rendered us,
through your repre- tentative, Mrs. Robinson.
This is but natural result of our work,
for when people are laboring together in
a common cause, and have common in
terest which is near and dear to
every heart. they forget their selfishness and
lose sight of formalities and their hearts,
and hands and homes are open and free
and all feel like brothers and sisters and
Join in glad enthusiasm and Thanksgiving
TO God, who permits them thus to meet
and commune together: and we would be
especially grateful for the privilege of meet
ing at this time, for prayer and counsel and
consideration of the great question which, in
order to its complete success, must become
tue one grand absorbing theme throughout
the length and breath of our land,
| and pray God that the PRAYER accompany
| ing the call for this convention may be an
swered, that its chief object may be met in
our growth, I'm spiritual life and power, and
that the homes throughout your city may,
indeed, be blessed with a new infusion OF
zeal for the living God, and that we who
share hospitality may also share this
greater blessing and carry it with US to our
homes, so that the results of our coming
together may be a felt power for good
throughout our entire State. But why
THIS GREAT MOVEMENT:
There have been temperance revivals, tenn
perance agitations calling for temperance
conventions in days agone, but never in our
history has such interest been manifested in
this subject as now; and why? The great
God is moving at the head OF our army,
touching mems hearts and cons ciences. and
making them feel their personal RESPONSE
bility as no earthly power can make men
feel. Our eyes are being opened, and we
are waking up to sense of the danger to
which our country and ration are exposed
and men are coming to the rescue and
we do thank God for it. Hence our forces