Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-03-11

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TEMPERANCE MEETING.-By invitation
uio Lewis spoke in Trinity Chapel Sunday
evening to an audience of at least thou
and persons. The meeting having been
.u.uej by PRAYER by Rev. Y. \. Glazier.
Dr. Lewis began by reading a portion of
ta. u,h chapter of Galatians, and then pro
....lcl to tell his idea of what the CONVEX
-.un Of - man Is. Man is fiye-fold in nature,
physical. intellectual. moral social and re-
Ii.iuu-. Truly converted he is converted
ia ,trh nature: becomes clean and for
-th.- his rum and tobacco, gets out of his
i.uorlnce. torsakes penuriousness and vile
rouyer-ation leaves profanity and becomes
rt,crcnt and loving; in short, forsakes his
General na-tinc>>. and lives clean life
What j. thai which most keeps him
-o1ling2 Rum What can be done?
M,u have thundarel and roared about it
Tor forty wear, and still it goes on Women
must turn out: not unless they can do it, of
cour-y but because they can. How the
story Of the Ohio work would show The
last of December the speaker was deliver
inc. in Washington. Ohio. lecture which
ne had delivered for ninct cen years without
change The subject was the power of
woman'~ prayer as applied to this evil.
The lecture had been delivered 300 times
before, and in fact this praying movement
has been started before. Once in Man
chester and Nashua, n II. 1t halloween
not succae led the time had not arrived.
But when through with this lecture in De-
ccmber those Washington women said
''lct us 90" They organized in this way:
electel "a committee OF three women and
two men, who selected another committee
composed Of women and known as the ex-
ccutivc committee, and comprising mem
her, from each church in town. This
mole of organization has been the one re-
tanned. There is added an advisory com
mltt.e Of gentlemen who give advice when
a-bcL
TN" next morning they went to work.
went to Smiths saloon. He said come in,
and they went in and prayed. 1t was like
tn owing water against Il stone wall, SO
t1sv.vcnt on two days with the saloons;
III, results followed. They persu tded
business men 10 close between and - A
VI. ana hold a BIsincs, Mems prayer
meeting. Tna third day they met with
their first SUCCESS and dealer turned over
toth.m thirteen barrels, if they would
bring it out of the cellar, and they did it.
one man said he never saw Il woman chop
before but that the two women who welded
tH.aXes did 20 with success. The axes
were given to two women whose families
drink had ruined, who had for years suf-
f,yal the 4" fortunes of the damned chain
.l To drunken husbands They knew by
experience what Beccher said. that if a
poet wished to rival Dante's Hell he had
but to paint = redned woman tied by mar
rlagc to a man who from drink has be-
come a beast, hog. In eleven days
they had shut thirteen shops, and but two
were left; these We're not in the village
limits, but Il mile away. They were kept
by Charley Beck and Sullivan. The
women thought the Lord was outside the
corporation as we'll as in it, and besieged
backed Beck. bat the men erected a taber-
naclc for the women. and in eight days he
said Il quits" Sullivan was a low fell
l,v bu. at Length gave up. There was
one attempt to start again \ German
trrighted some beer to u station ten miles
af then brought it by night to Washing @
tom and was ready To receive customers.
He had them before breakfast, 1Oj women
and they prayed linn away. He said he
brad been told it was Il good place TO start,
but he didn't believe it, and packed his
barrels The women there want others to
Try the traffic there; they want to keep at
work. They know they are better women.
Bu, here clcr@ymcn say it seems So wild
aud violent that our women couldn't be
prevailed on to undertake it. Rev. DR..
Hatfield Of Cincinnati thought so till he
went up to see. then he thought it was
GDd'> work The movement spread rap
idly and in - towns is true what is true of
Washington Going To- Mount Vernon.
Ohio. he fell in Witl Il pass niger who de
uounced the &c Yankee Qulck ana declar-
I'd the whole thing an outrage. This man
WIS John Cooper the heaviest manufacturer
I'm Mount Vernon. 1t was only reluctantly
that he allowed his wife to 90. In three
days Cooper was the most enthusiastic of
the men of Mount Vernon, and his wife
WI, the leader Of thu movement which
proved successful.
bio Lewis requested any in the adj
,ucc to ask questions and state objections.
Brv. Mr. Spencer a,kel if the women
where the movement had succeeded had
ever before prayed in public. The answer
was th2t they hal not more than in the
East: AMI that i'll tn newer towns espe-
ciallI twas strange Work for them. Where
there is a COOL society the work succeeds
quickest The doctor then told of the st.
\lbans meeting. and claimed that the
movement in Worcester was great sue
CESS instead Of failure. The same plan
adopted West i not used, but nowhere had
hr seen more determination than among
the women Of Worcester He thought
they would have the three hundred and
tArty-siX grog-shops of that city closed
this month. There were a number of
other question, asked AMI in answer to
one the speaker said his faith in woman's
prayer he learned from his mother, for
there was trouble at home. She gained