The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-12-04
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The Lyceum, on Wednesday evening,
discussed the Capital Punishment ques-
ton, with Rev. b. H. Crever and Mr..
NJ. B. Soule on the affirmative and Clay
borne Rohrer and j. c. Clarke, on the
negative. Il. Messrs Bagley, Lane, Bald
win and Plumb sang a quartette. Miss
Anna Dean read poem, :. Passing A.
way.": Prof. Humiston acted as critic.
The programme for next Wednesday
evening is as follows: Question-Re-
solved, That man is the architect of his
own fortune. Leaders-Dr. Geo. O.
Moore, and DR.. B. S. Langdon. AS
sistants-Rev. S. M. Smith and DR..
r. D. Barber. Readers-Rev B. H.
Crever and Miss Emma I4angdon.
The small hall was uncomfortably
crowded and steps have been taken to
secure the large hall permanently. The
Committee are also devising exercises
which will make the Lyceum the feat
ure of the winter, The public are cor
daily invited to participate and make
the Lyceum a source of the highest
pleasure and benefit. The Lyceum and
the Monthly Temperance Meeting are
the only features which, unite the whole
community, and we urge the people to
come forward and offer their best
thoughts. -,
MONTHLY TEMPERAn cE MEETING.
The regular Monthly Meeting of
the MOBILES County Temperance Union
was held on Sunday evening last at Mil
Ter Hall.
The Methodist choir sang some ap-
propriate songs. Prayer was offered
by Rev. Mr.. Howard. Prof. Humiston
presided. and announced Major Bell as
the first speaker.
The Major said it was difficult to
make temperance address in this place,
for we had no saloons to fight and 10
examples in our midst to hold up to the
public. He wished to express his view
as running counterto the usual notion
that drinking men and drunkarls are
men of superior mind and of noble and
generous nature. lie knew an lgno-
rant, profane, filthy Doctor in Ohio,
whose only recommendation to public
favor was that he was a drunkard.-
Nearly everybody said he would have
been one of the best physicians i'll the
State but for drink, while the fact was
that he had hardly a single redeeihing
quality, but his drunkenness gave him
sympathy and favor. He spoke of So
cial drinking as the most dangerous
feature of intenperance, and said the
conversation and society of gentlemen
was stimulus enough for him without
resorting to artificial means of excite
ment.
Rev. S. NJ. Smith was called on next
and gave some striking examples of the
effect of strong drink in brutalizing
men. Helearned his first lessons in in
temperance when he was a boy and saw
a number of men who had come togeth-
er to raise a meeting house, nearly eve
ry one of whom became drunken, before
the raising was over. He appealed to
the young to avoid the terrible cup.
A. P. Miller was next called out. He
agreed with the first speaker that it
was somewhat difficult to keep speaking
on temperance III this community. He
related the anecdote of the two brothers
who went out temperance lecturing,
one of whom did the talking and the
other became intoxicated at every town
visited and furnished the "terrible ex-
ample" We had no *'terrible exam
pies here to enforce our public ad-
dresses. He then gave an account of
the recent Woman's National Temper
ance Convention at Cleveland, Ohio,
one of the most remarkable conventions
on record, and showing an earnestness,
a tact, a knowledge of parliamentary
usage and a grasp of the great question
in hand never excelled at any conven-
ton Of men. He read a part of the
plan of operations of the resolutions
passed, and expressed the opinion that
when women obtained the right to vote,
the temperance cause would triumph
and the world would take it's greatest
stride toward the millennium.
Prof. Humiston then called for vol
unteer speakers. No one rising, he
spoke for few minutes himself, saying
that the temperance cause does move,
as Calico said of the earth even after
he had been forced to recant. He urged
the young to avoid every habit which
had a tendency to make them less pure
and less strong. i
&C. Goodnow was then called out
and spoke for few minutes upon NOR
al suasion as the hope of the temper
ance movement. lie had little faith in
laws, which were " dead letter unless
the communities WHICH live under them
were up to the point Of enforcing them.
Rev. s. M. Smith rose and moved
that the sense Of the meeting he taken
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