The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-03-06
The Crusade.

The wcmen's movement on behalf
of temperance continues to spread
and widen on all sides, and will,
doubtless, until every part of the ma
ton is reached. Yet its influence is
felt most in smaller localities, the
larger being too unwieldy. The en-
couragement met with in New York,
Philadelphia, and other large cen
ters, is slight as compared with the
results in smaller places. Yet still
the tide moves on, and communities
thought to be prayer proof, are
proving vulnerable. A State organi-
zation has been effected in this
State, but whether it will give greater
effectiveness to the work or not re-
mains to be seen. 1t looks very
much as if human agencies were as
piring to assume the credit Of the
work, and rob the invisible pow
er of its glory. The simpler the
movement and the less the show of
organized effort, the greater the sue
cess. In the one case dealers have
nothing to combat, in the other they
meet organization with organization,
and with ali the stuborness of an
tagonism. The rams horns were
more powerfully effective at Jerico
than would have been an array with
banners. Their bearers relied upon
an unseen strength, with faith as
their strong tower 4; an army would
have vaunted its own strength, and
gloried it its own power, and the
walls of Jerico would not have been
thrown down. If this movement is
from above, let the Infinite have all
the glory, and take not the work out
of His hands. The women of Wash
ington Court House needed no bu-
reaus, nor speakers, nor organizers,
beyond the impulse which led them
to the work. ''He hath chosen the
weak things of this world to con-
found the mighty"
Oberlin, Berea, Kenton, Findlay
and other towns in this section of
the State have become awakened,
and yet Fremont is unmoved.
The active crusade began in Co.
lumbus, on Tuesday. A prayer meet
ing was held in the morning and the
procession of 200 ladies moved in
the afternoon, at o'clock, while the
church from which they started re-
NAMED filed with people praying |
for the success Of those who had |
gone. The bells of three churches
we're telled. The ladies first visited
The American House, where E. j.
Blount signed the dealers pledge,
put the proprietor of the bar refused.
Vests billiard rooms were visited,
md West interviewed. He offered
% sell out. Ambose's came next,
where neither prayers or songs pro-
luced any effect. The Neil House
.ame next, where the proprietor was
beside dying brother and
.ould not be seen, but the bartender
them the bar was closed
or four days, and gave consent for
inging and prayer, and prayer was
'fered up for the dying man. At
dcCauley's grocery and at Taylor's
tore, the proprietors were absent.
After proceeding thus far the ladies
eturned to the church where letter
Ias read from c. A. Wagner, a res
aurant man, stating he had quit
cling liquor, and one from brew
r named Cary, who asserted he
-ould never brew another keg of
quor. The ladies were everywhere
'eated with courtesy.
At indianapolis regular associa-
on was formed and the usual o(fii-
ITS elected. In Chicago. the efforts
, organize a crusade have been
Dandoned.