New-York tribune., 1877-07-10
TIE VAR on 1LCOHOL.
SEA CLIFF CAMP-MEETING.

ADDRESSES BY TEMPERANCE WORBEBS-DR.
TIFFANY on LEGAL COERCION.
SEA CLIFF L. l., July 9.-"To be expected
on a Monday" said not easily discouraged temperance
man, when at the dinner table conversation turned
tn notable fact OF the day snalness of the at
tendance at the Tabernacle There with this four
more days of tie temperance camp-neeting 1t
WAS disappointment that Francis Murphy did not
arrive on the morning boat, but if he does not come
with the evening excursion party. presence tomorrow
morning is regarded certain. Less than two hundred
persons attendance the morning and afternoon
meetings, but when Dr. WoodrIh prayed that
ageent snouid grow ont OF leebcness Of numbers and
that those present should feel that out of few
resuts it like placing trust III the pIoyerb
that God helps those who help hemselyes for speak
and auditors from the start determination
not to let the OF the congregation impair the interest
Of the meetings The Rev. DR.. Tiffany Of St. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church, NowYork, made forcibie
address Ia the afternoon.
Dr. Tiffany, with several Acknowledgment and party
o. ladies' and gentemen, came by the morning boat. A
quaTtetto OF cOlOIed jubilee added to the enjoy
ment OF the charming excursion down the SOUND which
shared also 10y few pleasure seekers regardf Of
b0dily that one of party wanted to 20 10 Sea
ClG, because ii lit trouble TO reach the
BocNaway boat" and another did not want 10 because
il d" like climbing Trinity sprc 10 mount the ClG
stairway though from the summit is obtainablc
OF tine finest water and landscape views
on Long Island. welhiresscd Teut0n made =
mistake the entertainment Dc found al Sea Clf
and made rush from the steamer search of
beer. The restaurantkeeper showed him how prac
tcay lagcr-beer not purchasa6le within the camp
meeting precincts, but tantalzingy told the thirsty
that lie had good quality OF beer cellar Tor
his private use ana aitcrward said conhdeuualy
to correspondent that Sea Cliff could dis win the
beer drinking community. But at the Tabernacle the
talk was mainly Of a kind calculated do the beer
drnber good. and the mixed perfume new-iuown Lay
and salt Dreezes which inspires here a very
strong stnuiant to temperance practices
81 love to tell The story" the opening OF
the 2:3O p. meeting. Mrs. NJ. McC Browne, Of Ohio
making the first address during which, Dr. Tiff ny, who
lad been left IL the quiet enjoyment of atefinner
cigar tie hotel yerandan, entered the tabernacle
When DR. Tiffany called 10 the platform, hc entered
immediately earnest discussion of the Temperance
question, aud grew foIcble and occasionally eloquent
Tie I'D at large he SAID, finally agreed that in
temperance great evil, and the doctrine of oppo-
Son Ia alcohol was not So new many people thought
in 1862 a clergyman wrote " There IL no sin who
doh mole deacc COTS image than drunkenness. 1t ds-
guiseth person and doth him. 1t gives him
tue throat OF fish, the belly OF wine. and the head
Drunkenness shame nature the extin-
guisher Of reason the sipwreck of chastity, and the
murdererer OF conscience In country men
were awakened 10 the danger OF alcohol when
they saw that drmkard's graves were being filed by
their own children Dr. Tiffany showed by statistics
that the American market ,upped aIgcy with iu-
pure wines ana deetcrCus cOncOctions. When man
put acOLOl INTO his system he diminished that which
lis life depended. and aided 10 that Which would Kill
him. 80 greatly hau inttmi crance dugmeu cd tDe bur
den iis pOOT-hOses, that II question If the
monetary iuterC sts OF tho country were not involved
and It not the duty OF man to take a decided
stand ana call the law 10 back ann When the
wine is in the wit out and dangerous physical aud
mental effects follow. There Is cOsc relation between
The poverty which associates ltse with drum and
CRIME. But there il necessary relation between pow
ery and fl Is sldudcr to speak Of born OF
but honest parent. should poor becuuSe honest
parents" (Appause.l Dunn, visit L. CAIN nlla, he
found that the towns along the Union Pacific road were
low morals aud that drunkenness prevailed. whie along
the Central cIO thcy showed thrift ana the nhtD
ants temperate, because the Company ecJ-
n0mic measure, and from 10 higher motive Lad decided
from experience attending the building Of the Eastern
half Of the railway that they could afford TO
employ whskey drinkers the constructing parties and
t.ey uguly ENFORCE tins rule against alcIJi IL Viii taxi
twenty Ve years TO wipe out tie TecOds Of from
tie towns of the Union Pacific TINS thin ," he de
clared. is evil ana only EVIL, continual and yOI may
cOusdeTaud pliOsOplze Oh IL, iii The CIch OF GOOi and
there il only OF combating II: tOal abs
nence (Applsuee) There only one plan OF dealing with
those VIII neither practice or Try to practice total
absuuencc, Icy must be made to; when moral suaSiOn
will not do, legal Su.tsiOn must be called mV