Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-11

knees, am not one of that sort don't be-
lievc have been on my knees since was s
years old, as for church don't know what
the inside of it looks like When saw her
down on her knees didn't like it and said,
''What in thunder are you on your knees
| for, cannot Won hear ?" went to bed sulkv,
and when got up in the morning wanted
whiskey and nothing else; tried to eat
some breakfast, the more | chewed it the
| bigger it grew, could not swallow it, moth
Ing could take but whiskey, | must have
son whi>key am man of some property
| an, | am going now to see piece of proper
ty which bought when | was drunk. |
am going among friends and among tempta-
tion, and | would rather be carried home
dead tonight than carried home drunk j.; |
am man of my word and never broke my
word to man or woman, and am proud of
the fact We went on a little while and
his eyes began to fill with tears. lie said,
''Mr. Cough, you may think it very strange
of me, but have been on my knees myself
this morning for over an hour "IIave
you ," "lcs | have, tie first time in my life
that | can remember since was little
boy | said, MY friend, keep there and
you will 90 home sober tonight" tell
you they may make as much sport Of PRAYER
as they please, and that it is abcmiHable
nonsense to talk about prayer-guages and
such staff, but do you believe a man ever
drank glass of liquor while he was pray
ing God to keep from it No. Then there
Is philosophy in prayer. if nothing else.
Let man keep in the attitude Of prayer
and then he is in the attitude of resistance
to drink. (Applause)
Then there is another point wish to
speak upon, and for my life would not con-
tiict in any way with anything that Mr.
Moody has said, think he and believe the
same thing, only there are two ways of put
ting it. We have been told don't know
that the leaders OF these meetings have said
it-that if a man gets the grace of God in
his heart it takes away his appetite. am
not one OF those that would speak sighting
ly of the wonderful, illimi,able, infinite
power of the grace Of God, but while one
man may have that appetite taken away from
him by Gods grace and Spirit there is
another man who may have that appetite
left in him to try him. When Paul prayed
that the thorn might be removed out of his
flesh, his prayer was only answered by MY
grace Is sufficient for the" know there
are men that are good Christian men that
are struggling and fighting to-day against
this appetite. | have known cases OF fear
ful falling from the first swallow because
drunkenness is disease, and good Christ
ian man said to me only to-day. Three
weeks ago had the most awful struggle
againt my Appetite and a gentleman said
to me, holding me by the hand, the other
Ipht l. I
fighting an awful hard battle Il said, .'Do
you feel secure ~ ''SecuIe in Jesus, Mr..
Cough" Oh, l tell you, ladies and gentle
men, that is the strength of the movement
to-day. From one end of the land to the
other do We hear of Christian temperance
associations. Oh, if in the Washingtonan
day men had been as wise as God has help
ed us to be now, what wond erful revo-
luton would have been effected then , 1t was
great tidal wave that rose all over the
land, but there was an ignoring Of Christ,
there was nothing TO do with religion, roth
ing to do do with praying. used to go to
places to speak and they would say, Mr..
Cough. We have got lot of reformed men
here ard must not have any politics or reli
gion talked 1t was so all over the coun-
try. And what was the result? Washing
tonanism has utterly failed to gather into
the harvest those who might have been
saved il it had not have been for the repudia-
tion of everything sayoring of religion and
Christianity. Now to-day, beside these
grand pricIples We look into the future and |
see the light which stands tip-toe upon the |
mountain-top that shall usher in the day |
of triumph by and by.
Ladies and gentlemen, Some of us remen.-
Der when We fought hard battle for tenn
perance j some of us remember the riots in |
Faneuil Hall, when the liqucr sellers de-
clared that We should not occupy that plat
form, and for three successive nights they |
beat us off, put their own Chairman in the |
meeting; We remember very well when it
was reproach to be a temperance man, and |
temperance men were prosecuted. Now it |
seems as if was going TO say it was be-
coming popular. bur | don't like that word
popular, / believe the principle is becom-
ing universal from Maine TO louisiana aI.d
from the Atlantic to the Pacific slorr. and
it is because it was begun in prsyrr. and it
will end in Thanksgiving. (NPpaus,.)