The daily gazette., 1877-06-30
FRS T EDITION!
GOSPEL TEMPERANCE.
THE OPERA HOUSE cRownpn u,
EVENING GOOD SPEAKING AND
FINE SINGING BY THE


both down stairs and up. The programme
that had been prepared for the evening
was an excellent one. The speaking
was OF very high order especially that
OF Rev. George Il. Bristor, of New Castle
MI. brlster Is certainly one of the finest
speakers upon the rostrum, and bis elo-
cutl0nary powers have been cultivated
until he has full and excellent command
oi MS voice, AND no matter how indiffer-
ent person may be when he commences
10 speak the listener soon becomes inter-
ested, and SO great is the power of the
speaker that he will hold the most in
different listener spell bound until he has
finished.
PREVIOUS to the opening of the regular
exercises the Jubilee Singers, sang sew
eral Of their selections in an excellent
manner and at The close of each they were
loudly applauded.
On the stage wero seated several prom
nent temperance workers. Rev. Thos.
F. Hicks, presided.
Ths regular exercises opened with
prayer by Rev. IL. Sanderson of the CITY
Mission, followed by reading of the
Scriptures by Rev. K. B. Cook, of the
Second Baptist Church, who selected the
y chap. of Isaiah.
Singing, SIN the Sweet Bye and Bye"
by the Jubilee Singers.
Mr.. Alpheus A Townsend, of Balti-
more. was then introduced and made a
very powerful appeal to those present. to
throw the yoke Of the great cause of in
temperance and once more be free and
not slaves.
The subject of intemperance had been
aSitating the public mind for years and
years. from the palace of the prince down
to the hovel of the poorest man on Gods
earth. He spoke Of the formation of the
world, how chaos, had been turned into
the beautiful land, everything had been
made perfect but yet it was not finished.
The man that God had created is the
mind that rum makes its assault upon
From earliest ages man has been
struggling for freedom; he has eternally
been the slave of some tyrant.
From a band of women this great
started and now it is marching
on with glorious results. 1t is an army
that has no Sherman for its captain, no
jackson or Lee, for its commander, it has
Jesus Christ as is captain, and in few |
years we will sweep the country onward |
and upward, we march and our cry is |
victory. The temperance army has
levelled their howitzers of local option !,
al the enemy and they are retreating. de |
called upon the ladies to go to work ear
nestly as they have great power and in |
f1uence over man.
Singing, "Gabriels Trumpet"
Mrs. Annie W ittenmeyer, of Philadel- |
phia, was then introduced, and spoke for |
about half an hour, calling upon the la
lies TO so to work in the great cause. The |
work has gone on glorlously. Men ut
terly wrecked and ruined by the great
curse have been made to stand up and
glorify God. She was glad that they
could 90 TO these men and tell them that |
God was willing and able to save them. |
1t was not the women who had been |
it is the men who have been
he drinkers, notthat women should be |
more like men, but men should be more
like women. She then spoke of how
young men, great number of them be- |
longing to highly respectable families,
would remain out at nights drinking un-
ill 3 O'Clock in the morning, and be car
ried home ON a shutter or board, and
nothing would be said about it. If a |
young lady of the same respectability |
should do this the whole town would |
soon be ablaze with talk about her. ANY |
young lady who thinks anything of her.
self should demand purify for purity and |
sobriety for sobriety. The lady closed |
with powerful appeal to the moderate
drinker to leave oil and sign the pledge. |
go Down Moses" was then sung by |
The singers, and they were obliged to re-
peat it.
Rev. George r. Bristor was the next |
speaker, and was undoubtedly the orator
Of the evening. He spoke of the coming
Of Christ into this world owing to his
great love for man, and to save man. He
would not only save man from drunken
ness but from sin. He spoke of the great !
evil of intemperance,6 go, 900 men 60 down !
10 their graves annually from this great
curse. Tonight there are 100000,
pairs of hands, 100000 brains that
ought to be laboring to save mems lives
rather than be manufacturing that which
1amns mems souls to hell" lie clio ed
with most earnest appeal for those who
are engaged in the work to keep steadtast
and God would reward them. The tenn
perance exercises closed with prayer by
Rev. W. j. Stevenson, d. D., singing of
.he long meter GEOLOGY, by the Jubilee
singers, and the benediction, by Rev. L.
Marks.
AT the conclusion of the exercises the
remained seated and the singers
rendered four OF their songs, at the con-
clusion of which they were loudly ap-
plauded.
They will sing at the Institule Hall |
his evening, and are cettainly worth
hearing.