The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-25
IN BEHALF OF TEMPERANCE.
APPEfIS TO DRt NKfRDS BY MEN WHO
H.iJE BEEN DRUNk4RDS.
Thomas Mnsiin's Meeting in the Rev. Dr.
Tying, Jr.'s. Big Gospel Tcnt-.John Bcnneta
Andcrsons Address In the Cooper Union.

hnder.ons Address In the Cooper Union.
The temperance meeting in the Gospel
Tent. in Thrty-fourth street. was presided over
yesterday Afternoon by Thomas Masn. n rough-
looking. uneducated man OF thirty-lve. who has
gift Of cloquen,e. He told ofhis degradation.
Of the despair OF his wife, Of her almost
nightly searches for him In police stations and
OF the privation that she and her children
suffered when he WAS drunkard. Now. how
ever. all was changed Her prayers for the ro-
form Of her drunken husband had been heard.
and he was a now man. His children no longer
regarded him ns monster. and no longer hid
under the bed for fear OF his brutality. He
drew pictures Of children ragged. shoelcss and
depravcd through the drunkenness of parents,
and deprecated the sncers cast at the class of
mon known as "bunmers." whom he pitied
from the depths of his heart as men often of
hnc feelings who had east themselves awav
tlrOugh "A pas ION for drink. He prayed that God
would help them in reIinQdisning their habits.
charles A. Bunting. ol the Christian Homo
street. spoke against moderate drinking, and
SAID that ministers Of the Gospel who indulge
condemned the u.s. OF wna at the communion
ttplr a. tend ling - initiate drunkenu' IS. He
denounced lager beer rs an alcoholic drink.
and sad he knew men who had been got
ing drunk Tor years on nothing else.
Mr Bile" ker said that in visiting u Fourth
Mard en- hc found woman who asked hm TO
treyL lie complied. and she told him ho
was not fitted for place like that-that hc look
ed like a minister. He learned that she had
been n sunday school teacher in "A Baptist
church in Massachusetts, but through "a fond
mss Tor drink had sunk to degradation. He
took her TO Jerry McCaulcy's mission. and she
reformed. Samuel Ii. T. Meies cautioned all
against slight indulgences In liquor with the
notion that they had strength to resist excess.
! Su III mc1, he SAID. built their houses on sand.
| \ man WHO announced himself as "a worker for
| fory-nve years in the cause said that ginger
| beer often contained alcohol. and cited the
case Of reformed drunkard who suffered
relapse through drinking II. He was
| imIell-d TO 20 Immediately to n barroom.
and there he drank until he had delirium
trnrn-.
John Bennett Anderson. a lay missionary
! from England, address large audience in
the Cooper Union, yesterday afternoon. on tem-
! p"ran 80. H. said that there is great cause
Tor rejoicing among the advO atns of total absti-
n'nc". Ia ~ country several temperance re-
] Nlvals are in progress. and in England tho
/ clergy of all denominations have ut last gone
/ INTO the hight AGAINST rum. Prominent among
! thr Roman Catholic priests who are mark
/ cdly successful Is Father Nugent OF Liver
| ool. WHO has already administered the pledge
/ 10 3OOuO persons The Church of England. so
/ long silent and inactive. Is making "A vigorous
/ movement SIX years a.so there WHre only 900
| te.tOtalers uu;ung the ls.oOO cer-ymcn of that
/ church. and now the total abstainers number
/ thousands.