Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

THE ST. PAUL DAILY
and nations, and we have only to point to
thereof. Look at Europe and read the COM
,mentary! The Bible is an educator, and the
school house follows in its wake. See that
portion of our cities where you connot find
the Bible; you find crime rampant, the law
defied, and decency violated. When we look
at these facts we ask, is it possible that there
is so much as one person who would wish to
destroy the authority Of this book? The
only way to cure the opposition to the bible
is to make the people acquainted with its
teachings, and as they become acquainted
with it in that proportion will their opposi-
Temperance Meeting.
Instead of the regular service last evening
at the jackson Street Methodist Church. a
temperance lecture was delivered by Mrs.
Foster, of the Woman's National Temperance
Union. She took for her subject, The
Extent of the Evil" Her appearance on the
rostrum was unassuming, and she spoke very
readily, saying:
I always feel the responsibility of the task
undertake in speaking to an audience of
this kind, in the house of God, when the
mouths of the ministers of God are silent.
l see the aged ministers and laymen here and
it seems like presumption in me to speak.
But the work is so great and demands SO
much of us, that we do not hesitate to take
Gods day and Gods house for it. If were
not here you would have been listening to
the words of life from your min
lister, and 1 pray that our coming
together may be for Y our good.
I believe that upon waiting congregations
the Holy Spirit comes down; you who know
about that ladder which Jacob saw, pray
that it may come tonight. This is very
old theme, and you have heard temperance
lectures before. sometimes wonder what
shall say that is new. Shall it be the same
old story? It's very common one-we
hear it every day, and has it lost its effect
upon us because of it's oft repetition? Let
us think of the common things of life; how
they add to our comfort. Do we lose our
interest in them? The nursery stories when
in our childhood, told every night, and yet
they were new. AS we are interested in a
work, SO is it always full of new things.
We read in the sacred book of that long
courtship, how faithful they were;
they talked it over and over among
themselves, it was the same story and it was
always new. We read it and the smile comes
to our faces because we know all about it,
and heaven pity the men and women who do
not.
Queen Victoria on her throne wears
crown; she is queen, but the crown added
less to her JOY than did the priceless jewel
true and fond husband-and to-day,
although she is queen she is widow, and
mourns just as any woman mourns. When
sorrow comes, and the angel with sable
wings hovers around and carries away our
joys, is it only a common sorrow? The
as if theirs was the only one. It is just as
hard for each one of the drunkards
wives to bear the sorrow tina,
has settled upon the heart. This is Sunday
and what day it has been in your saloons
If should detail the sorrow and anguish
brought about by rum for the first time
would you sit quietly by? All no!
AS Young in his night thoughts said
sat such time as this
lis madness to be calm"
When look over the field say It's mad
ness to be calm. We cannot measure the
extent of this evil. How much grain alone
is destroyed. Forty millions of bushels
Your &c, 100000 of bushels raised in Mime
sofa, it has been heralded all over the conn
try. Wheat, wheat, wheat everywhere, and
yet this vast product goes yearly to the dis
tillery, and this is but a bagatelle of what il
costs.
Six hundred millions of dollars are
taken in at the retail shops; but we will no
talk of the dollars tonight. This is the
Lords day. Only half the land is titled, an6
perhaps you can afford to waste forty mill
ions Of grain in the distillery; but the LITTLE
children with pinched visages are starving
No matter, the men must have drink, saloons
must be licensed to retail ruin.
We are charged as class, with making
wild assertions, appealing to mems sympa-
thy, &C., making them laugh and cry, and
then asking them to sign the pledge.
would like to appeal to your understanding
At this point the lecturer went into statistics
and presented them, not as dry morsel, but
in such way as to carry the conviction with
them that she intended, and fastened
upon whisky as the direct and indirect cause
of nearly all of the insanity, crime and
pauperism in our land. These facts, she
said, are patent to all thinking minds, and
the rumsellers cannot, or at least do not
gainsay them.
Men put in their mouths that which steals
their brains. This is truth that has been
handed down to us, and we see it verified
every day of our lives. She treated the sub
ject of insanity at considerable length, and
affirmed that fathers and mothers drink, and
they transmit to their children; the boy is
like his father before him. Fathers drink
moderately, they say they are not drunkards,
they can drink or let it alone, but the boy
pays the penalty. Is there anything so sad
as the dethronement of reason? Have you
ever seen the picture?
After reading such authority as Lord
SALISBURY, in the statistics she presented,
she asked of the audience their conclusion,
and whether or not insanity was not the off
spring of intemperance and pauperism, its
twin brother? The pauper family propa-
gates and every State in the Union has its
burthen to bear. In the State of New York
it is known that in three generations, from
two sisters, there were 400 paupers and
criminals. What commentary The demon
enters our home, invades the most sacred spot
on earth; the one image of the better world,
and what then does it become? It is trans
formed into hell. Our reformatores for
boys are full. We go as teachers
among them. We speak to them
of God as their Father and they shrink back:
their minds revert back to their earthly faith
er. We hardly know how to reach them.
We read a few days ago of the fire in Wash
ington when it burned the patent Office
models. This fire of intemperance burns
out our homes which should be the models
of heaven. The lady made a strong appeal
to her sisters not to weary in the work nature
seemingly designed should fall to her lot;