The New York herald., 1878-12-02
AMgnlcAy rEMpEaANcE UNION.

AhEAitAN lIhFI-tsNNtE 1NipN.
The meeting OF the American Temperance Union
at Clarendon Hail. East Thirteenth street, yesterday
afternoon was unusually lively and the audience was
larger than previous Sundays, possibly owing to
the publication Of the hostile meeting between the
President, Mr.. William H. Mundy, and his brother
LAWYER Mr.. William Mullin, account of which was
published in yesterdays HERALD. After the meeting
was opened by the president DR.. Richards read
a passage from the Scriptures, and when he
had concluded Mrs. Van Cott arose and offered u
fervent prayer. in which she alluded to the re-
port of .he encounter between Brother Mnndy
and Mr.. Mullin and prayed that God might sustain
the former in his conflict with those whose deeds
we're OF darkness. II clear, she said, that the
enemies of the temperance cause were the ayowed
enemies of Mr. Mundy and Lawyer Mullin the
agent in legal capacity of the liquor dealers The
enemy had become desperate. and 1t behooyed every
friend of the temperance cause To arm and do battle
with those who are laDoring day and night for the
destruction of our people.
Mr.. ID. L. X. Ryan. OF Canada, then gave an account
of the progress Of the temperance cause in that conn
try where. he said. great reformation had been
achieved. He awaKened much hunor by his dehni-
ton OF ''bumIner, who, he said, Was most valua
BILE adjunct to the ginmill. He IS worth
great deal to the rumselier. He doubles
up the drinks, and has never been known
to REFUSE matter who may come along He is to
all tents and purposes part and parcel OF the estab
lshment and after long acquired habit. it becomes
his home" The speaker then pointed the moral by
saying that il such a human being could be of SO
much yalne in the OF evil how much more vali-
this latter end, he conenaed all Jealous workers IN
the cause Of temperance should devote themselves.
DEGRADATION AND REFORM.
Professor Bentley sang Where IL My Boy To-
nght? and Mrs. Van Colt then took her place at the
desk and gave long Of her labors in the
vival at the Ludlow Street Church. She mentioned
the case of William Writ, once Attorney General OF
the United States and afterward candidate for Presi
dent who became confirmed sot, she said, because
the lady ne loved rejected his suit But seeing him
once greatly intoxicated and remembering some of
his finer traits she had her handkerchief passed to
him He paused and as soon as his eyes caught the
name ON the handkerchief he was SO moved that,
drunk he was, he became from that day convert
to temperance. Mrs. Van Cott hoped all the good
workers in the of temperance would meet be-
yond the river, and TO that end she asked her daugh
ter to sing. Shall we meet beyond the river 2? The
lady complied. and sang very sweetly.
Rev. DR.. Remington, who has done some excellent
missionary work along the docks in this city for
twenty-five years past then related his experience
among longshoremcn, sailors coahcavers and Others
Of that class Mrs. DR.. Somerby spoke on the great
inf fuence that could exercise in the temper
ance cause, and exhorted her hearers to renewed
efforts in view Of the artces recently resorted to by
the LIQUOR dealers and their agents. In this
ton she mentioned Mr.. Mundy's misadventure, and
said that before week had elapsed the case would be
set right. After singing the doxology the meeting
Dispersed.