The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-04-18
COLD WATER.W0RKs.
A Rousing Meeting at the Baptist
Church Last Night.
The Murphyites Determined to Fight
it Out on This Line,
II it Takes all Summer-Temper-
ance Talk.

| Much the largest audience since Sunday
night, assembled last evening at the Baptist
church to hear the question OF temperance
discussed and help ON the good cause. The
choir was much larger and the singing good.
! The s5th chapter Of Isaiah was read by Mr..
/ Reynolds, and prayer was made by DIR.
! Hardwicke. Mr.. Reynolds delivered an able
/ lecture from the subject, AT the last il
biie,h like a serpent and stingeth like an
adder"
HE DEMONSTRATED FULLY
that every page OF history written on the
trafIic and the facts thai have grown there
Irom are all in harmo Y with these words.
He said that IL bitetn mentally aud Physic-
ally, socially ami morally; breaks every
CT / Of human sympathy and 50 malignant
Is the bite, and ~ lost do men become TO al.
moral and social Ties ana domestic OD.lg a.
lions that they
WILL SACRIFICE WIFE. CHILDREN,
homes and county, the hope OF heay en-. and
sina IN The vortex nj he'll 10 sake the Thirst
thus created. In vi w Of its terrible dtmOr-
.lIzing and debasii.g infiu-nc,-s and teBden-
cies he called upon AL la unite in the work Of
rs-scuug those vino are thus p-rIsiilny, and
kill the snake that il thus oiIins them. II
the people really deSirc > have a grand up
heavai on this question. "A 81 cr''atea
BETTER PUBLIC TEMPERANCE SENTIMENT
1 , the community, now is the tim :, and the
o. portunlIy. Most Certainly the moral ele-
lnent winch Is always SUPPOSED "a DC IN IA
vor OF sobriely, aud ths church members
should rally most enthusiastically 10 the
movement. II they will 10 this, there can
be
NoouEsrIoN ABOUT THE RESULT.
There will be a IN. citing again this evening.
Let tbs. friends be active sIIu invite the peo-
pie 10 be present. MIR. Conerfori young
man recently redeemed from the bondage OF
this traffic. and wa" has been doing grand
work across the river, and n most eloquent
speaker. will address the meeting. Let the
house be crowded.
NOT DISCOURAGED.
While the meetings during this week have
not been 50 large AS Was anticipated. and Ger
taiuly not so large as The importance people
had "a right to expect, Sill the advocates Oh
fhe cold water Gauss, are not discouraged. by
any means and propose 10 night II out on this
line IL IL taxes ali SUMMER. There seems 70 De
a sort of lethargy enveloping the majority
the temperance people Of TINS Town, as they
have been
NEGIEcrING THESE MEETINGS
and letting the minority do all the hard work
and receive the hard knoc.s. III the temper
snce people only, and not counting In SIN
lie sinner or b.bbier, should turn out ,ne,e Is
not a church or any other building IN this
city which would ho;d one-iOurth OF thehi.
This Is "A good time for
THE TEMPERANCE PEOPLE
TO do some solid work, now that MI. Rey- |
nolds Is here, and II this opportunity Is neg
not find such rich soil upon which 10 SOW the |
seed of total abstinence. One time isn't as |
good as another, and if the cold water advo- |
cafes don't look out the right time may De |
lost and then, 10 put II in plain p;irlance.
AFTERNOON PRAYER MEETINGS.
Mr. REYNOLDS has inauyurated, and Is now
carrying on, what are called afternoon pray
err ,neetings, not a new idea by any means, |
but not attempted since tie lime OF the iast
These prayer-neefings are heid IN
the lecture room ofthe First congregational |
church, at the corner of Fifth and delaware
streets, and last one hour, from hall past |
three Z, half past four o'clock. They have SO |
far been very well attended.
THERE'LL DE SATAN To PAY,
and II IL well known that the Old boy IL very /
V vigorous in making his collections and unre-
ienting when il comes harvest time. Inc |,
fact that each succeeding evening has Wit
messed an increased attendance has nIled the
Murphy leaders with hope, and inspired |
them TO keep stiif upper lip ana not |
to be discouraged ii the movement does
not travel along at the pace anticipated. The |
number of sgners obtained thus far has been
very litrg and the roll is getting longer |
/ very lay.