The Portland daily press., 1878-08-12

songs Tor tne occasion. Inc young peoples
meeting is very attractive feature and attend
ed with much success.
The 2 p. m. service, led by o. B. Chadbourne
of Saco, was commenced by singing. Il hear
thy welcome voice." followed by feryent
prayer by Rev. A. S. Ladd of Portland.
Mr.. Wright of Boston, Superintendent of the
Friendly Inn, was introduced as the first speak.
or, and related briefly an account of the work
in which he is engaged, and testified to the
rower of the gospel to reclaim the fallen.
Mr.. S. G. Hamilton of Saco urged his reformed
brethren to work faithfully in the cause as
preventive against return to their cups.
Rsv. VI. Hillman Of Scarboro, gave an earn
est speech in which he earnestly entreated the
reformed men to rely upon divine strength to
keep the pledge. Three minute speeches fol-
lowed by Goldthwaite of Biddeford, johnson
of Saco, White of Portland, and Jordan of
Cambridge.
Rev. J. e. Wolfe Of Boston delivered the
closing address Of the afternoon, in which he
fully illustrated the power of grace to save the
poor, miserable drunkard by a narrative of his
own bitter experience in the path of drunken
ness and of his reclamation to course of So
briefly. This thrilling experience affected the
entire audience to tears, from which even the
most obdurate heart could not refrain. Mr..
Wolfe is powerful advocate of temperance
principles, and manifests zeal which is only
explainable from his sad acquaintance with
the curse of incompetence. His time is now
occupied in raising funds for the erection Of a
Gospel Temperance Tabernacle in Boston where
%I,nI avI h.. bod la III
A lady has donated 81 900 for this object, aud
about $1,000 is now required to complete the
work. To this end Mr.. Wolfe has issued a
publication entitled Chow to Fight the Rum
Devil" being an account of his wonderful
work in Newburyport, more exciting than any
fictitious tale. Rumsellers may as well aban-
don the traffic when this Wol((e) gets upon
their track, for they are Gagged s'every time,''
After Mr.. Wolfe had finished speaking Prof
Murdoch of Philadalphis. recitsd "The vaga-
bond" by Trowbridge, which won loud sp.
p'ause.
The meeting was then closed with selection
by the Columbia's Own Quartette.
The evening meeting was in charge of Mr..
G. D. Starbird, who introduced Mr.. Geo. a.
Letavor, President Of the Portland Reform
Club, as the first speaker. He spoke of the
prosperous condition of the reform club of
which he is presd emit.
Interesting speeches were given by Ell. NJ
Bryant, Mrs. Fitzgerald, o. B. Chadbourne,
Geo. W. Murch, Job Sanford and G. L. Parker.
Fifth ID ay.
Sunday was glorious day at Old Orchard
for the cause Of temperance. Streams of peo
pie poured into the grove until the assemblage
augmented to the size of about 5000 in num-
Der.
The first service of the day was gospel tenn
perance meeting at 6 o'clock with Rev. j. E.
W olfe presiding. A temperance love feast was
conducted by Mrs. Hart of Brooklyn at s
o'clock and was participated in by q large
number of earnest speakers.
At 10 o'clock o. m. an immense congregation
assembled about the stand for the preaching
service, which was begun by singing "What a
friend we have in Jesus" succeeded with
prayer by Rev. 1. Luce of Saccarappa.
After landing very highly the character of
Hon. Neal Dow, Rsv.W. Fl. Boole of Connect
cut delivered very profitable and eloquent
discourse based upon Rom. 5:11-"We also joy
in God through our Lord Jesus Christi etc
The preacher presented some of the benefits
accruing to the world from the atonement
After portraying the pure character of man
prior to the fall and his subsequent degraded
condition, he set forth the following elements
of the atonement, viz: First, Christ became a
ransom for all; secondly, Christ was propitia-
ton for the sins of all; thirdly, Christ was
ouhc itnfo for fbo fn,, tbo nd,
for sin; lastly, the Holy Ghost. He urged the
greater application Of the last element to the
temperance movement.
An immense audience gathered at p. M ,
when Hon. Neal Dow gave an intensely inter-
esting and powerful address, Mr.. Dow showed
the prime Importance of the liquor question as
compared with the other Questions which today
agitate the minds Of our statesmen. He chal-
lenged anyone to prove any good coming from
the liquor traffic and commented upon its ten
dency to impoverish and criminalizs the people
of our nation. To silence the false rumors
in circulation that as much liquor is sold in
Maine today as ever, Mr.. Dow contrasted the
present condition of temperance in Maine,
which contains not single distillery, with the
time when Is distilleries were in operation. He
urged the punishment Of the liquor traffic as
other crimes in proportion to the mischief
caused. The responsibilities of Maine in this
warfare was considered. In closing he present.
ed for adoption petition to the legislature for
increased penalty if needed for the annhila-
ton of this crime. Thi is petition was unani-
mously adopted by rising vote.
Miss Frances e. Willard of Chicago followed
with grand address which held the closest at
tention of the audience. She commenced by
referring to the fact that the Western people
have got beyond monosyllables and have
learned to pronounce and advocate prohibition.
The welding together of law and gospel was
urged very strongly.
Rev. d. G. Babcock of Philadelphia then
preached very able sermon from the text
found in Prov. 3l:9, The theme presented was
"The Church and the Liquor SYSTEM, of
which we give an abstract The Christian
church meets no obstacle to the accomplish.
ment of her mission that will at all compare
with the liquor system. Our benevolent enter
prises are tagging today because Of hard times
and the liquor system is the principal cause of
hard times. Statistics prove that the liquor
system is less affected by hard times than any.
thing else. Six hundred million dollars per
annum are paid for liquor in our country &C.
cording to Dr. Edward Young of the National
Statistical Bureau, while only 1854, 49,, 5S1
were invested in church property in 1872. Not
moral suasion alone nor legal snasiop, hut
every kind of suasion is needed for the entire
| destruction Of this evil. Two things are in
volved in this liquor systematic drinking GUS
toms OF society which rest on false views of the
drinker and the traffic that supports these Gus
toms because there is money in it. The
church must correct these false views of the
drinker and destroy the profits of the dealer.
The hope of this cause of temperance is in the
Christian church which alone has all the means
and appliances to meet the evil everywhere
The church is called upon to be earnest in thi:
cause and TO establish some practical system
of work which it so much lacks now.
Mr.. Hobby, Secretary of the Massachusetts
State Alliance, then was introduced and gave
an account of the progress of prohibition in bill
state.