, 1879-04-11

q q, tnnn who had come and gone tn the piacc Of
sne haiy, WHO had Rono Snhbath aftor Sabbath
wth ms family TO thu sanctuary, listened to tle
ieaelllhg Or the Word. to the singing nf the
hfflha; who hal turned Ills buck OIL hls fnmIly
nrl tl'c Communion, a,ul lmtl pnssctl out A!are
Ear''lmS What llo knew was Tic truth aiItl tho
!1ic, alsreEars'nE his Savior aud hts usHl; i
hc.s .s. 1! lorGotten. AT The sinners were MT Ut
',na. ine Church, men who did net nos Gs55ii 1T
were men Who drank M their i q,p.scs every day mud
50 n0ny times ! dav asld who conlA nut yet
along Without it-siaves to tho appetite for
strong drink. There were many such drunk.
arcat AS Tint Of tho poor. miserable, iftily,
atcohoI-soHhcd wretch who slept IN saloons atn
tn The street, dirty md rageesl. Drunkenness
IN the gutter lying In the mlid wns tut nlolIler
lor, sitting at n marketable ssnpug vino from
cut-Glass.. Tho one WINS no worse than tho
other IN tho sight Of God. Tie sin In dirt md
raEs was no worse than sin IN ak md velvet
lid lcneaeh tousc.tronts III brown atone mud
marble.
We're thcro no drunkenness In t,c Chuscta
Wcre there no eocfal drinkers IN the Church I
Hero the speaker denounced with terrible vc-
he!ncnco the socnl drinkers untl those WHO np-
there no liars !n the Clu,schf Somebody lnd
made distinction between different kinds OF
lies calling enc kind "whte les" That was II
lie; :, There wero no such things as white Ics:
"soclal licH ''-thc spirit Ut deceit which prompts
cd scHicty.wotuaa to tell anotllcr, ~ hone
you'il gall aEaln eoot'," and, when her hack wns
tnIaesl, to say, "ihc spttefat thing; hope she
"shopp!nE lIo (which Indies told wien they
said tllat ;. these goods eau bo bought for
much less" al nuotl,cr merchants store;
tl,e "busnees lie''-,whieh business men told
Rtth fVt1Sfa
goods" when they knew TINT the goods wcrs
lnn1o In tbs country.
The speaker next referred 10 the sin Of pro.
family, samenting tts almost universal tse, nnd
its association with most sacred things. lie
'hen spoke OF the crime ot lIrenttousness rs tic
greatest crime tint society had to contend
nEalnst, nstl tho one to which the men vi 70.
ciety mil OF the world were most addicted. lie
had kept atlll about It as lung rs he could. 1t
lad Of late 50 forced Itself upon him. nnl hal
70 come under Ills notice, that he could keep
silent no longer. Ministers u,ld teachers hatl
beon In tile habit Of passing that crime by
without rebuke and without mention. The
time had come When the VOICE Of the Gospel.
teacher must be raised nga[nst It. It thrcnl-
ened the obstruction Of society. Tho time Ind
come Whcn preachers must overcome tllrir nom
sefssical seruplcs, mud denpunco tho lcprous
seorrge: The confessions II the inaurY.room
bclieu tie superstition TINT liccntiousne5s exist
cd chiefly a1nong the poorer clnsscs Of pcupIc.
"TAcy" Gncanlng the Two cvangelists) never
saycl long In one placu without hcaruE III the
in1uIrY.rouM eotne terrible Aitl horrible rerela.
tlons which proved tllat the cascs Of lIecnt!ous.
ness nmong the rich people, nnlong the dwcless
III br0Wn-stone anu marble fronts, outnunbcrcd
three to ono tho cases among thu poorer people.
Best society WINS full of It. 11lo newspapers
wero full Of It every day. 1t WINS no fault OF
the newspapers because the public demanded
1t. And the worst OF It all was that The best
socicty condoncd It. Young 1ncu stood ut
ct,nrcf,-doors and lnndo rlbald and scandalous
rcinarks about young ladies as they passed
even into thu churches, md then wcIt nto tho
church and hang out OF the same ly,nn-books
with those young ladies. The men who wcrc
given 10 Righteousness, aud known to bs W,
were received into society. The poor unfor-
tunate victims Of these men perhaps went
down into tic path tlat led to Hell. Tilr w0ul-
en were lost to the world ard TO themselves,
while their Bc1ucers, the Enrnlerrrs ot tser
souls, were received into society US though they
werc pure md spotlcss. The speaker cloaed his
address with nuother vehement denunciaiion oi
the crime And called upon nl ministers to rlsu
tu their might against It.
The Rev. Mr.. Stebbfns then sang tl,u hymn
entitled Eternity" antl tic meeting was dis.
missed With thu bencoictlon.