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Il. Cough, who was received with en-
thusiasllc applause as he took the platform.
Mr. Cough spoke somewhat as follows:

'ii- "oush SPOKE somewhat as lOllOwS;
MR. COUGHS Address.
do not intend TO make set speech or 10
pay any attention to what logicians may call
the untics of an address. l want TO define
my position On one or two points. In the
hrst place | am in favor of the Prohibitory
law There is too much false sympathy in
tins matter. People say the law is hard on
| The liquor Sciler-whch reminds me Of the
little girl, looking at Il painting of the early
Christians being thrown to the lions, who
said There's poor little hungry lion with
out any Christian" Ny sympathies are with
those who are destroyed, and no, with the
destroyer. ! have no patience with this
false sympathy. Ii it lie the will of the
Father in Heaven that men should suffer |
beg linn to send every other calamity upon
me hut save me from the fate OF Il drunkard
but | would rather he reeline blcar-eycd
sot than the man who sold him liquor That
is my opinion of the liquor traffic This
| Is my position. ! do not believe in conf
| promises. The converted darky was Tempt
ell to steal pair Of boots and after IA long
and agOniZing mental struggle compromised
with the Lord and took a cheap pair Of shoes
from another counter. That is what COM
promise is.
| want TO address more particularly the
reformed men. The appetite for drink is
something that no man can unGerstand-not
even the victim. 1t is power which brings
a man IN his strength and beauty down be-
low the level of the brute II makes chronic
every evil particle in depgaved human ma
ture. 1t makes the mother forget her child
as did that English mother who sold her
beautiful offspring 10 miserable tramp fox
| two pairs of stockings sold them and bought
| liquor with the proceeds. Is there any
power on earth that will 50 DEGRADE and
brutalZc and damn everything that is noble
and good Every drunkard knows the power
of rum. A drinking man sometimes says,
Il cln stop just as easily as | can turn over
my hand Let no man who has been
drinking for years tell me that. Drunkards
are not weak-minded men. Did you ever see
a drunkard fighting against the desire for
drink? lie has a longing wish, an unspeai-
able craving for it. He would give the
world for a glass of liquor. / remember the
morning after signed the pledge. | thought
| | must have liquor-but resisted the temp
tatIon. What can a drunkarl do: You tell
him to pray. Perhaps lie does not believe
in prayer. Perhaps he has not prayed for
years and he can't pray and the heavens
seem as brass over him. He needs
human sympathy. | wante,l it, and
went to my employer. The only
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belief that he didn't believe | would
keep the pledge. | went back to my work
and it seemed rs though must give up. |
held in my hand an iron bar and suddenly it
seemed TO twist and turn in my hand. |
grasped it firmly in both hands, but it
finally twisted out of my grip and as it fell
| upon the floor it was 4 writhing serpent
| That was an indication of delirium. | con-
tinued to struggle with my appetite for drink
| in agony, when n man came in and said
Good morning, Mr.. Cough; was glad To-
see You sign the pledge, last night No
body cares for NE, said. 80, yes, they
do he replied; didn't you see the young
men who followed your example in signing
the pledge? thought | would come in ami
see you and bid you keep up brave heart
| and good courage Come into my Office and
see me, often-and God bless you" That
was the sympathy for which | lonsed and
| which | needed. Six days andnishts | suffer
| ed the horrors of the damned; but at last |
stood in the sunlight, weary and worn, but
| exultant in my deliverance. The reformed
men need your help and Your sympathy and
| your cooperation in their endeavor. You
who think it easy to leave OH drinking try
the experiment with your tobacco.
Now be careful an report correctly what
| am going to say. In a speech at Provi-
country were contracting the drinking habit
The remark probably did not get reported
correctly and paper in this State-the Rut-
land Hfsad-improveJ the opportunity to
| call me- on the strength of the speech, a
thief, Il liar, mOuntebank and man whose
mendacity disguised his audiences. 1t was
the vilest attack made on me for the last
thirty years. A man can stop drinking if ny
will. Some people say he can't unless n
becomes Christian. lie can. 1t is foyy
10 say man can't stop unless he bcconGs =
Christian. But if he does not become n
Christian it is risk if he does, it is Safety.
We want more temperance i'll religion and
more religion in temperance. When | see
men try to reform in their own' strength
only, trcmble for them. WENT out alone
and in six months fell. ThenH went out
praying for the Almighty 10 holIfme up.
The grace of God wont take away the ap-
petite for liquor. You can poison Chris
tan inst as easily rs you,bcan lI.ottentot
The grace Of God will talsef ava; the desire
bu. the appetite is 4 mysterious something
created in some SYSTEMS by drink and it
never dies Don't be tempted to take one
| sip. If you belong to fthe church and they
use fermented wine, idon't touch it. The
church should be tde home and the refuge of
the drunkard' byit it is the temptation. Why
not nave uIEermented wine? As to the
Biblical ar fment in favor of fcrmented wine
We mus' Yum from learning to common sense.
IL you yre told the Bible commands the use
OF eriSented wine don't believe it. What
10 VT know about the wines of Scripture
Wien men say that the Savior made fer
hented wine don't believe it. The Savior
never commanded me to drink something
cannot touch without sending myself TO hell
and from His presence forever.
We are fighting alcohol and We will fight
it forever. Here the speaker made a di-
erosion touching the irrevcrencc OF mach OF
our popular hymno losy and continued :: Ii
the evil caused in this land by drunk mess
were caused by hydrophobia. there w1Iidn't
be dog in the United States in six m 'aths.
Our principle Of total abstinence is not only
lawful but sensible. No man intends 10 be
drunkard Drunkenness is not merely get
ting drunk We hear it said that temper
ance is more manly than total abstinence.
This is very specious. Ii a man can drink
two quarts of liquor day and walk off with
it he is temperate and manly II he goe,
down under it he goes to excess Some men
can't drink moderately One glass is an eN-
cess for some people. Men who can drinl,
with moderation look with contempt on us
| who can't
In our work We have the cEcoura cement
of a growing interest in the temperance
cause. There is more drinking today than
twenty-five years ago, AMI this is largely due
TO the recent introduction Of beer. This Is
simply adding beer To alcohol. 1t doesn't
| take its place Beer is the curse Of Great
| Britain and if we don't look out it will be
come the curse of this country. We want
! every agency employed in this temperance
work We want the children. We undcrrate
the understanding of child would he
glad to see some of the Sun,!ay-School
literature reformed. Children have Il tire
mcndous influence. We want il anil We are
fast getting it, We must have persistence.
Thy will he done on earth rs it is in
Heaven is prophecy. We have nothing
10 do with the results; it is for us 10 only
work As the work of the waves upon the
rock, So is our Temperance Increment slow
but rcsiStleSs.
At frequent intervals AMI as h. CLOSED Mr.
Cough was enthusiastically apP,an,ied
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening addresses were made byJ.
X. Osgood, Judge jerks AMI others; and
with this session the meeting closed
The meeting was on the whole a success:
h,th in point OF ATTENDING a., interest S,d
n,ai!:. s,s and auditors must feel alike 80,
/. H.
MR. BEECnEE On His OwS L'eCTuEE.-
After Rev. Henry Ward EeecFier's lecture
on The New Profession" IN this city, the
other evening, friend wrote him, in friend
ly criticism of the lecture. Mr.. EcechSr's-
reply lies before us. and We may perhaps be
pardoned for copying the following charac-
tcriStic sentences from it, though it was not
intended 10y its writer for the public eye;
True. On WISE uiin-true rs Gospel: hut wnat
then can man ride all day. TREE when he starts,
In iorrII weaihrr-.Inl then give forth new and IL
Spred discourse, TO a handful OF men. on a subject
which lie had not expected 10 speak nn t he ar
rived: II a man ellnnot 10 as well As he wants To-
he must do as well ~ he can-whether II b. good.
bad or indifferent. And above all things a man
should avoid running 4 race with himself ans Ivy
ing Ia speak up 10 his reputation. OH the cNpcc'i-
ton of his auditors lie Is Ia speak 10 t1r utmost
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