Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-01
TEMPERANCE WORK.
Forcible and Entertaining Address Deliv-
cred at the jackson Street M. &c. Church
Last Evening.

Forcible and Entertaining Address DeIiv-
cred at the jackson Street M. &c. Church
Last Evening.
at the meeting of the Womens' Christian
Temperance Union, last night, Mrs. Mary A.
Woodbridge, of Ohio, was the orator OF the oc-
casion, and delivered the following eloquent
address:
When Edward VI at his coronation received
three swords Indicative of his sovereignty over
! three kingdoms, he looked upon them, and
| called for the Bible, saying, ''These cannot be
we'll welded without the sword of the spirit
He had learned the secret of prosperity and
/ greatness. for the principle is universal, and
forever true, and sin is a reproach to any peo-
ple.''
| Had Edwards reign been a fulfllment of
such prophetic action, it would have been an
| era IN history, more noticeable for morality
| than any We find recorded. Had this principle,
recognized by the founders of our government.
been the motive power during its existence we
| should not be gathered tonight in considera-
ton of great national sin.
Restrictive, punitive forces must be in ratio
with the growth and general progress of ma
! ton, or disasters will cnsue. Our forefathers
fled from religious oppression, and found in
| this land home, where 'they might worship
God according to the dictates of their own con-
| science" but with them came the evil we de-
| plore, AID which we seek to overthrow. Good
| souls, seeking God reaching out after individ-
| ual purity, they failed to recognize the various
| forms of evil that gained toothold in their
| midst, and unwittingly aided in weaving the
| first threads of that fall which to-day covers
| the entire nation. In diary written
| by one OF their number, we find
these Words 'Among our most
deplored deprivations is that of our beer" and
later. "our annual love token to our revered
pastor, MIR. Robinson, is a barrel of wine, and
plenty of beer" Thus planted the evil has grown
with the years. and strengthened with the CEN
| turtles. until, as the Israelites of DID, to whom
Jehovah spoke through His prophet, ''We err
because of wine, we are out of the way be-
| cause OF strong drink and as they shave
| thought to make a covenant with death, and
| an agreement with hell, saying, when the over
lowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not
come unto us. for we have made Him our ref
uge, and beneath falsehood have we hid our
selves" Gods inevitable law OF cause and eff
feet, has spoken to this people in tones as clear
| as the words to the tribe of Ephraim, your
covenant with death shall be dis-annulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not stand, When
| the overlooking scourge shall pass through, then
ye she'll be trodden down by it. From the time
|
ing by morning it shall pass over; by day and
by night, and it shall be vexauion only to
hear the report
| The overlooking scourge is upon us; we are
| trodden down by it, and an antidote must be
sought and found, and administered or we
shall be lost. This sin hath often had lesser
estimate. To some it has seemed of small
moment, for it has laid its hand upon so many
through appetite. so many more in political and
commercial circles through mistaken self-in-
terest, and on still larger numbers, through
| their association with, or relation to them that
the national heart seems to have grown cold,
| ana conscience, the great moral nerve of our
being to be paralyzed; but the time has come,
| when If saved, we must heed the entreaty of
| the prophet, BE ye not Knockers, lest your
hands be made strong, for 1 have heard from
the Lord God of hosts, a consumption deter
mined. even upon the whole earth.''
Women in their seemingly helpless ayonv.
too deep for tears, have looked upon this sin
with clear vision, and with hearing uuickened
| by pain, have listened to the warnings and
COMBINATIONS of the Almighty, the while cry
ing unto God, for fathers, and husbands, and
| brothers, and sons, who were in the; maelstrom
| of death, if SO be He would extricate them !?
| The Lord heard and answered, and in 1874
came to the women of Ohio, with baptismal
| blessings. cry was heard at Hillsboro, as of
one IN great agony, finding expression only in
| the words of Inspiration, as spoken by the
Psalmist in his 146th song; but as Mary, who
| in loving attitude listened to her Lord vet sat
still in the house, until called, when He after
wards came, SO did they, and he spoke to the
women of Washington. @. H., who ansered
| 'Rabbonl," and In obedience to his commend
went forth to the battle, retreating not there
from until there was victory over the foe in all
| their midst. To them the ewes of the people
were turned. For them the hosts the Lord
were in constant pleading, little dreaming they
were the John foretelling the coming of the
Holy One of Israel to us all: but from thence
were heard His stately steppings, and as He
drew near. and spoke name after name
of women who had long prayed His coming,
they stood still as dumb, and scarcely daring
to lift the eye, only breathed prayer for help,
when to them sweetly. softly came the grace
| and strength TO say, "Thy will o Lord, not
mine be DONE" Women who before that time
| had meyer heard their voice in public audience.
| who In their own house, and in quiet avenues
OF life had served the Master well, realized
for the first time, the power of an iu-dwelling
Christ, and were able to join with Bryant
| in his extatic song, 1--WE have had our turn.
| have been lifted from the darkness of the clod
| and for one glorious moment have seen the
| brightness of the skirts of God.'' Their path
etic human tones will never vanish from the
songs OF the redeemed. The agony of redemp-
| ton, the rapture of reconciliation then learned
| can never be forgotten. This spread through
| out the west as a wild prairie FIRE. and voices
erss untuned to heavens harmonies, soon
| chanted the same raphsody, and from that
hour. women have been permitted to go forth,
proclaimipg the glad news of gospel temper
ance and in the form of the Holy Ghost re-
producing the image Of the son of God in dy-
ing souls until in the length and breadth of
the land, there are homes once dark and imbrut-
| ed, where now is found a sanctity as pure and
as fragrant as that within our own; and it is
not purchased perfumes there are countless
fields that God has blessed. Under such In
SEPARATION and through continued clipging to the
cross, that brings the feeling, which inspires
! faith and necessitates action, and recognizing
the fact that while they were saving the cross,
then the hundreds were being gathered into
the gates of death and there, not alone from
| the men and women OF the land, but from the
ranks of the children and youth, women reach.
ed out to their saving, and when the glad It'd
ings of the first Ohataoua
gathering fell upon their ears
that, by training, they might be given increas-
ed power to win the little ones for Christ, they
flew to the fitting. As the shepherd knows
his sheep, they know each other, and for them
was double blessing in reserve. crusade
prayer meeting was called. and the great taber-
nacle on the hill was filled to overlooking. not
alone with men and women, but with the glory
of the Lord, as the temple of old. After fire.
quent prayer and consultation, committee