The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-02-18
AT TEMPERANCE HALL.

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Tho Reform Club hall was well filed
with people Of all classes last night, who
had assembled to hear the temperance ora.
tor, Dir. 7, B, Pettitt, Of Kentucky 1t
was not the regular meeting night of the
Reform CLUB, but notwithstanding 4 large
number Of men and an unusually large
number Of ladies were present.
After the singing of seyera, songs and the
reading Of the fifth chapter of Isaiah, Nj.
Geo 5. Fisher, the president OF the Reform
Club, introduced Mr.. r. B, Petit, who ;s
an elderly gentleman Of a commanding fig
ure, with a clear and strong voice, which
enabled the audience to hear every word he
said.
Mr.. Pcttitt commenced by saying that it
was customary with him to choose text
and accordingly he would choose the %
chapter Of Proverbs. After reading it and
stating that it was King James translation
and that no material difference would be
found between it and the Catholic, Bible,
he read the following which were the first
words Of his text;
WHO hath woe" He said "w0e' signi-
fed the very greatest Of al! suffering and
distress, He quoted number OF the say
ings Of Christ and said that we could learn
from them coming from the highes; au-
thority as they did--that the worl woe"
was intended to convey TO the miad the
most lasting suffering and intense torment
and misery
WHO hath Sorrow he co1tnueI-the
very opposite of that cXh.arAting emotion
which is joyt Was /, the man who had
buried his family or vas weeping over the
grave of his w;e;-Or Va, il the man who
had buried his only chIid-the son VINO in
old age was to be his pride and upon whom
he thought 10 lean for support as he drew
near to his grave: These men had ,orrow;
but their sorrow was but slight compared
to that sorrow 10 which the writer Of the
holy scriptures referred
"Who hath c,ntcn;iolsi" Who were they
who were found quarrciing and dispu:ing
about tri1es until they came to b.3%.
which not unfrcqucn;Iy resulted in death!
Who was the young man. asked the speak
er, evidently referring to young Rhcl
Boyd, Of Paducah, who was arrested in TIL,
city the son of a distinguished statesman
the young man Of rare talents and si.yery
tongucd speech, who, under the influence
of the damnable stuff, had maiy and in.
sanely committed a sad crime and outraged
the laws of his native state;
"Who hath blbbfng!" Who was the
man we heard in the streets and by.ways
and at the places Of public resort, in con.
versaion which was devoid o: thought and
which was simple babb!ingl Who was the
man who would in a silly and excited man.
ner converse about trlAes until It resulted
in fighting and bloodshed! Who vas the
man who had swollen cheeks, r2dne,s Of
nose and whose countenancc, generally. was
disfgurcd. The next question would sug.
gest the answer, VIZ:
"Why hath redness Of eyes" The speak
er remarked, by the way that We did not
read Of redneSs Of cheeks, and then said
that perhaps the man who wept hal red.
ness Of eyes but this was not the man
meant. That which produced all this must be
a demon, indeed. Saul and David hal slain
thousands. but tho evils spirits" had slam
tens Of thousands more; they had made
men commit thetts, burglary and murder
and were the prime ministers Of vice upon
earth, Returning to the original question,
the speaker asked who it was that had
rcdncss Of nose; who it was that walked
the streets unexpected in tattcrs and rags,
and the question was answered by his
text:
"Thcy that tarry long at the wine The
speaker dwclt upon this sentence al some
length; described the moderate drinkcr,
his thoughts and his actions, and said that
although he might sufficiently attend to his
business on general occasions, that on court
or election day his contentious would not
be few and that his idiotic babbling could
then be heard And this mans bloated body
would eventually find drunkard's grave
and his sonl the drunkard's he'll. He was
not speaking without authority when he
said this, but the Scriptures supported him.
"They that 90 to seek mixed wine"
Those who sought wine at all would find in
themselves u tendency to linger at it. There
were, it was true, inca Of strong minds.
men who could resist the temptation-they
would resolve to go so far and no farther,
but ninety line men out of a hundred VINO
sought wine at all would "tarry long
at it. The one man out
nf q b,,nIrnl who had fine force OF mind