Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-23
Second Address

| 10. e the olympia DIle l,iDbOH IIeaSue
Sunday, April 18th, and published by the
unanimous request OF the League.
Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN: II is with deep sense of graf
itude for the kindly manner in which
my last address was received, and
with an earnest prayer to the un-
seen world, peopled as I know it is,
with anxious mothers. trusting wives
and loving children, asking for wis
dom, strength and love to do my
work faithfully and well in this glo-
rious cause o dear to my soul, and
to SO place my thoughts before thsil
loved ones here that they may touch
n responsive chord in the heart OF
each of my listeners, that l appear
before you to-day to plead once
more the Temperance cause with
those who are still Standing on that
dangerous plecipice of inebriety be-
low which lies the yawniDg pit of
utter ruin aud destruction, appeal
ing to all that is best and t.uest
within them to shake oft the yoke OF
servitude which intemperance has
placed upon them. To plead ten
derby, lovingly, trustingly; tenderly
because my great mother love has
made my heart more tender to all of
earth's 5 children and tells me that
=. No matter how wayward his footsteps
have been;
No matter how deep he has sunken i'll
sin; .
No matter how low is his standard of
Tho ri,,iity, tho sinful, he is some moth
= er's boy"
And because / would ask the
Angel World to throw around my
dear boy us pure mantle OF tender
ness when the heart, which now
thrills with anxious care for him, is
stilled in death and the mothers
sympathy which now shields him
from the temptations Of earth,
can no longer be felt. Lovingly,
because l recognize in lore the attri-
butte and essence of God, and the
intense love I bear those nearest
and dearest to me, reflects bow CT
promise on the darkened lives of
the errine ones of earth and under
meath that bow Of promise, written
in letters of transcendent light, l
see, by faith, that sweet old couplet,
Love rules the court, the camp, the
grove.
For love is Heaven and Heaven is love
Tlustingly, because however much
they have sinned know not what
their temptations were, I see in
them persons who are largely the
victims of circumstances, and if the
storms of adversely and sorrow have
driven their frail bark out upon the
empestuous sea of intemperance
the beacon light of restored conf
dence may yet bring them into Il
safe harbor. Iknow that the tender
little Aoweret leveled by the storm
rises again if caressinsly wooed by
the life giving warmth of the SUI
that the stern old oak, when rivel
by lightning, if it's roots are SOUND
and whole, will heal its bruises II
moistened with the dews OF Heavcr
, and soothed by the soft balmy all
of Spring, and lift its head again
soon resally wearing its crown o.
fresh green leaves, in time becoming
pride and shelter. And | know
, that our dear Heavenly Father ]:
+ not more kind to the flowers of thu
field than to his own weak erIins
/, children; that none have fallen 81
, low as to be irrcc'aimdblc; that il
! eyely human heart there is still
| germ of goodness that only need
/ the qniclening power Of tenderness
love and trust to revivliy ard bring
E it to sweet perfection, aud that ,h'
D restored confidence Of true friend
I is as welcome to our fallen brothe
E as the sight of land to the storm
> tossed mariner. 1t is tccGUSc | frHs
= you, dear friends, because l hGr
l confidence in your ability TO becoln
good men and tue, that l plea
. with you to-day to let your bette
4 natures assert themselves, and be-
K Of you to pause Gle you have sow
Y the seed which can bring to you
u weary hearts only the " Dead-se
: fruit of bitterness and dcs olation.
Held the fatal, slalkling glass Il