The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-10-12
TIE METHODIST CHURCH AND PR0HlBI-
TON.

To tie Editor ofthe Eaqfe:
DEAR SIR: As you, with other editors,
have Income so accustomed to misrepresent
the ministry, and the church, and in your
last issue. by using garbed statements from
an unreliable press, did certainly do injns-
tice TO the Bishops of the Methodist church
by placing them in full accord with the EA-
GLE, as TO the position ministers should
take on the great living question Of the day
and nation, ask you to publish the fellow
ing address of Bishop Hurst, who lives in
Iowa, to the ministry of that state after the
election held June 21th, 1852.
As you have generously furnished me the
EAGLE, will see that you get your Method
list facts from reliable source next year by
ordering TO your address the Christian Adpo-
cate published at New York, in which the
address appeared. Yours Respectfully,
b. KELLY.
Church Of Iotea:
With glad and grateful heart congrat-
ulate you on the magnificent triumph Of the
Prohibitory Amendment on June %. On
that day the sun set ON redeemed Iowa.
Your part in the conflict has been worthy Of
the first decades in the history of our church.
Your irresistible appeals, your tireless work
by day and night, at home and abroad; your
sympathy with the sufferer, and charity to-
ward the author of his sorrows ; your intel
ligent presentation of the evils of intemper-
ance, TO the young and old, in the English,
German and Scandinavian tongues your
unanimous..a simultaneous uprising even
before the General Assembly placed the
privilege of vote before the people and
your patience I'm the midst of innumerable
obstacles and much misrepresentation, have
helped in no small measure to achieve vic
tory whose territorial area and scope in
time no faith or Imagination is strong enough
TO measure.
When the first western itinerants preach
ed in the cabins and out on the broad prai-
ries between the Mississippi and the Miss
ouri. they encountered only the Indian and
the wild beast, and all the Inconvenience
of an unsettled country. But in every COM
munity where you have lived and labored,
you have had intemperance as your constant
Zoe, fortified by wealth, talents, social arts
and great persistence. Your heroism, how
ever, has proved 10 be of the same firm, fine
fiber as that of our fathers, and posterity
will give il rs secure 4 place in its love and
gratitude. But our victory will be barren,
and our accountability greater, If we do not
embrace the now wider opportunity for the
good work of gathering in souls. of healing
the wounds made by uncontrolled intem-
perance, and of guarding aud educating our
people on those more insidious dangers of
intoxicating drinks from which no popular
verdict or righteous legislation can exempt
us. TO this new phase of the great reform
lei us now address ourselves. For what you
have done toward the triumph of the eth,
our 5000 members in Iowa, and the millions
of our Communion in this and distant lands,
will thank you, and join with you and your
congregations in thanksgiving to Him who
gave his inspiration at the beginning of this
contest, and in prayer that he may give us
the courage and wisdom to reap the best
possible harvest from the signal popular
| triumph of our $4,000 majority over the bit
ing serpant and singing adder of intemper-
ance. JOHN +. HURST.
As 10 the article alluded to containing the
| supposed assertions of Bishop Andrews
not Hurst-we clipped it from reliable Re-
| publican paper, but of course there may
| have been some mistake.-ED. EAGLE