The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-17

Lords siorehouse things new and old
and never during her stay here wer'
her powers in this direction SO forcibl,
illustrated as last evening. The speake
based her address upon the following
Scripture: "And His name shall b
called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Ever
lasting Father, the Prince of Peace
She announced as her opening
proposition that in whatever enter
prise men may engage-whether fnau
cial, political, social it matters
not what, however fully " may en-
dorse the ends 10 be a, ed and the
objects to be achieved, they must be sat
isfed as to the character of the leaders
who advocate the cause and give direc-
ton to the undertaking. In the cause
of temperance reform, there have been
employed many human devices and ex-
pedients for the suppression of the mon-
strous evil which has carried woe into
so many thousands of homes,
but all remedies outside OF the
line of Christian effort have
failed TO reach the disease We have
been battling with a deadly silment
with our feeble cures aud We have just
begun to realize that we are sitting at
the bedside of e sick nation stricken to
death with a contagion which has coy-
cred the body polite with wounds and
purifying sores and now we are begin
ming to call upon the Great Physician
who has the only remedy which will
stay the pestilence which walkeih in
darkness and the destruction which
wasielh at MONDAY. We may induce
men 30 sign pledges; we nay
legislate against the liquor traffic, but
unless we bring the victim of rum To
the Savior; unless he is endowed with
the liberty Wherew:th Christ has made
US free; unless we supplement our legis-
lation with our prayers, our efforts to
stay the tide of evil which is sweeping
over the land will be vain and our hands
powerless. God is the great leader of
the movement against rum. The saliva
ton of Christ is prohibition from all
sin; this work of temperance reform be-
longs where the great apostle placed it,
with righteousness and the office of the
Holy Spirit.
The woman's crusade, that most won
derful movement in the annals of SOCIAL
reform, was cited as an instance OF the
wonderful efficacy of prayer, and
the conservation of shrinking women to
to the grand work of recuing their hus-
bands and Sons as brands from the burn
ing was most graphically portrayed.
The speaker reviewed the advance of |
temperance reform in this country, |
showing that while the progress of the
work had been slow and many anxious
hearts had tainted with de
ferred hope, the Lord was beginning to
make bare HIS arm and those who are
marching under His banner against the
hosts of sin will reap in due season if
they do not faint. Eloquent allusion was
made to the grand achievements in this
direction in Kansas, and the prediction
was made that ere long all the states in
the union would emulate her example
and that the future was rich in promise
for those who stood to their arms and
went forth under God to new cOnquests.
The address was one of the most won
derful appeals that has ever been heard
in Emporia ard the audience were held
spell-bound by the force of an eloquence
which it would be utterly futile to at
tempt to describe.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Ro3inson'S
stirring appeal an invitation was ex-
tended for seekers to come forward TO
his altar, and number of conversions
ook place before the close of the meet
ng. The day was one of continuous re-
igious effort, and the results were Of q
most encouraging nature. 1t affords us
incere plcasure-to observe that the best
If order was preserved upon the
and the decOrum which pre-
'ailed throughout the encampment
poke more eloquently than aught else
or the influences of the services.