Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-31

H. In conclusion, attention was called to
the words Of the apostle when he says
Whcrcuuto we hive attained" The idea
is u very significant one We arc not to lose
that paIt OF the race already run, but to con.
tinue to walk by the same rule and to mind
the same thing.
Rev. Mr.. Palmer followed in exh 1rtation
and powerful inquiry meeting was held,
lasting until nearly one o'clock.
Afternoon.
The usual one o'clock meetings were held
in the Rutland tent and at the stand.
AT . p. IN. the auditorium was packed with
the congregation which had assembled to
listen TO Mrs. j. X. Barney of Providence,
X l., on the subject of temperance.
Prayer was offered by Rev. NJ. d. Jump.
Mrs. j. A. Childs, the president of the
Addison county W. G. Il. IT,, presided and
introduced Mrs. Barney.
The Address
was an eloquent and effective one and was
listened 10 throughout with the closest atten-
ton by the large audience.
Mrs. Barney emphasized her remarks with
illustrations drawn from her own work in tic
prisons and jails.
In opening she said it seemed strange that
Rhode Island woman, from a State where
they have license law and arc working
h ard for prohibition, should come to State
where they have had prohibition law on
their statute books for years. But when she
was told and knew generally that the law was
imperative she did not feel out OF place to
talk about Temperance in Vermont.
People tell us, she said that we will never
conquer the evil of intemperance. That it
is national institution. They said the same
OF slavery, yet 1t was conquered SO will this
evil be conquered. God can wipe it out, and
the movement is under his direction.
She graphically pictured the origin of the
womcn's movement aud the extent of its
work. She encouraged the small unions to
hold on.
In those cases which it seemed we could
not reach, she said, we may safely trust our
boys TO God, and work for other women's
boys She instanced statistics in her own
work, showing that 80 per cent of all the cases
in the prisons could he traced directly to the
use of liquor. She emphasized the sad fact
that there were more women drinking liauor
to-day than the women present had any idea
of.
After instancing the r, suits of her work in
the reformatory institutions of other States,
she referred particularly TO Vermont She
said that the underlying cause Of most of the
intemperance in the State and of the fall of SO
many young men, was the use of cider by
their parents and by themselves. If there
are cider drinking men in the audience. she
said, l tell YOU plainly you may shout
GLORY TO God!' until you die, and you will
never get to heaven unless you give up your
cider.
She sharply hit the practice of towns in
sending boys under 10 to the workhouse
because the town was obliged to pay a small
per cent. weekly for their maintenance in the
reform school. | went to the house of
correction, she said, and found there boys
under 10. Every boy under IL you send to
Rutland will come ont of there ten times
worse than when he went in, from associa-
ton with criminals :.
You will find out by-and.by what
kind of economy You are praclicing in
Vermont. In conclusion the said. The
grandest results will he accomplished when
the church in Vermont wakes up and gets
rid of cider drinking and cleauscs itself from
tobacco. Then you may ask to have your
boy saved.
The address was pertinent and timely and
the speaker was frequently heartily ap-
plaudcd.