New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-05
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS YESTERDAY.
REFORMATION WORK IN THIS CITY AND BROOKLYN

REFORMATION WORK IN THIS CITY AND BRooKLfN-
COMMENTS on DIR. CROsBYs RECENT LECTURE
The temperance services at Masonic Temple,
Grand-st. BROOKLYN yesterday afternoon %srs at
by 9f Sa OF to the Doors
f. HART President of the Woman's Christian
Union No. presided and the pa
form After service of song lasting half an hour'
addresses in favor of prohibition were made py Z.
n Taylor of N Mont Vera a0d the Kew.
William VIII nh H. Booe, Of Brooklyn; Judge Van
Colt claimed that license laws have peen an
absolute curse to the temperance cause mere col a
promise with evil He said these laws nave Put on
from time to time, and will puI off forever II tney
continue to exist the end which the terperance
people have in view The Rev. MI. booie SAL
The Glory and the Shame of New York.; IN whlc9
he said that the largest number of the liquor and
shops were in the hands OF foreigners ana
compared the coming over here OF foreigners
TO omen iuuor stores to the going OF thousands OF
Yankees to Dublin or Hamburg to let loose thou
sands # rattesnakes in the streets Yet TINS 10 tne
man said Mr. Boole, who asks that one liquor s'oro
should be licensed for every 900 1nhapItanls, %. OF
one TO every 100 men. Mr.. Booze sad ne wan bat
to take the part Of the gners for he knew tnat
rvery one of them was in his native LAID when tne
Legislature passed the law GIVING them the rigno "
stand behind their bars Such adv3Ga'e for Of the eR
perance as DR.. Crosby we're resp0nslDle toI onI -
stence of The ten thousand dsns OF vice OF WHICH no
spoke. o,o,, and THIRTY
ffth-st was e led Yesterday afternoon and evening
oS,,oI ;onnarance meetings being held under
fine auspices of the Doutnev Gospel Temperance
movement New and novel features were .Pio-
senred Mr. Doutney i'll The afternoon taxed III q
familiar way to his audience, and IN tne evening
gave new lecture called Murdered, ana
fnm Did IT. The lecture abounded
in thrilling Incidents and the speakers fervent ap
meals TO his hearers TO come up and sgn the pitIEe
were rewarded with large degree OF success. inu
services were varied 10y singing and Iecltati"nS Nv
Mrs. Helen l.. DOutney. Mrs: NJ Il. Iial MISS T, i
ence f. BACON and Little Mabel Stevenson. Inc
Ovmpian C0lored Glee Club and the Oiynpmh
(oOred Quintet added to the attraction OF tne gSl-
erings. On week nights Mr.. Donney c0nnuc's sei
vices at the Union Tabernacle, Thirty near
The temperauce services yesterday al the Masonic
Temple uudeT the direction OF the Manhattan ieH-
perance Association, consisted OF variety ol u IL
cal selections by coioreu gee cluo 'uu, ~ 'u0
choir and addresses on the question OF proMbitlOh.
The Rev. Dr. Dick, of Buffalo. spoke OF me h!st
duukardD' Ii was 10 be inferred IRON me scrip
tures H. said that Noah the frs drrnkard
int ne hardly believed that the devil ahOWtu 'ho
interval betwee the creation and the nOou 10 pass
without introducing rum. lie dld not want W i og
hard on Noah, even though the hrst tnine DC ulu
when he came out of the ark was 10 plant kine-
ward and get drunk He failed TO see why the Kew
Dr. Crosby did not appreciate the Marin III WIN
and beer. He hOuOred Dr. Crosby, ana ne Wanteu
his hearers to honor him, bat II seemed 10 lm that
and still the country might be destroyed ny the
introduction OF wine into the family. lie dld not
want the devil in diluted state; his desire was 10
meet him naked. - euo1
The auditorium of Cooper lnsutnte was nlIcu
with people last night. Miss Irwin sang several
solos MIR Sawyer delivered discourse on
"Spritual Blindness" Mr.. Sawyer announced that
he Nonld beqin the battle ia Chatham Square next
Sunday afternoon. at the old Baptist Church, ana
that Mr.. Coe, with his chorus, would be present.