Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-04

o'clock train, we rode en- without stopping,
to Morrow of Warren County, and some thirty
miles from Cincinnati, reaching the place at
about half-past eight o'clock. Here we saw
another sight. The workers were on hand
here too, though 1t was early and the mora.
ing fogey, dark and chilly. Moreover, they
were rejoicing at what we both
saw, and smelt. Yielding to their
cn'reaties, prayers and tears, the saloon
Keeper had rolled out his liquor barrels and
poured out their base stuff into the gutter, a
much filter place for it than the stomachs of
| The men aud women and children that had
aforetime taken it in. The ground whercon
we slept was wet with it and its fumes were
mingling with the fog Quckened by these
sights and Scenes surprising fable and yet
trnc, scenes of accomplished bliss" we went
on our way TO Cincinnati, where we took
steamer the same afternoon aud rode mp to
Felicity some 30 miles above the city. Here
we were TO minister for some weeks The
crusade movement had already done lis work
here and made clean sweep of the saloons.
few Gays before we reached the place the
citizens had assembled in numbers, formed
procession and marched around the squares
OF the town singing songs Of delivcrance and
Offering prayers and thanksgiving at the sew
eral corners of the squares. Nor did they
''Np "i',i WIS pulsilS vi the pIuCe lnCy
went IN bands, mainly women, to the next
towns also. This incident we witnessed
here. A company of women had gone down
to the landing about four miles from Felicity
where were three saloons that had yet stood out
against all efforts to close them These they
attacked not by slcdge hammers axes and
other such weapons as the women of Port
land at one time used most eiTectuallv against
the liquor casks on the wbarves of the city,
but by prayer to God and persuasion with
the saloon keepers. They appealed to God
i'll the churches and to their crring and OBJ
s:luate brethren in the saloons. As we came
up from the hnding, in the stage, for we
were returning from Cincinnati nat day, the
driver pulled up at the church on the hill
where the prayer meetings had been held, and
took IN the praying band to carry them back
To- Felicity. The crusade movement was
all the talk. Driving a mile or so, the
the women saw some distance in
advance, man walking toward Fe-
licity. They knew HIM by his gait and
said THAT is our lawyer" lie can't get any
liquor in Felicity, SO he has been down to
''tho landing" walked four miles for it and
is now going back. He was, as they said. a
man Of fine talents and had been successful
IN business, but had lately, through love of
drink, squandcred his property and even
taken the wages, some three hundred dollars,
that his daughter had earned and spent them
in carousc. As we came up to the man,
the women-lor they had control now, asked
the driver to take the lawyer in. lie getting
into the stage, they at once, cautiously yet
courageously piled him with arguments aud
cntrcatles TO give up his cups and take the
pledge. He felt the force of their appeals
but said, Il can't stop" "You can" they
replied "We will help YOU" ave will
help you in town" eve will too pray for
you" "We will pray for you here in the
Stage And they asked the driver to drive
a little slow so that they could
have prayer meeting there in the stage
The lawyer took all these things kindly, and
was almost persuaded" Reaching town,
he took leave of these godly women with a
bow ard thanks, but went away, Joined to
his idols. This scene in the stage was so
conducted that it did not seem strange or cut
OF place. 1t was the spirit of the crusade
movement trying by all means to save
brother, pulling him out of the fire And so
~e could narra,e incidents of this wonderful
revival observed in nine or ten counties, some
OF them most extraordinary and preternatural
If not supernatural. A.. ID. B.