The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25

of your offer made some time since t
allow space for communications fo
and against Local Option, to reques
the publication of the following ser
mon delivered by a Methodist Minis
ter, IN Baltimore, recently; and als'
he seven reasons following why Lp
cal Option should not prevail IL
Garrett county.
Very respectfully,
THOMAS CoDDINGToN. s
A TEMPERANCE SERMON.
Bethany Independent Methods
Church cirner of Lexington and Cab
houn streets was so crowded that thu
aisles and every other portion of tba
church floor was mol sufficient to ac-
commodate all who desired admis
sion. Even the lObbies and outside
dOOrsteps were packed with people.
This large congregation had assem-
bIed to hear the continuation Of a SER
mon delivered by Rev. w. II. Nc
Allister, on the preceding Sunday, in
which he had announced that he
would show the true inWrdnesS Of
the Prohibition movement. The SER
vices opened with fine orchestral
performance. The organ music was
accompanied by brass Instruments.
a violin solo, with variations Of
Nearer, My God, to Thee" which
followed, was also finely rendered.
After a feryemt prayer Rev. Mr.. Nc
Allister prefaced his sermon by re
ferring to an article published in the
Methodist Episcopal paper of last
week, which, he said. called him a
crank because of remarks made by
him on the previous Sunday on the
question. He asked, was
this charity? Was it Christianity:
He did not propose to have his action
in this matter judged by this journal,
nor even by the audience before him.
II was a question which he would
submit to TIE judgment of his God.
The speaker then took for his text
The lines from a hymn that had been
sung Ivy the congregation, "And wine
hat maketh glad the heart of man."
He said that he had studied this SUBJ
ect thoroughly. and that he proposed
% speak the truth, the whole truth.
md nothing but the truth. While he
leid to the truth he would Eeither
nor obscure it for living.
Returning then to his subject, he said
hat the Bible could furnish texts for
almost any subject that IA pseudo lib
'ralist could construe to his liking.
He can find text for slavery. BY
oOking through the book of Timothy
ne could find ample material for
'deWdrop inn," and was surprised
hat some had net called his place
Timothy Hall.
Mr.. McAllistPr then in graphic
manner depicted the evil of alcohol
sm, and the rum intemperance has
'rought in many households. H.
acknowledged that the task he had
undertaken was not an easy one; but
le was going through with it. He
would speak for moderation and self
OntrOl. All that he had learned and
I'll the facts that he proposed to bring
onward had been obtained by expe-
ience and observation. In the first
)lace, there was no connection be-
Ween crime and rum. 1t was true
hat where the petty criminals, as
we'll as the more notorious ones, were
approached while in their cells, and
'skei what brought them to their
present condition, they would whim-
Der out, "well drink brought me
lere." This is not true. The crimi-
lal classes say it to gain sympathy,
md habitual unveracity prompts
hem to say it. Heknew of the time
when men who had partaken too
much of the flowing bowl had been
'eferred to as being drunk as lord,',
when the English peer was the no
)lest representative of the monarch.
He found that judges whose learning
md whose decisions made them look
ID upon as men of greatness, had all
'een hard drinkers. The best men
mentioned in history-men of force,
integrity, pronounced phil
lnthropists, whose acts have entitled
hem to the highest consideration,
we're hard drinkers. but they did not
20 into criminality. We have come
o associate drink with disorderly
PARSONS, simply because men of Grim
nal intent first fortify themselves
With liquor before committing the
Ict they have in view. They deter
mined upon crime before taking to
rink. He did not know but that he |