New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-14
FIGHTING INTEMPERANCE.
MABEE AND ENGLISH IN BROOKLYN.
TIE STORY OF THEIR LIvEs-A NhEiiN' ~
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

rpV STORY OF THEIR LIvEs-A MEEliN" ~
PLYMOUTH CHURCH
A small audience gathered III rl9nio" -,
rburch Yesterday afternoon at the hrs' ser''oo Va ~
,eres Nessrs Mabee and English the %
-, viii conduct in Brooklyn this week INC
eoA1o.s' a,n,ed the platform with their assistant
60. W f. Burnett, Mrs Burnett and MISS hintls
Rms Mrs Burnett played small organ ana MI bur
nett accompanied the voices With corhe@
After several Gospel hymns had been sung MI "'oee
related his personal experience He Is man oil ABOUT
,or,r.eve vears OF medium height slim, aud quick IN
.,.o,a, lie was dressed in a clerks business suit
and cold pendant glittered his watch chain. lie
,,ote with great volubity and without
much change OF infection, save at certain
popts in his narrative when the sudden change was
startling Many Of the ordinary set phrases OF temper
ance workers and revivalists were lh'eJe0e" IN N WIS
course. In substance he said:
have been disenhraled by the grace o. nS "a sisya
the power Of strong drinks 70 when was iohh II
when was fourteen years op Iy @fneieDces that
have had enough to DI up school al
nary lifetime W 6s5e the ca for troops bat
INV father would not let me go until was OI Ss' 1
DecSS n 9d SeWYofk Harris Light Cavalry, under
him who afterward General george A u.s. ,h ~
snded went to the oil regions which were the scene OF
great excitement. and mingled IN mueh slh ~. I05S
went back 10 my home in Fort Plain y \. u-..A u,
on January %, 1871 took my last In- FAMILY
was saved by helping hand IN LanS i been
whittier removed in 1873 when death ~0uS ,s and
tsLep 70 me house OF Mrs. John A Kerr IL
@ h her uinistrations that reclaimed have
t ~ he Dledge invioate and have hope OF life eter
nal We business IN TINS Wofk. ~ TS,tnsriS
Gods service. Those who eau US reformed Tbev
now are the ones who formerly called as TO ark aney
had doubt rather see eonirmeq . y bondfr of
formed men. The red ribbon taxing 0 4 "a n MT We
them and throwing them on the desk Is sign InA oT
DO not drink now, whether we ever nave or not Ol
49, - though religious, and wholly non
partisan believe in both legal ana m0raI euasot
temperance work, the former for the drnkef anu e
Ter Tor the 0uor seller Both needed In conlendhg
for the great moral principle 10 save the nton w W.
90 10 man sunk in wretchedness and try TO MAKE ma
Of him. No one feels his degradation Ilofe 'H~N '''
drunksrd. ~
Joseph Patrick English then made brief speech de
ia nArbans ten wears older than Mr. Msbee and was born
In Ireland He was formerly an actor ana al'er"H"
nauor seller in Poughkeepse After he reformed nc KEEP
tailor shop 1t Is only recently that he devoeu MS
whole time TO temperance work BE said that ne dd not
see before him class he liked to talk TO- Dul "uen
Christian people interested in the work 1t was sign
that God was ready TO work The people had not come
70 hear the speakers who were only presenting I'D simple
and chidke manner the truth. He added that ne Veu
two wears in Brooklyn twenty years ago, ana kne"
pretty well and its drinking habits from experience Win
poor stuff and good STUFF He was led 10 cease uiAns
largely by the efforts Of his wife.
No one was asked to sign the pledge as most Of the
audience we're church members. The meetings will be
continued in Plymouth lecture this evening and TO-
Iaorrow Wednesday and Thursday evenings
TWO MEETINGS IN THIS CITY.
At the American Temperance Union meeting IN ChicS-
erng Hall there unusually full musical pro-
gramme. Joseph A. Bogardus presided MIS- NJ NAT
field seares was the first speaker, and said IN part
The iouor question pressing itself ard and max
in gtse felt neverbef0 Business men ana phannIo
uts have taken mold of the question well as rei0rnes
do not saw that prayer advisable for believe IN
prayer aud the cause would have been Laid IN the dst
Years ago but for the cooperation Of ministers OF the
Gospel and Gods chosen people, but do say that theIe
are many men who pray, in throatsittng accents Tor
God no save the drnkard and the drunkards family who
20 10 the polls with little piece Of paper that neutralzes
an their prayers This great question must be settled al
the ballot box. .-..,o
The attendance at the Manhattan Temperance Associa
ton in Cooper Union Han small and the audience not
finding the exercises exciting as usual, showed a
decided disposition out during the addresses The
only sensation Of the day the calling OF three TEN
perance converts the platform where they were ex
hbited 10 the audience their past history rected by Mr.
Gibbs and the pledge administered