Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26


rrohihhoy laws and make ihcm en,edyc IN
practice tcl ten sRtca succeed with con,iiu
tional p,ohibitiol. aud ultimately majority NJ
the states will succeed Lev the day come
land may Gud speed II y when constitutional
prohibition shall be the law IN majority vi
stale, otlh, union. and We willmole it ma
uonal M SIRE You Soy This isa wild hope
Constitutional prohibition s ooF,ctt blessing
20 aspylJ ium commerce. pnauthtuphy, u,
politics itsuot toogrraJ hlcrr3 tocspceJ
tom the Chd.an Church.
What T. the matter with the ch rt IN ihis
county} We ata nll under the yolun
ny system, and sometimes men who
me upplrr eauy large ! am In no pul
pit ann o friend In the pulpit, " the CON-.
ny VI am proud Of the courage Of oM minis.
Try hW II | must III the whole ruth, as | Al
way, Try IN do, shall he Obliged to say thar
IN c.rih luxurious c't'es, especially In the
g,eat cities, ,hcrc Is large amount Ut wine
drinking In what a,c called the upper pur
tluna OF society. ani II Is h.td 10 preach To u
abstinence. II is bard to illustrate it 10y pvf
spru ppc,i," II ought not In this country lo
I've hands hut loar 1t a getting To be mrlci
than 1t yves few years ago for minister %
defend unlnehingy total abstinence in the
presence OF the more luxurious members oi his
conrrcgg ion. There arc some men who love
to be called evangelical aud thoroughly genuine
in their Christianity, who will have their wines
in large variety, and sometimes stronger liquors
than wines On their tables. This Is not true
mcrcly olthc Pacific slope it is true Of the
Mississippi Valley, the Middle States, and even
VI New England. These great obstacles To
the ptogr 3 Of the temperance cause We must
uproot dccisiycly 10y tornado oi popular scnti.
mcni rising on side the luxurious churches. You
n not esp such chwchcs to reform them
selves. The people At large mu, breathe oul
thew ildignanun against men who stand IN the
high aces ol the church and rent their pro.
petty 'or the inamous purposes OF the whisky
ring. They must breathe ont their indignation
.ainst social examples get in defiance OF the
dictat Of science and even OF the commercial
experience of cur time.
WlY1nc Church Of England Temperance So.
cicty, not a r attic body a, all, has two sec.
tous-onc for total alstainers and one Tor
moderate drinkers. But when it organizes a
rescue section and sends agents down into the
sluns To recover drlnkards, il insists Away,
| that these men shall take 4 pledge Of absolutely
total abstinence. | say that MOI only every
preacher, but every church member, rich q,
! poor; and most especially il his position as an
employer OF labor makes him treiswork
over which many lives run, should be mem.
Der OF thercscue section Of society. This English
church temperance organization with double
basis is now being initiated on our shores.
That most honored veteran in the temperance
cause, William +. Dodge, | believe gave the
iniliataiion his besSing in New Yorl, the Other
day, after hearing Bishop Clark's public defence
believe in its pl.dge as TO moderate use Of al.
cohol. | never should organize temperance
society on that basis myself Nevertheless,
rl,. Church 81 england
Temperance Society to show you that, although
Ia Is not fanat and has sl...ili.,-lAaSis-
always puts total abstinence into its rescue
work. 1t insis's on the pledge OF total absti.
hence for the young. Let us stand on this lofty
example. Our soft society connected with fash
nnahle and wealthy ecclesiasii establish
menis dearly likes to know what IS the sense
Of the upper ten thousand in the ecclesiastical
world. The sense is total abstincnc. ior all
who 90 into the rescue work Of society III,
sense is tina, the preacher who invites the young
convert 10 his table ha no right to put beforC
him the intoxicating cup. y g II preacher
in London was defending his wine-drnking Il
me, and said f." Suppose John Il Gougt
were poor inebriate in London and were tC
be converted, which church il be better for b II
TO join-yours, where you set him the example
OF moderate drinking, and where you put be
fore him at your own table Intoxicating liquor
OF would it be better ior him to join Mr.. spur
gcon's church, where the p9sior sets the ex
nmplc Of total abstinence ?" That argumcn
touched him, although he was invulnerabe t.
every other. That is the Argument we are Il
apply under our free.church system 10 the con
science Of every M, s1d woman who woul,
belong to the rescue section OF religions society
lie, US make every festler Of the moral winl
and Of The legal wing of the Temperance reform
broad and strong. Let the two smite the air sid
by side and so support each other, and carr
this majestic cause proudly through the vexe'
atmosphere Of his,o =. BY and by woman
Temperance vote will be TO the whisky-ri ring
: what lightning is to the oak-Rfy. /o5cb
Cooke.