St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-08
THE SUNDAY RALLY.
A Crowded Opera House Greeted
Francis Murphy Sunday
Afternoon.
A Magnificent Audience Testify of Their
Interest in the Murphy Movement
275 Pledge Signers.


singing, and a prayer, Rev. DR.. Dana made
some excellent suggestions in regard to the
necessary effort to be made in love and kind
ness to constrain men to attend upon these
gatherings that they might learn of their
peril, and called upon the business men of
the city by earnest endeavors and whole
hearted work to help save their fellow citi-
zens who were perishing in body and soul
fsom the use of intoxicants.
Mr. Murphy said that he was tired in body,
but not in spirit, and had expected his son,
delayed by the railroad washouts) here to-
day to help him. He took great courage in
opening upon the second week of his work
in st. Paul, from the good words of encour-
agement given by all classes of society.
One of the significant signs of success which
met him here was the way the work had
been treated by the public press of the city,
which did not confine itself merely to giving
the news, but expressed for it an open hearty
good will and an emphatic God-speed. The
good words thus spoken should be cut out
and placed in a scrap book for preservation
by the friends of temperance here. There
should be just as much interest taken in the
| accounts of this civil war of ideas without
bayonets, this peaceful conflict for helping
men to resist temptation, as there was in the
battles of the late civil war, for the country
must be sailed in this movement, as it was
| in that, by the literature of the public press.
The results OF the last week were that 1000
persons had taken the pledge and put on the
badge of the blue ribbon. Among
these was a now Chicago merchant, named
John Locke, who was former representative
of that large and neglected class OF wide
awake men engaged in commercial travelling
and railroading, constantly away from their
homes and home influences and who were
strangers to churches. Thereupon the
speaker introduced Mr.. Locke to the audi
ence, who said that if anyone had told him
last Sunday that he would before another
Lords day come around and sign the pledge
he should have thought him wild. He had
not touched liquor, for he promised his
mother he would not and had kept his prom
Use. He had travelled on the road selling
goods twelve years; had been successful al
ways among all classes a temperance
drummer and argued that no man was wise
to set himself up to out drink all his custo-
mers, and if he did that he would surely
come to ruin and disgrace.
He described his success even among the
German people as a temperance missionary
and stated that in the Pennsylvania trade he
had sold three times as many goods as his
predecessor, who was drinker, without TAX
ing single glass of beer. He was aroused
by Mr.. Murphy to the fact that it was his duty
to work to reclaim others as well as to keep
himself clear of the vice, and said that the
merchants of st. Paul by inducing their rep
resentatives upon the road and the clerks in
their establishments to be temperate, would
not only save them to themselves, the city
and the nation, but would put thousands
of dollars in their own pockets.
Mu Murphy then resumed, paying great
tribute to his flial son, who was on
the way here to help in this
work, and who had of himself
evidenced 10000 persons in Ireland, in
their visit to the eastern continent to take
the pledge. Ireland, who has in the past,
seen so much of sorrow and discord, and
been so seriously oppressed by the selfish
ness of men. but to whom peace is coming
now through its peoples loving each other
and standing by each other as one man. If
he didn't care how many millstones were
hung to his neck, he would always purchase
his relief from poverty, and yet, over every
rugged highway laying between him and the
delectable mountains of manhood and sue
cess.
The speaker then said that to the
sober and industrious man, whatever
be his nationality, there were the greatest
opportunities in this country for success
He prayed against the growth of a money
aristocracy in America, where all that should
3 be asked of any man was that he be honest
to give him full patent of equality
The speaker very pertly described the man
; most thoroughly picled with intoxicants, who
: when he took the pledge was so modest he
: didn't want the fact known 1t was very
difficult for any man TO keep the pledge
without there was an open public stand Ia
ken, and confession made by the signer be-
Z fore the world. At this point in his remarks
A a baby cried out most vociferously, and its
mother took it out Thereupon Mr.. Murphy
said that mothers had a hard struggle to at
tend meetings, for fear their babies in arms
: would cry and annoy audiences and
speakers, while fathers were not
famed for staying at home tc
|. take care of and get acquainted with their
a children, TO give their wives a chance to thus
J.. get out. He admired the courage of wo-
man who was bound to reach these meet
: ings in coming to them with her baby, and
; if any baby thus brought could make more
noise than he could and drown him out he
would sit down and yield up gracefully to
that baby
After this depression he said that there wa:
strength given to every man to break away
!. from drink, for God will help every poor
: man treading the fiery furnace for deliver
i ance from this sinful habit Since he deliy-
cred his first lecture in Portland, Maine
Apr / 3, 1870, he had met hosts of men ter
ribly distressed by their intemperance, but
in all this time he had never
:, seen man ask God TO help him in sincerity
:, who failed of deliverance. This was his
1.-THE speaker's) testimony of the efficacy Of
the help of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Some people say that only poor people
u suffer from intemperance. Well, if they
e 90 suffer, what must be the suffering of the
cultured anG refined on whom this vice has
fastened its deadly fsngsl To illustrate thi:
: he gave a touching description of Richard
u Yates, the great war governor of Illinois
who through liquors imbibed in the home:
of the wealthy and cultured (not in dram
shops) as he was doing his noble
and patriotic work in aiding
II his country in the time of the great peril
: formed the habit which in despite Of his he
roic efforts to break his chains proved hi
II master and his ruin. He told in thrillin.
, pathos of the love of the people of that stat
" for this the grandest Roman of her sons
n who tried to redeem him by placing him il
:. the United States senate, asking only tina
d! he keep a pledge, and of the entrance o
u this remorseless tyrant drink upon the sa
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