St. Paul daily globe., 1884-09-19
UNABATED INTEREST.
Packed Houses Listening to the Great
Temperance Apostle and his
Talented Son.

The Jackson street Methodist church was
and 101 persons took the pledge and donned
the insignia of the blue. Prayer was offered
by Rev. DR.. Marshall, when Francis Murphy
made some very pertinent remarks on good
nature as keeping a man from growing old.
1t was notwork that made men grow old, but
worry and fret and lack OF peace and cheer
fulness in their homes and business. He
had enjoyed all the luxuries of poverty. but
though we were poor with God in our hearts
and soberness ir our lives we could be cheer
full over single piece of bread and a cup of
coffee. He then made an earnest appeal to
the men of st. Paul to be sober, that in these
two great cities of the northwest they might
handle Alright the wealth of the great and
rich country about them.
DR.. Marshall was called out and stated that
the Christian Woman's Temperance unions
were introducing into the schools of the land
text book showing the effect of alcohol
upon the human system, which would do
much to prevent our children from falling
into the use of iutoxicants. He then gave a
simple analysis of alcohol as a poison
distilled from dead sugar, and described the
struggle of the builders within the human
body TO cast it out when drank either in mod
Grafton or excess.
He was followed by Edward E. Murphy,
who spoke OF the possible failure of some
men to keep the pledge as no cause for tenn
perance people to be discouraged, but rather
to be incited to more endeavor to reclaim
men from this habit. Because some persons
who embraced Christ failed to stand firm did
not discourage the Christian church for still
more earnest work for salvation, and proved
no argument for tearing down churches or
disseminating preaching. He believed that
to the earnest man who signed the pledge
would be given a mental grasp, a heart grip
and God given heroism to keepit.
Mr.. Francis Murphy then said he had
rather follow the bier of his son to the grave,
and would thank God while so doing, than
tonight see him with beer mug IN his hand
declaiming TO a lot Of ''hail fellows well metz
in saloon. Any man could reckon up his
Tom, Willie, Jim and Johnny, companions
of youth and manhood who had gone down
to drum kards graves to uphold this accursed
traffic, which the great mass of the world has
impoverished itself TO support.
He never saw a small souled, penurious
man who was a drunkard, for it was always
your good souled, open pursed, social men
who fell into that vice. Judge Brisbin, with
his Jacksonian head and Napoleonic
nose, the brightest intellect on
the soil of this state had
it not heen for liquor, when he signed the
pledge in the Opera house made a personal
declaration of his independence from 1t, was
dead in earnest, had the backbone to stand
by his record, and it was time for all st. Paul
men carrying a pint or three-quarters of
liquor a day under their vests to join Judge
Brisbin in his heroic act. Mr.. Murphy con-
cluded with a description of the reformation
of Monson Robbins, the leading rumseller of
Sterling, Illinois, who made and unmade
men politically, who not only took the pledge,
gave up the traffic, but knocked the heads
out OF twenty barrels Of whisky, and washed
the cutters with it, besides. by his influence,
driving out every saloon from the city.
Meetings at Jackson street church this
and t4-morrOw evenings.