Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
TEMPERANCE SERMON,
Preached tn the Congregational Church, Salisbury, Conn.,, March 9, 1SS4, by the HRev
 L. H. Reid.

Gal. V, 22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is temperdnce."
 The word which wish to emphasize is temperance
 The theme is great one; I must omit vastly more than I say.
 shall purposely be discursive. Let me take you to four temperance meet ings. First We will go to Hartford. It is the 18th annual meeting of our State Union. These are some of the things that we hear as we listen:-
 "Total abstinence is the only wise course for the individual, and prohibi- tion the only right legal principle"
 Resolved, That it is the duty of the church to antagonize the crowning achievement of Satan; namely, the rum curse" @
 "Resolved, That the Connecticut Tenn perance Union deserves an annual and generous contribution from every church within our borders"
 "Ninety-four of the 167 towns in the state are to be classed as no license. Twenty million dollars spent in our state this year for liquor" ''Seven hundred million dollars spent in this country annually for strong drink" ''So much capital diverted from purposes of benefcent production, or stripped from those to whose welfare 1t might contri- bute." "There is no sin that strong drink does not aggravate; there is no outrage that it does not perpetrate; there IS no retribution that 1t does not dare, and no villany in which it does not engage. It is the monstrous mother of crime; and it's woes are as multitudi- nous as the myriad sea and as deep as | hell"
 "Impediments in the way of cure are | these:"-
 1.-"The depraved appetite of men. "
 2.-"The mercenary spirit-a prodi- gious moneyed interest"
 3.-"The popular indifference" the deaths, amounting to hundreds of thousands, caused in one year in this country by intemperance, do not excite the popular feeling produced by a few thousand victims of yellow fever or cholera. A ship which goes down with 100 souls on board, gives a greater shock throughout the land than the ruin 1 of 50, 900 by rum"
 4.-''A class of persons generally well educated and of good social position some of them perhaps moderate drink CTS, who stand aloof."
 5.-"The attitude and management of political parties"
 "All are familiar with the wonderful success of Father Mathew, in the tem- perance crusade in Ireland. By the year | 1888 he had secured some 250, 900 name s for total abstinence, and from that year to 1840, i e. in two years. the liquor trade had fallen off in the island 5,0C0,- 900 gallons. In Dublin alone the num- Der of places where liquor was sold di- minished 239, and the number of crimes decreased from some 12,000 to 173. It is noto iou1 that in Vineland, N. J., and Greeley, Col, where the laws are string ent concerning the sale of liquor, there is comparative freedom from drunken ness and from the crimes which it en- genders" "
 Eve next attend the meeting in New York. It is a meeting in the in- terests of high license. The speakers are MT Beecher, Judge Davis and Dr Howard Crosby. I know of no men better able to advocate this side of the temperance question.
 Mir Beecher says: "While I regret that there are some fanatics in the cause of temperance, some rash and nasty men, such men are sensible compared with the man or woman in this commu nifty, who does not care anything fo this subject. Ten thousand holes in this