St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-31
FRANCIS MURPHYS SECRET
A Large Gathering at the Jackson
Street N. z. Church Last
Evening.
Eloquent and Fervent Appeals by the Great
Temperance Worker and
Others.

The gospel temperance services were opened
with a good audience at the Jackson Street
NJ E. church last evening by Mr.. Murphy'S
reading the thrty-eighth chapter Of Isaiah,
commencing, ''The Wilderness and the soil
tary places shall be glad for them and the
desert shall blossom like a rose" He
descanted on the chapter as showing the
necessity of the strong UNFOLDING and
strengthening of the weak by love, sympathy,
example and outspoken acts of kindness.
This was followed by prayer from Chaplain
Smith, Of the Bethel, after which Mr.. Murphy
announced that the young people of the Jack
son street church would give a sociable and
supper in their vestry rooms this evening,
this notice being added to by Secretary Laid,
of the Gospel Temperance union, who an
-nounced that although the union had been
kindly offered the House of Hope for their
exercises this evening, that Rev. Mr.. Forbes,
the new pastor of the Jackson street church,
and worthy successor of DR.. Marshall, had
insisted that the meetings this and tomorrow
evenings should be held in the Jackson street
church. In this connection the meeting in
the Grand Opera house was announced for 3
O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
Chaplain Smith, of the Bethel, was then
called up by Mr.. Murphy, who gave his expe-
ricnce of having been drunk for twenty-six
years and sober for eighteen, and proposed to
stay on the latter line as the only safe plat
form for any man, rich or poor, learned or
ignorant He related the anecdote of Gen.
Harrison, cold Tippecanoe," who while on
his way to be inaugurated president at
Washington, at welcome on the route given
ut Chester Pa, was observed to drink all
toasts with water On being pressed to take
wine the general refused, saying, under God
l owe all that am to-day, gentlemen, to a
resolve taken in my college life that wine
should never pass my lips, for out of my
class Of seventeen sixteen now fill drunkards
graves" The speaker closed with stirring
appeal to the young men Of st. Paul to take
a similar stand for their own and the future
welfare of their city.
Rev. Mr.. Forbes, OF the Jackson street
church, was called out and made a speech
which showed that this city, in his appoint
ment TO a new charge, has become the lucky
oossessor Of an earnest Independent aud
Sod fearing accession to its ministry.
After giving the doctrine of his church as tota
abstinence as a condition of membership,
Fecounting its zeal to lift up fallen man and
to educate children against the evils of in
temperance, he said he would open its doors
to the whole world of mankind and seek for
its rescue from sin, realizing that man
everywhere, though he be in the gutter, had
through God the possibilities OF being fitted
for hpaVpu Whom hphpll Of
beautiful statuary fallen from its pedesdel
and broken, we felt to weep that the work of
great master had been, injured, facedat
and destroyed, yet the very angels wept for
man fallen to the gutter. Oh, that the
world could see with quicker sense that the
coming of God out of the solltudes of eterni-
ty was TO take hold of the race of man and
lift it up to better aud holier
things, and that the taking up
OF the cross of Jesus means
alone Divine help to fallen man. He ex-
planned very happily the saying that minis
ter's boys were the worst boys, by saying that
the minister's boy was no worse than the
tailor's boy, and the reason the saving had
been applied TO him, (Which was falsehood)
WAS that the public eye was fastened on him,
when he did an unseemy act, and
gave it to the world broad
cast when he thus tripped, while
the public was blind To the act of the tailor's
lad who was in his company. Some men
could possibly drink some and not 90 TO A
drunkard's hell, and some persons could
cross the ocean in a skill, but both acts were
foolhardy and exceedingly dangerous. Bet
ter take the steamer of the total abstinence,
sign the pledge aud be true TO God country.
fofbar
death
Mr.. Drake, from southwestern Minnesota,
having the earnest fire OF temperance work
in his eye with brilliauce which attracted
defective Murphy" was led out aud made
some earnest remarks on the subject of tenn
perance, giving in his full allegiance to the
personal work in the cause as being carri ed
on by the great temperance apostle.
II was thoroughly just ridicule of the
betty aud the bear" kind of story, in which
Betty did the work OF killing brun unaided,
and her umid husband did the Dragging as
10 what Il aud Betty did" with which Mr..
Murphy took iu hand the towards in the
temperance work. These were the people
who when stranger came into 4 church
criticised him with their crauing necks,
were afraid of giving him seat, aud were
so freeZlnS that he thanked God
AhNoANAg anu oulNAIuN WnSn he got
out of their sanctuary and the society. In
the first saloon he enters, however, this
stranger finds sociable man, though he has
never been him before, they shake hands.
Jake drink aud together give this kind OF
pious people the roasting they deserve. These
people criticised him (Murphy), for his alb
ruptness in taking men by the collar to bring
shem up 10 sign the pledge and
said he was too excited and
rough. Why, he would reach his hand
into the red-hot fires Of the damned TO Get
hold OF the man and drag him from the
flames OF drink. He did not come 70 81
Paul to please this kind Of pious people-he
had no message for the we'll, but for the
sick crowd in the chains of iutemperauce.
He didn't come here TO make great speech
or to air his oratorieal powers.
but TO attrae. the man who drinks to him
and m IKE him feel he was his friend WHY.
God keeps mans heart when he is drunk
SO that 1t thrills at the name of wife, mother
OF dead lost love, and his memory leaps up
and his mind comes to sense as those sweet
dear words fall upon his ear. Great sermons
and big speeches are not what his soul needs
for redemption and reclamation, but persons Al