Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-02
TEMPERANCE.
Last Evenings Meeting Under Mr. Muir
phys Auspices.

Last Evenings Meeting Under Mr. Muir
phys Auspices.
Probably nine hundred persons assembled
in the First Baptis, Church last evening to
again listen to Mr. Francis Murphy's
eloquent temperance celebrations. While
he audience WAS not nearly so large as
that which has greeted the distinguished
orator, on former occasions, sui, with the
allowance which the first day of April de
maIdy, there was little real dimunition in
the enthusiasm which has been manifested
ricm the initial lecture Of the p,esen,
series.
After fitting music had been rendered o.
he choir, Mr.. Murphy read a portion OF the
second chapter Of Acts, commenting upon
{, as is his wont. He characterized this
a. the age of kindness and OF good feel
ing: tie spring was fast coming; soon
Inc yiolets would be peeping their heads
through the hard soil, and the trees would
oe budding, and the flowers blooming, aud
be thanked God for the many suspicious
signs OF future happiness. Prayer was then
offered By Mr.. p. Welsh, aud then Rev. Mr..
Shott made q briefaddress, in which he said
he was satisfied that about three thousand
were engaged in moving to day, but q far
greater movement was going on, which he
hoped would finally involve the entire pop
ulation-that movement was the temper.
ance movement. But he warned his hear.
ers that they were not helping Mr.. Murphy
as they ought. He trusted the people
would take the movement up and make 1t 8
Grand onward march from the present first
DAY of April to the first day Of eternity.
Mr.. Murphy followed up Mr.. Shot By re,
marking that moving was g great in stitu
ton. About the greatest test of a mans
piety was the putting up Of a stove-pipe on
moving day. The gentleman went on to
describe the trials and fluctuations which so
many of our people have experienced
during the past week, and o had his su.
dience in q roar OF laughter.
After 8 few more remarks Mr.. Murphy
introduced Mr.. r. r. Garrison, Of PIttsburg,
as a gentleman who had signed the pledge
in the smoky city eight years ago, and had
kept it to the letter. Mr.. Garrison enter
tanned the audience for some time with a
narration Of his personal experiences and a
warning TO those present TO initiate his ex-
ample and get beyond the reach Of the
demon drink.
Mr.. Park Irwin, Of thus city, was next
called on for a brief address, and the gentle
man responded in a most pleasing and
entertaining manner. Mr.. Polk Welsh fol.
loved him in an earnest endorsement of the
movement now in progress, and then Mr..
Murphy INDUCED in a somewha. ex,rsva
CANT eulogy Of the newspaper men present,
who, he said, had done much good By the
unusually good reports they had prepared of
the meetings from the outset. From this
somewhat ~unpromising subject the speaker
struck eff at q tangent upon the springtime,
now SO close at hand. He spoke Of the
coming flowers. which were to deck the
grave of old winter, and OF the birds which
would soon be making love in the gardens,
and of the tiny blades of grass which ere
long would carpet the fields With a
velvet of living green. He wished
his hearers were foudsr of the great
and glorious book now about to be uliOlded
to our view: that we we're be;tsr acquainted
with the typographical beauties of the mag.
ni6cent volume Of nature. 1t was only
now and then that q LougfslloF or a Brg.
ant came along who could goout into the
sunshine and appreciate the flowers and
trees and the waving grasses at their full
worth.
The speaker, after a while, took upthe
subject OF the universal disposition to 6gh.
stthe drop Of 3 hat, ard as a poiut to his
remarks he instaaeed the example ct
EuglAnd-that great Christian nation
going to Egypt where they had no meas
ures Of business, and bonbsrding
the city Of Alexandra and send
ing Gordon to Khartoum, where,
ass, that unfortunate man had tarried too