The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-07
TEMPERANCE.
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
Srom Recent Temperance Sermon by
Theodore L. CuYIer. ID. ID.

Will give auueu interest TO sermon
preached by Dr. Cuyler from the text;
Judge this rather, that no man put a
stumbling block or an occasion to fall
IN his brother's way" (Rom. xiv, 13).
We give the concluding portion of the
discourse, as follows:
'ln presenting to you this morning this great
question Of abstinence from the bottle and
our duty as Christians to oppose the drinking
usage, wish TO say word, before | close in
behalf of noble institution, with which !
have been associated from the very hour of
It's birth, the National Temperance Society
and Publication House. For twenty years |
have been identified with that most benev-
client and beneiicent organization. 1t was my
privilege to give it its name it was my priv
!lege to draft its constitution and to write the
nrst line it ever published. still circulating as
4 little tract called "A Shot at the DCclntcr'.
During the first eighteen years the presi-
Genital chair of this organization was held by
that prince of Christian philanthropy. Will
lam Il. Dodge. For the last two years the
chair has been occupied by the venerable eX-
President of Williams College, DIR. Mark Hop
klns, whose good gray head thousands of
Americans learned to know and revere under
the shadow of old Grey!ock AT the late an
nual meeting OF the society, its members so
urgently pressed your pastor to accept the
Presidency of the society that ] have con
sented to do so for one year, with the under
standing that there shall be no interference
with the prior claims of this church to my
ll'He ang strength y 2pd that shal be SO go
relieved from active duty that no hindr;tnce
shall be put in my way to the fullest carrying
out of the work to which | stand pledged as
yo,.r minister.
province and the work of an organization
that during twenty years has received and
oI,sSrfr tbot Nvbe If il a trii,, rolirioIIs IL 10
NOT a sartorion ins+it,,tion II, NV Roord
meetings every christian demon nation is
InnratGn+nd Nnithnr iS II 81 Toiiticai or MN
+isan orrr.3niyoti0n We boIo oS a Socint,if no
Sort ~ 6Siciai cnnnnct3on with onv nOiiticaJ
narty-Rcn1blican Democratic. or Prohibi
lion w. never 1rnsnnt onv condolences for
OIF 20. we na,nr issue what il called n ca,,
DTiTn dConnnn+ Tost vSor dmrinp oII thn
cGntroyersics involved in the choice of mn.
finnai r,IlerS n,-nr,' Inarhcr Of thSt socilIv
iIo,ad to fGIdv tbC dictatns 81 n
sGn,l conscienro as ~ citizen As 81 nroof of
mis- ON ioto prosidnnt in, Mark IIonI,ius
headed Che Electoral ticket in the State of
MASSACHUSETTS, for one of the caDd datcs and
another ono Of oIr officers cnrnpSfIy SIM.
nortcd still gnot6pr Presidential candidotcL
not ms officers of ol1r society blIt as cftiIrns
Of Massachusetts citizens of New York
Now Jersey or any other common.
wealth mako this Statement bncalIsn I
know there has bccn. lnhapDiIy. an entirely
false irunrnssi0u bnretOfor6 oi1-n1 i'm raWord
10 that Ass0cfutf0n Now rs ON, sOcipt,- is
nor dCnnninntionni or nolitiroi what * its
character and purnOsp2 In one word if is an
pIn1Dtor suprflTp DlITIp-p is IN p1upotp
the nnnnIoI. mind heart ana conscicncn for
thp reformation of r. character conduct and ems
toms rs sinUIn is. cd ur1tn eI1,rIic FnIt
CATE. EDTCATE. If Won viii 90 over TO orr
DJblfcotion ronu,s in Re1da street Won viii
hnd an thnsa shelves tbirtnnn hnndrnd ,Iihii-
Catfons. from 81 little ieafIrt nm to yolumns Of
five hundred mares discussing eLnry- nhusn nf
Tho movnupntZ scientific Social reiigioIIs
ana cj,.iizas foras II hrors mon tho ,cnnroI
dufins Of citilens Mun,y Of thnsa orn frGUI
the pens of the ablest and best writer's on
both sides of thn Atlantic We have issued
over siy hundred rniIlions of DaTes i'm tho
shane of tracts and vOI1Inrs we have mn IA
iiShrG ono hundred and tbirtv-tbrnn Sabhntb
school hooks some If thnfn as 7 can tcstir,,
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late every month one hundred and thirty
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10 holm savp fhn country from tho cIrse Of
strono drinlI Va
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J HyorI, has hean amOnT tbe fraedn,on of tbe
south We scatter 9r~nmants a~9inSt tho
! dram-shon Of course as The n1IrsaT T Of vice
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| tho dratb ~ tho somi RIt o,Ir cbiof ond is 70
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