New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-17
CHURCH TEMPERANCE WORK
PLEAS FOR RESTRICTING RUM-sELLING.
4 PLATFORM ALL CHRISTIANS CAN STAND oN
sprpcurs EY DIR. crosby AND OTHERS

PLATFORM ALL CHRISTIANS CAN STAND ON
eprrcurS BY DR. crosby AND OTHERS
meeting of more vital Importance TO the
many who failed to attend 1t than to the ie"
and educated peraons who were present ""S "' 49,
ov.i,r, ot stcinway Hall under the auspices ol '"o
C,.,,,ct r.,rucronce Society on the platform were
many Of the prominent members OF the orgahizato"'
bosies the spealcUs OF the evening, among 'he ooH
ovIndo,.s Arnoux and Peabody. Robert Graham Jonh
y Stcagus tho kev. DR.. W. r. Huntington ana Ai'
II. Ncrnam. =, po.,or
vino was to have presided and from whom letter Oh TO-
GRO, yvos rood the Rev. Or. Randolph II. Mchlm' Oh
U,rIcm took the chair He said that the Church le
perauce Society was an organization o'
the purpose of applying CHRISTIAN Pii"or
pIes and reason to the temperance question:
was distnctively Christian for it was touhueu Oh
Chistion teachings Il wad dstinctyey churchy' Tor
g. souobt 70 work under church organization ana mcth
od II was dlsnctiyey tolerant for it refused 20 ercc'
total abstinence into new gospel ana 10 ue"y " mon
really temperate the right to stand on the same alo"
with those who sought totally to do away WIN "4""i
selling and drinking. ,..
The Rev f. Winchester Donald was introdhcel' Ai'cl
Speaking of the difficulty OF defining the position OF the
church ON any subject, he said that he conld not
dednitiycy tell what There had been no author
itative statement Of it, But there was such thnS DO
the spirit OF the Church and in the Church. rs wei rs
shirt OF the times for those vino could eaten IT, ino
@pirit - ''-'''
sense This might be regarded as very hsh stand
ard but # wa, one that was understood by the people
The man whose father had been moderate drnRer anu
had led an honored life, and died Chtl'thn' anu
who felt il TO be insult 10 that faJheTs hci'o.
to be asked adopt the principle OF tola'
abstinence, could consistently be "A MEMBER Oh 'hlS
society and the total abstaner could equally he mem
her III WAS not expected bring millennium in whch
there should bo drinking, right away nut IL was eN
pcctcd that they might be able 10 reduce the amount VI
drinking I'm the world. Tho position oil the EpiScoPI
Church OF the temperance question was ono oil Proouu
apathy Money for the work could only be WruhS lro'h
the diocescs By repeated requests II was mystery
that thi, was 80 and II was Il shame. Please God II
would not be 80 always. "A the society commeh'e"
itself to mem, CONSEQUENCES and mems reason ana PeoPo
heard the voice crying IN the wilderness. the Church
youid wake up aud give the interest to this WORK
that It gave to the other works IN which was engaged
The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby said that for twenty
ycars he was the only church temperance society IN the
cit aud he would forget tho Joy with "hch nc
had heard OF movement like this first IN England lheh
here IIo felt rs Robinson Crusoe would nave
felt II he had heard that great cities oi Robinson Crsoes
t1d -urlg IN ON every side. uau2htcrJ Ho had Occh
happy ever since. Qaughiert ih'y were 5o''i5 ~
succeed In th, because 10 was common ''hsh
mat they must succeed. There never was ia" more
carefully prepared Than their new excise Dill thS
must remember mat Giles were ltiy ",yt' ," ,
country places respect to such work as they were en-
gagged ~. aud the society had been guided by r' ,o
alteration In preparing tine law INC w
they were combating was ono OF '9in
practical bearing on the wGd1 ,'ry ,oner,H iS
city that Lc irii iha. good ca IONS "onu - 2
approve OF the aDuu thcj were l"hiE rug ~ O.a
uaunr4hops Leaders ana followers go % alike went 10
thr ,roc.,.- To- t the courage Tor their bloody work
ln' ,i ,, riberat anctcen citizen, we're
slain by tie rioters there were l'uo i"l,I, VINO ''' 81
order got the vorst OF IT, A'llau7g.l nl, or11,ny
,ho.r which enable he M,yor to appoint ami remove
rNc-r Commits which provide Tor mNGiuS!nE
Tor one week ZOO applicant, Tor ,cr."+ winch pl3ce me
lorn-c f 900 for selling -piruou- liquors ana 500