The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-03
A Grand Temperance Meeting.

Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts 81
the enemies of temperance of all professions
to prevent a full attendance, ore Of the
largest audiences that ever turned out in
Woodstown to listen to a temperance lee
ture assembled in Hunts Hall last night
to greet Major E. T. Scott. 1t was fortu-
nate that the meeting was held in the
Hall, as only the largest church would
have held it. We observed some present
from a distance, and at the close Of the adj
dress the Major was engaged to speak in
one of the churches in Mullica Hill. SIM
day evening the 18Th inst. Rev. Mr..
Bridgeman presided and led in the devo-
tional exercises. and a select choir rendered
most excellent music. The address. which
lasted an hour and a half, was listened to
with the closest attention to the end and
elected frequent and enthusiastic applause.
The Major opened by saying that he was
charged as being an agitator. He gloried
in it.. He cited what agitation has achiev-
ed. and spoke of WiIberforce. Wesley.
Knox and Luther, and their grand victor
les. Ee showed, in beautiful imagery and
chaste diction, how God and nature works
through the mediumship of agitation.
Then followed a graphic description of
a temple-the temple of human progress.
each home a pillar, in other words-the ma
ton an aggregation of homes.
The speaker said, ..the only guarantee Of
a nations %perpetuity lies in the individual
character of its citizens" At the home.
with its family Bible and altar; at the
mothers knee, are laid the foundations of
character. Out of these homes come the
future governor and the ruler of the nation.
Then, with language suitable and eloquent,
lie painted a beautiful character glow
ing tribute to Mrs. Mary Clement Leayitt.
who is forming Women's Christian Temper
ance Unions in the isles of the Pacific.
encireling the earth with these white rib
bon bands of noble and earnest workers.
lie said the great enemy of the home was
the liquor traffic. With his customary
force and with impressive oratory, he
painted the horrors of intemperance; the
aims and purposes of the liquor traffic:
its monopolizing tendencies; its throttling
the pulpit and legislatures; padiocking the
mouths OF preachers and writers. Scath-
ing anathemas, exeoriating inyectives, like
a boiling Niagara, were poured upon the
weakness and pusillanimity Of weak-kneed
temperance men.
He V the remedy by saying that no
church, or society, or body, or system of
belief, ever achieved success without a
party. He affirmed that "the tenets and
principles of Professionalism, without a
church party, were like rudderless hulks.
pounding amongst the breakers. He
said that IF the NJ. +. church reeeded
from its ~time-honored customs and religi-
Gus belief any member would be justified
in his Withdrawal to form an alliance with
that church, or body, or party entertaining
his views The man who could not see
the necessity of a party in the success of the
temperance cause, 'had a head which
served as a knot to keep his backbone
from unrayelling." Applause.
TIereyiewed the parties and
asked what was there in either to induce a
temperance man to support.
But we eannot follow Major Scott in all
all that he said, and suffice it to say that
his arguments, logic, wit, hunor, repartee
and pathos kept the large audience in a
state of earnest attention, and the force Of
each point made was frequently ~emphasiz-
ed by ~well-merited applause.