The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-09-24

But most Of "a ta.s tGwl IS 10 el fo-
b. ng tn place where the present Proh.bi-
tiol Clnd.dats 70" governor OF Oslo va
educated. IL was Lec3 in the pubic high
schDo' pi Alliance thai b. at e1esimboeI
teupnralcs AMI toe 5inEl. a1I double l.
y. taFe3. Perhaps & "asthe grsas number
CT pumps ma1llac.ufal here tlratmade him
ta.ie 70 coli ,ratsr. He was not born here,
boweve". Tns nelghDoring cJuntyof Trun-
hull was that n wAich his infant cries first
pierced s4s air Tnar were glod and strCns
ol-as. it 9 sa d, aI befi el futursstternper-
anCe o.ltor an Dreaciar H9 Was born IL
the wear OF our Lord 1851. con @que1t-y he
is vet a compar atlvelv young man. HI.
voice promises to b3 lifted for law, order
and tem ,,eraac4 many years to coma. He
seems t. b, the culy man on record who has
boen ebio - biead successfully divinity AMI
polls.
II first e-an to preach in the Methods
Epsrupal llrch III 1859. He has scrvel
his draomln }tlUn SO sue ,essfully tia. he ha1
Cl-.edY ba,u ADVANCED through all the
gi=des OF h.lor DasoS that OF bishop. H.
ha. preached III I.5fSaurg. IN kaisas, al
in !41.n ONO, uCtaDly Cincinnati Tha
hetho,I4.t 0. JAa. cltT ara powerful an
vsaItns G~gau.zltlon, and it was here thai
Rnv. u. l. uuri won his name ID fame.
an mpararca, noC apprslingly, but az
gres,iveIv, xpauSive.g.' as Walt Whit.
Iaau would say. H. Is the kind ot minister
wtose savings gat into the ne vsplpers and
who takes q wOI king interest in Ele affairs
of lis I-lIoN msn. At tue Snnual 14oveland
camp me ting o. the GanES ct the L tile
Mlauu river, near C.nc mat, DE is Il 7ower.
hi' li"ry e.'quenc1 tuTnS EloeS upquencE-
nhT wh,n he Is near 10 natur,'s heart, anl
within sigut and sound of the. water be
loves 40 " H. Ire uameS Of Lovetand and
Leonard were inseparable.
1t was therefore 4 very painful sur
Prise to his adn!ring ccnstitu 'ncv when
tley leaInad tua, the untemperance enemi II
cf TO reverend doe or Chargei him w.sl
eating toast soaked IN ale at a camp meet
ing Tor HI, dysrepS.G- Goiless ale bottle'
u, On a camp Ground would scanlalize toe
caU;e OF r5l.gion however. Therefore DR..
Leonard AMI a p,ou5 brother did repair
ia tie gray # dawn to the bushes outside
tla lin : ard there tie minister did eat an
DR. his s-opachs sake toast dipped in
a.e. and it did him power of good. Dys-
Pep a Is doId. Ibis Is one story. lt is
Only fair TO D.. Leonard to saw, however,
TIA he "JeniGes OF it." as far a. going into
the bushes is cOucerret he says re didn't
do tina although th, brother wLo procured
the . for / I'M declares circumStentialiy
thai hs dill. bu: -hs BROTHER must have for
gotten.
T4ere is yet another story which has
caused other Learts to ble,d. 1t is that DR..
LeonarI once hen i'll alncst unto death
paGgoo,l cf old Kentucky bourbon to savs
his lite. He drank It al tho command of his
physician ali the urgent request Of pious
ana in fueniIai member of his congregation,
an h. did it IN th9 mos. Seltlemaniv AMI
Gu Lstian manne~. But ne did i6 aad owns
up TO i. The leverage he took was not even
a wh.sl: sour. & was a plaiu-out whisky
strai. Int, fnl he repeated the dose from
time to lime, Afterwards the pioui- AMI IN
fiuta,iaI trcther being in ths wholesale
gIocery linz it is saii and consequently
importing on,r tae finest wines, made his pas
tor a resent of a mum -er OF bottles Of shtr-
rs. Needless to sav thu whisky and the sherry
saved his life al preserved HIM to become
the Prohibit n candidate for governor Cf
Ohio. No bougb9p, no temperance. 1hus the
weapon' of the evll one are sometimes :nade
10 s,rve rs a means of grace.
We theref, re beS cur realtors to note that
il was onl7 in this way ami not in any
wicGeI and worldly way that the distin-
gul,le>l head of tn, tee,otal Prohibition
plr.y OF Odjo tooI Lis shs'ri AMI his
waisky str;i;nt. MOLLY SfARK