Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-05
THE coon sAmARnrANs.


 one of the Hest Meetings Yet-A Large
 Attendance and Good Order-Inter-
 esting Address by Hon. Edward Cars-
 Well-A Fine Musical Treat.
 The meeting of the Good Samaritans last evening at Carlrs Opera House was very largely attended and the audience was an at tentive and apparently interested one. It was specially noticeable on account of the absence of the noisy and unruly small boys who formerly gathered in the upper gallery and disturbed the meetings in greater or less degree to the great discontinue of re- spectacle people who attend to do good and get good The officers of this society are certainly entitled to the thanks of the public in their efforts to. weed out this unruly ele- ment. .-.
 Last evening after the usual opening exer- cises President Ludington introduced Hon. Edward Carswell, of Canada. The speaker, who has been engaged in temperance work for many years, is very fluent speaker, gift ed with great flow of language and an earn estness withal that holds his audience from the beginning to the end. His repertoire of anecdotes seems almost illimitable and his style and manner of delivery is such that the SSN@oi ''--SeAO& -~O--~~ ous or pathetic, carries it's moral with an ir- resistible conviction to the heads and hearts of the audience. In his opening remarks last night tn speaker said:
 I hope, dear friends, that you will not ex- pect anything new from me tonight. I come to tell the same old story perhaps have told before in this city. I often think, what use is there in our arguing on this great subject when after all we see men go on drinking the same before. Young man, did you ever think how ashamed you were the first time you ever took an oath? How you looked around to see if anybody heard yous But af- ter you became used to it and perha ps now swear when you don't know it. So we have become hardened to the prevalent habit of dram drinking and dram selling, we see so much of it all around us Rt We'll dboIP propose ospsona sG i11aenes 9an to God had never sent his little rain drops from heaven to water the earth without their in- 1uence. I tell you my dear friends there is sufficient influence in this house tonight to create one of the greatest temper ance revivals New Haven has ever seen. It is personal influence that is needed; no mat ter how small or insignificant it may be, it will, like the little rain drop, have its in fuence. Niagara may thunder on forever, but there is no soul behind to give utterance to the sound. The poor dying Christian singing Nearer My God to Thee, is more ac-
 
 elaborate harmony. We cannot perhaps use our influence by word and sound, but we may by going out and working with our might Everything the Samaritan did for the man he found by the wayside was for his bodily welfare. He lifted the poor man up and poured balm into his wounds. tell you it is well to. work as to talk It is not enough to say that am Christian it is not enough tosay stand aside am more holy than thou; it is not enough to say am pure; it is not enough to say am teetolaler; but you must go up into thegar-. ret and down into the cellar and lift up the fallen. If you want to be happy, if you want your heart light, and if you want to be paid as you go along, then engage in this temperance work; you may be poorer in pocket by it, but you will be richer in the consciousness of duty we'll done. Do not wait until you can do some great thing, but do the little that you can.
 The speaker closed his interesting address with an appeal to the young men. There are young men in New Haven, he said, who will be dashed to pieces on the rocks of intemper- ance unless you stretch forth 8 hand to save them. Will you do it? Say tonight will give up everything, will sign the pledge and help on the cause of temperance. Don't say, I'll think about it, but say, I will do all I can. Are you willing to give us your help, your countenance, your money? l tell you there is no power outside of he'll that can equal this rum power. Rum will make the strong man take the shoes from the child and pawn them for drink; it will make the strike down the mother who brought him into the world; it will make the mother for get her little ones and turn them out into the cold world to starve. There is nothing that is cruel and wicked that rum will not do. Hoping that someone will be saved tonight, that some mothers heart will be made glad, that some wife will rejoice over a husband saved from the curse of rum through some word that I have spoken, I bid you good night
 On the conclusion of MT. Carswell's inter- esting address Miss Maria l.. Kirschner was introduced and sang in excellent style and voice ''Rock of Ages" by Bisehoff. Fol lowing came harmonica selections with gui- tar accompaniment by Messrs. Wilhelmy, Davis, Roder and Clark, which was we'll re- ceived. A duet followed by Miss Kirschner and Mrs. J. B. Hendrick which was gem. The voices of the two ladies blended finely and their rendering of the selection was all that could be desired.