Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-08
FAIR HAVEN.
The True Anti-Peverty LeaGue-Good Advice by Rev. A. HI. Geodemough- The New Steamer to be Launched Notes.

i The True Anti-PovertY League-Good Advice by Rev. A. HI. Geodemough- The New Steamer to be Launched l Notes.
 A large audience assembled at the East Pearl street Methodist church last evening to hear the sacend sermon by Rev. A. H. Good I enough on ''Ths True Anti-Poverty League. n 1 Among other things Mir. Goodenough said in l his discourse: t'The two main causes of pow erty are laziness and waste. A large number l of our people are decaying in corruption and want. One of two things must happen. They must be lifted, purged, healed. or they will dragged society down to their own level. A select upper ten thousand, in high cultiva- tion, living in the lap of luxury, a lower ten millions in ignorance, want and rags, is state of society that has csnker at the heart of it and is dying at the root. Athens was @ society of this sort. It famed brilliantly for few centuries then it fell with shameful spiteful decay. We must look out that America does not follow in the same line. The best way to help the poor is to teach them to help themselves. The human para sites must be taught to earn their own bread, to secure their own livelihood.
 "One of the first duties of man in this world is to get money. Money is good thing. Never despise money. Money is character. Get money honestly. Then use it well. A miser is character too black for hell. A spendthrift is savage. The right a in education and increase in thoughtfulness they will become frugal and the future will be better than to-day. want to mention a few methods of waste:
 t'First, buying the things we do not want. Bargain day is temptation and a snare. though they do not want them. A young man earns $10 week and spends $10.05. He is building for poverty in later days.
 "Second, the use of intoxicants. Money spent in rum is wasted. This is the cause of most of our poverty. Beer is not food or fuel. Rum neither feeds nor healthfully warns the body. Yet the people of this country spend $90O, ,000, ,000 annually on this useless and hurtful beverage.
 "Third, the use of tobacco. do not send man to hell for smoking cigar. People have said to me: You do not send many people to hell in your sermons That is true. I thank God that is not my hell. I wish to turn their feet in the other direction. would rather take you in my arms and carry you into heaven. No, do not say you are a sinner if you smoke. But I want to remind you how much it costs to smoke. Two cigars day at ten cents eacf you up close to $5, ,0O0, including interest. That sum would be mighty big help to man at ifty-six. I do not like to see men working hard at sixty. They ought to be able to ease up little. Save your odd pence, my brothers and sisters, and you will be able to do so. The True Anti-Poverty League is the unregistered army of industrious and economic men and women all over this land who help themselves and provide for another day. I advise all to join that league."
 The oyster dealers have begun to ship opened oysters from Virginia. They are afraid that they will not have enough of their local stock to last over the holidays. Some of the dealers take very gloomy view of the outlook and predict that there will be very few natives indeed by January 1.
 Mir. Rollo Sayers has moved into his ele- gant house on the corner of Brown and Cen ter streets.
 Law 6 Sons new dredging steamer will probably be launched next week. Builder Graves will finish his work on the vessel to- morrow and the machinists will probably want week or more to put up the machin- cry. The new steamer will be one of the
 finest of the fleet and the largest ever built in Fair Haven.
 A number of our "schoolmarm's" witness ed the presentation of the s'Mikado" at the New Haven Opera House Saturday afternoon despite the fwet" weather.