Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
NOT YET DESTROYED.
DR.. George Claims That Temperance Has
Received a Stimulus-Regret at the Set
Back-His Evening Talk.

DR.. George Claims That Temperance Hns
Received stimulus-Regret mt the Set
Back-His Evening Talk.
Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Il. Ii.
George, D. D., President of Geneva Col
lege, gave very pointed talk in the Gen.
tral (Allegheny) Reformed Presbyterian
Church, in which he dwelt upon ''The Elec-
tion Defeat Stimulus to Better Work for
Prohibition" He took for text, "Cast
down but not destroyed, and said:
The cause of God is the same always and
may expect similar treatment in all ages.
When the apostle was attempting to establish
the gospel in Corinth he records an experience
which has had many parallels. So confident
was he in the righteousness and ultimate
success of his cause, when he alluded to the
difficulty, he spoke half sentence in sadness
and the other half in confident joy. There is
an inner force in truth and right which will
rise again. The Christian life is story of
triumphs achieved through adversity. The
destroyed said the Doctor, sis because our
time and Gods time for the overthrow of the
liquor evil did not agree. We had hoped that
the intelligence, virtue, philanthropy and
Christian faith of the people of the Common
wealth would have allowed God to remove this
evil by peaceful means.
We are cast down by the murderous methods
existing which cause daily 200 souls to be con-
signed to drunkards' graves, also that the best
men of the cities are so sadly deceived as to
the best interests of the State. Take Pitts
burg, Allegheny, Philadelphia. Harrisburg and
Reading; their vote largely decided this ques-
tion. They forged the yoke and fastened it
upon the vast population of the State.
Isn't it profoundly humiliating that licensed
business, licensed murder of the foulest kind,
should be called help to society by LOO, 600 ma
jority? 1t must mean two things: that many
people who ought to know better are unpar-
donably ignorant, and vast number care
more for their appetite than they do for mo-
rality.
No fact so appalls me as that Christian min
listers will advocate the licensing of the DEATH
making process, and that there can be found
people to listen to it. Political parties have
little regard for the honor of God and the good
of men. 1t is above suspicion that political
forces were prominent in the great defeat: that
trained politicians laid the ropes, mustered the
volunteers and did field service on election day
is a matter of newspaper publicity. There is a
tide rising which will sweep such organizations
into oblivion.
"Why not destroyed 2" is the other question.
Because God is in the abolition of the LIQUOR
traffic He has not an attribute which can
take part with it. 1t is impure, earthly. sen.
sual. devilish. The lives OF $1,000 boys are an
nually sacrificed to the cause of liquor traffic.
The only salvation for US is to stop it by pro-
hibition.
The temporary arrest of a good cause only
means more ardent prosecution of it, Money.
liquor and lies can never drown the truth. Let
us be thankful for the education the rum cam
paigu has wrought. Let US rely more fully
upon the power of God to reach the desired
result and enter into the fight more fully with
hopes and earnest endeavors
The Doctor also preached in Faith Chapel,
on Spring Garden avenue, in the evening,
on "The Open Door" The theme of his
discourse was that Christ was the open door.
what He has done for the salvation of sim
ners who had faith, and what He asked
them to do, and His promises of heavenly re-
ward should they obey His teachings. 1t
was missionary sermon by request and
was listened to by very large concourse of
people.