The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-04
DR.. POGsON'S LECTURE.

1T includes the Interesting Story of a
an Reclaimed Young Man.
THE rain prevented the gathering of a
large audience at the Tabernacle yester-
day afternoon to listen to an address by
the Rev. Dr. Pogson, the noted New
York temperance lecturer. There were
more than a hundred persons scat
uered about in the large auditorium when
venerable Rev. DIR. Parmley, of the First
Baptist Church, introduced the speaker.
DR.. Pogson is n of the most eloquent
speakers on the American lecturers
rostrum.
DIR. Pogson possesses that peculiar style
of eloquence for which Mr.. Bob Ingersoll
is famous; he constructs long sentences
of word pictures-sonewhat ~heterogene-
Gus, perhaps, when put into type, but
effective when well delivered from the
platform. DIR. Pogson has a good de-
livery, and he made his pictures tell.
After a general arraignment OF King
Alcohol as he author of almost all the
woes which humanity suffers, he passed
to an anecdore-as he called it-which oc-
cupied the larger part of his discourse.
The story dealt with the fortunes of a
voting E~nglishman, born of respectable
parents in comfortable circumstances.
In his youth he went to one of the best
schools in England, but he was one of
BuQSS puUi1S NtO CllBtU tuC WILL NY ul2uU
to taste the questionable pleasures which
are never lacking in q university town.
Before he vas sixteen years old he was a
drunkard. A quarrel with his parents
followed, and eventually the young maj
entered the English army. He left the
service after afew years and effected a
reconciliation with his father, by whom
he was set up in a business which grew to
q gratifying success.
He was then a total abstainer, but one
evening a young lady for whom he had a
high regard persuaded him to pledge her
in d toast drunk with wine. The devil
lurki in the glass. In three days the
younA nan was a drunkard again. His
businA s went to ruin, and he soon after
left the country and came to America.
He squandered all his money, and at last
was forced TO 90 to work in the Bergen
Tunnel. He got two months pay to-
gether, and then went to New York and
city for a few days and then took to
tramping out into the country. In two
months he was back again, hungry and
ragged, He was tempted to suicide, u
the thoughJ of his mother, watching him
from heaven, restrained him. A new
faith in God was born within him.
ThyJ night the Christian captain Of the
Essg K Market police station let him sleep
ina cell. And the nex morning that
s me Christian chptain, distributing
breakfast tickets in front Of the Howard
Mis- ion, placed one in the hands of this
vagabond without recognizing him. He
entered and told the story of his fall and
asked for sympathy and help. Several
Christian gentlemen offered him work.
He was reclaimed and afterward sent out
to preach the word of God. He became a
staunch temperance advocate and re-
claimed thousands of drunkards. Thirty
four years elapsed. The Grand Templars
of Chicago sent him to represent the
Worlds Lodge in London
The Doctor here drew an eloquent pen
yagabond with his old father in the land
of his birth, and concluded with the re-
mark:-"That young MAI who related
his terrible experiences at the Howard
Mission room and was made a temperance
advocate stands before you now.n'