Evening journal., 1889-07-15
STORM OF INTEMPERANCE
REV. DUNCAN MAceREGoR MAKES
STRONG ARGUMENTS.

1EtAAAc 0A AnhtbANftAHGEF HOW VAEF-
thrown" at Hanover Chur ch Yesterday.
The Tread of Prohibition.
Rev Duncan MacGregor, B. D., Of
Brooklyn, N. T., lectured on temperance
at Hanover Presbyterian Church yester-
day afternoon. On the platform were
Rev. Lafayette Marks, D. D., pastor of
the church, Rev. j. d. @. Henna Of AS.
bury NJ. f. Church and DR.. MacGregor.
Among the clergymen in the audience
We're Rev. J. w. +. Boothe, d. D., late
pastor of Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church; Revs. William L. White and d.
Fl. Corkran. Although the atmosphere
was close, large audience was present.
DIR. MacGregor was introduced by DIR.
Marks. He spoke without notes and
completely fascinated the auditors by his
powerful eloquence and brilliant logic.
His subject, Intemperance How Over
thrown, was treated in careful for
chile manner. He likened the storm OF
intemperance to that Of natures both are
formed by vacuums.
You cannot form vacuum without
bringing on catastrophe Destroy all
vacuum builders and you destroy all
storms | stand in marble temple as
the storm Of intemperance sweeps BY, but
| am safe. / stand upon the Rock of
Ages the walls around me are OF
total abstinence; the rafters are
Of faith and prohibition Now let the
liquor man try TO break down those walls
with his iron crowbar It is ground to
powder. The ally of the liquor man
tries with his crowbar of steel to tear
down the walls. His steel is bent and
twisted. | am safe in this storm that is
sweeping 100, 900 men to doom each year
millions of drinkers toward their death !;
20, 000 600 barrels of drink each year,
and liquor dealers by the hundred
thousand. You and | are safe, but the
great masses are not.
How shall we overthrow intemper-
anceg Find the real cause. Be honest
The cause is found in human nature.
Passion for drink passion for money are
| the causes. These two passions are
bound to meet and exchange. They will
walk through the family. through mar
riage VOWS they win come together.
These passions form great vacuum, an
| internal machine which crowds back the
church, home and school, To furnish
capital to run it our bread is taxed. | see
pump on the internal machine
and to the pump trough
| At this trough stand 500, 600
| liquor dealers after licenses. They saw
to the men at the pump-the law makers
| Pump out our licenses. The law makers
hesitate; the press and pulpit have been
| giving them light. Again the men at the
trough say Pump. Still the men at the
pump hesitate. Then the liquor men
say, We'll be your constituency, we'll
vote for you, II you will only pump.
i rVba sr,fa o1 a.
/ turning out licenses. What for? Licenses
to kill This makes great vacuum, it
/ is draft on everything 1t draws from
| culture. refinement and government and
threat ems to move the avalanche that will
| destroy our institutions.
''We must destroy this vacuum by
light and law, that parents may teach
| their children prohibition; that liquor
selling be put in the category of crime
| where 1t belongs; that the young woman
will refuse to wed man who will not
positively abstain from touching or tast-
ing strong drink What reform that
would work. We need light that the
Christian Church may see that prohibition
should be linked to the cross. We also
need law. Law is divine, always fol-
the right, always against wrong. 1t has
majesty, divinity, power. But our law
makers forget this power. Law stands
at the door of the chicken pen or the
stable and says to the thief,
Stand off. It is prohibitory, vet
no one finds fault with it.
Shall 1t not stand guard at the door Of
/ your home and protect your wife and
children from the thief who steals your
all. What man, If ne be true man, shall
say Down with the prohibitory lawY
! "a man steals your horse and is pun
! ished. The liquor dealer steals your char
acter, your peace. yonr all, and you can
do naught. He, reeking with murder,
laughs you to scorn. We need law. While
the government helps one man from the
| stream of destruction il assists a thou
sand in.
Il hold aloft the banner of prohibition.
We may not have it this year or next
year, but we can dry up the stream as
much as possible, rising step by step to
| the heights of prohibition. Prohibition
in principle and law is coming; already
his tread is heard, and he will be seen
| gathering under his banner humanity
and law. Tomorrow he win stand in
the centres Of government and business
to rescue the land.
A collection for incidental expenses
was then taken up by members of the .
M. I. y. and after singing the doxology,
the benediction was pronounced by Dr.
MacGregor.