Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-09-18
SAM. SMALL All ST. PAUL'S
THE EVANGBLIsr DRA IYS A LARGE
AUDIENOE.
THEME. 'BAR-RooM TO PULPIT
HE Tells THE STORY OF HIS
OHEOk Erred LIFE.
a utetier Day for Prohibition itl
rhe Euture-Ntirring Temperance
Asidress-Ehe HAT GOeh Around,


AdtIress-,Eha HAT GsOeb Around,
An immense audience assembled In st.
Parl's NJ. II. Church Friday evening to hear
the Rev. Df Samuel W. Saai's famous
lecture entitled From Bar-roota TO Pulpit"
which Is q graphic aud entertaining history
of his life. By 8 O'Clock all of the pews
were filed ard many chairs which had
been put 10 tho asles were occupied,
Nearly every denomination was represented
and numerous eol0red people were present.
The lecturer was expected to arrive a. 740
O'Clock but the train In which he came from
Philadelphia was late aud the commence
ment of the lecture WAS delayed 70 minutes.
Mf. Small did not reach the church until
S.15 O'Clock. He Is tall and slender, with
slightly sandy complexion, and wears
spectaeles. His appearance i somewhat
sedate but his wealth OF wit manifests
Itself almost instantaneouslY when h2
speaks. He Is an exceedingly rapid telker
and does not halt an instant, even when
his audience is convulsed with laughter
and 80 upr0arious that his remarks imme-
diately following cannot be heard. His
lecture last evening continued for 30 min
utes and was Eepete with humor. The
vast audience could not have been more
attentive and was delighted.
Following the singing of hymn the
Rev. William W. Taylor prayed, after which
E. Barrett.
In the beginning OF his address Mr..
Small related a story Of an old man visit
ing marketplaee and setting tree SONS
birds which were confined In cages. He
too, he sad, had been captive, slave TO
drink, and had been he'd In thongs OF
slavery much worse than those of the blrds.
He pictured his childhood, his mother and
her strong devotion and tender love, and
spoke OF her teachings. Willis as was at
| home uud had his mothers influence to
guide him he thought her teachings were
taking hold Oh hin, From homo he went
| to college, where he studlsd law. Soon
| thereafter he WAS admitted TO tho bar aud
Immediately attar euteaag on lawyers
activities discovered among men highly
| esteemed liy tAe,t associates habits OF
| social life hs hal besn taught to shun.
Little by little ha yielded until he fouad
he had an appetite 10 which he had boon
stranger up TO then. In time it gained on
| MIN.
AT this junotura In the narration OF his
history ~ expressed this nope that he will
ses thu day Wheu man will not be dragged
| by party.
He had seen men sink, he continued, but
| had said tha could not Happen TO him.
They bad Elllan, no thought, bacauSs they
! were weak and had not strength Of
| WIN. He aad strength OF will nd pride OF
| character hs believed, aud would assert
/ them before tha world. He believed that II
great evil approached MIN ne had sufficient
moral and phyaletl torco to put iC away.
He soon founi, however, that to bind his
| hellish resolutions Le might as we'll have
attempted TO btni a lion In the African
dessrt with Ghaih OF sand. His vile oa-
/ gan to expIssi fears aud ha replied With
the damnabe philosophy Of every day
| life. When lis children cana no
spread over their lives the I'm
| panetrable gloom Of his. lie. Event
| uhlly their cams the day and hour when he
reG1gnlzet the fact that he was rot his own
master. Ha sought the best medical skill
| Ia ths country. passing mouths under the
| care Of physieians AID spending thousands
| OF dollars. Next ms sought new associa-
tions. Ho secured 4 position In connection
with the United States Senate but soon
found the so iai atmosphere OF Washington
was not the propet place for man to re-
form his life. Securing a position abroad
ne went to Paris, which was the most un-
fortunate act Of his career. Soon he was in
that novel mesh OF dissipation, floating
hslplessly on thar immoral meelstrom.
While ther he was stretched on a bed Of
sickness. Eminent physicians We're called
and he was restored to health and etreIgth
hut when the test WIS applied he found
that his taste for intela parance hRd not been
phased and the physicians expressed the
opinion that his appetite would never
| GuhuHbs WIu luhI uuEh buduOW HhnE-
Ing over him he returned home.
He secured a position on Atlanta
Constitution and became official court
reporter. All efforts at reformation
we're fruitless and he became despondent.
He thought he saw the day when he would
60 down to the drunkard's hell, his wife
overcome by grief, his children hiding to
escape meeting their debauched father, his
wife sitting at home not knowing when
she would be sold out by the sheriff, when
he would be brought home dead from one
OF the wounds which now cover his body
and which were inii cted In saloons. Judge
| Hammond, at the request of his wife, pre-
pared documents warning liquor men not
to sell him liquor under the psnaity OF the
law. They oDeyed them? No! They posted
them In conspicuous places and he was
mada the Jest OF ribald crowds.
Some ASK why the law did not stop them.
| For the same reason that the law does not
stop the dirty devils in Pennsylvania and,
he WIS about TO say, In Delaware. They
have In Pennsylvania law not to sell on
! Sundays and law not to sell to young
men until they become freetradars 10 the
commodity. Why not stop them In Penn
| sylvania and why not In Georgian Because
the law stop anytning2 The latest effort
OF the law to stop anl thing was In the
United States Supreme Courts original
! puckage decision, which was appleuded by
| every beef neck bartender, every baywin-
dow brewer and every red-nosed and
fiannel-mouthsd thug, They thought pro-
nibition was dead but In the long rua 1t
turned out that Original packages were
dead. We have Congres which did not
dare 20 back and face their constituents
without rectifying tho wrong and q Prest-
dent who had to assist In righting II.
He would not give nickel for all the
law Ia Delaware bound In sheepskin. all
7 ha a
which ls accompanied by pair OF boots.
Law without enforcement Is worthless. He
| Is not temperance man. To Call him that
uld be an insult. He is Prohib!tlonist.
Give him good solid judges and good iuries
and he will run every dirty devil Of liquor
| dealer out.
Prohibition wont prohibit they say. Re-
lating a story of an Irishman VINO the first
time he was served with hash cautiously
inspected 1t and calling a waiter told him
to carry 1t b ,ck to the mao VINO chewed 1t
end ask him 10 sat 1t he would say to thoae
who claim that prohibition wont prohibit
take 1t back and swallow It. Secretary
Blaine testities that prohibition in Maine
| has been success Tor 40 years and the
| people don't want to swap II for anything
| else.
Preachers have happy faculty OF seeing
the devil stirred up ami women keep the
rest stirred up. Some say the preachers
had better preach the pure gospel and the
women had better stay at home and mind
the ktde. II is not right to take politics In
the pulpit. Go TO political convention
aud they Will say 1t Is not pslis cal ques-
tion but a moral question. One party In
Washington Is In the liquor business up to
the ankles, but headforemost, and the atti-
tude of tho other party changes quickly.
| glWaJe bunting the opposite side OF the
street. While that seems to bs the altitude
now, there is eelter day for pr hibition
coming. The time is coming when all will
say by ballot that the saioon must go. Hs
believed God had saved him from drunk.
| ards he'll and death.