Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-03
THE EVANGELIST.
The Liquor Traffic Handled bY DIXON
Williams Last Night.
A Tatbat.c Dfscourse-The Awful Result Of the
First Glass-The Rrspons'pHi flAeu'
The reople at Large Arraigned'

The fire at the Cumberland Presoy-
terrain church just after service ' yesterday
morning, put it in an unfit condition III
which TO hold service in the atferhoon'
and 1T the invitation OF Rev. j. Morgan
Wells, Evangelist Williams occupied the
Baptist church pulpit last night.
The church was packed. Every avail
able seat in the large auditorium was oc-
cupied. Quite q number stood IN the
corridors. a few sat on the floor, whlle
two or three stood up IN the windows OF
the balcony.
Before the services were opened Rev.
Mr., Tlnnon of the Cumberland ehurcn
arose and stated that his church had
been damaged, it was thought, TO the
amount of $1,000 or $500, and APP
neaIed 10 the congregation TO neIp
the NJ in their hour OF trouble, as their
treasury had been so drained by the
building of the church they had put OH
the insuring of il for awhile.
Rev. Mr.. Wells was appointed the
"lookout for hand raising in the eastern
norton OF the house, while Mr.. Tinnon
attended to the gIvers TO the left and III
front of him. BY their combined efforts
about one thousand dollars was raised
to repair the damage done
by the fire. Those who contributed,
with the amount, are as follows: Col.
w. Nj. Harrison, N. Harding, W. q.
Turner, each 500; Judge Beckham, $50;
Basrom Dunn, Jud Boyd, Joe Terrell,
w. A. Barton, Townsend Bros, Tom
Ellison, W. F. Lake, j. &. Reilly, MRS.
b. NJ. Burchil, Royal Twombly, Ed
Provine, J. F. Greene, C. a. Sillman,
$40; A. Simpson, J. c. Thompson,
G. C. Drake, G. S. welhaus, MIR.
Browning, DR.. Mcknight, Isaac Foster,
J.F. wellington, C. H. Holman. f.
F. Greene, s. P. Clark, Judge Blair,
Sam Garrett, John F. linn, E. E. Fos-
dick, Walter Want. each $40; K. n.
Mcknight, ] a. Lee, Mrs. o. Faulkner,
A. Dunlap, Mrs. @. H. Want, w. b.
Garvey, {. Beck, Mr.. Lawrence,
Joe Terry, Andrew Jackson, Miss Get
sendanner, II. H. Sellers, j. S. Clark
son, Mrs. Gracy, Pick Mulkey, DR.. w.
D. NJ. Mason, each, So; Col. r. u.
Wynne, $50; J B Buchanan, S25; W.
Z. Fakes, $50; L. D. Mayes, $40.
The persons who subscribed 20 the fund
may pay either to n. Harding, at the
Fort Worth national bank, Col Harrison
at the State national, or w. G. Turner
the above will be appreciated by the
church.
The subject last night, as announced
by Mr. williams Friday night, was tenn
perance, and apropos of the question the
evangelist chose the 25th verse OF the
9TH chapter of Hebrews: Wherefore,
He is able to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by Him, seeing He
ever 1oveth to make intercessIon for
them. -
Mr.. Williams handled his text in Sc
rious vein. There was nothing OF the
humorous in it. He began by imquiring
into the cause why, the way being so
plain and easy of travel, such small
percentage of people embraced the priv
ileges of the Christian religion, with all
its aIlurements and promises Of rich re-
ward, concluding that the adage that
"money is the root OF all evil
was about correct, and that the
desire TO accumulate wealth was
the great drawback TO the evangeliZation
of the world. The reason for this is that
many Of the easiest methods of money
making are contrary TO the principles
70 Divine law, aud their pursuit en-
tailed traDsgression of Christian precepts
There are many of those business meth
DDS ana pursuits that need exposure
said Mr.. Williams, but he would speak
of one in particular, the one that brought
the greatest misery upon humanity; the
LIQUOR traffic. He did not want his re-
marks taken as personal, though he was
aware there were those present who
would stlgmatiZe him as crank for en-
tering upon discussion of the saloon evils
, But he was no more a crank than
the mother, daughter or wife who
anxiously waited for or sadly mourned
the loss of son father or husband taken
off by the demon rum. So he entered
boldly upon prohibition lecture, not
quoting dry statistics, but producing
extract after extract from the press, and
letter after letter from the people, show
ing the pathetic side of the question
And the effort to arouse the sympathy OF
the audience IN his position was entirely
successful, for many o handkerchief was
put to cheeks as the eloquent orator
related his stories of the fatal result OF
the first social glass. Then the liability
for all these cases was fixed. Not only
was the seller OF the liquor responsible in
= the sight of God but go were the mayor
and the council aud the officials of the
government who gave the saloOnkeepel
license TO sell the stuff; aud so were the
] people who could, if they would, abolish
= the whole business OF liquor selling. Blu
business interests, the matter of money
making, the love of iucre, prevented thu
contamination OF such "a design.
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