The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-18
BISHOP GALLOWAY AND CONSTI,
TTTION.4L PRORTRf

way. the onVy' bold ul.u trusted leader
at the aggressive Prohibition army of
Mississippi, j. to-day duiGg more IN
defeat Constitutional Prohibition and
delay acousummatiou of the hurcsand
aims of he faithful advuvatUs Uf this
cause iiran all of the whisky sellers
of the State cumhihrd
For ,Ee uf his professions of Loyal
" and past record on the subject of
Prohibition, the late attitude of Bish-
op Galloway on this question is little
less than astounding.
When the State Prohibition Execu-
tive Committee issued their address
last April ia favor of Constitutional
Prohibition, Bishop Galloway was
understood, not without good reason,
to he in full accord with the Commit
tee in this advance movement. He
! had assured at least one member of
held that decided To promulgate that
address, that if an aggressive, active
policy was decided upon 10y the com
mittce on the subject of Prohibition,
that he might be counted upon to CO.
operate and render all the assistance
in his power, even to taking the
stump for the cause. After the adj
dress had been published short
while. the members of the committee
were little less than thunder struck at
seeing the Bishops interview with II
reporter of the Memphis Commercial,
squarcly taking issue with the very
policy that they had adopted, and the
only one that, under the circumstance
cs. seemed logical and rational.
But the inconsistent and incxpli-
cable action of the Bishop did not end
here. With the words of that inter
view opposing Constitutional Prohi-
bitIon still fresh on his lips, he went
to the General Conference of his
Church at st. Louis, and as Il member
of that Conference endorsed a report
on Temperance and Prohibition that
should be strong and emphatic enough
to satisfy the most ultra Constitution
al Prolibitionist in the land.
What that report was, and where
those should stand to-day who en-
dorse it, we let the report speak for
itself 1t reads:
/. We are convinced that if ANY MORE AD-
vANCED POSITION Is POSSIBLE FOR ANY
CHURCH (any position we mean that comes with
in the province of a church) THAN THE ONE
WHICH THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SOUTH OCCUPIES TO-DAY UPON THE CUES
TIoNs OF TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION,
OUR MEMBERSHIP is READY AT ONCE To
TAKE IT.
WE ARE FMPHATICALLY A PROHIBITION
CHURCH. We stand out squarely before the
whole world, certainly in theory, and for the
most part in practice, FOR THE COMPLETE SUP
PRESTON OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. We OF
FER NO COMPROMISE TO, AND SEEK NO
TERMS FROM, A SIN OF THIS HE1NOUs QUAIL
TY. We are OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF IL
CENsE of this iniquity, whether the same be
HIGH" or Low" 1t cannot be put so 'high"
that the prayers of Gods people for its suppress
sion will not rise above it, nor so "lOw," THOUGH
1T MAKES ITS BED IN HELL, that the ShriekS
of the souls lost through its accurSed agency
will not descend beneath it.
Upon this question, only about two years ago,
Bishop McTyeire said in the Texas Christian Adj
vocate: THE WHISKY POWER MUST BE FUr
UNDER OR IT WILL PUT Us UNDER. The bat
tie is begun and THERE is NO RETREAT OR
FARLEY, AND SUBMISSION Is INTOLERABLE.
More than ever l am for the final and extreme
measure of Prohibition since witnessing the de
yelopmcntS of the whisky power in the struggle
for life. All its malignity comes out. 1t stands
exposed and without disguise"
These words of our dead Father in Israel come
back to us like voice from the spirit land loud
and clear as a tocsn struck at midnight and the
Church of God takes up his battle cry, THE
WHISKY POWER MUST BE PUT UNDER
OR IT WILL PUT Us UNDER!'' and through
the miSts and shadows that envelop the tomb of
him whose memory We revere, we seem to hear
his voice: "SEE TO 1T, o MY PEOPLE, THAT
THE CHURCH OF GOD STRIKE NOT ITS
COLORS IN THIS WAR FOR SOULS"
s. We are able to state, from the investigation
made, that for the most part our church mem
bers THROW THE FULL WEIGHT OF THEIR
INFLUENCE AND AUTHORITY AS VOTERS
AGAINST LICENSING THE LIQUOR TRAF-
FIG. SURELY, AS CHRISTIAN MEN, WE
CAN Do NO LESS. And yet we quote the
words of one brother, reatfirmed by many: BE
You'd doubt, II ALL THE CHURCH MEMBERS
WOULD ONLY DO THEIR DUTY, WE COULD CAR
RY OUR STATE FOR PROHIBITION EVERY
TIME. Oh that our people would realize that
the measure OF their responsibility is not merely
the good or evil accomplished or prevented by
them, but the good they might do and the evil
they might prevent if all their powers were con
Secrated to the service of Christ
4. The testimony was uniform and unvarying
as TO the fidelity of our preachers to the cause
of Temperance. They do not always, like that
greatest preacher of them all, when having but
a single opportunity to preach the Gospel to the
same audience, place the theme of Temper
ance" between righteousness" and the "Judg-
ment to Come and reason till the very throne
of evil trembles at the power of Truth;-yet in
the vast majority of cases, the preachers of our
Church recognize Gospel Temperance as the le-
climate theme of the Christian pulpit, and full
inmate the DEGREES of God against the use of in
toxicants, with an earnestness and eloquence
born of sincere conviction.
In the words of one of our Bishops [GAL-
LowAY, in sletter to Ex-President Davis
If to preach the doctrine of Tenn
perance, and to preach against the open
salaon he Sonrce of most of our EnciaI