The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-03
WAR AGAINST DRINK.
Francis Murphy bowers Many
With Blue Ribbons.
WARMING AWAY YOUNG MEN.
Need OF Family Affairs - The Orator
mingled With the Mu1titude-Pretty
Girls Pin the Emblem.

francis Murphy drew another immense audi
ence al the Armory last night, every seat in the
nan being filled. Several hundred chairs had
Oeen put in to accommodate the crowd, and there
was very little OF the uncomfortable crowding
that characterized the first meeting on sunday
night Mr.. Murphy, while suffering from a
sAght hoarseness, made a graphic and intensely
interesting talk. He carried the immense audi
ehce as wind sways the trsetops, and his big
Years, IN telling OF his struggles, brought
swering tears in the eyes of many hearer.
rev wallace Nutting, pastor OF Plymouth
congregational church, presided. Rev. Alfred
In"ooa read from the Scriptures, and Rev.
thomas Baldwin offered the opening prayer.
nan dozen songs were sung before Mr.. Muir
phy opened his lecture. He was greeted by pro-
!onged applause when he took the platform.
ne SAID he was glad to meet such q large crowd
again. he had come q long ways to get here
ana ne appreciated the big crowds. The last
nights meeting had been very gratifying to
MIN. sorrow was medicine, and we all had
more or less of it. Only one man that he had
ever seen had known what to do with sorrow,
ana he was Henry Ward Beecher
10 young men he wanted to say for them to
Keep their records clean. How much better he
would be II he had never seen drink. He never
would get II clear now. There was no safety for
young men but TO be absolutely away from
drink
He graphically described how his property
mad been sold while he was under the influence
OF liquor. His little boy had wanted for bread
ana MS wife had gone to the pantry, but there
was nothing there. When he got the letter from
MS vile telling OF this he cried like baby. A
man was coming through the institution and he
showed him the letter from the wife The man
\ told him he could go home. Some good friends
tcame ana gave him money and he started home.
On the way his little boy overlook and en-
Draced him and showed him the way. His
little wife was at the door, pale and emaciated.
lie promised her to never drink another drop of
hquor. They knelt down and prayed, and now
ne could thank God he had never tasted another
drop OF liquor. Then they had happiness again,
and friends came with something to eat A
gooo way to reach a mans heart was through
his stomach aud kind friends understood it
Family affairs were needed all over the town.
1t was the duty of man to stay by his family.
Ii the fathers didn't interest the boys somebody
down town would. His own boy got to going
down town and one night he thought he would
go too, but when the son saw that bis father
was going ne gave 1T up and stayed home.
Love ruled the world. Take love out of the
world and you take God out OF it. Love was
everything.
The greatest teetotler in the country came from
little cabin on the banks of the Ohio river. He
was q strange lad but his heart and his intel
lect grew great The boy early commenced to
read, and finally went to Philadelphia and saw
the Liberty Bell. Then he crossed swords in
debate with Stephen A. Douglas, and then he
was put up to the head of the nation through
many trials and war. And through it ell he
never touched liquor. That man was Abraham
Lincoln.
There was no escape from the curse Of liquor,
unless love and Christ were in the heart, and he
wanted to see every man in Seattle arrayed
against the evil. II every man would say that
he would stopp drinking and would keep his
pledge, the city would be saved.
Prolonged cheering followed the speech, and
1t was some minutes before the hall was quiet
Mr.. Murphy rose again and appealed to the
hearers to come up and sign the pledge, and
hundreds of them did so, while the choir sang
enlivening gospel songs.
Evangelist Murphy got down IN the crowd
and made personal appeals. He would bring up
weatherbeaten men, with bloodshot eyes and
disheveled hair, aud they would sign the card
he gave them. dozen young men of the Y.
N. c. A., seated in front of the rostrun, took
the names of the signers. These clerks were:
J. B. Finley, C. w. Thornton. Harry Blake, Ed
ward Auley, d. Carmichael, J. w. Purman, E. l.
Mayer, F. wetherbee, Clay Herrick, ". II. Car.