The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-10-06
WORSE THAN WAR.
Father Montgomery Talks About
incompetence.

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Rev. Father Montgomery preached re-
Gently at st. Mary's Cathedral to large
congregation on the subject OF temper
ance. His text was from the Epistle to
the Galatians, where St. Paul contrasts
the works OF the flesh with the works OF
the spirit, ending with these words /:
d" Drunkenness, reyeling and the like, OF
which 1 foretell you as l have foretold
YOU, that they who do such things shall
not obtain the kingdom of God.
The speaker said he would speak on
the subject OF temperance for the reason
that it was contem plated to organize in a
short time a movement for the promo
ton OF the virtue OF temperance, and he
simply wished to throw out some
thoughts for the people to reflect upons
with a view Of enlisting all Catholics in
the work.
He said that permanent success in any
worthy decree must be looked for from
the cooperation OF the church and the
municipal authorities that it is a matter
in which the church and municipality
are equally concerned, as the virtue OF
temperance is both a civil and a religious
virtue. Intemperance is not only 8 vio-
lation OF the moral law, but is social
sin as well.
EVILS or ISTEMPERANCE.
He attributed the evils that all admit
to certain habits in society, to the pres
ent almost unregulated sale OF drink.
The habit OF treating" ne considered
baneful, and one that must be dis
couraged; that the methods employed
in the retail sale of liquors, by which the
young and the weak. are decoyed to their
ruin, are OF so pernicious q nature that
public sentiment must be aroused that
shall in time correct it. Every allure
ment, by means of games and the like,
that attract BOYS to the saloon, where, If
drinks are not sold to them they are
thrown into companionship with the low
and depraved, and where obscene Ian
guage is made familiar. he considered
the beginning of their ruin. Hence the
people would be asked to lend hand IN
purifying these places or OF suppresslng
them entirely, and as they would be
called upon to act in this matter as
Catholics, he would state clearly the
position OF the church in the matter.
He quoted from the pastoral letters OF
the Bishops of the Second Plenary
Council of Baltimore, wherein the
Bishop deploring the Dissertation of the
Sabbath said it was largely due to the
sale of liquor on Sundays. They ear
nestlv exhort their fiocks not only to dis
courage this traffic, but ask such OF them
as may be engaged in the business to
discontinue It as soon as possible and
engage in some more becoming way OF |
making a living. He said that the ac-
ton by the council and the efforts of in |
dividuals looking to the same end had |
been especially blessed and approved |
by the Sovereign Pontiff. The speaker |
also called attention to the fact that If |
his people needed any outside approba- !
ment it was to be found in the expressed |
opinions of the ablest statesmen, lawyers,
Judges, and physicians OF the day-al |
declaiming that the evil of drunkenness
is one OF the social dangers of the age. !
Their little boys, upon receiving confr- !
nation, had asked with the parents |
consent to promise total abstinence until |
they should obtain their majority. In /
this way their characters would be |
formed to habits of temperance and So
briefly, and if, when they obtained their
there was public sentiment
;reated making disreputable habits, that
are now respectable, disgrace. we
would have hopes OF a better state OF
affairs
WORSE THAN ANY WAR. /
The speaker looked upon war as a /
dreadful calamity, and yet what were /
The ravages of war in comparison to
hose of intemperance. Father Mont
Iomery thought that in view OF the fact
that there is more liquor consumed in
this city in proportion to the population /
than in any other city in the country /