The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-06

nave not the same determined spirit to
abolish the liquor traffic as as manifested
for the Punishment Of slavery. | attended
a prohibition meeting the other evening,
and as | noticed the large number of va
cant chairs in the room | was reminded of
the accounts often related to as of the
smallness of the anti slavery meetings in
| the early pant of the abolition movement.
Now and then we meet with a man who
took a very active part ia the cause long
befole the war, and they rejoice to day be-
cause they persevered to the end and saw
the shackles fall from the oppressed negro
ia bondage.
On the subject of temperance and pro-
hibition there is too great diversity Of SEN
timent and old party preferences. The
hardest thing for a temperance mar to do,
in spite OF all his professions, is to vote a
Prohibition ticket. He votes as his father
voted, and his sons are in the same boat.
Perhaps there is no question Of reform ia
which there is SO great difference of opin-
ion as in this question of temperance. Last
Sunday at Mrs. Bratten's meeting | took
notes Of a talk by Rev. 4. G. Lawson, of
the North Baptist church. He expressed
his sentiments on the question of temper
ance in a moral point of view, saying
nothing about prohibition, but gave his
hearers to understand that his ballot
would follow the direction of his prayers.
The foundation of temperance effort, he
believes, is based upon the same principle
as was written the life of Christ by the
four Apostles. Men see a little different
from each other. The Saviour presented
himself to these -four men in a different
light. Matthew was a man of figures and
brains: John was a boatman and fisherman
and accustomed to the water; Luke was a
physician, and Mark, so far as we can
learn, had no trade at all. Those four men,
unlike each other, give us an account of
the S%aviour's life. Let us look at drunk
enness. Here is a physician who says that
it is a disease and must be treated by the
doctors. Another man tells me that it is
purely an economical matter. If men are
determined to spend their money they will
do it and you must teach them better
habits of life. | will ask another man to
tell me upon what We are to base our tenn
perance effort in order to get at the foun-
dation of the evil in order to overthrow it
aud lie says it should be denounced as a
nuisance, a disgrace TO the nation and
ought TO be banished upon that basis.
The Bible says drunkenness is a sin; a sin
against the law, against humanity, against
God. he SAW the patrol wagon take q
drunken man away from a saloon while
the bartender who sold him the liquor
stood in the door looking on. He hoped
the time would come when the patrol
would cart away the bartenders as quick
as any other offender, and let the helplessly
drunk lay IN the streets while they did it.
[Applausel.
So | will say to Ruth" until there is
unity of sentiment aud combined effort,
the preachers may keep on preaching, the
lecturers keep on lecturing, and writer's
continue writing, the evil will go on with
it's deadly work. But there is in the field
to. day an army of women. greater than the
world has ever seen, therefore let us take
renewed courage and press forward with
the work yet TO be done and win a Water
loo. PANTsrNBooTs.