The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-22
A NOTABLE CONVERT.
Murphy's Pledge Is Publicly
Signed by a Leading Man.
GROWTH OF A MUSTARD SEED.
The Good Results From q Single Kind
Word-Liquor Sellers Praise
the Movement.

Although the Francis Murphy temperance
meetings are almost finished, the interest is on
the increase. Last evening Mr.. Murphy was
greeted Dy sn audience which tested the capacity
OF the finished portion Of the Plymouth Congre-
gatonal church and applauded the points of
every speech
HE meeting was opened with congregational
singing, after which Mr.. Murphy read passages
from tne scriptures, commenting as he read
george w. Foote was the first speaker and
said:
In the last twenty years OF my life have met
many drinkers of all kinds, but know and be-
Hsve that the little mustard seed, If sown kindly
WI nna some corner in each heart. / under
stand that there are 1000 wearsrs of the blue
.inoon In Seattle. ('More to follow" said Mr..
Muipny) want our friend, Dr.. J. S. Mcclure,
70 tell us how the good work goes on.
Dr.. J. s. MCGUIRE said:
am glad to notice the increase In the size of
tne audiences, and believe that If we met here
twice each day. instead of once, we would do
even better work. was the first signer OF the
Marphy pledge in this city, and truly believe
s sne ma ass seed has been working In me.
am Inherent man; feel better. {tYou look
olnerent, said Mr.. Aurphy.) Before / signed
this pledge l never looked to God, but now
look to God at night and in the morning. 1
want you ali TO come into this band and ex-
perienee the same blessings that are now mine.
MI Murphy announced that there would be q
meeting In the Armory at O'Clock Sunday
afternoon for men only, and continued:
want you all to 60 to church tomorrow. Go
anywhere, so long as you go to church.
At this point Mr.. Murphy was interrupted by
loud voices and coarse laughter from the street,
and remarked that there must be liquor in the
air. He continued:
Now, friends, I want to say that tomorrow
evening my son, Thomas Edward Murphy. will
SPEAK at 1880 O'Clock in the armory That will
close our meetings with you, but | hope the
o1AC nxkdwx -s1l
gone. There are many here who can speak to
you and have the facts to present. / have been
al meetings where the speaker presented long
arrays OF statistics and showed how much lum-
Der was used in making barrels for whisky
Now that same statistician was exclusive that
only the "bon tom of the town could come near
wagon, but do not care for free ride in it, and
hope none OF you do. This is not political
meeting, and that is why many come to
listen. | have no political issues to present,
only the mission of love toward all mankind.
Ny son Thomas will be here at $40 O'Clock to-
night and am little nervous. / want to clasp
him in my arms. That is the way l do when my
children come where l eau reach them. Why is
it that the child does not hold on to the hand of
the parent as he or she grows older. The parent
has great deal to do with 1t, and your actions
have much 10 do with forming the after life of
the children. Now want my children close to
me- The first thing did with Thomas was to
take him down the street cut of hearing and
tell him secret His eyes were larger than
saucers and when said "Now, / don't want
you TO tell, he replied "No, / wont father"
he did not Soon he came to ME with q secret
He said: 81 do not need to ask you not to tell"
After that how close, how deaIer than friends
we became to each other.
That little grain of mustard seed bore great
fruit ana that is the kind of boy who win ad-
dress you tomorrow night
]. j. Sexton was introduced and said:
Seattle is great city for noble endeavor, and
am sure that there are those here who can
carry on the work. lived, when boy, In the
backwsods of Indiana. Ny mother was Chris
tian woman. God bless her. Once, in mid
winter, stranger, blind with liquor, wandered
to our cabin. My mother took him in and fed
him When warm and sober he started out into
the storm. Meanwhile his family became
alarmed at his absence. The mother and chill
started out to search for him. They were lost,
and the morn found them cold in deaths EN-
brace upon the sled. That was q lesson for me.
/ never was q drinker but when my little boy
came home from one of these meetings with the
blue ribbon it softened me, and want to thank
you personally, Mr.. Murphy, for the work you
have done for my son and family. M. Murphy,
know You are abused; Many reel from the
their lips, but in the face of this, from ocean to
ocean, there are thousands OF homes from which
20 up the words: 'God bless Francis Murphy"
Mr.. Murphy replied:
/ am not surprised that many talk about me,
but deep down in their hearts they ike mo.
Poor fellows, God bless them. Ireeeived let
ter today, telling me that the city peculiarly
mine because all the drinkers were calling for
and talking about me.
/ desire to say something about the liquor
men. have entered many saloons and talked
with the proprietors since coming here. In all
instances have received kind words aud gr eat
encouragement from each and all Many of
OF them take me by the hand ana say: "You
are doing noble work, Mr.. Murphy, and am
glad TO zee you succeed"
Tho surprise OF the evening was when Judes