Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-28

There was large attendance at the temper
ance meeting held at the Nine teenth Street
| Baptist Church yesterday afternoon. Mrs La
Fetra presided. and. in calling the meeting to
order. she referred to Judge Kimball OF the
Police Court, who announced as one OF the
speakers. and said she thought the people OF
Washington had reason to thank God for hay-
ing such a pure and honest judge. and she
added: Il don't mean to say that we have not
had such judges before" Last Wednesday,
| she said, at the meeting Of the W. G. L. u,
| resolution was passed condemning the wearing
Of low-necked dresses, and in The STAR that
evening. in addition to their report, was an ac-
| count Of the arrest of a woman for being i'm
modestly dressed, a. they had condemned, and
| she was glad to say that Judge himDau nneo
her.
| JUDGE KIMBALL's ADDRESS.
Judge Kimball was then introduced and he
opened his remarks by saying that If he were
| a minister he would take his text from the sixth
| chapter Of Galatians-"For whatsoever a man
| soweth that shall he also reap. Persons, the
judge said, are often heard to remark: 'Oh,
he's sowing his wild oats now, and that means
that he will raise a harvest of wild oats, for HE
that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
| corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" There
| is nothing in the Bible, continued the speaker,
about sowing wild oats. During the first twenty
years of persons life the life is pretty apt to
be what the remainder OF 1t will be, and as the
| oats are sown shall the harvest be reaped.
VIVA. boy girl is at twenty he or she is
likely to be the same at forty. although there
are instances Of persons OF mature years
changing their course OF life for the better,
but after all in nihe-tenths Of the cases the
| early days determine the fate of the person.
BONE FIGURES AND WHAT THEY PROVE.
In Union Park Church, Chicago, few weeks
ago there was a test made. There were 1000
persons in the church and 1918 of them were
Christians. OF them 1.4C0 became Christians
when they we're under 20 years old, $50 between
20 and 30 years. 20 between 80 and 40 years, IL
between 40 and 30 years and only when over
! so years.
What do these figures tell of sowing wild
| oatsf' asked the speaker. "And think that
answer would aboutapply to almost any church
in the land"
Referring to the question of temperance he
SAID he was firm believer In it, and added that
he did not know the taste Of liquor. Nor do
| his children, who are taught three times a day
| about Its evils and destructive powers. He
| also believed that the world would be con-
verted to Christ. but not SO long as the rum
/ power was permitted to go it 10 today.
The gospel is fighting the rum power every
| day and the rum power i'll return is fighting the
gospel This work of conversion, however. he
| did not believe would be accomplished except
| through the children. The speaker then spoke
| at length upon the influence exerted by the
parent over the children and referred to the
| numerous children who were permitted to lie
| away from home at night without their parents
| even knowing OF their whereabouts.
| THE POOL ROOMS AND SALOONS.
| The pool rooms and saloons were next spoken
of and the judge said that glance in the doors
Of these places would soon convince the
parents that the majority of the patrons were
| bows and from these places come MANY of the
| BOYS who are brought INTO court And in adj
dition to these boys there are a great many
| girls of tender years brought into court
1t is the duty of the parents to see that their
children don go to the doors of hell for every
pool room and saloon door is an entrance TO
| the lower region II the parents will look after
| their children and bring them I'D in Christian
circles until they are twenty wears old they are
very apt to stick to that training There are
that they can SOW their wild oats until they are
twenty-five years old and then change but the
cnange seldom happens Tor the better.
LOCAL LIQUOR STATISTICS.
The judge then mentioned the names Of such
persons as Washington, Madison, Blackstone
| and others who held high positions in public
| life at an early age and who continued to live
Christian lives until their death.
There are at present in this CITY $50 licensed
bar rooms and 416 places where liquor is sold
| under q wholesale license the speaker con-
/ tinued and, according to the information fur
nished by the police there is an illicit place for
every place that is licensed, and the latter are
| even worse SO far as the morals of the COM
munity are concerned. than the places where
rum is sold under a Incense granted by the gov
eminent Put these figures together and you
! have the number of opening places to the
| lower regions that there are in this CITY,
| Portions of the report of the chief Of police
Il
there were 6. 9S6 minors arrested. and i. go OF
| them were under sixteen years CID The great
bulk of these, said the speaker. were due either
| 10 the use of intoxicants or the use OF strong
drink at the homes Of the children, who were
| only following the example set for them. 1t
was not the fault of the children in many cases,
| but the responsibility rested entirely upon the
parents Considering the number arrested,
and the great many who were not arrested be-
/ cause there was no officer about when they
committed an offense. il Is easily seen that the
/ figures given did not cover the actual number
i of cases