Smyrna times., 1893-12-20
Miss MoOre's Address Sunday,

Miss Moore. of Springfield, Ohio. had
the pulpit of the Methodist church
Sunday morning. She was here under
the auspices of the w. C. T. u. and of
course her talk was on the line of their
particular work. She did not preach
in the ordinary way of taking a text to
elucidate subject that would have
been as applicable 20OO years ago as
to-day, addressed to all mankind in
general and no body in particular. but
she took bject-Haman aud Queen
Esther-and made application to this
country, to this generation and now
1t set forth the highest qualities of in
diVldual charaCter-the selfshness of
the one as against the Unselfishness of
the other, the striking feature that
characterized Esther in her devotion
to her people,, the effort to avert i'm.
pending evil to the nation and the
equally determined effort to save the
people and especially the young from
the vices and snares set for them by
wicked and selfish men, as is now the
nigh purpose of the organization of the
Womens' Christian Temperance Union
Miss Moore has rare qualities as a
platform speaker: her narrative is
without tautOlOgy, concise and bearing
direct to the point under consideration.
and her enforcement with such an.
parent sincerity and goodness of Dur-
pose as to disarm even the cUnserva-
tives who thought another place than
the pulpit and another day than Sunday
would have been more appropriate for
her closing reflections.
Haman, the embodiment of selfish.
ness, resorting to all manner of devices
to accomplish his end even to whole
sale murder, was made the type of the
liquor seller, and Esther, who endan-
gered her own life to save her race
from the wicked Vaccinations of
Haman Was the type of those who With
the spirit of the organization she rem
resented were trying to save the peo.
pie from the evils of this and the world
to come that resulted from or because of
the saloons. The latter brought not a
single good to its patrons. Instead. it
brought train of evils that scattered
curses along the path of life. The
saloons she said are after the BOYS:
without recruits from them thew can.
not exist; they have little to hope for
from those who have become debased
and etfete in long indulgence, and they
seek TO draw the young into their
tempting snaTes. This was illucidated
by several touching instances where
boys had been allured from happy
homes into lives of hopeless proGigacy.
While these men are doing their
work of death under cover of the law
just as Haman did actuated bv the
same selfish purpose, and while poll
uclans and in some cases the courts are
under the denomination of the liquor
seller to bring political results without
a care OF what comes of the homes or
happiness of the people, she believed
there was determined spirit at work
down deep in the hearts of the Ameri.
can people to rise up and declare
against legalizing for the revenue thew
bring, such plague spots in defiance of
the religious civilization of the age she
expected to see the 100000 liquor
saloons of this country so down be-
lore the awakened conscience of an
aroused people. Man may not do this
OF himself; in the very beginning of his
existence it was declared In the scrip.
tUre that ut was not good for man to
be alone" Woman shared with man
all the duties and vicisitudes of the
home and life until it come to the bal.
lot, and there she was fettered. When
the shackles were stricken from the
right hand Of woman and she was
given the privilege of the ballot. she
would exercise it for the moral con.
dltion of the peOple-in the higher idea
of citzenship-and the saloon would
go" and happiness and liberty would
come to thousands who are now "by
authority of the law" enslaved in vices
they cannot control.