Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-07-10
ANTHONY coMsToCH.


He touched on the scope of the Chris
tian Endeavor movement and the vast
strides II had made. In 1884 he had spent
a week with President Clark In Portland,
Me-. and had spoken to the FIRST band Of
Christian Endeavorers In the Wilson
church ard compared It's smallness then
with It's vast proportions today.
A child's heart was a chamber OF
imagery. The four walls OF that chamber
must be decorated The child carried
into It many pictures, and the spirit Of
evil stood by seeking TO turn the child's
mind In the direction of that which was
bad II was no simple thing to atand be
tween these chambers and the "beasts of
prey and worse than beasts Of prey"
Then Mr.. Comstock told stories Of 'the
whirl Of the DEVILS printing press" which
strikes of matter to damn the children's
soula Twenty-four thousand postoffices
In the United States had reported the ex.
istence of obnox xious prints Eighteen
hundred and thirty Of these moral cancer
plasters" had been arrested and brought
to the bar of justice, but still the vile work
went on.
OF intemperance Mr.. Comstock had q
good deal to say. 1t was one Of these evils
which, especially in the case Of high
license, came Into force by the so-called
classic consent Of people who represented
themselves rs Christians He drew an
imaginary picture Of the drunkard's g career
on the canvas Of the tent and traced his
downfall. The inevitable Christian aud
heartbroken wife and barefooted children
were also there In the picture.
Almost q Riot
Thousands of people were congregated
on the Champ de Mars and on Craig street
In front of the drill hall last night, and
for blocks to the east and west.
The elements for riot were there In
full force The talk about Mr.. Kar.
marthar's ill-timed remarks had spread
all over the French part of Montreal, and
In the crowd were many who burned tc
avenge the insult to their religion. Then
there were thousands assem- bled who had
resolved to protect the Christian Endeav.
orers when they left the hall, IL necessary
Among the Protestant crowd were
nearly 1000 militiamen In plain clothes
and the opposing crowd consisted Of tn,
lower classes of Freach-C Canadians Occa
sionally the volunteers and their ad
herents fell iuto line and marched around
the block inclosing the Champ de Mars
and the opposing crowd did likewise
marching around the block to the west O
the Champ de Mars
4 As the delegates emerged and turned Il
the west the volunteers formed Gordon q
the edge of the sidewalk without AM
manifestation Of alarm the delegates mad
their way along.
Then Came . Burst Of Song
from the delegates. AT the Cross, at tn,
Cross" foated out upon the air Almost
perfect silence fell upon the crowd and al
che delegates passed out OF the dangerou
locality In safety.
The militiamen marched down east
abort distance singing Onward Christian
Soldiers, Marching as to War" The,
were greeted with some jeers from tn,
crowd, but no blows were exchanged, an,
they sgain turned and marched west, th
multitude melting away.
II was at one time intended to dismis
the meeting by the rear door, but Prepi
dent Clark, on assurances from the militi
that they would protect the delegates
caused the front door to be used. There
fore pronouncing the benediction he tol,
the people that the soldiers would protec
them and that no violence need be feare,
from the mob, which numbered $1,000
Every delegate spoken to condemns
the remarks Of Mr.. Karmarthar, and sew
eral speakers paid tributes to the per
sistent proselyting Of the Roman Catholi
church.