The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-12

riotic; willing to place principle above
party and TO combine with those who
are lighting for the right. And concur
rently with this improvement, we notice
q strong tendency among the denomlna-
lions OF Christendom to draw closer to-
gether and cooperate in various lines Of
work.
"Creeds have split up the church OF
GOD into various factions, but the prob
lem OF this z are forcing them to mass
their forces add fight q common
enemy. 1t looks s IL all the denomina-
lions would soon combine in one grand
anii-sin aud suffering association and
Include within their ranks earnest souls
outside the churches. W no cannot sub
scribe to VII their doctrines. but are
willing TO cooperate with them on the
broad platform OF righteousness, law and
order. l believe the time is coming
when the good people among the Protest-
ants. Catholics. Hebrews aud inhdels
will stand side by side in favor of moral
reform, aud when we shall rave but two
camps. the camp of right aud the camp
Of wrong We need people of every faith
70 combine against the enemy, and may
God speed the da.
A they famous battle of Trafalgar,
Lord Nelson placed HIS vessels in the
form OF a wedge, aud with this wedge he
cut through the enemy n gave to En-
gland The supremacy Of the seas. When
the various churches of the living
God give no their weak and independent
expeditions against the forces of Satan;
when they combine under their ons
great captain aud form one solid wedge.
then shall they scatter the enemy aud
1nauRurate a reign Of peace and righte-
BUSINESS.
1.-THE great question today is who shall
possess America, Christ or Satan; the
ISRAEL or God, or the political C~auaanites.
~Jeousltes. Hiveites and Hitites. who now
overrun and despoil the territory?
Behold, the Lord thy God hath set
the land before thee; go up into posses
sion; fear not. neither be discouraged"
H TEMPERANCE PARLIAMENT.
A temperance parliament was led by
Wellard j. Hamilton of Newark. another
snappy young man. full of life n vigor.
Thirty minutes were devoted TO listening
to the opinions Of individual delegates
upon the best methods OF supressing the
great liquor evil. The first speaker was
u pugnacious sister who declared she
hlushed for New Jersey, because, when
she was at the Chtcsgo Fair, she saw a
map Of the United States with Ugh t
olsck spots upon 1t, which
designated the States in which
instruction upon the temperance
question was not compulsory in the pub
lie schools. New Jersey was one of those
eight black spots. This opened up a dis,
Oa wv 4OSSulOu VI tCtAp AuOo
instruction In the public school, during
which one brother aroused much enthu-
slam by declaring that the best way to
remedy the entire liquor evil was by put.
t1ng a better ella of legislators ia the
State Houss. A Trenton man said Treu-
ton had more saloons TO the square inch
than n other municipality east of the
Mississippi. He wanted to know, with
something s~uspiciously like pride in his
voice, II d place in the State could beat
that.
Zone saloon to every thirty voters in
Newark" CURLY replied Mr.. Hamilton,
aud the Trenton mau subsidized.
A Burlington delegate lamented the
fact that the liquor interest controlled
the press of that city because one of it's
dailies could not fiud room to print an
article on the subject which he furnish ed.
Another brother asked II Q Christian En-
deavorer had q right to enter u saloon
and then answered his question himself
by relating how he went into a salo IN,
and walked right up to the bar and re-
claimed a man who was rapidly approach
Ing a ~drunkard's grave A good sister,
with a tremulous voice, lamented the ter
rible work done by home made wine aud
thought IL was one Of the greatest curses
of the day.
What shall we do with a member Of
the church and y Christian Endeavorer
who signs an application for g hotel
licenser" was the question asked by a
brother from the northern part of the
State. 1t was the sense of most of those
who answered that the only thing to do
for such n man was to pray for him..
A free parliament on What Our Socls-
ties are Doing" led by the Rev, Judson
Conklin OF Trenton, closed the session.