The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
DRUNKENNESS A DISEASE.
Rev. and Mrs. II. NJ. Cole. Exponents of
This Idea, Arc to Lecture in This City
and Vicinity.

Rev. and Mrs. II. NJ. Cole. Exponents OF
This Idea, Arc to Lecture in This City
| and Vicinity.
!, Rev. VI. NJ. Cole delivered an address
| on scientific temperance at the rooms
Of the Keeley league. 72S Madison ave-
| nue., yesterday afternoon. Rev. Mr..
Cole was pastor of the Congregational
church at Dwight, ILL.,. where he met
| 5000 men taking treatment for drunk
enness and became so interested in this
cause of rescue that he has been lec-
turing through Tennessee and Penn
sylvania for the last two years in the
interests of the league. Mr.. Cole Is ac-
companieid by his wife, Mrs. Ida b.
Cole, who was formerly superintendent
of the Young Women's Christian Tenn
perance union of Kansas and Illinois.
She Is now secretary of the Woman's
auxiliary to the Kelley league. They
will lecture in Scranton and vicinity
for one month.
Rev.Mr. Cole spoke for forty min
utes on this great discovery called the
Kelley cure, which Bishop Newman,
of the Methodist Episcopal church calls
the greatest beneficent discovery Of the
century. He said:
"All the great discoveries in science
are children of this century, except as
ed to it's Matching beds and in a meas
ure conquered by medical science why
should not the body which is the
temple for the Holy Spirit have its
walls restored and built up. Though
some people think science and religion
are distinct realms they are really one.
In answer to the prayers Of the church
and many broken hearts 100000 men
have been rescued. Five states pro-
vide this cure for the INDECENT inebriate
at the expense of the state-namely.
Colorado, Maryland, Louisiana, North
Dakota. Minnesota.
The United States government pro-
vides the cure in seven of the national
homes and twenty-six of the state
homes for disabled soldiers. The Epis-
copal church in Pittsburg In its Broth
erhood of st. Andrews mission, on wy
lie avenue, has united with the Kelley
league and has rescued several chronic
drunkards."
MIR. Cole spoke of Webster, Byron.
Thackery, Poe. Tasso, Alexander, who
were slain by wine. Henry Ward
Beecher said: "God deals with nature
fear, but with civilized men with SYM
pathy." 1--WE should do the same"
said Mr.. Cole, "with the saloon we
should use the dynamite of public opin-
ion; with the child the pledge and
sephine, the discarded queen. will last
with the drunkard, love anii patience
and kindness. The monument of Jo-
sephfne, the discarded queen, Ill last
longer then the arch Of triumph In
Paris, reared In memory of Napoleon
at Austerlitz and Zena, because love
will outline fire.
The Kelley league Is not an organiza-
kJx,n ~ <5x.I>o 10 t1,a y,1bi nf
while men are drowning and dying
daily. 1t lis not the body guard of DR..
Kelley, though he has done more than
Wellington, who conquered at Water
loo. 1t is a body of good SamaritanS
who are analting men on the rough way
to Jericho and sending them to the Inn
where their wounds can be dressed.
The non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance association has a rescue
department which has done much in
rescuing men from the slavery of
drunkenness by this so-called gold
cure"
Rev. Mr.. Cole encouraged the work
of the league in their labor of love, and
closed by quoting from Longfellow the
beautiful worlds: pure love Is never
wasted, VI 1t enrich not THE heart of
another, Vt returns to the springs and
fills them full of refreshment, there
fore accomplish THY labor of love until
the heart Is made God-like-perfected
and made more worthy of heaven
Rev. and Mrs. Cole will lecture in
Edwardsville Congregational church
Saturday night, Nov. q; Wilkes-Barre,
Sunday morning, Nov. 3, and in Kings
ton Methodist Episcopal church Sunday
night, Nov. 3. Mr.. Cole is a very inter
esting conversationalist, as may well
be judged and lis Overlooking with in
teresIting "reminiscences of the years he
spent at the Central Keeley institute, at
Dwight, Ill,