The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-07
MR.. MURPHY'S DEBUT.
Tabernacle Crowded to Hear
the Brilliant Young Tenn
peranee Orator.

An audience which filled every pew in
the Tabernacle greeted Mr.. Thomas Ed
ward Murphy, the noted temperance
orator, last night. Mr.. Murphy, who is
better known as Ned was accom-
panied by his charming and devoted
wife, and they will hold nightly meet
ings in the Tabernacle IN the interest
OF temperance. The meetings are to be
non-political and non-sectarian.
Mr.. Murphy believes in the efficacy of
good singing at these meetings and in
consequence of this the choir has been
greatly enlarged. The meeting opened
last night with a service of song, the
enlarged choir. under the direction of
Mr.. John Gillies. singing e number of
hymns with good effect.
In introducing Mr.. Murphy, Major q.
K. Pangborn said that any effort on the
part of anyone for the benefit of man
kind and the betterment of humanity
was deserving of praise. Mr.. Murphy
was one of those men, he said, who
made the world better for his having
lived and labored in it. and in
ing MIN 10 the people of Jersey City
SAID that he was deserving of the sub
stanelal support and hearty, vigorous CO.
is AN ELEGANT PREACHER.
MI. Murphy is a young man and pos
sesses a strong personal magnetism. He
IS unconventional to a marked degree.
AT times he is witty, then pathetic and
aga-n eloquent. He possesses the happv
FACULTY of being able to talk to his hear
ears until they are almost ready to
weep, ana then, with a humorous story
make them laugh.
In opening Mr.. Murphy said that he
was CAD to come to Jersey City. He
had read in the papers about Pastor
and he ha1ioyad b;1o 10 ~ =
practical man. In this age of
theories" he said, st IS a good thing
70 meet a practical man who believes in
the good things of this life and that
they should be enjoyed in a proper man
ner:
Il an not here to denounee anyone,
Tor l don't Ill to be abused myself. If
a man says that Murphy is a good fell
low. | say. there is a man with brains.
believe in the old couplet that more
flies can be caught with moIasses than
with vinegar, and do not intend de-
nouncing, anybody. l am not here to
tell people how they are to vote nor to
instruct the Mayor how he should con
duct the affairs of the municipality
! ann mere to ted you that it is better
for YOU TO let liquor alone"
MI; Murphy said that all the avs tina
could be passed would never stop the
liquor traffic unless all the people We're
passing of a law it could be easily dealt
with, but unfortunately its power lay
in the appetite of the people. If the
tr Aft is to be stopped there must be
got a right to drink. They have also a
right to quit. He did not want to say
that a nan who takes a drink is a
~drlpnkard. or thai a moderate thinker is
worse than a drunkard.
ADVICE TO TANKS.
81 won't abuse the salcon-keeper. He
IS only one man. 1t is the drinker
himself. No man has a license to make
me drunk. If I do drink t is my own
fault. If most men would work as
hard to keep sober as they do to keep
moderately drunk, they would have ne.
people in this age tina we should Hang
all ~drunkards and bury all the saloon
keepers. We are not ready for thai
yet. Jesus hated sin, but he loved the
sinner"
Mr.. Murphy then attacked the moder-
ate drinker who excused himself or.
the plea that Paul said unto Timothy
sake He also stated that 60.O00 men'
they know of so down to drunkards'
graves annually. Last year New Jer-
sey paid. 1912 to educate the children,
while si6.S2 was paid for every man
woman and child in the State for Liquor
The speaker told of his own expert
ence, how his father became a drunkard
how their own happy home was broken
ND, and the death of his mother of 2
broken heart. In conclusion he said
that by reason of his own experience he
would, so long as he could articulate
against liquor.
Mr.. Murphy told a number of humor-
Gus anecdotes that evoked laughter, and
at many points of his address when he
waxed eloquent the building resounded'
with applause. The meetings will con-
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