The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-03

crowd our missions and the affairs of
our churches faster than we can take
them in and baptize them. Applause.
We will never have great revival of
religion in this country until the voting
members of Christian churches can hold
ND pure and clean hands ON the liquor
traffic question. God can't trust such
people.
81 stood on the corner Of Fulton
street, i'm New York, sad and an utter
" hopeless man. The light had gone
out. There was no soul on the face of
the earth except one woman and little
boy who believed in me. They were in
their desolate home in the far northwest,
my wife, worse than widow because her
husband was not dead. There are worse
things than widowhood. stood there
and heard o splendid band playing. 1t
was at the head Of the dramsellers,
who were out for their holiday with
their carriages decorated with banners.
saw with my sorrowful heart, with
my wrecked life and with an awful
lump of inconsistencies in my throat such
sights in that procession as no other
man could describe. I could see at every
turn of the carriage wheel some heart
crushed and my own boy cursed with
the hereditary faint of the drunkard. I
could see them crushed under the wheels
of the Juggernaut Of the drink traffic Of
New York and Brooklyn. Broadway
seemed to be paved that day with the
fragments of broken homes. could see
Joined to the carriage wheels countless
multitude of men like was, friendless,
beggared, starving, dragging their pitt
full way to be part Of the saloon keep
ers' spectacle, and could see haggard
faced women holding in their arms lit
tie pinched and ragged clothed babes,
which tugged at their mothers starved
breasts in vain for food.
II could see my own wife in the pro-
cession. could see the gray hairs Of
my mother woven into the fine cloth
that was worn ON the backs of those
dramsellers. saw trembling drunk
ard when the procession began to move,
and when it had passed away found
myself standing erect with my face to-
ward heaven, and found myself saying
by the grace of God 1 would not make
another fight for myself again, but
would extend every energy to stop that
procession in this country"
During the telling of this story by the
speaker there was deep and impressive
hush, which was at this point broken
by demonstration of applause and
shouts that were beyond adequate de-
scription.
When the applause subsidized, the
speaker continued: 81 went from city
to city, from state to state, asking
nothing better than to testify to drink
ing and fallen men of the power
of Jesus Christ to save them ap-
plause], and 1 beseech the clear, calm,
steady handed men who never had the
hell of the passion Of the appetite for
| drink in their own veins to lend a
hand for the rescue of these fallen crea-
lures say have no ambition in the
world beyond being a missionary to the
drunkards in the land. desire to
spend the remainder Of my life beseech-
ing tempted men to come and find out
for the salvation of their own souls.
81 know of the faith Of the Son of God,
but you cannot blame me for being par
ticular to what church lead them. I
can't lead them where it won't be help
full. [Applause.]
II would never ask man to send
his son to the Sabbath school where
the superintendent is in favor Of
| liquor saloons, or ask the drunkard
to Join church having a pastor
whose private habits were such it
would not be safe for him to initiate, or
to put myself into Christian company
of deacops and officeholders of a church
who themselves smell Of wine, and,
because of their completely with the
liquor traffic, are unable to raise their
voices in the name of Jesus Christ
| against the saloon keepers. [Great ap-
plause.
"a drunkard must get to higher
level of Christian grace and faith and
service than is represented by license
superintendent or tippling deacon or
| Christian man who let's a house to a
saloon or brothel keeper. I will take no
chances like that. For Jesus Christ
sake, let us get the church clean. Ire
mendous applause.
1--WE will never save the world until
we get the church right for Christ.
Change the Christian Endeavor motto
from For Christ and the Church to
The Church For Christ. For the sake
Of the chivalry of your own manhood,
for your self respect, for the truth Of
the church and for true Christian citi-
zenship stop being whipped by party
politicians into crowd you don't be-
long in. Don't 60 there because your
father did or because it is the biggest or
because the newspapers advocate it.
[Renewed applause and cheers.
$50 into the Democratic party if you
like, but think about it. 90 because you
fit and join there. No party owns me-
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