The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-04
MI TIL 0DIST CONFERENCE
DELEGATES no GENERAL CONFER
ENCE ELECTED YESTERDAY.

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| First Year Candidates Advanced - Fund
Raised For Rev. Dr. Iooles-OIher Busi-
ness Trat sacted - Secretary Thrasher
Dubbed the Roosevelt of Connecticut
Joint Session of Ministerial and Lay
Conterences-AnniveI of Conference
Temperance soclety-Addresses by Well
Know Temperance " orkers,
The evening session of the New York
East NJ, Il. conference, which was de-
voted to the observance of the anniver-
sary of the Conference Temperance So
ciety, was called to order at 7:45 by
Rev. DR.. w. C. Steele of Brooklyn, who
presided.
! After singing by theeehoir and prayer
| by Rev. DR.. William w Clark of Brook
lyn, Miss Neva Squires of Fair Haven
sang a solo with much expression, which
was we'll received.
| Mr.. Steele said that he was glad that
Friday evening was chosen for o tenn
perance anniversary, SO that 1t might
be held in the conference church. He
spoke in part as follows:
I'VE are living in perilous times and
| the church OF God is assailed by this
great saloon evil The church of God
is called upon at this time to put forth
all its strength. 1t is being asserted
now by the saloon interests more pow
erfully than ever before. The Sabbath,
sanctified by our holiest memories, is
aSsailed by the saloonkeeper, who de-
clares thai it must disappear. Emer-
son said that the Sabbath was the very
| cure of American institutions. The
very strength and power of the church
| depends upon holy Sabbath. The
men who landed at Plymouth Rock OBJ
served their first Sabbath in America,
| and it has been sanctified throughout
our whole history. General Washing
| ton and the second Washington, Abra-
| ham Lincoln, decreed that the Sabbath
should be revered by the soldier, and
| if we as a nation are to have the sue
cess in the future which we have had
| In the past we must revere Gods day.
| If you want to know what becomes of
the nation which does away with the
| Sabbath read the blood stained history
of France; read the future of your own
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veres not Gods day, has full sway.
| 1--WE have in New York a great con-
| flict with reference to the Sabbath, as
you have had in Connecticut, and as
/ long as law shall last the name of The
odore Roosevelt shall be remembered
When the Sunday newspapers made
sport of him he came down to Oyster
Bay, where / was then, and told me
that he blessed God for the prayers of
| the Methodist church
I Yes, we will stand by him and by
your men here in Connecticut, Dr.New-
man Smyth and others, who are agitat-
ing the question We will protect the
Sunday. We must pray, labor, unity
and clasp hands. We will not fail. 1t
is a religious movement.
II have here Catholic priests letter.
The Catholics are interested also, The
Episcopal church is taking a stand on
the side of temperance and religion.
The letter spoken of gave sympathy of
the writer for the temperance work,
and was signed yours in Christ If He
was Catholic. We will protect the
| Sabbath as long as there is American
blood in our veins"
| AlltT SlilRlllS LII lliC IlOu-
sands Slain" DR.. Steele introduced Rev.
DR.. C. II. Mead, former leader of the
/ Silver Lake quartet of Montclair, N. j.,
as an old and valued friend, with whom
| he had been laboring for fourteen years
at Ocean Grove every summer. DR..
Mead said in part My friend, DR..
Steele has let me loose on you and may
the Lord deliver you. One of the illus
trious citizens of this state said that If
there is anything the people of Con-
necticut like it is being humbugged, and
he did it. refer to j IT. Barnum. The
| American peop,e like so well to be
skinned that they have legalized the
greatest skinner on earth, the saloon
| keeper. He skins us all. even Metho-
dist preachers, and that is saying a
great deal One million and a quarter
| of dollars are spent yearly for liquor in
this country; that is more than ! am
worth. although my wife says I am
worth more than that to her, and she is
pretty level headed, and has made me
so (referring to his bald head). Laugh
ter.
''I some paper a short time ago read
two dispatches, one telling of an over
pfOuuCUlOn OIL wheat ana Cne OIneT OIL
an underproduction of food. What was
the trouble? 1t was that 81 ,25O, 900 had
gone into the Golfers of the rum seller.
and the brewer, out of the pockets of
the tpoor people of the country. Take
this money out of the pockets of the
rum seller and every branch of legiti-
mate business would feel a great boom.
Every great missionary society in debt
! and yet a great plenty of money in the
world. oh! for the opening of the
eyes of this nation. Steam or water
turns on the power to most mills, but
the voter turns on the power to the gin
mills, and in Connecticut it has been
| turned on pretty well. Dollars are
scarce and boys are plenty, so the gin
| mills grind on, using boys for their raw
material Government put that mill
| there to get dollars out of it, evidently
thinking to blind the eyes of the AL
mighty by silver dollars. No father
can lay his hand on his heart and say
that his boy is safe. The saloon IS
! after him, but so is the church. The
saloon is the enemy of the church, of
| boys, of fathers, of mothers and the
enemy of the Almighty God. The liquor
| traffic can never be legalized without
/ sin bIt If jS lepaliZad I saw If ran't