The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-23
IT WAS DRY SUNDAY
TEMPERANCE SERVICES HELD In
NEARLY ALL THE MILL CITY
CHURCHES.
THREE SABBATH BLAZES.
QUICK WORK BY THE FIRE DE-
PARTMENT PREV ENTS A Sc
RIOUS LOSS.
LAST RITES FOR e. b. BARBER.
Interment at Lakewood Cemetery
General News of the MIL
City.

The evening service yesterday, in
many of the leading Minneapolis
churches was given up to a temper
ance meeting, and in parts of the city
union temperance meetings were held.
The Southeast Minneapolis churches
held such a meeting at the First Con-
gregational church, participated in by
the First Methodist, Andrew Presby-
terrain and Como Avenue Congrega-
tional churches. A union meeting was
also held at the First Presbyterian
church, Portland avenue and Nine
teenth street, in which the First Pres
byterian, the Portland Avenue Church
of Christ, the Franklin Avenue Metho-
dist and the Park Avenue Congrega-
tional churches united Rev. George
d. Wells, Of the Park Avenue church.
presided, and introduced as the first
speaker, Rev. Carey F. Morgan, of the
Portland Avenue church.
Mr.. Morgan began by referring to the
Importance of the temperance ques-
ton, and could not understand how
any Christian men or women could be
Indifferent as to the matter. The
liquor question he characterized as the
showed that no one could feel sure of
being safe from its ravages. He could
find no excuse for the continued ex-
istence of the evil. There were, he
said, two causes for the liquor saloon
The appetite for drink and the desire
for money making. The evil must be
eradicated through the education of the
young, from whose ranks the voters Of
the future are to come
Rev. ]. H. Dewart, the new pastor
Of the Franklin Avenue Methodist
church, was the next speaker, and he
pointed out that the drink habit had
been and was the worst enemy to the
progress of the race. He showed that
1t was q principle of animal as we'll as
vegetable life that the species, left TO
itself, tends to revert to it's original
type, which, in the case Of man,
would mean to go back to the condi-
ton in which our early ancestors were
5000 years ago, when they roamed the
German forests rs barbarians, and
lived on raw meat. The human being
he said, had a dual nature, the ami
NAL and the spiritual, and they were
ever contending for the mastery. Moth
ing so helped to weaken the spiritual
forces as the use of alcoholic liquors.
Rev. George D. Block, Of the Park
Avenue Congregational church, was
the last speaker. He said a good many
temperance people had come to regard
the temperance question as obsolete
In any reform there was need of that
faith which could suffer defeat again
and again, and still feel that the cause
of right must triumph. In this city
the g1lded palaces of sin are open sew
en- days in the week. But you say,
''If I keep out Of the saloon, it can do
me no harm" Can any one see the
agonized mother who has lost her only
son, and still feel Indifferent as to the
liquor traffic? l can have no doubt Of
the final result of the temperance
cause. There are already good signs.
The w. c. T. U. is doing and has done
much What is there which a wom-
an, with Gods help, cannot do? The
law requiring the temperance physiol-
ogy taught in the public schools is an
other step in the right direction.