The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-02
THE CHURCH MILITANT.
General Hadley Holds a
Characteristic Stun
Temperance Meet
ing at st. Johns.
AND ANSWERS
How y Young Lady May Help The
Work-Thb Troublesome I'M
converted Young Man.

had their second meeting in this city last
night in the chapel of St. Johns Church,
summit avenue. There were further ex-
plantations of the work which the Church
Army is organized to accomplish and
considerable interest was aroused in the
movement. The chapel was well filed
With an audience which was recruited
from churches of all denominations. The
audience was much disappointed at the
failure OF Major Sarah Wray to appear.
Miss Wray has been confined to her bed
since Friday last and is in a critical con-
dition. If she is able to travel by Satur-
day she will go to England, where she
will spend the summer with her mother,
who lives in Leeds. Staff Captain Estey,
whose singing was much appreciated on
Sunday night, led the singing last night
and rendered a number of affecting rescue
songs as solos. OF these Diamonds in
the Rough, was the most typical.
DIR. Stoddard had asked that the meet
ing be conducted just as If it were in a
post ia the heart of, the sium district in
New York. General Hadley explained
that In all the posts Tuesday night is set
apart for a temperance meeting, there
fore he would keep the meeting on that
line. He talked In a general way on the
evils of intemperance and then asked all
the men and women in the audience who
favored total abstinence to accept a
small blue button with a white cross in
the centre and wear it In token of their
belief These buttons, he said, are now
worn by 0 0,000 persons throughout the
United States and are the means of ac-
complishing much good, as no drunkard
sees one of them without feeling ashamed
of himself.
General Hadley told a little of his own
experience. He was born in the west
and when a young man studied law with
the late Judge Hilton and soon commanded
q salary of 5000. He finished his law
studies in Washington and built up a
practice which netted him SIS, 600 a year.
He fought throughout the war and rose
to the rank of Colonel He resumed the
practice of law and settled down in New
York While in the army he had ac-
quired an appetite for liquor and he be-
came a slave 10 drink. his practice fell
away and he SAM lower and lower until
he was brought to poverty. He abandon
ests Of the brewers. He finally sank SO
low that ne decided to END ms life. IL
was At this time that he entered Jerry
converted. That was eleven years ago.
Eight months later DIR. Rainsiord asked
him to take charge of st. Bartholomew
A1iSSlOQ. IlS dEctplGQ anu Has DtGl en-
gagged in religious work ever since. He
mas founded in all f~fty-three missions
in various parts of the United States.
After he had given his experience, sew
eral men VINO were converted through
the fundamentally OF the Church Army,
or the Mission, testified. The testimonies
were a~lternated with songs such as are
sung in the rescue meetings There was
more singing and then General Hadley
urged his hearers to subscribe to the
work according to their means. He ex-
niainPd thar all who subscribe fNA dbl
lars or more yearly are furnished with all
the publications issued by the Church
its movements In lieu of Major Ways
address Mrs. &. A. HANSON, Jr., spoke
briefly on rescue work at the request of
pr. Stoddard. she was accorded a ,unan-
General Hadley closed the meeting by
answering several questions regarding
lection plate with the offerings.
A young lady possessed of a good edu-
cation wanted to. kno what she could
DO to assist the movement be.ides con-
that she could talk up the work among
her friends, and raise money for the
maintenance of the training home. She
could also become a soldier. wear some
portion of the uniform, and attend at
least one meeting a month. but not more
than one q week. General Hadley said
ne did not believe in the soldiers going to
meeting every night, as it was apt to
wear out their enthusiasm.
Some one wanted to know which class
the Army had the greatest difficulty in
reaching. Genera Hadley replied with
out hesitationEThe calloused young
man. The one who has, perhaps, been
confirmed but never converted; the young
man who is beginning to cause his mother
anxiety"
DIR. Stoddard asked the cost of main
tanning a post for one year. That de-
pends,' said General Hadley, upon it's
location" He explained that before Off
GERS are sent and a post organized the
+ +AA 1on ,1rzf Iha o,Ta ~ H.
the people In the neighborhood ane board
must be provided for the officers. The
officers are then allowed to take up col
lections and secure money by means of
Rent League cards. From such contri-
buttons, If There are any, they are per-
mitted to deduct their salaries. A leu
tenant receives anything from nothing up
to $5 a week, while a captain is entitled
to $40 a week If he can raise 1t.