The herald., 1897-03-01
CHRIST AND HIS ENEMIES
Or. Thomson Reviews the Assaults of
the Savi0r's Foes
Rev. A. A. Rice on the War Spirit Of the
Mohammedan Greed
Henry varIey's Three Sermons Before the
Christian Workers Convention.
DR.. Day on Human
Obligations

preached at high mass in the Cathedral
yesterday morning. He announced that
on next Sunday and monthly thereafter
mass will be Celebrated in the hall on
the southwest corner of Temple and
North Union avenue. This is to establish
q mission in that neighborhood for the
convenience of those living too remote
from the Cathedral. A church building
will eventually be erected in that local
Ny.
He read an address from the Wash
ington Indian bureau, signed by Cardi-
nal Gibbon, Bishop Wood of Phlladel-
phia and Bishop Kain of st. Louis. cal
ling attention to the spiritual condition
of the colored people and Indians of the
nation, and directing that a collection
be taken up in the churches for that pur-
pose on March 7th. Bishop Montgomery
said there are but $50, 900 Indians in the
nation, while in Mexico there are 4.OOo,-
900, partly amalgamated with one of the
three civilizations that have found their
way to that nation. Next July our gov
ernment will cease to furnish Indians the
aid hitherto given (and it was very little
when all that was taken from them is
considered), because they are being
taught to live and act like Christian citi-
zens. This is of especial Importance.
as there are two Indian schools in this
diocese-one at Banning and the other
at San Diego.
1t was also announced that Father
Rooney of San Francisco would preach
at the Wednesday evening services dur
ing Lent. Lenton regulations were read
and sermon delivered upon one of
them, which allowed workingmen and
their families to use meat, but which
earnestly exhorted them to perform
some other act of modification, such as
abstinence from intoxicating liquors.
Bishop Montgomery explained that
this is not a rule of a diocese. but is a
concession made in 1895 by the holy faith
er upon a petition of the bishops of
America asking for 1t on behalf of the
laboring people. Intemperance is sure
Iy a great evil; and all efforts that have
been made to combat 1t have failed, and
why? Because each temperance move
ment has been too much of a church
affair. 1t is a well known fact that half
of the population of the United States
is not connected with any church or
ganizatioh, and will not affiliate with
the church in the temperance cause. This
HkHt IHuSl Dc VI Clluf Nii-S.
1t may be said that the making of liquor
is harmless, the distributing of it harm
less, as is the use of it, but in the abuse
of 1t lies the danger. Therefore, the
present method of distributing it,
through the saloon as it is called, is a
curse. A man going home from his
work stops to drink, meets friend,
treats, is treated in return, and there
is rivalry to see who will buy the last
drink, each trying to outdo the other
in generosity, until both are taken home
in a vehicle or put in Jail. 1t is not at
the home where the man takes his glass
of wine at meals that drunkards are
made, but in the saloon, which is curse
individually and socially; and this
especially so with the English speaking
people here, in Australia, England, Ire
land and Scotland. Others can take
their wine and other drinks without
making the same record of drunken
ness.
The legislature imposes a tax of five
or six million dollars to be spread all
over the state for legitimate purposes
and there is widespread complaint,
while statistics show that in one city
Of the state, San Francisco, $12000,O 900
are annually spent for liquor alone This
curse must be treated by legislation,
which cannot be until healthy public
sentiment is built up to back it. But"
says one, are you going to rob me OF
my liberty? Are you going to prohibit
me from going across the street and
buying a drink Of liquor if 1 want to?"
All laws deprive us of our liberty. I:
is this spirit of self-sacrifice which is
beneficial to US and assists our civiliza-
ton See the numbers deprived of their
liberty In our asylums, hopelessly insane
through drink. If such weak persons
had been deprived of drink and their
senses left to them and their will power
strengthened by legislation, would il
not have been better? The movement
to regulate the liquor business must be
Independent of the church, and rest
upon a healthy, strong public senti-
ment in its favor. Special attention was
called to the counsel to abstain from
liquors, because it showed
the spirit of the law which sought to
have enforced the principle of morti-
fcation, so that all should in some way
comply with the regulations.