The times., 1897-03-29

SO Indignant at certain remarks mace DE
the Hon John j Wooley, the temperance
evangelist, yesterday afternoon, at the
First Congregational Church, that they
stood not on tire order of their gong, but
went AT once when the Republican cam
paiEn methods in The West Were assailed.
The resentment was not confined to men,
but Ladies also metaphuricaily gathered up
their skirts and departed. As :hey were
going cut of the door there Were heard
many comments like "disgraceful, ~in-
appropriate lit won't doin church, - AN
Insult TO the generals and other such inn
pulSive calculations.
Mr. Wouley had been talking about the
missionary work of the campaign in the
West by the Republicans with good deal
of philosophical sarcasm, but when he
likened the trip of the veteran generals
out West to the pictures of panorama
people got up and went out with haste
and indignation. Later in his talk Mi
wooley referred to these thirty or forty
good people OF the exodus, leaving no
doubt oi the mind OF the congregation as
to why he believed they went out.
MIR. wcoley is a plain talker, in the sense
that he makes one Know exactly what he
some people would say. He is dramatic
taIkcr lie is man of evident wide range
OF knowledge, and made one of the most
powerful addresses on the subject OF ten-
Dcrance ever heard in Washington. He
was, with dcscriptively complimentary Ian
Cuarn. introduced by Mrs. Margaret B.
Platt the president of the District W. {.
T. {. as the Isaiah of temperance agi-
tation."'
The address was under the auspices Of
the w. c. T. [. The choir furnished the
choral singing, and two OF its members.
Mrs Cox and Miss Sadie Drown, sang solos
with great feeling and effect, did also
Mrs Scely and her daughter, Miss Pearl
Hcc'y
The opening prayer was by the Rev.
Page MHburn. the Scripture reading 10y
Mrs Platt, and the closing address by Mr..
r NJ Bradley In the course Of his remarks
Mr. Bradley made reference to the gallant
soldiers who had striven to eject Mr.. Nc
Kinley. and this was where another cle-
Inent OF the congregation got even; for the
name Of MI Mckinley was applauded.
Reference by Mr.. WoOley to the soldiers of
the NORTH and South was also applauded,
and when he hit politicians of all classes,
democrat or Republican, he was applauded
again so that it was Eood-natured and
fairly well divided assembly as TO political
preferences They all, however, didn't go
out in turn as they were hit
Mr. wooIey's address was based on the
supplCation Of St Paul when he besought
his hearers to present their bodies as
an acceptable sacrifice TO God. Speaking
from the Iihle, the lecturer said that no
matter what the creed or character OF the
listener. who believed in it, he was en-
titled to attention st Paul, from whom
he quoted, was Ey some thought to have
given a very hard command. but on the
contrary, he was one Of the kindest teach
ers Of humanity. st. Paul does not order,
he beseeChcS He made the Christian re
Iigion a Christian Democracy. In this
connection he Contrastcd Paul's way Of
talking to an audience with that Of an
ean's daughter, who, introducing him to
an audience, spoke OF them as you peo-
pie Of the lower classes" That wouldn't
do he said, in our country. st. Paul,
himself, had a pedigree, but he didn't
flaunJ ii in the face OF the people he
addressed. he then referred to the cam
paign in the West, whose people were
practically told that they We're idiots,
fgnoramuses, fools" The stars and
Stripes were paraded as a Mckinley badge,
and the old generals went across the
country looking like a picture in a pano-
rama. practically saying that loyalty had
been thrown into a blind pool by Quay,
Mark Hanna, and the rest OF the Repub-
HCan anarchists"
When the speaker referred to the Stars
and stripes as a Mckinley badge, there
was movement OF dozen or more people
and when he finished his sentence there
wasa movementout of the church, asahove
described.
His next attack was on that class Of
preachers who. with their elbows on
Ielvet-covered pulpits. looked out over
their congregations and said that Pro-
hihitionistN. socialists and silver men were
disloyal. dishonorable and depraved mem
tiers of society"
BY this time most OF the mad people
had gone out, and then the speaker said,
81 notice that twenty-five or thirty peo-
pie have gone out because ran up against
Republican politics. There is nothing that
could have made them believe that there
is any mercy for sin or any grace except
that which may come ny means Of Re
publican Administration.
That settled it, The others who were
hesitating then went out during the ap-
plause and laughter which greeted the
speakers last remarks. One gentleman
alone remained at the door and looked
fierce. as if he intended to rapiy, but he did
not, and eventually went oTt looking very
mad and resentful.
The rest OF the address was a powerful
appeal for active work against the forces
making against Prohibition through the
saloon, not work by music or resolutions,
but work as it was foreShadowed in the
words OF the apostle. work with their
bodies He said that the heart must be
in the work God could not guide a cross
eyed Christian. WHO compromised with his
conscience, with one eye oh God and the
other on his political or worldly prefer
ment. And the time TO do this work
was now He was very bitter againstpo
Iitical methods, but most especially on
the Republican side lie paraphraSed
Coronation by saying that it was the
fashion in some quarters TO sing il as if
it were written Bring forth The royal
diadem and trade it FOR Republican votes "
The politicians, indeed, hc said, cared
very little for the religious vote. They
ask about the scandinavian vote. the Ger
man vote, etc, but if you were to ask
them what about the Presbyterian vote
they would say: 20, Rats what about
the Baptist vote? 80, Bosh:" what about
Che Methodist vote? .'Oh, what are you
ters To laugh at. They were solemn facts.
as he had heard them from the politicians.
and learned them from political history.