The record-union., 1898-07-28
". C. 7. U. SUMMER SCHOOL.
OPENING DAY AT PACIFIC
GROVE.
Rev. John A. B. Wilson's Plea for
Temperance Among the
People.

HdSS ana fOWerS to receive the
w. c. I. u. School of Methods, which
opened on Monday evening with devo-
tlonal exercises led by Mrs. H. G. Gates
| Mrs. Renowden Bailey sang in fine
voice the new song California, the
Gem of the Ocean, and the audience
| joined in the chorus. The hall was fill
ed to hear the very fine lecture which
followed the opening remarks of our
President Madam Sturtevant Peet.
Rev. John A. 3. Wilson lectured on
The Basal Facts of Temperance Re-
form" He is very eloquent speaker,
and his lecture was full of facts and
lots of fun. l wish every voter in the
| land could hear such a lecture. Lii
cense law he said stands for the
average moral sentiment; license is the
bulwark behind which the liquor traffic
| hides. Some call the temperance peo-
| pie cranks, but cranks turn all wheels,
| so we must just keep turning. Total
abstinence is talked of by the cranks,
| and the cranks keep turning all over
the world the wheel keeps going, and
| we are improving. John Wesley wrote
| in 100 total abstinence principles, but
| he was SO far ahead of the times that
! people did not understand him. Alco-
| hol is never a food, but always poison.
| For eight years Leibig, PaSteur and Du
Roy, chemists, experimental on alco-
hol to prove this fact, and no man
| has ever successfully contradicted this
statement.
The mystery of mysteries" said the
| speaker, lis the lawmakers mind. If
the commission merchant or fruit man
| sells decayed or rotten fruit he is ar
| rested, convicted and sent to Jail. If
| he takes this rotten fruit and puts it in
| a mill and sQueeZes the juice out of it
and let's it ferment the Government will
| give him permit to sell it to people
| as liquor, to make them drunkardS and
| get them in Jail. There are one and
one-half millions of people ruined by
| drink each year. Some say, Let it
| alone; you are not compelled to drink.
| but the poor, weak creatures can't
withstand the demons temptation with
| saloon on almost every corner.
There are fifty ministers year and
one in every eleven out of families this
| world over, who are taken by drink
| The liquor traffic costs over $50 900, :
900 a year. This war has cost over two
| millions, but it would be better to have
a war every ten years than let this
liquor traffic go on. In years to come
we will put flowers on the graves of our
dead heroes, but not SO those who die
from drink or by King Alcohors ways
No one wishes to speak their names
they have no character. They were
| turned out as outcasts, and as such
they die and are forgotten.
Can you find a family in the last
generation which has had no drunkard
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and teach the young the evil of intem-
| perance. A she wolf will protect her
young, but a mother can see her boy
destroyed, and what can she do? She
has no vote to help put down this de-
mon and get protection for her boy
The mill of intemperance must have
grist, and the liquor traffic is not hunt
ing boys. The boy goes to college. He
is the pride and joy, perhaps the only
support of a widowed mother. He is
caught in the mill and comes home a
disgrace.
Ladies, there are few things you
can do. Keep on firing and you may
make some impression on this liquor
traffic. Keep ahead with your flag, and
make the line come to you, as the col
ored flag bearer in the war did. He
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to come back He answered, No.
Bring your line up with me! The flag
never goes back!'
THE flag of temperance is ours, and
we must carry it TO the front or report
to God the reason why. Some time God
will raise up a Moses to throttle this
| great demon, as in the last war Lin
coin came to free the slaves"
T ich T orix hn
word for word 1t was the grandest
| temperance lecture / ever heard. Would
there were more such ministers in the
| land who are not afraid to come out
| and speak the truth for temperance
sake.
SECOND DAY.
| PACIFIC GROVE, July 26-School
of methods opened to-day with Bible
reading by Mrs. Gates, and verses from
the Bible by w. C. T. U. members.
Prayers and song followed. Mrs. S. J.
| Churchill's topic was, THE Great
Message and Its Mission to the Work
ers" The text was, God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
| Son."
| No matter how dark the way, she
said, nor how many obstacles we meet,
we are to be true and faithful in carry
| ing this message to all mankind
There was more in this lady's talk
than many ministers get into a two
hour sermon.
| Mrs. j. L. Everts spoke ITO the I'm
/ awakened" We may cease doing
wrong, turn away from the wrong, she
said, and have our hearts filled with
Gods love and sympathy to ALL Our
! lives are filled with burdens and we tell
it to others instead of carrying it to
| God, who will give us rest. God will
answer you somewhere, somehow in
| His own good time.
| Some who will not listen to the words
of truth After this life is the promise
| OF a life beyond. Has this promise
! filed your life with sunshine? How
| can we gain this knowledge? BY
prayer and study of His life. All that
| the message give to US, We are to give
| to others. If our sins be scarlet, they
can become white as snow. Come
unto Me all We that labor and are
heavy laden" So many lives are filled
with burdens, and we tell of it to others
| instead of carrying them to God, who
will give us rest. Christ saves us so
we may save others. We should go into
the byways and hedges and save
others. What is our part? To give
up all, to trust Him and believe Him
and do His bidding; to obey Him in all
| things We cannot expect to be for
| life is charged if we give ourselves to
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