The Portland daily press., 1898-09-22

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she was the mother of but one CUB, ane
YOU ali remember her reply. eyes! One
indeed. bur he is a lion." So it has come
TO pass as a result of the work OF ines
small Western colleges. their small Glasses
their meager equipment, their annual
deficit instead of an endowment, that the
little handful of thoroughly conseoraSeo
young men and women, have peen nighuy
In thsir influence upon the tnougno 0iiu
action OF their communities.
10 these two Important agencies onis
society added taird in its union WIN
the New West Education Commission.
There is only too good evidence tna6 we
shall need for some time to continue OF,
distinctiveIy Christian work in Utah ana
the adjacent states. There is more reason
than we wish there were to believe thai
Mormonism as political power and as a
social menace ia far from being thing
of the past. Thisfsociety exists for the
carrying OH of the work of the New West
Education Commission. 1t has this triad
of sacred interests, dear to the hearts of
all our churches for the perpetuation and
the extension of it's work, which is the
distinctive glory of our denomination and
in peculiar sense distinctive also of the
temper and thought OF our American peo-
pie This society exists in the name of
religion, patriotism, education and of true
and statesmanlike philanthropy.
CHRISTIAN CIvICS.
One of the addresses which greatly in
terssted the conference was that by Rev.
7. B. Carruthers of Berlin, N. H.. who
spoke on Christianity Applied to Civic
Interests He announced at the outset
that he proposed to speak in behalf OF
those who stand on the radical side OF the
question, as opposed to the more con-
ssryatiye members of the church. He was
introd uoed as one who came direct from
the "thick of the fight" and knew by ex-
perience of the subject he treated on, but
in opening, he said he had no intention
of discussing his personal experiences.
Politicians, he said, never come to the
church when mating up their slate. In
stead. they wait upon the saloon. hope
to God the time will come when tho
parties in making up their states Will
ask, what does the church want donef
I'll tell you one thing. Political men are
afraid of brains and piety at their
caucuses, and they are not anxious to get
the church people there. believe IN the
Republican party and shall stay In IL as
long as believe In it, and believe can
do good by being in it, and letting my
voice be heard. but say the saloon hoios
control in both political parties today.
You carry your opposi ton to the saloon
to the extreme and men of your party
will become your worst and bite rest
enemies.
Up in the town where have been per-
mitted 10 live recently, we raided saloons
and piled the court room table with
liquor. The grand jury and the county
officials turned the whole thing down,
and the rumseller laughed at justice and
despised the men who brought the
charges. Brethren, If you haven't money
enough to buy the gran d jury you are a
goner. 1t costs the rumsellers $1,000 to
buy the grand jury last October. and it
cost them 5000 to buy it in January. Any
man, gentlemen, who wants an office In
any political party must speak easy on
the temperance question.
I believe the church must get out into
society. God, believe, will damn the
church that thinks itself SO near Him
that it cannot grapple with the Sunday
law breaking, and with the brothel and
the saloon. What shall be done? hear
some brethren say: ''Pass some resolu-
tions denouncing the business. Resolu-
lions are good thing, but we have tried
resolutions in this business long enough.
I sometimes think that the rocks around
the base of the two great questions OF
Sunday observance and the saloon are
honey -combed with resolutions. The
policy of letting these things alone be-
cause they might coptaminate the church,
has resulted in depriving New England
of it's Sunday, and has put the State OF
Maine in the grasp of the saloon power.
Gentlemen, let us put little moral and
civic dynamite into the holes we have
drilled by our resolutions. All. but some
of you say, "There would be a great COM
motion. It might injure the church"
Gentlemen, when they want to blast out
lodges. the workmen cover the charges
with DruS0WOOus anu Ucll you oAoIo 10
enough of driftwood and deadwood in the
average church to keep the splinters from
flying. (Laughter.) All we want TODD
is to break up the saloon. We don't want
to hurt the church at all.
MIR. Carruthers's reference to Theodore
Roosevelt as Christian patriot called
forth applause from the audience.
THE WARS LEGACY.
The first address at the evening meet.
ing was by Rev. Charles Harbutt of
Presque Isle, on "The Wars Legacy to
the Church Mr.. Harbutt argued that
the legacy Of the conflict SO far as.tne
church is concerned is the opportunity
to carry the gospel to the peoples of the
islands we have taken from Spain and
the need of an arousing of the latent
enthusiasm of the church that this may
ha done In the course of excellent