Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-03-21
SAVE THE YOUNG.
The Topic Of Addresses in Many
of the City Churches,
A PLEA BY DR.. MccULLAGH,
Who Finds Illustration in Span
ish Cruelty.
Services Held in Compliance With the
Recommendation of the Temper
anee Education Committee Of
Ministerial League.
A PLEA BY DR.. MccULLAGH,


several of the city churches Sunday eve
ming in compliance with the request of
the temperance education committee OF
the Ministerial League. at The First
Uniyersalist there was union service
to which Plymouth, First Baptist and
Grace churches contributed. There was
an immense audience. The music was
furnished by the Plymouth and First
Universalist quartets.
DIR. Almon Gunnison, D. D., presided,
and seated with him on the platform
were Mrs. Z. D. knights of the w. c. t.
T., Rev. Archibald McCullagh, d. D.,
of Plymouth Church, Rev Spencer B.
Meeser of the First Baptist, and Rev.
William j. Thompson of Grace Church.
Dr. Gunnison stated that the object of
the meeting was the discussion for the
protection Of our children, and he in
troduced as the first speaker the Rev.
DR.. McCullagh, who said the subject of
the evening deserved the thoughtful at
tention of all citizens. 1t is easy to di-
rect and turn into a single course of
thought the current of human lives at
their beginning. but difficult after the
currents have moved on to new chan
nels. Children believe what they are
taught. The Importance of proper teach
ing in this plastic age is too little appre-
ciated.
If all children could be instructed on
the evils of intemperance, drunkenness
would disappear entirely. In the nurs-
cry are the fathers and mothers in
whose hands is the government of the
future, our governors, our senator's and
our presidents. The prosperity of the
country, the cultivation Of science and
the elevation of literature ard accept
ance of Christianity depend upon the
boys and girls in the nursery. In their
little bodies are the power and strength
of good or evil for the coming centuries
Of eternity. While Michael Angelo said
that he could see III every shapeless slab
OF marble the angel of beauty, and with
MS transforming fingers brought forth
the angel in its glory and an image OF
marvel, so in every boy and girl is an
imprisoned angel with it's possibilities
II we could inculcate temperance and
bring forth this angel of beauty, drunk
enness would disappear
| nave read Senator Proctor's report
OF ms Cuban trip, in the senate, with
DATED breath and a saddened heart. 1
was compelled to lay down the paper as
read of the atrocious measures to sub
9ugate Cuba by starvation. 1t has been
my fortune to travel in Spain and it
was not poverty which impressed me
put her ignorance. 1t was not the colos-
sal and suDercilious conceit of Spain,
but 1t was the brutal cruelty of her peo-
PIE as eV1nced in her national sport that
impressed me. saw one of the bull
lights, and with it the tens of thousands
Of spectators, of whom a large proper
ton were children and youths. [ have
seen the brute tortured and penned up
to meet his death, and when the bull
met his death | have seen the whole
audience rise and yell, as If some great
event had happened, and it reminded
me of madhouse. Wayler, with his
atrocious methods, was not doing some
thlng new. He was doing what had been
his occupation from youth. So let us
take our children and teach them what
school of sin and brutality our saloon
is.
One thing to be deplored is that we
have too much legisla ton in regard to
the moral question. You might as well
try to put out the fires of Vesuvius with
a glass of cold water, and shake the
Alps with a feather, as to bring about
moral reform by simple legislation.
There are two forces eternally in antago-
If we were to marshal our forces to-
gether, the result would be as clear as
the sun In the heavens. Let us see that
our children be guarded from the
drunkard's life, temptation and DOOM
l have seen many young man fall from
the pinnacle of magnificent opportunity
to helpless doom, and if we accept the
teaching ourselves and instill it in our
children. thousands will be saved from
the drunkard's grave.
Mrs. p. d. Knights of the W. G. T. U.
was the next speaker. She said the w.
G. T. u. is organized love- and its work
Is for home protection and total abstin-
ence, which is the basic principle. It
recognizes no race, creed, color, or pre-
vious condition of servitude. Education
is at the foot of all reform, and the star
of hope for the future lies in the influ-
ence of the school. Save the children of
today and you save the nation of to-
morrow. Total abstinence solves the
liquor question. Total abstinence must
be permanent; with it must be the
knowledge of the evil effects of alcohol
that the taste for liquor must not be
acquired lest it develop into appetite, and
lastly that the public schools shall be
the principal medium for the dissemina-
ton of universal knowledge as to the
LIQUOR problem The liquor traffic has
gone through three stages, the gift of
God, medicinal use, and total abstin-
ence, and it is approaching the fourth,
total prohibition.
In closing, Mrs. knights stated that
the statutes of Massachusetts provided
that there should be a regular study in
text books of the alcohol 6timulant and
their effects and that these statutes
were neither respected nor obeyed Pa
rents should see that their children had
the required instruction upon this point.
They owed it to their children to see that
this instruction was accorded them.
Owing to the lateness of the hour,
Rev Mr.. Meeser, the next speaker, de-
clned to speak. He said in brief that
he was generous in not exhausting the
audience by his manuscript for an hour
more, and hoped the congregation would
be as generous as the was in their giving.
Following the collection, prayer was
offered by DR.. Gunnison.
Rev. Inman L. Wilcox, pastor of the
Park Congregational Church, preached
an interesting temperance sermon Sun
day evening. He took for his text Pro-
verbs xii, 6: Train up a child in the
way he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it, He urged
the removal of the open saloon from the
observation of the young.
At Central Church, Sunday evening,
Rev. 2. NJ. Chapman conducted tenn
perance service. Rev. Mr. Chapman
took as the theme for his short address
The protection of our children and
youth After the sermon, an Offering
for the work of the committee was TAX
en- up.
Similar services were held in other
churches,
LOST MONEY AND RUBBERs.
N. Kumin. 81 Water street, reported to