Evening star., 1898-10-17
SOME PLANS, DISCUSSED

In the absence of both pastors, Mr.. An
drew Wilson, D. c. L., filled the pulpit Of
Vermont Avenue Christian Church in the
morning and that of the Ninth Street Chris
tian Church at the evening service, and
spoke against the saloon on both occasions.
In the Vermont Avenue pulpit he said IN
part:
BY their fruit. We shall know them is
the universal test. The handwriting is
upon the wall. All Christian. moral and
patriotic principles and forces are saying
to the saloon. Thou art weighed in the
balances and art found wanting. 1t is
the most powerful promoter of immortality,
indecency, vice, crime. poverty. suffering,
cont antion. corruption and irreiision. 1t
despoils the saloon keeper and saloon fire.
qucnter-the one of moral power. self-re-
spect and Of life. while it fiis his Golfers
with lll-gotten gains; the other it dabases,
robs of mind. body, soul. home friends
and substance. The individual. the family.
the church, the community, the state and
the race are poisoned. The saloon keeper
is to b. pitied. II does not appear how
any man can be allied with the liquor in
tereSt and be Christian patriot. To
develop strongly the moral and spiritual
life of the boys and girls of this generation
will materially aid In saving the men and
women of the next from the allurementS
of vice.
President MckinIey's Pastor.
AT Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church the pastor, Rev. F. NJ. Bristol, D.
D.. took as his evening theme THE Tenn
perance Situation" and said with reference
to the liquor traffic:
The liquor business is inimical to the
physical, Intellectual and moral welfare of
society. 1t has ever been the corruptar of
races and the destroyer of nations. IF there
is any power that seriously threatens the
perretuity OF this republic. that power is
{ fieFpaQaguaS
of aristocracy and cooperative wealth. nor
the encrOachments of imperialism. but the
enslaving, bestialiZing saloon.
There is not another evil antagoniZ!ng
human happiness and national prosperity
which meets with so feeble and cowardiy
a resistance. We have rigid laws against
the Canada thistle, and Woe to him who
plants it or sOWs it's seed even tolerateS
its growth, because it is the enemy of the
soil and a destroyer Of the useful products
of the earth. But We license men TO plant
the tares of habit and dissipation and crime
in sociaty and to sow the seeds of sorrow,
poverty and shame in the American home.
We legislate against the sparrow, for ne
fights the robin and eats the cherries, but
we license the vultura of strong drink to
tear out the heart of, manhood and the vi
tails of the republic. We egisate against
smoke nuisance and garbage nuisance and
dirt nuisance, but the saloon nuisance. in
hnitely more dangerous to the public health
and comfort. is licensed to carry its in
ance people to form an alliance merging
their non-assential opinions into one great
universal conviction which shall become a
public sentiment, law making and law-exe-
cutting in its power"
At Friends Meeting.
At Friends Meeting ORTHODOXY, in the
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms Prof. Robert B. Warder
applied DIR. Strongs plan for young people
Christian societies to local conditions as
follows:
"a representative body of pastors and
other public men may watch the progress
Of reform legislation and judge the oppor-
tune moment for a flood of petitions from
residents Of the District on behalf of spe-
ciflC legislation. In single day, If need
full, few thousand young canvassers, with
lines of action well marked out in advance
Gas in the Sunday school canvass Of 1S9O,
could visit every house in the District to
set forth the question at issue and ask for
written expression of individual choice.
1t may be needful to distribute petition
blanks with explanatory leafet one day and
gather the petitions the next. Ths same
method may be applied to single squares
where saloon licenses are requested, max
ing 1t as easy as possible for residents to
unite IN remonstrance.
The Unitarian Minister.
Rev. E. Bradford Leavitt, pastor of All
Souls Church, announced as his morning
u,
in part:
There are many things We can all do to
help men to temperance We offer
every facility for education, for cleanliness
for weIl-cooked food-many children get a
taste for alcohol in the sour bread they eat
for well-ventiated dwellings, for whole
some amusement. / seldom touch alcohol
in any form, but l neither a prohi-
bitionist nor a believer that every form of
alcohol is a poison from hell but do be-
lfeve the saloon door, wherever found, is an
entrance way to perdtion. 1t is these fer
mented loafing places called saloons that
tempt men and destroy them. Allow but
one dealer in liquors of any sort to the
square half mile; allow none of 1t to be
drunk on the premises; make drunkenness
crime, punishable by Imprisonment and
labor; provide attractive places where those
who must otherwise sit in bare room or
walk the streets may go and play billiards
or bowl or practice rifle shooting, and have
light refreshments cheap and good, and you
Will have done more for temperance than
all the speechifying about the total abolf-
ton of alcohol will ever do.
There are men smoking or chewing
themselves tc death, eating themselves into
dyspepsia, or drinking themselves bilious
with coffee and hystericatwith tea who are
making life miserable forotheir families and
friends by these excesses, and yet who
claim the name temperance. We have not
learned the alpha bet of Success in dealing
with the matter yet. ut is the men we must
change, and we must do that by practica
and practicable methodist
In congregational PuIpits
Rev. NJ. Ross Fishburn,, at the Mt. Pleas
ant Congregational Church, spoke upon the
Good Fight of Faith.""and referred es-
pecially to the offensive warfare in which
the soldiers of the cross must engage
against the frowning strongholds of the
enemy, emphasizing 1.-THE need of untiring
attack upon the drinking saloon.
"Other evils said he. have slain their
thousands, strong drink has slain its hun
dreds of thousands. We must engage in
this contest as real soldiers and lighters
ready not only to suffer. but to do, or we
may as well give up the business for which
our forces have been recruited and or
ganized. Our enemy Is sleepless; we must
be slespless, too. It is so easy to remain
IN our respectable places and let the few
faithful who are not afraid to be called
fanatics, march out against the toe.''
At Lincoln Memorial CONGREGATIONAL
Church Rev. A. p. Miller the pastor.
preached a temperance sermon at his morn
Ing service, in which he saidi
THE greatest problem that now oenfronts
our country Is that OF the liquor traffic, the
open saloon, the drink habit.
s"AM ciasses. IN all sectaens OF our beloved