Evening star., 1898-10-17
Others" and preached to his large congre-

| Others. and preached to his large congre-
CATION, in part as follows:
! by their example many Christian par
| ents are making drunkards of their sons
and daughters; many of the members OF
| our Christian churches are lending their in
fiuence to the liquor traffic, in all its forms,
by keeping liquors in their homes. ano
| sometimes by visiting what are termed the
| more respectable saloons, while some, in
| order to be well thought of by the liquor
men, give their votes or, as is the case in
| this city. their written consent for the
| maintenance of those places OF iniqulty
| called saloons, which are in truth so many
gateways to the bottomless pit
The other day l saw a poor old woman
who had been recently released from the
! almshouse, she stood trembling with age
| and infirmity in Judge Scotts court to be
| sentenced to the work house for drunken
ness and vagrancy. AS | looked upon her a
| feeling of sadness came over me. and my
! eyes We're moist with sympathy for the
| roor unfortunate. Then l asked myself why
| should not the saloon man be here on trial.
| too, for this is his work; and why should
| rot all the Christian people who gave their
written consent to license a place that is
! fitted to thus destroy soul and body, also
! bc here or in some other court to answer
! for the heartlessly wicked business of
wreckins human lives by the sale OF in
! tCXicating drink
Rev. N. c. Naylor, pastor of Maryland
Avenue Baptist Church and secretary of
the Baptist ministers conference of this
! city, wrote with reference to the o0serv-
ance of the day follows s:
Il do not Know how many of our CBaD-
! tIsD pastors observed temperance Sunday
| in the pulpit. hut do know no one of them
| is weak on the temperance question.
Every one OF them is unqualifiedly op
| posed to the saloon or liquor traffic IN all
! its forms. We may differ to methods
| lut We are unit as to the total abolish
ing of the business, which is evil AMI evil
| cr1y. We fece the awful results of the
fN,1ci
! lives, and every instinct of our holy Calling
! SPURS US on to do whatever lies within our
power to totally destroy such source Of
evil"
| At Calvary Baptist Church the pulpit WAS
| hlled at the evening service by Mr. Lon j.
Beauchamp, who is to be the speaker for
| the Anti-Saloon League every night his
week and next Sunday evening at Mt Yer
non Place Church in the services of the
| third anti-Saloon revival.
Other Sermons.
| Other temperance themes announced f.,r
| the day in The Star were THE Anti-Saloon
| OF the Home" by Rev. Leslie Moore pas
tor of the Church Of Our Father Universal
| isD and Saloon VS.. Ten Commandments"
| by Rev. George S. Duncan. Ph.D., pastor Of
lexington Presbyterian Church.
Foundry NJ. e. Church
At Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. Lucien Clark, D. D., pastor, the en-
| tire day was given up to Temperance"
| with services morning afternoon and even
| ing.
President Ewin of the Anti-Saloon League
! said to The Star reporter that he has re-
ceiVed more excuses this year than last,
especially from the Baptist clergymen, ow-
| ing to the close of their church year but
| that the idea of day for general observ-
ance as Temperance Sunday meets with
general approval, so far as he has heard.
Some of the Excuses.
| From the excuses received from those
| who were unable to preach on temperance
yesterday the following are extracts:
Rev. A. Thomas G. Apple, pastor of Grace
Reformed Church, wrote: MY sympathics
and prayers are with all proper efforts
| toward reducing temptations TO drunken
| ness IN our land and in the world 1t would
seem superfuOus to say this. 1t is, how
| ever, my vote aye when the great vote is
| taken"
| Major Ashley Pebbles of the Salvation
Army sent the following expression of SYM
| pathy and cooperation, with his regret
| that he would not be able to speak on the
subject yesterday: IF l We're permitted to
say only one word in support Of the Anti
| Saloon League 1 would say, with all the
enthusiasm of my heart, Courage If per-
| mitted to say more, 1 would say More
courage Every sober thinking man in
| this country has the conviction that the
| liquor traffic is, first, last, and altogether
crime. We only need the moral courage
| to acknowledge and stand by our conyic-
| tions. Every saloon keeper knows his b,lsi-
ness is to wreck our boys and girls and he
would expect every father and mother
| good citizen and Christian, to oppose him,
| only he knows some of US have not the
| COURAGE"