Evening star., 1898-10-17

! tian patriot ought to occupy higher ground
| on this problem of the saloon. The saloon
must 60 If the kingdom Of God and HIS
! Christ is to come
From the Lutheran Standpoint.
At West Washington Lutheran Church
the pastor, Rev. Stanley Billheimer, AN.
preached on another subject, but expressed
| his sympathy with the invitation Of the
Anti-SaIoon League, and further said, with
reference to the temperance reform:
"Probably TO other Protestant Church
has a more difficult problem to solve than
that which is presented to the Lutheran
Church of America in relation to the drink
ha bit However mitigating the circum-
stances may be which surround the ma
tonal custom of the fatherland condltioEs
change when the custom is transplanted IN
this country. Thus the Lutheran Cnurch is
brought face to face with this question.
Whatever others may do to answer 1t
we rejoice that the general synod has taken
its stand. At its last session. held at Mans
field, Ohio the synod reiterated with great
er emphasis its former declarations. anG
protested against the sale and use of lntoN-
fcati0g drink. 1t asserted that II becomes
every minister and follower of Christ TO
make bold testimony, by precept and ex-
ample, against this common foe OK the
state the church and the home. 1t COM
mended the good purposes of the American
Ant-Saloon League, whose object is the
utter destruction of the open grog shop in
its method, Independent of party aftilia-
tons. The synod also indorsed the teach
il.g, from properly authorized text books,
of scientific temperance instruction in our
public schools, and urged upon the people
the wisdom of giving aid to wholesome
legislation on this subject that the young
people and children may have proper train
irg to the effects of the use of alcoholic
stimulants upon the human system. The
president of the synod appointed ten del
egates to represent this body at the last
| annual convention of the Anti-Saloon
I.Capllp AmCnp the district SNnp6S the
sentiment is equally firm
Presbyterian Pastors.
The Star reporter went for his Presby-
terian expression on the subject to the two
churches of that denomination on Capitol
HILL Temperance Sunday was observed al
beth churches. and the utterances in each
favored aggressive effort to suppress the
saloon.
At the Eastern Presbyterian Church Rev.
| Thomas Chalmers Easton, DID,, pastor.
said with reference to 1.-The mistake Of
our churches"
when we think Of the enthusiasm and
sacrifices made to send the Gospel to the
feathen in lands across the seas. and note
the apathy and Indifference to the cause of
temperance at home we decide there is a
glaVe mistake made by the church. The
&C cmbined forces of the church should he
called to battle against the saloon. Is It
recognized that over two billion dollars are
spent annually in our own land for liquors
and tobacco and thus every twenty-seVen
days as much is squandered for this as has
been given in eighty years to carry out
Chrsts last command to evangelize the
world, Turn this stream of squandered
gold into the Lords treasury, and we would
not have our mission boards groaning un-
der enormous crushing debts, and heather
lands lying in darkness for want Of the
Gospel of Christ. The saloon ought to be
the point of attack 1t is the menace Of all
our civil and religious institutions, the foe
of the church. the breeder of crime, dis
ease and pauperism, and yet we have no
concerted plan of battle to destroy the
| monster. 1t is a grave mistake. We
fighting heathenism at the wrong end Of
the line-strike at the centerr'
Rev. George N. Luccock, ID, the pastor
of Metropolitan Presbyterian Church,
reached on The Church and Its Neigh
Dor, the Saloon at his morning service, a
portion of the sermon being as follows:
ut is a part Of the churchs mission to
move into the saloon district and stay
there. A live church makes good neigh
bcrhood for itself. That means the grad
ual determination of the saloon, inevitably
A person, group of people, section of a
community so far Christianized as to be
Zealously concerned for decent living de-
ve1ops neighborhood in which the saloon
is sure to get the chills. BY the widening
| and intensifying effects CT the truth which
the church prcclaims. and by the organiza-
tion of the influence which it generates
the area In which the saloon may live be-
" Hios SHidliSi ne remark
able showing of the Anti-Saloon League of
| what has been accomplished in its short
history toward purifying neghborhoods of
this social enemy is clear call for an ag-
gresstve unity of all who love their city
There is already enough public sentiment:
centering solid on the proposition, The sa-
loon must co. not only Immediately to re-
duce much further the number of saloons
but also greatly to diminish the power to
do harm of such as under the law, must
be allowed to exist. The need of the. hour
fs a readiness to cooperate In a plan that
works and a willingness to follow Demon
| strated good leadership"
In baptist Pulpits.
The chaplain Of the Anti-Galoon League,
Rev. tWaater H. Brooks. D. D., pastor Of
atiaetssnth Strsst Baptdss Church. took as.
t&ds ssizssns sssssaG,xsenaai <urssfhs s0ocA Of