Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-24
A SNARE AND A DELUsloN.
Rev. j. E. Hurlbut So Terms Moderate
Drinking in His Sunday Eve
ming Sermon.

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At the Church of the Covenant. Rev
John E Hurlbut preached from the
! text l Peter, S:15; but sanctify the
Lord God in your hearts, and be ready
always to give an answer to every mar
that asaleth you a reason for the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear. -
! He said, among other things: Our text
| is an endorsement of the action of the
| Ministerial League in inviting the past
ors to speak to their people on the gene
raj need of temperance education, and
| 1t suggests four things: To know where
you stand on this temperance question
why you stand where you do; to be
always at work to persuade all men to
stand with you; doing this with tender
ness, tact and temperance.
1t is not enough to say you are a
| temperance man, but are you a total
abstainer or moderate drinker? We
must go farther than this If you are
total abstainer, every one will know
what you are, but if a moderate drink
er, you still occupy the position OF
Barnum5s happy hit the great what's
it?
At present there is the greatest need
of education on the tipping habit and
drinking in moderation. l have never
advocated working only in this direction
or devoting all our efforts to this, rather
than to prohibitory work; but have en-
deavored to show that prohibitory work
in this city was so hindered by this
notion of moderate drinking that it was
necessary to combat that if we would
secure the other result, especially as this
notion of moderate drinking has al
ways led to the club license, giving the
right to use and sell liquors to members
and their friends, which license could
not be granted if the city voted for pro-
hibition, thus putting this great body of
influential Christian men on the side,
not of prohibition, but license. This be-
ing the case here, there Is the great need
that every man should not only know
where he stands-for total abstinence or
moderate drinking-but where he stands
ON the question of prohibition or H.
cense
Here we want to have our education
broad enough to see that a man may
stand for moderate drinking for himself,
and yet vote for prohibition, and what
have been trying to do, and what l
believe to be the great need in tenn
perance education, is to show these men
that if they will not be convinced that
moderate drinking is, in SO cases out of
every 100, delLsion and snare, that yet
they will forego asking for club IL
cense and indulge in this habit in their
HOLMES as Un6y are fdTBS GIIQ USdltll1 VI
enough to entertain in them all their
friends and neighbors. OF course there
will be the trouble connected with Sc
curing the liquor from outside the ciSy
and Other inconvenience, but is this too
much self denial to ask from Christian
ministers and church members for the
good of the entire community.
If all will unite in this direction total
abstainers and moderate drinkers, the
effort will tell more than any other in
the next election, and l believe carry
the city for prohibition, while the nc
vote win be of such an intelligent and
soul convicted nature as to make the
enforcement of the law possible and ac-
lual. We shall be a city no longer with
west and east side, and in this divi'
sion of the east side is the position the
man occupied who divided his house
with his wife, she taking the inside ant
he the outside, but we shall be all one
side-inside. the saloons only outside
This we will be when every citizen ant
| the children and youth, who some da!
are to be citizens know where the!
stand in the temperance question, VIII.
they stand where they do working t.
! persuade all to stand with them and do
ing this with tenderness, tact and tenn
perance.