Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23

pastor. devoted both services to the theme
OF the day. His morning subject was The
Church and Temperance" and his evening
subject, THE Home and Temperance"
At Twelfth Street NJ. f. Church, the
pastor, Rev. c. T. House, preached at his
evening service on "Anti-Saloon."
Methodist Episcopal Church south.
The new pastor of Epworth Church, nth
and y northeast, Rev. William S. Ham
mond, said in the course of his morning
sermon:
Southern Methodism stands in urequiv-
ocal opposition to the liquor traffic in all it's
forms. Our book of discipline calls drunk
enaess. immortality: it forhids, by specific
rule, our people engaging in the manufac-
ture or sale of Intoxicating liquors, the
signing of petitions for such sale, the be-
coming bondmen for those engaged in the
traffic and the renting of property to be
used for saloon purposes
From what / know of the work of the
Anti-Saloon League l fully fndorse it's aims
and its methods. 1t affords a platform
broad enough to accommodate all who are
opposed to the saloon, regardless of reli-
gfous sect or party utilization. In my judg-
ment it affords the most practical plan yet
devised for the destruction of the saloon"
Methodist Protestant
Rev. ]. W. Gray, pastor of the First
Methodist Protestant Church. 4th street
southeast, in his sermon Sunday morning
liquor traffic, as it should be settled, would
be a law to abolish it. But there is little
or no hope of such a law being enacted by
the party that has been, or the one now
in power, for both parties court the liquor
influence to secure an election. 1t was this
influence that put the canteen in the army,
and the same influence is keeping it there.
No matter if parents do weep and pray.
and good people appeal to the powers that
be to abolish it, this will not be done. To
do so would be to lose the vote of the
liquor and beer interest. and that vote is
more valuable to a political party than the
lives of the boys who are fighting in de-
Tense of their country. The government is
now saying to the parents of this land:
Give me your boys to defend the flag and
if they are not killed on the field of battle,
l have made the necessary provision to
send them back to you confirmed drunk
ards l believe GOO will hold every man
responsible who has the power to prevent
evil and fails 10 do it, for the harm that
evil may do. To him that knoweth to do
good and doeth it not, to him it is sim
Thus every man who rents his property as
a place for the sale of liquor and every
one who signs an application for license to
sell it becomes a partner in the business
and responsible for the evil 1t may do
Christian Church.
Rev. F. D. Power, LII. D., pastor of Yer
mont Avenue Christian Church, discussed
the temperance reform at morning service
in reporting as to the Jubilee Convention
Of the Disciples of Christ" He said in
part:
Most significant expressions on the
moral questions of the day were delivered
by this great convention of 10000 dele
gates, among them protests against the
army canteen. Greetings from the w. G.
L L. We're received with cheers. Every
declaration in favor of temperance reform
net with tumultuOus applause. Resolutions
in strong denunciation Of the liquor traffic
and demanding that the army saloon be re-
moved We're greeted with a storm OF APP
prevail
Great as have been the ravages of rum
among our soldiers, strong, positive and
clear as the language of the law may be
casting out the rum demon; determined as
our nations defenders against their dead
:test fee, the drink demon must work on,
and his masters interests be protected and
his masters Golfers be filled, no matter who
suffers.
But the end is not yet. The day of
reckoning will come. Then. Woe TO the
men that soil nations honor or that serve
as tools for the saloon and drag old glory
in its Slime
Other Denominations
At Luther Place Memorial Church.
Thomas Circle. Rev. J. 6. Butler, DID.
pastor, spoke on "4'nti-Saloon League
W ork a his evening service
~ tllf cope : tHuECn, u street mort h
west, Rev Alexander Kent. pastor, spoke
at morning service on How to Prevent the
Format ton Of the Drink Habit
Fewer Sermons Than Last Year
President Ewin Of the Anti-SalOon League
admitted TO a reporter of The Star that the
observance of Temperance Sunday this year
was not as general as it was last year.
one Of the explanations" he said, lis
mat the recommendation of the league was
based on that of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, as it supposed
and 1t was thought that a large number of
the clergy of that denomination would
preach on the subject; but very few of
mem dld, so far as the league has learned
This was due in part to confusion in regard
10 the day, which has just come to the al
-entIon Of the league, the latest official an
l"uncement in this weeks PRESBYTERIAN
Banner, the leading organ of the denom-
nation, being follows:
We desire to call the attention of pas
tors and church sessions to the action of
he last general assembly recommending.
ne observance as Temperance day of the
'ourth Sunday in October, one month earli- |
# than heretofore The action NAV he
.ound on page % of the minutes, and is as
'ollOWS:
g. That the last Sunday in October
)e made Temperance day, and that this or |
tome other convenient time be given in |
'ach church to temperance instruction from |
he pulpit, in the Sunday schools and young |
ltuDle societies.
TT will be seen" said President Ewin. |
that the fourth and fifth Sundays have
'een confused not only by the league hut |
~ nigh Presbyterian authority as we'll
Another reason" he said, why there
nay have been fewer temperance sermons |
yesterday than on Temperance Sunday a |
rear ago Is that many of the pastors have |
1een out of town the past week attending |
yhods and conventions; then several of the |
Methodist pastors are in the midst of re- |
iiVat services, and others had already ar
'anged to defer their temperance sermons |
Intil later date
Another Temperance Day.
The following letter from the Protestant
bishop of Washington was In re- |
ply to letter requesting him to arrange,
+ possible for the participation of the Epis- |
,opal clergy in yesterdays observance:
In answer to your letter of the 1th |
ASKING me as to the observance of the
.ourth Sunday in October as Temperance
sunday, would say that ii would give me |
pleasure to do as requested, were A not for |
he fact that the third Sunday in Noyem-
Der has been appointed in our Church for |
his special purpose all over the country
VIII be glad to mention the Antf-SaIoon
League to my clergy in connection with the
observance of Temperance Sunday. Faith !