Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23
AGAINST THE DRINK HABIT
Fourth Anti Saloon Revival at Mt. Vernon
Place Church.
Rev. Wheeler to Lecture and Mr. and
Mrs. BevcriGGe to Sing-Ser-
mons Yesterday.


auspices OF the Auti-SaIOon League of the
District of Columbia, vii, begin tonight at
Mt Vernon Place Church and will continue
eight evenings at the same place. The
speaker engaged for the entire series of
meetings is Rev. Asaph J. Wheeler of Au-
burn, Ne. who will speak tonight for the
first time before Washington audience.
Mr.. Wheeler is a native of Maine and
just passed his thirty-fourth birthday but
has Travelled abroad and has already estab-
Hshed reputation. it is said, both sides
of the Atlantic as fearless reformer and
an eloquent advocate, especially of tenn
perance. He comes here in this capacity.
At the age of nineteen Mr. Wheeler was
called to the pastOrate of a church in New
Haven, Conn, where he served five years.
and was subsequently in a pastorate at
Concord. \. H., and Boston, Mass, re-
SpeCtively. When the Law and Order
League Of New Hampshire was organized
Mr.. Wheeler resigned his pastOrate to be-
come its secretary and has ever since de-
voted himself mainly to promoting the tenn
peTauce reform
Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Beveridge of Nebras-
ka VIII assist Mr.. Wheeler with temperance
songs throughout the revival meetings
me BeVeridges,' as they are Familiarity
called, We're introduced to their first Wash
MSt"n audience in midsummer concert in
lS9t, under the auspices of the Anti-SaIooD
League of the District of Columbia which
now announces their second appearance
Jehn NlLls Baer. general secretary
United Society of Christian Eudeavo saws
Of these singers: 4 assure YOU it would be
a pleasure for me to recommend Mr. and
Mrs. 9. G. Beverage as singing temperance
evahse!iS's, l nave been in their meetings
ana not only was pleased and entertained
pIL greatly stimulated and helped
ne meetings Will begin each evening at
g." o clock: and the public is invited to
M the auditorium of Mt. Vernon Place
Church, which has been decorated for the
occasion.
temperance Sermons Yesterday
Inc sermons on different phases of the
temperance reform preached yesterday in
Washington pulpits differed somewhat
widely. as usual. as to the methods of
work and reasons why the progress of the
ieiorm Is not more rapid, but they agreed
as TO the Importance of the reform to the
welfare Of the city and nation and in the
ttSlre 20 do unitedly whatever can he dopo
IN opposition to the drink habit. especiaIjy
WIN reference 10 protecting those who have
intoxicating drinks III
"i'"IHE are extracts from sermons bv
ministers Of different denominations givin:.
80 iSle" OF the variety of thoughts ex-
Presbyterian
At lexington Presbyterian Church the
pastor Rev George S Duncan Pb n
preached at morning service on THE
Growth Of Public Opinion on Temperance
MS text was Though thy beginning was
small, yet thy latter end should greatly in
crease dob WHO. Public opinion on any
question" he said ''usuaIIy bae,irs IN =
SInaH way and slowly gathers strength
ms has been most true of the great r.
form movements. and il is especially trua
OF temperance reform. Once all classes
GN"d lht"NlSantS most freely without the
least scruple. At church declarations in
staIlatipn$ of preachers. baptisus mar
Fl+Sss and funerals an enormous quantity
Drink 10 the visitor. Drunkenness was
most common. but public opinion felt il
~ the proper thing. Now all is fast
eiiaiIihg- Public opinion on Jcruuer,,rll..
mas taken q mighty stride during The con-
Jury Never before were there so many
iII'yS HitrE up public opinion To higher |
It'siN on temperance Laws are tht. .v-
'I r@@i"h "l pubic opinion. When the lat
Ter reaches certain standard then laws
can b." made and enforced which will sion
N" manufacture and sale Of iut0xicauts
IT Is the DUTY of every one To do some
tA!uS {" influence public opinion so that an |
evil worst than war. famine and pestfIencc
tionaI life" M
At evening service DR.. Duncan preached |
on ne saloon Us. the Ten Command |
The new pastor Of the Western Prast,,-- |
terrain Church. Rev. Gerhard A Wilson
preached M morning service on the text
A wonderful and horrible thing is com
lnl'ted IN the land and my people
love TO have it So der. v:3O-3D. Some of |
his sayings We're:
If war is hell then the drink traffic in |
our land is hell intensified a thousand |
times There have been more deaths i'm
our country due to intemperance during,
Inc last year than resulted from the war |
WIN Spain on both sides The annual |
CrHnkarGs grave in this country would be |
hity miles long. if the dead lay side by |
This country pays more for liquor than
Tor every Kind of function Of every kind of |
government; and this expenditure results |
'NtS m 3CbIIl0na! paupers, criminals and
mentally unbalanced people and all kinds |
of misery.
The governments of our country are |
largely controlled by the liquor traffic
when the reverse should be true There is |
need OF every method OF antagonsm. 1t is
d serpent threatening the destruction of |
our nations manhood. Conversion saves |
many Moral SuaSi0n does much good
cures i"r inebriety are said TO help; but |
that Is not the way We seek to rid our-
selves OF other pests We seek the eradi-
cation of the evil itself. Formation is bet
Ter tHah reformation. Let us clean our
country Of the causes of evil and we viii |
not have 50 much trouble with the conse-
QuenCeS Of evil
AT the Eastern Presbyterian Church Rev
Thomas Chalmers Easton. d. d. the PAS
tor. gave what he termed "a temperance
Agitators.
Methodist Episcopal.
Rev. Stoweu L. Bryant, pastor of st. |
PauIs NJ. r Church, 18th and r streets |
northwest. preached at morning service on |
the text AS many as received Him to them |
gave He power to become the sons Of God |
John 1:12j. on the subject of temperance |
he said:
Here is the power capable of achieving |
q temperance reform that shall avail We |
must begin 1T the center; we must preach |
and live the great fundamental truths of |
life and the gospel. which have been the |
moving power in all progress. We have |
grounded our eNhortations too shallow |
premises II Is not the most serious thing
about a mans life who wastes his strength |
ana his means, who blights his manhood
and despohs his finest powers. that he will |
suffer Tor all thiS-sin is against God.
Against Thee. Thee only, have l sinned''
cried DaVld. and II was the depth of his |
anguish Nronging ourselves wrongs Cod |
Having squandered his money and wasted
his days. the prodigal cried out Father I |
have sinned against heaven and in IN
sight He had sinned in the sight Of ~
father. but his sin had been against his
God. We must measure sin by looking mn
to God rather than TO the DAYS of rar9or-e W
and physical pain; by what a NAV 49,.