The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-21
DR.. MEAD'S ADDRESS
LAST NIGHT IN CALVARY BAPTIST
CHURCH.

At Temperance Rally of the Connect
cut S. s. Association and New Haver
superintendents' Union-sons of Tenn
perance Present In Uniform.
The Connecticut Sunday School asso
citation and the New Haven Superin
tendents' union held temperance rally
last evening in the Calvary Baptis
church. A reception and social was
held at o'clock in the church parlors
followed by supper at which the fol
lowing toasts We're given:
Temperance Teaching in the Sunday
School, .
1--Why?-A. H. Hayes of Humph-
rey street church.
2-What William N. Parsons of
Plymouth church.
3-How REV. G. F. Eldridge of the
First Methodist church.
"The Ladies"-Rev. C. H. Mead D. D.,
of New York city.
After the supper at o'clock the
meeting adjourned to the body of the
church, where Rev, George H. Ferris of
this city conducted devotional service.
Rev Norman j. Squires of the Congre-
gational church in West Haven led in
prayer, and H. III. Taylor, president of
the New Haven Superintendents' union,
introduced the speaker Of the evening,
Rev. C. I'll. Mead D. D.. of New York
city.
The Sons of Temperance, Harmony
division, were present in uniform, and
to these especially DR.. Mead directed
his address; subject, ''The House We
Live in" The speaker was thoroughly
practical, and showed in his simple and
direct method of speaking an unusual
power of winning the interest of his
audience. His address, he said, was
the same as that which ne had deliver
ed before the state Sunday school con-
vention in Bridgeport, and he wished
thoroughly to arouse the interest of the
Sunday school teachers present in the
all-importance of teaching their schol-
airs the principles of temperance. 1.-THE
boys are good to make men out of,
was the burden of his utterance. He
said that recently he had to speak be-
fore an audience of men who had led
dissolute lives, and by asking them to
hold up their hands he discovered that
most of them began the use of intoxi
cants before the age of twenty. He
learned also from statistics of the asso-
citation to which these men belonged
that rs per cent. of them had had pray
ing mothers, and that fully 80 per cent.
had been Sunday school scholars. Hence
the supreme necessity of a thorough
temperance instruction in the Sunday
school.
Not only boys, but girls must also re-
ceive temperance teaching. DR.. Furry,
superintendent of the Doyer Street mis-
sion in New York city, in the heart of
Chinatown, showed recently that over
three hundred American women were
leading illicit lives in that district, and
presented the alarming evidence that
over dozen of these women were
daughters of clergymen. Practically all
these girls began through drink.
DR.. Mead closed his talk with story
told with pathos that was the truer
in that it was blended with little ire
sistible snatches of humor that allowed
the audience to laugh where they would
have been crying of how it was given
him to be the instrument of actually
saving young man from q life of de-
hatchery, and of returning the prodigal
to his father. Such cases are so rare
as to make men skeptical, but DR.. Mead
was convincing.
After the meeting the Sons Of Tenn
perance returned to their rooms in the
Insurance building, where nominations
were made for the election of officers to
be held next Thursday evening.