The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-11
farewell Meeting
at the Central
Union.
0IJTLOOK FOR
TEMPERANCE HERE
Strong Sermon Preached at
Y. NJ. c. A. Rooms During
Sunday Afternoon.

1 Central Union church was filled to it's
! most capacity last night with those
yto came to attend the farewell ser
! noe Of DR.. L. S. Chapman. The pulpit
E md choir rail were decorated with flow
( rs and green's and the ministers of the
nn0us churches were upon the plat
5m with DR.. Chapman.
! The meeting was opened with a read
BIZ from the fourth chapter of Proverbs
&y Major Wood of the Salvation Army.
!blowed by an anthem by the choir,
fyn Otis singing the solo part. Rev
IA E. Cory offered the opening prayer
+ nd Rev. Mr.. Pearson of the Methodist
{agrch and Rev. Mr.. Kincaid of Cen
: -al Union church made short ad
tesses, thanking DR.. Chapman for
is work in Honolulu and predicting
:pat results from the seeds sown by
1 s.th a sacred solo and a collection was
ken up for the purpose of helping to
! E3y Dr.. Chapman's expenses while here.
2Nmething like S100 was contributed.
1 In his address DIR. Chapman thanked
Eas people of all the churches who had
esl so hospftable to him and express
himself as glad of having had the
9portunity of laboring with them. He
! saii that he did not come to Honolulu
Eor the purpose of carrying on the
<EaIa, but that he felt that he could
E0t refrain from making some effort
hen he was so cordially invited and
fhsn he realized the need of temper
&nce work in this city. He also stated
Fhat he had been invited to come here
2 inaugurate a temperance movement
k5me time ago, but that Mr.. Francis
fiurphy and the two ladies who follow
p him had come into Honolulu un-
fLpectedly and had begun the work.
4 7 am not here" said he, "to press
pon you something that you do not
ant, and I have not forced the Anti
faoon League upon you. / want to be
felpfui in the temperance work, but it
4 never my policy to press upon you
hat you do not want. The desire of
people for an organization against
he saloon was expressed to me and l
ave therefore taken the steps that I
pave, and you now have an anti-saloon
ague, which pray that God will bless
/ nd that 1t may grow, into great pow
4 against the Internal traffic that is
'hglng ruin to your very doors
Dr. Chapman then explained the
workings of the league and it's busi-
hsSs details. He said that it's object
Vas to stand against the saloon in an
TN
4a1 to secure the enactment and en-
''tement of such laws as would tend
9"aFdS the extinction of the liquor
sIae In a bitter denunciation of the
ilor forces, which he said were or
aAzed In formidable opposition to the
=-ee Of the home and the morals of
wy people, DR.. Chapman said that the
iaor traffic is unconstitutional, being
opposed directly to the six objects of
-s United States Constitution as stated
l1e preamble-"to form more per-
81. union, establish justice, insure do
''uc tranquility, provide for the COM
'" uelense, promote the general well
a'F and secure the blessings of liberty
ourselves and our posterity." He
aFed that there is nothing more in
nous to any one of these objects than
e Iegalized sale of liquor, and at some
-sth made his argument clear. In
7a"lng Of the object "to provide for
common Defence" DIR. Chapman
cue mention Of the drunken sailors
soldiers that are to be found In
cry seaport town and cried SHANE
'' you Honolulu! Shame upon you
a' drunken men in the uniform OF
& country should reel through youI
,sS' made drunk by liquor, the sale
""iea you allow by law!"
me subject Of temperance Legislation
before the Territorial Legislature
uuched upon also, He said tha'
PEOPLE from foreign shores owed II
,Ie native Hawaiians to protect then
ID" from the Internal curse import
'9Lh other shores. and that the Ha'
S'''S themselves wanted to be freeC
.5. lhe letters that had been boune
,.,5 lAe'r wrists. He believed. M
so, s-' mat If the temperance Legislation
= pending should not be passed, i
-,1 De through no fault of the Ha
n IAN legislators, and the blame woult
III ""oiiy upon the shoulders of th'
,,, legislators. Following this up m
mat there are now allied forces
H.. 'E saloon traffic on Hawaiian
- sent here to combat the TEN
Il, % movement; that they We're II
no 1'lenne at the time he was speak
ss, a-o listening to his words; tha
ma were keeping track of what n
5g olleF temperance workers were do
tbora -Io that they had hundreds o
fsbi of dollars with which t
nsbt lhe movement for decency ant
morals; that they would not hest