Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-08
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"Your life will be Of no account only
as you build into it the great interests
Of humanity. "--Woman's Missionary
Friend
The Union Signal calls the attention
of its readers to the following instance
of substitutes for saloons, provided in
New York City by the Church Temper
ance Society OF the Protestant Enisco-
pal Church:
Elm 1893 this society began it's work
of providing substitutes by the pur-
chase of lunch Rgon at the cost of a
Thousand dollars The society has nov
eight Of thess wagons, which traverse
various parts of the city and keep oren
night and day. substantial lunch is
furnished for 10 cents. A sufficient
profit is realized from these lunches to
maintain Ia free ice. water fountains in
poor and crowded sections of the city
where the need and the temptation is
greatest. Coffee vans. furnish hot coffee
and sandwiches to coachmen and cab
men engaged at entertainments, TO
motormen during stormy weather, and
to firemen engaged at great fires. In
1894 the society established an inn at
131 Buwery. The work of this inn in
cludes cheap restaurant, dinner being
furnished for 10 cents, a readingroom,
which has small library of carefully
selected books and good supply of the
current magazines and newspapers.
Once week a free lecture is given,
music and discussion of the lecture
being also features of the evening. The
secretary reports that thus far the at
tendance has been limited only by the
capacity of the room and that within a
year the restaurant will pay expenses.
II the churches of America would lead
in such work as this it would not
be long before prohibition for the
State and total abstinence for the in
dividual' would be established facts
in our nation.
Sunday afternoon OF the recent great
Christian Endeavor Convention held in
Cincinnati was the occasion of tenn
prance rally at which Col. George W.
Balm, Miss Rena Mosher and Rev.
Anna Shaw were among the speakers.
We select the following extracts from
their addresses
Col. Balm: "All over our land bruised
and blaokened bosoms heave above
hearts that are broken, and wives and
mothers go down to death because
men take the drink and women take
the consequences. | can understand
how young men are tempted to take a
| glass of wine from the jeweled hand of
beautiful young woman, but cannot
| see how a young man who loves his
| mother, whose mother loved him first,
loved him best. and will love him to
1 the last, can go out of his mother
home into the saloun. Young men,
| havs any of you done this in the nast
month or six months? If you would
keep ir the cafe way Of life make the
Bible the man of your counsel and
| guide of life. -
Miss Rehna Mosher, representing the
Y. W. o. L. U. !: There was Roman
general, whose answer to every question
| was Carthage must be destroyed Sc
must the liquor traffic be destroyed.
have heard PEOPLE say OF girl, She
| is a sweet, harmless girl. No one il
harmless. A woman cannot touch a
/ thing but she makes it better or worse.
Let every Christian Endeayorsr be O
/ total abstainer and keep her life pure
| and demand of the man she marries
4 that his life shall be as pure as the one
she offers him.
| The Rev. Anna Shaw: eve do moi
assume that intemperance is the only
evil there is in the world, but thai
whenever men accept the principle oil
total abstinence, whenever the govern.
ment adopts the principle of prohibit
| tion, it will be eventually easier tc
stamp out the other forms of evil. The
saloon is the hotEed from which Other
vices spring. Is our standard of total
abstinence and prohibition too high
| AS the standard bearers of the Lord
Jesus Christ we can afford to hold Ut
no standard except the very highest.
If the world is not able to realize its
force and it's value it is not for US tc
lower it,
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, whom We hone
many will hear at Brandywine Summit
campmesting next Tuesday, August
9Th, was one of the evening speakers al
| the National W. q. 4. U. Congress,
held in the Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church of Buffalo, N. Y. July 31st. Mrs.
Boole is president of the New York W.
i q. L. U. and is 30 much desired as a
/ speaker that she is frequently i'm the
field, and always receives warm wei.
come when she comes to Delaware, as
she is a great favorite here as else
] where.
4 The American Medical Association
recently adopted the following resi-
lutions concerning the "Atwatei
Theory"
Whereas, The American Medical Tenn.
peranue Association, the members of
which are physicians and medical
teachers who have devoted years to the
study of alcohol and its effects, and
who are conversant with the work done
by scientific men the world over to de.
termine the effects of alcohol when
given in any quantity, have noted the
teaching of Prof. W. o. Atwater oil
Wesleyan University, upon the food
and medical value of alcohol, as sci
forth by him in the pages of the In
1 huential lay press, be it
Resolved, That this association utterly
repudiates the pro-alcoholic doctrine
of the said Prof. w. o. Atwater as
being contrary to the evidence deduced
by scientific experimentation and that
his conclusions are unwarranted by
the evidence resulting from his own
experiments. Be it further
Resolved, That this association re.
CARDS the teaching of Prof. Atwater as
erroneous, and a source of danger tc
4 the laity insomuch as such teaching
| contributes towards the increased con.