The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-21
THE MAINE TEMPERANCE ORA
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Volney B. Gushing at the Y. M. c. A.
 Meeting Sunday.

Volney B. Cushing at the Y. M, c. A.
 Meeting Sunday.
 Notwithstanding the rainy weather of Sunday, a large number of young men assembled at the rooms of the Young Mems Christian association to hear the address of the temperance orator of Maine, MT. Volney B. Gushing. The preliminary exercises consisted of two selections by male quartet, composed of Messrs. Hutchins, Smith. Tennant and Chapman. who sang Rock of Ages" and Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken" arranged especially, for male voices. Professor Nichols had out full orchestra and the audience could not refrain from applauding the good work done by the musicians, the selec- tions being march, Cuban Indepen- dence" and an overture Memphis" by Berlloz. MT. Fred c. Downs, a former secretary of the association, was pres- ent on the platform and led the respon- slve reoding of the 55th chapter of Isa- ias.
 Among other notices Secretary Lotze announced the "Colored Jubilee Sing ers'' of Mayesville, South Carolina, for next Sundays meeting, and that Mr. W. w. Handley, a colored orator., would sneak on ''The Glory of Young Men"
 The subject of MT. Cushing's ad- dress was "The Dissertation of the Temple" He began by giving an ac- count of the proclamation of the Jewish Temple by It's Gentle enemies two thousand years ago, and how 1t was ceansed and restored to it's proper of fees by men whom God had raised up for that purpose. ITO us higher call comes," said the speaker, Ito rescue from pollution the temple of the Most High, the temple of the human soul Saint Paul speaks in one place in this wise, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and tha. the spirit of God dwelleth in you? And again, What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?' It is not in the power of speech to set forth the splendors and mysteries of this wonderful temple--the human body which God inhabits. Who can explain that one chamber called memory? This temple has its holy of holies, as we'll as the temple in an- cient Palestine; the moral sense, and alcoholic drink Is the intruder that de- files this holy place. Alcohol is useful in the arts, but it was never meant to be used as a beverage Dynamite is good as an explosive, and is useful when used in doing good work. but we object to it's being put into the hands of the anarchist for destructive pur- poses. The famous M. Dooley Is right when he says that alcohol Is good in it's place, but that place is not in your brain.
 Alcohol made into drink, no matter in what guse, and put on the market, is the devil of the home. I believe the | dreatest difficulty In the way of doing | away with this awful curse is the lack | of general information on the part of | the people concerning the true nature | and effects of alcoholic beverages. Take the United States Dispensatory, | 2 book that tells of drugs as Webster's Dictionary tells of words In the Eng fish language, and you will find that strichnia Is a poison to all animal tis- sue: so with alcohol All polsons have | specific effect: arsenic effects the mu- 2ous membrane, strychnia the spinal column and alcohol the brain. It Is a brain poison; Professor Atwater said that because of the effect of alcohol lpon the nerves 1t could not be taken nto the system without danger. Alco- 1ol transforms the lovable Dr. Jekyll nto the villainous MT. Hyde. who finally becomes the master of Dr. Tekyll Let TO one be deceived be- ,ause some men drink hard and seem o be unaffected by it. They will pay he price sooner or later. Edward xeene, the great actor, was first obliged to give up acting all plays ex- ept some of Shakespeare's because he ould not remember them. Shakes ,earian language seemed to stick by i'm, but finally he broke down one light in Othello and that ended his ca- ger.
  We have it on the authority of Je- us that man cannot live to himself lone It is true in nature that every !. hing is bound to every other thing Humanity Is all one piece; the flop 9Tlle WdlkiIlS uIl tue street tlllHhS He as no part with the working man. he news boy or bootblack, but he ould not get along without them. The pest creeps from the alleys up to he home on the avenue and takes the hildren of the rich man away, and he earns that what concerns the poor lso concerns him also. The fashiona- ( le woman and her servants are f ausht in the net of fellowship. Whatever hurts one hurts all, and ,hatever upllfts one uplfts all Horace Mann said that alcohol had l etarded civilization over one hun red years. We wonder what it will l e one hundred years hence The hind cannot conceive the progress to e made, and if it Is true that civiliza- z on has been retarded by alcohol, as | 'e know it Is, we have been kept from l leaner surroundings, greater opportu- ities and richer thoughts Alcoholic V rink Is the enemy of the race-of re- c zion. Let us resolve to fight the enc I ly until our country is redeemed" 2
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