Evening star., 1901-02-18
JUDGE kIMBALL IN PULPIT.
Address at North Carolina Avenue NJ
=. Church.

By request of Rev. A. Norman Ward
pastor of the North Carolina Avenue Meth
odist Protestant Church, Judge /. G. Kim
ball made an address there last evening.
A very large audience was present. Judge
kimball took for his theme Sowing and
Reaping."
The judge said he sometimes thought that
the words ought to be reversed we of
today begin to reap before we begin to
SOW. The child that is born in these days
is born into the enjoyment of liberties, the
seed Of which was sown by our forefathers,
some of whom paid for their efforts to do
good with their lives.
In each life, he went on to say, there Is
sowing and reaping. If the sinner could
reap the results of his own sowing it might
not perhaps be so bad, but no one can do
wrong and not have some friend or relative
distressed by it.
"A great many young men" he continued
get an Idea they can in their younger days
SOW wild oats, and in their later life reap
beautiful harvest of good, but this was
an mpossibility. No young man or woman
| who sows to the wind but will reap the
whirlwind.'
He told OF an incident during one of
| Coughs meetings, when he heard that great
temperance lecturer say: If l could only
forget the years / was a drunkard / would
! be willing to lose my right arm, but 1 can
| not do II. God is forgivlng, but sin Will
| have its consequences.
| Judge Kimball related number of in
| stances which have come under his obser-
| walton in the Police Court and told how q
| man who was before him not long ago had
| through the of drink lost wealth and
! everything else that a man holds dear; had
| become a total wreck, the worst he had
| ever seen, and few days ago died in an
| asylum.
.'There is no man so low, so degraded, in
no continued "that
person is not hurt by his sinful conduct"
The speaker told of woman who was a
| witness in an unlicensed bar case. the other
| day who admitted the stand that she
| bought liquor and gave it to her four little
| children whenever they asked for or SEEM
| ed to need IT. He also told of case in
which a mother wrote TO him. on many oc-
| casions asking that her son, whenever ar
rested. as he frequently was for drunken
! ness should be given the full penalty of
| the law, it was only when the young
| man was in prison that she and his father
| had any peace He also told about some OF
| the women drunkards that he was called
upon to try, and said:
IF there is a hell upon earth it is in the
| home of a drunken mother. A drunken
| father is bad enough, but a drunken mother
the being we all want to look up to with
feelings of love, makes her home veritable
| hell"
Judge K.mball made an earnest plea te
| his hearers TO believe that If they now SOW
the seeds of sin they will reap similarly
The music of the occasion was furnished
by a selected choir. under the leadership ot
Prof. Chas V. Schofeld. director and or
ganist and composed of Mrs Mary Mile,
Scott the Misses Dodge and Walsh, so
pranos: Mrs. Charles V. Schofield, Mis-.
Carrie Oxley and Miss NJ. Louise Dodge
altos: Messrs. James Simpson. Wilbur A
Dodge, Richard j. Jones and George s
Dodge.
During the services the anthems "Prais
Ye Jehovah" and LAS Pants the Hart wer
rendered. the solo parts being taken b.
Mrs. Mary Miller Scott and Miss Carri
Oxley, respectively.