Evening star., 1901-10-28
PERANCE SUNDAY
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| the Lord Jesus Christ shall rise in full cons
SCiouSneSS of her duty and full exercise of
her power to crush evil, she some time
Will, the saloon is doomed
Congregational.
At First Congregational Church, Rev. 8.
NJ. Newman. ID, the pastor, briefly dis
| cussed the subject in prelude to his morn
| ing sermon.
| At the Mt Pleasant Congregational
| Church, the pastor, Rev. NJ. Ross Fish5urn,
| took as his morning subject "The Curse of
| the Wine Cup" He said in part:
| THE wine cup is curse, first, last and
all the time 1t is a curse because of its
insidiousness. Ordinarily, intemperance ap-
| proacheS with unuSupected tread. and
| afterward, if you should ask a man who
| had come to feel it's blight where he began
| he would not be able to identify the start.
1t is a curse because of the wide reach of
| its baleful influence. Upon the death roll
| of it's victims are to be found such names
| as Robert Burns, Lord Byron and Edgar
| Allen Poe 1t is no respecter of persons.
1t is curse because of the injury it does
| the man whose lips it pollutes. 1t enfeebles
| the mind, wrecks the body and damnS the
| SOUL The wine cup is a curse because of
| the evil it entails upon posterity. DR.. s.
! G.. How traced the parentage of 300 idiots
and reported to the legislature of Massa-
| chusetts that of the 300, LAT were found to
| be children of drunkards. and in one in
stance seven idotic children were the OFF,
| spring of a drunken father and mother.
| The wine cup is a curse because of the I'M
| told evil it works in society. In one of the
German galleries there is picture called
| 'Napoleon's Welcome to He'll in which the
MANNED and widowed and orphaned are
| reaching forth their hands to welcome him
| into the region of endless pain. An un-
numbered multitude of broken-bodied,
| broken-hearted men and women rise up In
| this present world to anathematiZe the
| enemy of humanity who putteth the ac-
! cursed cup to his brothers lips
"Need of the Hour"
1.-The Need of the Hour was the theme
| of Rev. Sterling N. Brown of Lincoln Tenn
| pie, 11th and r streets northwest, at IL
am.
1.-The specific work of the church in tenn
perance REFORM" he said. seems to me
very clear. First, church membership
ought to mean total abstinence. The time
must come when temperance will be as
much part of the church as any of its
work. The church is right in reference to
the ministry, but too slack with regard to
its laity. No minister in America can in
dulge in strong drink with impunity, if
known. The beer bottle, wine cup, the
liquor flask and the hidden keg are not,
however, novelties to many a church mem
Der. This fact 1 utter in shame 1t seems
incredible that Christians will allow them
selves to slide in and out of saloons as
would the most base and defiled. The man
easies and so false and treacherous a busi-
ness and still claims to be a Christian is
in reality worse than the rumseller who
openly defies the law and the good of his
fellow man."
At the morning service of the PEOPLES
Congregational Church, NJ street north
west, Rev. T. M. Nixon, the pastor, preach
ed from Prov. 1923: who hath woe?" and
the evening service consisted Of an "opcn
parliament in which Mr.. A N. Garfield Of
the Anti-Saloon League participated.
Lutheran Churches.
In the Lutheran churches the 3S4th ami
versary of the Protestant reformation in
Germany under Martin Luther was being
celebrated, but several Of the pastors took
occasion to speak on the temperance theme
in the form Of prelude and 1t was men
toned in their public prayers. This was the
case at Keller Memorial Church, Maryland
avenue northeast, Rev. Charles H. Butler
pastor; Luther Place Memorial Rev. ]. G.
Butler, D. D., pastor, and the Georgetown
Lutheran Church, Rev. Stanley Billhemer
pastor. At the latter Temperance" was
the theme of the Christian Endeavor Socie-
tvs meeting.
Maryland avenue and 9th street northeast
Rev. c. II. Butler, pastor, at the evening
service, said: In every reform we must
appeal to Scripture and sound reason, as
Luther did at the diet of Honus; both
are recalled. The Scriptures say that no
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of
of heaven and St. Paul taught abstinence
for the sake of others. Sound reason
teaches that we should not permit any
longer that which causes SO much drunk
enness, crime, poverty and idiocy, which
costs nearly 81 800 ,O0OO 900 every year, be-
sides vast sum in other ways, which no
man can reckon. The cause of temperance
appeals to every Christian and patriot and
lover of his kind, and the Anti-Saloon
League invites the sympathy and cooper
alton of all who are opposed to the saloon"
IN, I T,,fb io1 Ia
pastor, Rev. ]. G. Butler, DID,, prayed
God to help all who labor to deliver our
land and the world from the terrible evil
of strong drink" In the sermon upon SOW
ing to the flesh and sowing to the spirit he
emphasized very earnestly drunkenness
with the poverty and wretchedness the
evil and crime, the wreck and ruin of soul
and body from intemperance. He taught
the imperative duty of self-control, not only
in drinking, but in all that degrades and
destroys.
I'VE cannot too earnestly labor to pro-
mote sobriety and destroy the saloon" he
said; however men may differ in regard
to drink, all thoughtful people are begin
ming to awake to the terrible curse of the
saloon. The saloon must go. says the Anti
Saloon League, and this pulpit stands upon
this issue with the league"
Methodist Episcopal.
A large proportion of the Methodist
churches observed the day. more or less
fully. AT Grace MetnOClSL Episcopal
Church, 9th and S streets. the new pastor
Rev. Joseph Edmund Smith, D. D., LII. D.,
took as his theme 1.-The Saloon a Brutal
and Shameless Robbery" and his text was
"A certain man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho and fell among thieves" Uuke
x:30).
That" he said, " is mild description Of
the modern saloon. The saloon is RESPONSE
BILE for more brutality than any other agen-
cy that has existed since the days of Noah
1t is in its very nature a robbery; open,
shameless, diabolicai. A robbery compared
with which all other robbery is trivial.
When It's work is done there is nothing left
Time is gone. money is squandered, health
is wrecked, happiness has vanished hope is
extinct, heaven Is impossible. 1t is a DESC
lating cyclone, and in its path is to be
found nothing but rags and shame, dis
grace, despair and an endless hell. No ruin
was ever so utter as that which is the por-
ton Of the victim Of the saloon. 1t destroys
for time, it damns for eternity. There is
in all its history not one mitigating fact
not one palliating incident. The saloon is
wholly, incurably bad. And this abomna-
ton propagates and multiplies itself ad nau-
seam. Like the frogs Of Egypt, 1t is every
where. Yonder beneath the splendid dome
OF the nations Capitol, and there where
thieves congregate and harlOts reyal