The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-11
GOSPEL Of
TEMPERANCE.
Francis Murphy Will
Talk Here.
BLUE RIBBON FOUNDER
Noted Preacher of Total Abstinence
To Speak at Central
Union.

The temperance reform that has
been started through the energetic eff
forts of Miss Jessie Alderman and
Miss Murcutt, round-theworld mis-
sionaries, has received new impetus.
The greatest gospel temperance lectur-
er in the world, Francis Murphy,
came to Honolulu as a through passen-
ger to Australia, but when it be-
came known in the city that he was
a passenger on the Alameda, he was
besieged by ministers and church folk
and was prevailed upon to remain in
the Islands until the next boat.
Mr.. Murphy was interviewed last
evening at the Hawaiian Hotel by a
representative of the Advertiser. He
was most courteous and kindly in man
her, and with that sincerity and grace
of personality which has rendered him
so successful in his appeals to the bet
ter side of human nature for thirty
years, the venerable gentleman mod
estly spoke of his work in the past and
his plans for the future.
He goes now to Australia having
spent the past score of years in the
United States, travelling from city to
city, and 1eavingl behind him in each
place a lasting result for the better
ment of mankind. His manner of ac-
comprising reform is not of the kind
that makes war upon evil with the
blasts of trumpets, but rather an ear
nest and gentle seeking to rescue by
appeal and persuasion He has two
sons, William Murphy and Thomas E.
Murphy, who have become almost as
widely known and loved as their faith
er. In the early SOS one of the sons
went with his father to England, and
from thence through Ireland and Scot
land, lecturing and meeting with great
Mr.. Murphy was born in Ire
land, and speaks fondly of his work
in the old country
He is not identified with any creed.
but lives in that broad religion which
is embodied in his simple principle
malice toward none, and charity for
ALL"
You cannot score people out of their
sins, Said he, you have to, love them
out. 1t is not the worst sort of men
who are the greatest drunkards Men
are drawn into drink because of their
generous natures and open hearts. All
they want is to be put right and to be
given strength to draw away from it,
Their hearts and minds are open to
sympathy and appeal and if they are
aided at the right time it is all we'll
| have often though of LowelIs beau
ClIui song, The Crisis.
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood
For the good or evil side
When President Lincoln was hest
tating SO long before proclaiming the
of slavery, he was trying
to be wise. Horace Greedy was urging
him to hasten, and he clipped those
ines from The Crisis" and sent them
to the President. 1t is with men as it
s with nations-there is moment to
1ecide"
Among his letters of personal friend
ship. Mr.. Murphy has those of Presi-
lent Mckinley, Benjamin Harrison,
md Governor Stone of Pennsylvania.
The blue ribbon emblem of temper
lnce was originated by Mr. Murphy
Jears ago. He took the idea from the
9th chapter of Numbers, 3Sth verse, |
Which says, Bid them make fringes
n the borders of their garments and |
hat they put upon the fringe of the |
borders a ribbanA of blue" He also
'efers to Canon Farrar's Life of /
shrist, which states that the garment
II Christ which was touched by the I
lex woman who was healed, had upon
the blue ribbon.
Speaking of his gospel temperance
work in the United States. Mr.. Muir
u.
In the city of Chicago $500 persons
igned the pledge of total abstinence; t
n Helena, Montana, about 1900, and
t Butte Montana, the greatest min
ng camp in the world about $500. In
Oregon, and Tacoma and
eattle, Washington, an aggregate of
bout 5000 signed the pledge
In Sacramento, California, Mr.. Muir
by lectured to the railroads employ
es. securing about 1000 signatures to
he pledge among the wprkmen, and
tarting big reform movement
Coast paper says of him:
1t is his sympathy and warmth of
cart which have made his success.
'uring the Spanish war he was com
llssioned chaplain of the Fifth Penn
ylvania Regiment by Governor Hast
lgs. AT Chickamauga he became the
tol of the soldiers, and his words of
lndliness and acts of gentleness were
lie means of inducing hundreds of the
oys in blue to take the temperance
ledge"
The, first of the series of gospel lee
Tres will be given by Mr.. Murphy
Central Union Church on Sunday
7ening next.
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