The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-26
Does Work like Sunday 0bserv-
ance League.
START TEMPERANCE SALOONS
Brisk Controversy Between the Two
Baltimore Priests-All Not Serene
in Dover Association-Other
Religious News of Interest

!, big campaign in Richmond in the early
fail A series of meetings will be. neid
IN different parts Of the city ana VIII
be followed by the organization OF
Richmond League which Will at once SET
lie down to work. The first meeting VIII
be held in the Seventh-Street Christian
Church.
The goal toward which the league VIII
work Will be the total abolition OF the
saloons. 1t will not start out, however
with a view to accomplishing this In
q dav a week or year. but will en-
deayor to work along gradually. con-
stantly moving forward a little TO the
end In sight.
The first step taken will be toward
snc,,,inr the enforcement of the present
laws touching on the sale OF WhlskeE-
Here the league will do practically the
game work instituted a year or two ago
by the Sunday Observance League, since
ct will among other things bend It's enef-
,ies toward securing the closing OIL me
saloons on the Sabbath as is required
nv statute. If the present laws are dis
regarded the attention. of the officers
will be called to the fact. and If they do
not respond the league will set about
securing the nomination and election oil
such officers as will enforce the law
When II has accomplished this first
move-the thorough enforcement OF ali
present laws-the league Will start CUT
to secure other laws going still further
than the present, and IN this work II
will not cease before the city statutes
absolutely prohibit the sale Of whiskey.
Every opportunity to work upon the
Will q
league will endeavor to secure the cleo
ton to the body of such men as favor
the temperance cause.
AT the same time with this sraduai
work toward the abolition of the saloon
will be the establishment of temperance
clubs which are designed to- take the place
of the whiskey-shops The Rev. c. II.
Crawford. superintendent of the League.
said this morning that this will be an i'm
portant feature of the work and One
which will be constantly emphasized not
only here but over the entire State lie
is already thinking about scheme where
by one of these clubs may be located IN
Richmond and made self supporting.
Considerable interest has been AROUSED
here by the attack just made by Father
w E. Starr. of the Corpus Christi Cath
ole Church. Baltimore, upon the Very
Rev. John r. Slatterv. Superior of ST
Joseph's Society for Colored Missions.
who was. several years ago. stationed IN
this city. Father Slattery. last month
preached in Baltimore sermon which
has attracted widespread attention. On
receipt Of a copy of the sermon de-
delivered by Father Slattery. Father
Starr wrote a lengthy communication in
return. prefacing his remarks with the
following which is mild compared with
the remainder.
Dear Reverend Sir: Yesterdays post
brought me a copy Of your sermon de-
livercd upon the occasion of the first
mass of the Rev. John Henry Dorsey,
celebrated at St Francis Xax!ers Church
on the ODD instant.
That you have thought 1t proper to
give your discourse the widest possible
circulation permits the inference that YOU
regard it as in some sense gauntlet
thrown down. and that you thereby in
wife comment and criticism. ! had al
ready seen the condensed report in the
daily prints and l confess that 1t quite
took away my breath. 1 have taken
pains to ask the impressions of a number
of clergymen whom / met yesterday al
the commencement exercises at St,
Charles College. l have never in all my
thirty-three years in the ministry seen
men more profoundly moved. Without
OlSSentlnE voice, one ana all expressed
disgust and Indignation at the complete
lack of ordinary restraint which marks
your discourse from first to last. And
the end is not yet.
81 fear that you have wrought well-nigh
lrreparabe harm to the good cause 20
v Inch you have devoted your money and
life. l shall be gratified beyond expires.
zion. if you do not very soon discover
mat you have let fly boomerang which
Will in time return to torment YOU.
Richmond delegates to the Dover Bap-
list Association returned to the city
Thursday. accompanied by several others.
who passed through here on the way
home
The action Of the association in refer
cnce to the whiskcT matter is being
much discussed and commented upon
The majority of the Richmond ministers
are said to think well OF the adoption
OF the resolution offered by the Rev. w.
S. Leake. Of this city, but dissatisfaction
Is expressed in some quarters. A prom-
nent minister was heard to say yesterday
morning that wherever he went he had
to hang his head in shame because of
the presence in churches in the Dover
Association of whiskey members.
1t is thought by some that the con-
eervative action taken will hasten the
withdrawal from the association of the
Newport News pastors. who have before
this been working up movement TO
form new association out of the New
bort News end of the Dover.
In the absence of DR. Russell Cecil.
who has gone TO Kentucky, the pulpit of
the Second Presbyterian Church will be
filled tomorrow morning by the Rev. c.
C. Hersman. D. D. There will be no
in thfa .aff
The Rev. l.. r. Walker. of Pensacola.
Fla. Will supply the pulpit during the
month of August.
Sunday will close the first pastoral
year of the Rev. r. B. Eggleston. of the
Third Presbyterian Church. and he will
preach at both services. During the year
there have been sixty or seventy adj
si,ions and 5000 raised. a new pipe or
gan put in. and other improvements.
The Rev. Jetcr George Dickinson. of
Sadsden, Ala. a graduate of Richmond
College. is visiting friends in the State
to j,,f~ q several ha