Smyrna times., 1903-04-29
PASTOR COLLINS STARTS
LOCAL OPTION CAMPAIGN
breaches A VIGOROUS SERMON AT AS
BURY NJ. E. CHURCH SUNDAY MORNING.
Will Organize the First Local Temperance
Alliance at Asbury Church on thursday
Evening-Distributin Much Literature.


Alliance at Asbury Church on Thursday
Evening-Distributiug Much Literature.
The keynote of the opening of the
Delaware State Temperance Alliance
campaign was sounded at Asbury M.
E. Church last Sunday morning when
Pastor Vaughan S. Collins, president
of the Alliance, preached one of the
most vigorous temperance sermons
given here in recent years. The church
was we'll filled and the choir rendered
excellent music. Pastor Collins took
for his text the 18th verse of the 28tb
chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah:
Your covenant with death shall be
disannulled and your agreement with
hell shall not stand" After review
ing the work of Isaiah and the part
he took in boldly threatening Ephraim
for their pride and drunkenness. their
untOwardness to learn and their
shrewd political manouvers, he brought
the subject close to modern times and
declared with particular emphasis that
'Our State and nation were bound bv
covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell" Briefly outlining
the history of the organization of the
Delaware Temperance Alliance and
the strong petitions taken before the
Legislature, he disclaimed the action
of the Legislature in turning against
the wishes of the petitioners. The
right of petition he said dates back as
far as the Magma Charta, and he could
not understand how sensible men
could ignore such rights. He showed
that In Duck Greek Hundred alone
there were 343 voters and about 500
nOn-voters including women and
children, who had signed the petition.
Praise For the Fourteen LegisIaturemen.
He praised the course of the four-
teen men who voted for the bill. and
rebuked the fifteen men who voted
against the measure, and the three
men who hadn't an opinion. Politics
IN the church was all right, he said, if
1t were religious politics, but the AL
lance movement, he said, was strictly
non-partisan and it was high time the
good people were taking a stand
against the licensed saloon. He drew
graphic picture of visitor from the
planet Mars who came to Earth to
leaIn something about Man. The
latter under the guiding influences of
home, school and church, was the
master mechanic, the influential bank
er, the great musician, the silver
tongued orator, the greatest living
power of the world. They passed a
saloon and saw a drunkard reeling
from the doorway. whats that ?'
asked the visitor from Mars. "That is
drunken man." said his host.
Where did he come from ?" asked
the visitor. "Out of that saloon. a
hquor saloon, legalized by our Courts.
answering his many interrogations.
MS most on earth described in pitiful
terms the damnable traffic which was
ue0auching manhood. A part of the
story applied to our own locality,
"here a number of recent converts
were led astEay by the allurements of
tne saloon. Pastor Collins appealed
70 MS congregation to get together in |
,nis temperance movement. We have
p'en swearing by parties long enough.
Let us come out on the side of the
ilght He especially wanted old As |
Oury to be in the advance of the move
ment
VIII organize Local Temperance Alliance.
at the close of the sermon a collec-
''on was taken for the Alliance Move.
ment and over $751; 90 was raised. AS
.ne congregation passed out through
'ne Vestlbule of the church, Temper
suce Alliance literature was freely dis
IMPUTED. One of these was a card
Oaiilhg attention to the course of the bill
AZ. a. 'ne recent Legislature and was en-
y,,'eu Seven Pointers for Temperance
"oIAers IN Delaware" Ten thousand
u .nese had been printed in red ink
suu Speaker Anthony and all those
a, "no opposed the bill were shown up in
their true light.
On Thursday evening Pastor Col
"uS VIII organize the first Local Tenn
y, cS'ance Alliance of Asbury M. e.
AM. nurcn' There is already a State
an1 l,"nce and three County Alliances.
auu now it is the purpose of the tenn
;"e HoiSnce workers of the State to organ
m M 'ocal alliances wherever practicable.
vae aeSe local alliances will each h ave a
o.er 5 League and work will be so
VSlemlzed that everv affort ,,oss;hIo