The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-19
'NILLFRE.E
The SLAVES
a Minister Is Here to Fight
the Morphine Habit.
REV. DR.. RICHIE THE MAN
He Comes Highly Endorsed, and Has
Been Received With Open Arms
blythe Presbyterian Clergy
men Of This City.

There has Just arrived here from the
North a distinguished Presbyterian, min.
lister. who comes for the express purpose
of securing in Richmond n representa-.
tive, probably among the ministerial
class, for q BENEVOLENT organization OF
New York formed for the suppression Of
the morphine habit.
Under the auspices of this organization
there will be started here, through the
representative in question, a movement
looking 10 the saving of those addicted
TO the use Of pernicious drugs TO such
as cannot afford to pay free treatment
will be given through I'll correspondent
with the head office. Every effort Will
be made to reclaim inebriatcs and put
them where they we're. physically and
morally. before they adopted tho deadly
use Of drugs.
TILE MOVEMENT. isl
The minister who has just come In
connection with the matteris Rev. Dr..
WIN. Richie, formerly pastor of large
Presbyterian Church In Philadelphia. He
is the secretary If the organization. which
has ut its head the Rev. Robert Sample.
d. d. LII. D., ox-noderatora Of the
Northern General Assembly, one OF the
most widely known ministers In the
country The organization Is otherwise
highly endorsed. and Dr.. Richie is being
received with open arms by the Preshy-
terrain clergynlen he has visited here.
among whom are Dr.GRussel Cecil OF
the Second Church, land the Rev. w. S.
Campbell III
'lThe international Committee to Sup
press Drug Addiction is the official name
of the body DR.. Richie represents. Some
years ago Dr.siJoln Hall. pastor.of the
Fifth Avenue Church. Of. New York, the
leading Presbyterian preacher In the
North in his time. became so impressed
Will, the far-reaching and terrible effects
Of the use of opium that he united with
DR.. Sample and other distinguished nin-
listers In getting the matter laid before
the Foreign Mission Boards through
their secretaries This led to the APP
pointment OF the committee .S8lgE
TIE TRETMENtT fsis2S tx IS
Since that time tho work has gone on
with ever-growng success. AS a basis
for the work the committee has rem :
edy, discovered by German scientist
after fifteen years of experimenting,
which remedy has come into the posses
sion OF DR.. Richie. DR.. Richie became
secretary of the committee, and so earn
est were his efforts to save the morphine
victims that he Impoverished himself,
FIe gave up his church and finally sold
his horses and ca rrage and the jewelry
Pa B. 4 E
Of his wife. 5sS g 4s
The treatment discovered BY the Ger
man has proved a marvellous success.
Morphine nends In the cities where the
committee has established Itself arc
hunted out and are put into communi-
ca ton with the head Office In New York,
Correspondence ensues and the patients
are furnished With medicine and so on.
After awhile they come forth cured and
back where they were before the drugs
began to drag them down. Ma ny mar
veous cures have been reported. The
patient pays orsnot, according to his
Among those who have been reclaimed
arc physicians, men and women we'll
know n3 the social word.8 actors and
actresses and others. S,It Is IA strange
fact that many of those who apply are
physicians. TX pe, outlof every three nre
Of this clnss.&Ets Il, i5TaEs el3 li
REPRESENTATIVES, ER p. v
It is this work which will che ST.
tuted here. DR.. Richie is now arranging
Ia have a representative here, and nc
already has hisy.m in view. Negotta-
tions VIII be completed within a&comins
day or two, and then will begin here the
movement which has attracted much az
tention in other places. Through THIS
representative opium fiends and o. her $
in that class will lie put In touch VIII
the New Yorl, office, and thereby starred
on the road to safety.