Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Reform: Gods Call to Service. and Civil
righteousness.
Intemperance Greatest Evil.

| Intemperauce Greatest Evil.
| At the evening service in North Carolina
1 Avenue NJ. P. Church the pastor, Rev A.
| Norman Ward. preached a temperance SER
| mon from the text Hab. 2:xv He said in
| part:
| EVIL is in the world, and the greatest
J evil in our land is inteniperance. Christ
came into the world to bring the kingdom
| of Heaven to men.
| shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven. The
church of Christ is not organized to take
| men to heaven, but to establish the king
| dom of heaven on earth.
| After twenty centuries of conflict. there
| is no let up. | seek with all the power that
| God has given me to destroy the saloon.
| in Self-defense. because the saloon would
destroy me, body and soul. You are my
| brothers. and l seek to destroy the saloon
/ because it stands ready to destroy you.
| body and soul. There is no neutral ground.
| Every man and every woman is on one or
| the other side in this conflict.
| The church needs. the world needs men
real men: men who stand for principle and
| insist on being heard and counted The sa-
| loon is here because tolerat it. When
| the men and women in the church are real
! men and women and demand that the sa-
| loon BE destroyed it will be destroyed.
At the Sixth Presbyterian Church the pas
| tor. Rev. d. w. Skellenger. preached in the
! evening from the text Kings 1872 Sub
/ ject. The Greatest Duel Ever Fought"
| He said In part: Who are the prophets of
| Baal today? Who indeed but the leaders in
! lniquity, and those who are gaining their
sensual pleasures. and fattening their
purses at the expense of the spiritual and
| physical well-being of their brothers and
| sisters? Did you read of the death of nine
| teen persons in New York Occasioned by
| poisoned whisky? Did you read of that Sc
cret firm putting Wiley aduterated drugs
| on the market labeled as genuine? American
| people pretend to be Mortified over the
/ al rCis IL In no bJlrj1
| VIII they ever wake up to the awful
! slaughter of millions at their very doors.
| caused by the saloon and its emissaries
| Designing devils in disguise logging the
| footsteps and seeking the ruin of the I'M
wary and unsuspecting youth.
| At the evening service of Gorsuch M. F..
i Church Rev. j. Fl. Hyatt, the pastor.
| preached to the independent Order of Rech-
| abites of the District of Columbia and en-
| pha sized the principles of the District Anti
| Saloon League. His text was Haggai Is:
And he that earneth wages, earneth wages
| to put into bag with holes. In his dis
| course he showed the folly of spending
money in the saloon and the wisdom of
| closing up the holes in which men of this
nation are wasting the most of their money.
| The question is one of extravaganza and
economy And the solution of the problem
is in education, legislation and conservation.
| Rev. Harold NJ. Rider, pastor of the North
| Capitol NJ f.. Church, preached in the even
ing on the subject of Drinking Men," and
discussed the position that the drinking
man takes with reference to his privilege
of drinking or not, and then showed that
his family and the community must bear
the severe consequences of his drinking. He
strongly commended temperance and self
control.
Rev. Frank P Lewis. pastor of Saint
Paurs A. M. r. Church. preached at IL am
from the text. wine is a mocker. strong
drink is raging" and emphasized especially
the pernicious effects of strong drink.
He said in part: Alcoholic drink is the
"A Al of no fDr mi nd
for it destroys health. wealth. mind, char
acter. usefulness and life.
1T has made more widows and orphans
and has broken more hearts than any other
existing evil. Other evils appear and are
abated. but the effects of strong drink seem
intermnable. 1t is still making havoc OF
men and women and children. We can see
but one thing to do with it And that is
to prohibit its manufacture and sale as a
beverage.
Merits the Confidence of the Church.
Rev. S. Reese Murray, pastor of Union
NJ f. Church. preached from the text
"Know therefore what these things mean"
Acts. 1920. He said:
The Anti-SaIoon League merits the con-
fidence of the church because it's work is
moral of the community, because it's re-
suits Splendidly civic; of the govern
ment because it lessons crime, and to that
extent, expense: of the individual, because
it lessons taxes. of the home, because 1t
saves youth and manhood; of business be-
cause it increases the volume of trade in
proportion it reserves in men an I'M
diminished ability to work and make
wages.
Indirectly it intensifies the ties of kim
dred; gives love a greater chance to EN-
ploy its holy offices around the fireside
diminishes divorces by decreasing passion
and distributes wealth by reserving II in
the grasp of millions of untarnished lives"
At the evening service at Waugh M r,
| Church the pastor Rev. George f. Mayd-
well preached a temperance sermon from
the text, And there is no discharge in
that war" Eccl., s:S; theme, THE inter-
| minable conflict
| Special emphasis was given to:
First. The interests that are involved,
| and
Second Our duty.
Rev. w. L. Lynn, pastor of Bradburn Me-
| mortal M. f. Church. preached Sunday
night from the text. rs the young man
Absalom safe?' I'd Sam. 1920 Theme
| THE saloon the young man"
| The principal thought elaborated was:
! There is no safety in the saloon for young
| man.
mans life, he said. 1T means destruction,
| When his trust is in God it means saliva
! ton and life everlasting.
Rev. B. T. Perkins, pastor of Mt. Zion
| NJ. f.. Church. preached in the morning
| from the text, "Be not drunken with wine
| wherein is excess, but be filled with tie
| spirit. Eph., 5:1S. Contrasting the effects
! of wine with that of the spirit, he said
1.-The rum mills consume Go 900 souls an
nually and must have 5000 boys and girls
to keep them going. The spirit secures the
| home. elevates the mind. respects the body.
! prepares for heaven and saves the SOUL
The Church's Responsibility.
| Rev 7. o. Grouse, pastor of Congress
! Steet Methodist Protestant Church. preach
| ed from the text. when thou buidest a
| new house thou shalt make battement
| for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon
| thy house, If any man fall from thence
| Deut., 22:S Theme: Responsibility for
| others safety. He said:
Here is a piece of ancient Hebrew legis-
| latlon, which we may not see at once has
| interest for us or application to our times
| But there is principle underlying this
| legislation of the ancient Hebrews which is
| not and never will be obsolete or without
| applica ton. This provision is founded upon
| the principle that we each have respon-
| sibility for the safety of others; that as far
as we can we must prevent ali possible
| evil to others; must throw around them
| such safeguards as their condition may re-
| quire or our ability allow. The principle is
| susceptible of the widest and most varied
| application.
| There is one application of this principle
| l want to point out and emphasize today.
| 1t is the duty of the state to prevent so far
| il all npSSibla a nd tn re