The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-05

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In his address Rev Mr.. Massee said
in part;
1.-The supreme law of all really vir-
tuous life is self-mastery The law
that controlled the life of Christ was
this law OF self-restraint The miracle
of all the ages has been the miracle
of his self-control; both as to what
he brought into his life and as to
what he kept out Of it. And only in
so far as humanity reaches the spirit
Of the Christ and imbodies it in its
own life will it ever become the ideal
humanity. 1t is needless to say then
that the great struggle of the centuries
is toward self-mastery and the life
He taught us.
Il understand it to be the purpose
Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union to help the world toward this
Christ life. And in intoxicating the
principle of temperance (there is no
real temperance that does not with
hold absolutely from any thing in
which danger to the best life lies)
they are strengthening the life and
breaking the strong chains that hold
others away from Him.
This generation has particularly
recognized two enemies to this self
mastery. Giants they are defying the
armies of God. One of them the very
Messenger of the covenant with hell;
the other the High Priest of Damna-
ton. With the progress of these two
evils are associated that of almost all
the moral vices Of the catalog.
am asked to speak a bit about these
two foes to self-control-the cigarette
and strong drink. As related to man
neither is ever a servant. Each is
always a master and man its slave.
OF the cigarette it may be truly said
that the youth of the present genera
ton has no more dangerous foe. And
the habit is almost universal. Almost
every boy one meets Is smoker, And
it's power over it's victims is almost
absolute. Its slavery is abject. 1t
is almost incredible -. so much
harm can be wrapped up in small
roll of paper with a taste of arsenic
upon its edges and filled with a pinch
of tobacco, but its rrvsical ear marks
upon the human body ar~ yellow fin
gers; bloated eyelids; a peculiar yell
low-green compilations; unsteady
nerves; and an ultimate cough affect
ing the lungs and insuring a tobacco
heart The mental 49, '"'o"al results
are loss of memory; loss OF will-poW-
err; loss OF resolution: the failure to
make proper moral determinations;
character: loss OF moral standing and
ultimate complete moral slavery. What
is needed is more education and more
agitation about the o-'h- Of the cigar
cite. Education in our schools OF a
scientific sort ana in our homes ana
churches of a social and moral sort.
Agitation every where, in the homes,
at school at church in social circles.
in every public institution and in every
legislativel hall in our land.
ut goes without saying that the
fight needs to be continued against
LIQUOR drinking-bestial drinking.
moderate drinking and occasional
drinking. But our chief fight needs
to be made on the liquor institutions.
For these institutions can live only
by making drinkers. And they must
thrive upon the weaknesses. diseases
and inherited appetites of our BROTH
ers There is need that more atten-
ton be paid to the fight upon the dis
tilleries these barons of vice; the
feudal lords of sin; the heads OF the
generations of death; the monstrous
parentage of the whole foul progeny
of social and moral iniquity. These
are they who furnish the money and
brains and plans of campaign to the
whole retinue of liquor advocates. Let
us strike more determinedly at the
head Of the evil.
1.-THE open saloon is the strong fort
ress in which the devil entrenches
himself to lay tribute upon the life
and honor Of our best manhood and
womanhood. 1t is a place of a GER
tain sort of fascination to those who
are willing to be caught, by its appeal
to the social needs for recreation.
The dispensar,- is the subtlest foe of
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self under Christian and moral con-
troll Now the whiskey business is
the DEVILS business and is under his
control and all the sophistry in the
world cannot change that fact.
But / would not be understood as
saying that the dispensary is not an
advance upon the saloon. 1t is an
advance because it is an effort to solve
the problem and to leave the solution
, i'm the hands of the moral element of
the State. 1t will be an advance how
ever only SO far as 1t is a step towards
the end, and never when it becomes
an end in itself, The only ultimate
ground for the Christian to occupy
as to the liquor business is total pro-
hibition."
Programme for Friday.
The exercises will begin this morn
programme for today is as follows:
Convention called to order.
Hymn.
Scripture Lesson and Prayer-Mrs.
Elizabeth Turner, Asheville.
Reading of Minutes.
| Reports of Superintendents-L
! Temperance Legion; AItttyNarcotics,
Mrs. Velina r. Mills; Purity in Liter
ature and Art, Mrs. c. f.. Craven; On
Organization, Miss Notre Johnson;
Peace and Arbitration, Mrs. Mary e.
! Davis.
Report of Committee on Resolu-
| tions.
Election of Delegates to the Nation
al Convention in Los Angeles, Cal,
October 27-November /.
Final Report of Committees on FL
nance. Kilograms, Membership and
| Courtesies.
Peace and Arbitration.
| Address by Prof. F. E. Blair. of
Guilford College.
| Election of Officers.
Unfinished Business.
Adjournment.
Gospel Service.