The San Francisco call., 1906-04-02


John Granville woolley. at one time
States Attorney for Minnesota and
a candidate for President of the
United States in 1900. on the Prohibition
ticket, occupied the pulpit at the First
United Presbyterian Church, Golden
Gate avenue and Polk street. yesterday
morning.
woolley arrived on the Siberia last
Friday after an absence of year. dur
ing which he has visited many coun4
tries. Leading men of New Zealand in
vited him-to help them In their tenn
perance campaign during recent cleo
tion and in response he addressed 135
mass meetings. In China and Japan
he, received a cordial welcome. and at
the request of eminent statesmen of
those lands he spoke at several great
meetings on the, temperance cause. his
speeches being interpreted into the ma
tive tongues. ~
During his address yesterday morn
ing Woolley said it was not his inten-
ton to say anything harsh of any one,
but he intended to show Christ's angle
lof vision into men s needs.
He said in part: stt
II the good men Of this country could be got
to see the ravages and the havoc OF the liquor
traffic they would not tolerate it, on the far
side of the next election,
The infirrnity Of our Christian civilization is its
ssfonishing ability not to see The main diff
ference between men is in the matter OF vision
gomc see; others do not In all the ways of
life the is the leader.
This is particularly true in these days when
competition is so tremendous that the profits
and tie victories of invested life turn on small
margins. g.
The man who is able to put forth the last
atom of power when the great opportunity
comes Is the man who is surest of success.
Not all drinking men fall but every man
who drinks at all dininishes his chance of the
'''S of swo young men equally endowed and
equipped equally ambitious and equally favored
by the surroundings. of whom abstains en-
principle and the other Of whom drinks con-
tending for the highest prize, the abstainer is
a sure winner rfs~t. =
This is not fanatcism, nor piousness. nor
old-man talk. 1t Is the word OF science. cor
ro5orated by common observation and rexperi
ence. Drink always makes for the lower side
The explanation OF. the drink. habit is that
the men do not see. They slip into 1t blindy
tino is not to look themselves over too critic
ally.
saloon is that citizens do not see We are. in
teliigent and brave and kindly, but the subject
Is difficult and revolving and dangerous. and
we shut our eyes and take the blood money.
The first lesson OF Christ is "Open your
ewes keep your eyes open. see +
Thousands OF boys and men are wasting
their earnings and their chances In the saloon
because they do not see themselves. Other
thousands are missing the joy and profit OF
helping them because they do not see others
We must Ind a way out OF this blind alley. as
individuals and citizens. and there is leader
At and ready who said and had right to say
II am the way the truth and the life
las JeGus passed by he saw That he was
kinder wiser abler than other men is un-
important so far as this point Is. concerned
The great thing about him was that he saw
At IL O'Clock this morning WoolIev
will speak before the minister's of the
city at Central Methodist Episcopal
Church, Mission street. between sixth
and Seventh. Tonight he will address
a mass meeting of the citizens of Oak
land at the First Presbyterian Church
of that city.