The San Francisco call., 1906-04-03
MAKES APPEAL
TO THE WOMEN
J. G. Woolley Asks Those in
Good Homes to Remember
Less Fortunate of Sex
IDEAS ON sPIRITUALIsM
DR.. Coats Defines Position
Clergy Should Hold as
to Witchcraft Phenomena

John Granville woolley, the Pro-
hibition candidate for President in the
election of 1900, spoke before the
Methodist Ministers Association at
Central Methodist Episcopal Church
yesterday. Clergymen of various de-
nominations attended and the Presby-
terian ministers meeting adjourned its
regular deliberations at 1880 o'clock
purposely to hear the speaker
Woolley said men ought to be too
strong to yield to the temptations that
assail those who have received the
craving for liquor as an inheritance.
Women of San Francisco who have
good homes should remember that there
are thousands of other women here
watching with strained eyes, and ears
panied with listening, for the return
of those who are victims of drink.
He did not consider singing hymns
and offering prayers was effective when
on election day men went to the polls
and touched their hats TO the liquor
interest by voting along strictly party
lines. The pew, he held, must ''un
timber" is reform is to be effected. Per-
haps the ministers had not accom-
plished ali they could, but he gave
them credit for doing far better than
had the pew.
Mr. Woolley said that it was never
in this democracy. man might not
be able to carry an election, but he
could carry himself with integrity. AS
for himself, he was determined that he
would not go to the polls and by his
vote place his right hand in the hand
of a saloon-keeper or degraded poll
tician and play ring g-around-the-roses
about a saloon. The world. be contin-
ued, has been saturated with the
fv-n 2 ho Tod -ictio o,,if of
least theoretically. but the main thing
in this Christian age was for the pew
holder 20 get out on the Kings high
way and work.
The churches. have got attention, and it
was now for them to win people, which
was a slow business. Prohibition, he was
pleased to say, was on the great wave of
reform which was sweeping on.
THE Psychological Basis of Modern
Science" was the theme of an address
delivered yesterday by the Rev A. S.
Coats, D. D.. of Berkeley. before the
Baptist Ministers Union at the Young
Mems Christian Association building. DR..
Coats held that the minister of the Gospel
should be the last man to deny the phe
nomena connected with ancient witch
craft, since he is called upon to explain
the Mosaic law which says Thou shalt
not suffer witch to live" The minister
the world to deny in toto the phenomena
that give rise to modern spiritualism,
since he above all other men is interested
in maintaining the existence of the soul
after death.
He held that all phenomena connected
with modern spirituaIism are not mere
fraud and imposture. It was certainly
cause for great rejoicing that many sane
men and women who are neither cred
ulous nor incredulous, both in England
and America, were now investigating the
phenomena which in former days were
matters Felegated with a lordly wave of
the hand to the care of quacks and
charlatans.
DR.. Coats expressed his conviction that
many of the religious fads that are now
making havoc in the churches will never
be exploded till Christians acknowledge
the phenomena on which they are based.
The Congregational Ministers Union
was addressd yesterday by the Rev Wal
ter Frear on Thoughts by the Way"
The Christian Ministers Association met
in the Young Mems Christian Association
building yesterday, the Rev Mr. Boyer
Of Oakland in the chair. Reports from
me pastors of the churches in San Fran
cisco and bay cities showed large attend
ance at Sunday services.