The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-08
Mr.. SHELDON'S WORK.
English Papers Summary of His
Campaign in England.

livered his last temperance lecture in
England. closing his four months
campaign with tour through Wales.
He will start home Aug. 81, after a
| tour of continental Europe.
In summing up the results of the
summers work. the Alliance News
| and Temperance Reformer, a London
| temperance paper, says:
| With the meetings in Wales last
| week, DR. Sheldon's work of nearly
four months duration came to an
| end. 1t was hardly with light heart
| that the famous author and evangelist
entered upon his great mission on
| Sunday evening of March oath in the
Free Trade Hall. Manchester. A ire
| mendous audience listened that night
to the first delivery of the story of
what prohibition had done for Kan
\ sas, ard a note was happily struck on
| the occasion which has been mair-
| tanned throughout the third of a
1 years brilliant and continuous cam
paigning. THE signal service" which
after that gathering we felt DR.. Shell
don was destined to render to the
temperance movement in general, and
the United Kingdom Alliance in par
ticular, has been realized, and the or
gGnization and DR.. Sheldon alike, we
think, may thank God for so success
full an issue of their happy compact.
Having left home after a long illness,
from which he had not fully rallied,
we know to whom DR.. Sheldon would
be the first to attribute any success
which had attended his efforts-a
watchful Providence and a kindly
Lord and Master. Not little en-
couragement DIR. Sheldon received at
that send-off meeting from the fact
of the venerable DR.. McLaren presid-
over it, and bestowing upon it and the
speaker his benediction: Most of us
have followed with interest. and many
of us with profit, his fervent, wise
words. We esteem him for his works
sake-soma of US have learnt to love
him for himself, and we are glad to
receive so faithful a fellow
helper"
The results of the campaign have
shown that DR.. McLaren's confidence
in the missioner and his mission was
not misplaced The man and the oc-
casion have met at seventy-four meet
ings, at several conferences, and on
fourteen Sabbath days in all parts of
the United Kingdom and its smaller
islands. The average attendance of
the meetings must have been 1000,
and the aggregate number of people
addressed about 100, 900. Perhaps no
missioner on behalf of the temperance
or any other movement has ever ac-
complished so much in the United
Kingdom in such a space of time. DR.. |
Sheldon has passed to and fro over
the railways of the four countries
some 5000 miles, and travelled $500
from Topeka to England, making a
little itinerary of $4,000 miles alto
gether.
AS regards the character of the
audiences addressed. there is no doubt
that many thousands have come with
in the sound of Dr. Sheldon voice
who have not been in the habit of at
tending temperance meetings pure and
simple. All sorts of conditions of men
and women have moreover presided or
taken some part in them along with |
the doctor. There have been mayors
and mayoresses, representatives of the |
army, navy the medical profession; |
while clergymen and ministers-like |
DIR. Clifford. the deans of Hereford and |
Barker and Hicks+have delighted to |
do honor to him and his message. |
Scholars, too, have been in evidence, |
and numerous members of parliament |
.Unionists, Liberal and Labor. The |
heartiness of the gatherings every
where, and especially the mixing of |
those of different denominations on his
platforms. has. we believe, much i'm
pressed DR.. Sheldon. Proba bly, the |
weather, unfavorabIe as it was for out
of door life during the period, con-
to the almost uniform crowd
ed state of the meetings. The leading
towns of England, Wales, Scotland and
Ireland were visited. and in no place
did the doctor address two meetings.
So far as we know. there was not
single hitch in the arrangements;
neither was there opposition or dis
turDance worthy of mention. The doc
tor may we'll be happy in the reflection
that every engagement was kept, and
he will doubtless have a good word
for the British railways, since he never
missed a connection. The best thanks
of the alliance are certainly due to all
those in the various places who or
ganized the meetings in detail, and to
associations which enthusiastically CO.
operated in the work-such as the
Free Church council. the British Wom-
ems Temperance association, the Good
nhoh Of
Temperance and Bands of Hope.
1t has been a source of great gratif-
cation to DR.. Sheldon that even during
the conduct of his mission here the
sentiment in Kansas has
developed. OF the few places in the
state, to which he referred at the out
set as being notorious for their nom
of the prohibitory law.
by the action of the supreme court to
observe the law and close down the ex-
listing liquor properties. All this, to-
gether with the story of Kansas &c
years general experience of prohibition
of the liquor traffic, which we have re-
ported from time to time in these COL
umns, is to be duly published, we un-
derstand, in pamphlet form We do
not doubt that thousands will wish to
preserve in private what they heard the
author of In His Steps" proclaim il.
public.
Reviewing the campaign as whole.
we are in position to state that DR..
Sheldon counts it as one of the privi-
leges of his life to have been able to
carry it through. Whatever good may
have been accomplished thereby, he de- |
clares it to have been of great per-
sonal benefit to himself. Besides hav-
ing seen most of the beauties of the
four Kingdoms, he has communed with
the supporters of moral and religious
effort, as we'll as purely temperance
reformers, everywhere, exchanged ideas
with every conceivable type of char
acter, it seemed to him-memb ers of |
the British legislature, dignitarieS of