The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-16

and NaShy1lle crossing near Thomas to flag the crossing and that the conductor
 
 everywhere you have made no law that is obeyed except on compulsion.
 The liquor traffic is organizing itself in this nation for fight, the impact of which will shake the land. This fight the Christian church must meet or run away from. and thank God, she can not run away. She must stay and she must fight. She will stay and she will fight as many battles as are necessary to eternally defeat the evil forces and place humanity upon that high plane upon which 1t was intended to rest.
 Hear me, though, if the church fights she will need men, not in heaven but in Birmingham and Alabama and every where. Men in heaven can wear crown but in Birmingham they can bear a cross and earn a crown. The church needs men, men whom the lust for office does rot corrupt and kill. and men of this kind are rarer than you dare think. She needs men who will not lie and men who stand up before a demagogue and damn his treacherous fatteries without winlxing.
 'I sometimes wonder if there are enough of these men to save the steps you peo- pie of Alabama have already taken. The liquor traffic has plotted to tear down what has been done and make the sec ond condition worse than the first.
 "The real enemies of my country are not foreign but they are men who are born of our own environment and who are of our own flesh and blood. And when they come they will not approach with fife and drum, but in subterfuge during the hour of darkness. That Is why this army is to be feared. We do not need a revival of that spirit of bray cry of our forefathers who founded the ration for that Is always with us and needs only tiny flame to set it off. But there are 800 men tonight in Birming- ham holding all of the liberties of good citizens who lack the strength and the desire to abide by the law of the city, and the courage we need Is that of men and women who are willing to bear arms in the name of civic righteousness, men and women who are of strong conviction.
 70, the power of great conviction! Give ne a Christian church in America that has that great strong conviction and in 10 years I will drive the liquor traffic out of this country. The whole trouble lies in the fact that the church today lacks the consecration of which it was born. I mean that there are too many Christian soldiers who are tin soldiers and are good only to make display on dress parade.
 Spring From Hearts.
 ''The responsibility is yours and the challenge for the remedy of this condi- ton lies at your door. The great revival for the enforcement of the law of the land must spring from your hearts.
 II know how easy it Is to say that 1t doesn't affect you. I know how easy 1t Is to say, I let the liquor traffic alone and it does not bother me- But, my friends, 1t does make an eternal, abid- ing fundamental difference to you. Your governor put it very eloquently in his explanation that the liquor traffic does not let alone those who let it alone. I have seen the consequences of the traf- tic fall many times upon innocent wom- en and children and I repeat that Dthe matter is one which concerns you most deeply.
 If 1t was not for womanhood and the little children I would not be here to- night. I would be willing to see the strong manhood of my country fight back against the liquor traffic. But when I see it take its grip among the heartstripgs of womanhood and when I see 1t deprive