Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03
Doing North
Did His Pal
Offers Positive

and then the next, and so on. She'd
be long time getting fire at that
rate. But If she got a piece of an old
newspaper and laid it nicely in the
CRATE, and then put the sticks on top
of it. and then the coal on top of that.
and then lit the lot together she'd soon
have as nice fire us II minister could
want to toast his shins at.
Boys, says /. you're dry now, but
you'll be dricr on Friday night and I'm
going to light you all together on that
night Mt half-past s.
We'll. they agreed to come at last
and | went home and l think l never
prayed as hard rs l did between that
Tuesday and that Friday. On the
great night when was sitting in my
study, waiting very ncrvously, I'll ad-
init. | heard n knock at the door and
! ran out and there was my brave John
Elliott with his five men. l can tell
you was glad. took them In and
we prayed together. and | gave them
the pledge that l had devised. This
is it:
80 For God ana home and native land
/ hereby promise to abstain from all
alcoholic beverages, and to get as many
others as | can to do the same
SECRET OF IT ALL
THAT last clause is tho secret of It
all. / gave those men something To
do and before they left the house
made them all promise to como back
the next Friday night With six more
men.
II had an anxious week and about
SIS there was knock ana there was
John Elliott alone My heart went
down. Your reverence, he asked,
what time did you say We We're to
Gomez
"Come ut once john / sald,', ana
he ran across the road and back he
comes with II men. Every man of the
lot had caught his pal. Next week
there We're 81 men in my study aud |
don't believe there ever was such an
other gathering iii the study Of a min
lister Ct the gospel. some of the big
gest blackguards ana boozers ana
drunllards in the town were there. one
of them hadn't been sober for 20 years.
except six months that he was in jail.
| gave them the pledge and there and
then we founded the Armagh City FRO
testart Total Abstinence Union. When
we grew 4 little bigger we changed the
city to county and then we dropped the
first two words OF the title altogether,
ana n month ago we had over 1870 600 en-
rolled members. After that we met IN
the school room attached to my church
Il
meetings Time was when | wouldn't
give the pledge to a drunk man. Now
! Will and gladly. Some OF tho triest
men | have took the pledge when they
were drunk And what n time we
had Every man who took my pledge
went out to catch his pal, and bring
him in, and II his pal was a drunk
on blackguard. so much the better. a
month after we started met n fellow
4.
holiday and asked him what he thought
Of 1t.
"'Ill tell you what think, Pater-
SON he said. when | went away
couldn't walk up the street to my house
without having my eyes and ears Of
Tended by tho sight and sound OF n
dozen drunken blnsphomins vngabonds.
When ! came home | walked up the
same way and didn't see ~ drunken
man or hear an oath. That's what 7
think of IT."
Since those days Mr., Paterson has
spoken In nearly every town In tho
north of Ireland ana in severa! In Eng
land and Scotland. Theirs Is hardly
n town or village In Down. Armagh
and Antrim that have not branches and
most OF the towas in Tyrone, Loncoi.-
derry. Donegal and Fcrmanagh have
also representatives. I asked Mr., Pater-
son what the concrete result Of the
movement on the linuor trade was, but
he declared that he couldn't give any
figures Az usual. however, he told n
story to Illustrate his nolnt
BIGGER BUTCHERS BILLS.
"a follow minister he said. went
into a workingmnn's cottage in a small
town in County Down and he said to