Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-08-05
MRS. SHEPARD SPEAKS TO
LARGE AUDIENCE
ON PEAKS AND VALLEYS"
The Opening Gun of the "Dry"
Campaign of 1910 In Grants
Pass.

There was a large audience at the
opera house on Sunday evening to
hear the lecture of Mrs, Lulu B.
Shepard on Peaks and Valleys" 1t
was temperance talk of the higher
order, and interesting as we'll as
pleasing throughout, Mrs. Shepard
is woman Of ability and stands
high among the w, &. T. U. frater-
nifty, being president of that society
in her home city of Salt Lake. Her
lecture was replete with facts re-
lating to the temperance movement,
not only In the United States but
throughout Europe She said In
part as follows;
l bring to you story tonight of
two great kings, Benhadad and
Ahab II Is found In the twentieth
chapter OF First Kings. | want you
to think OF Benhadad as represent
ing the liquor interests and Ahab as
representing the church Of the Liv-
ing God They had been warning
| for some time and after Ahab's first
defeat of the great Syrian king, who
was too drunk to lead his army,
Benhadad decided that 1t was be-
cause they had been fighting In the
hills and that Ahab's Lord was the
Lord OF the hills, so he planned TO
meet the Israelites In a battle on
the plains, and so prove the Syrian's
mower. But a man OF God appeared
unto Ahab Just before the battle ana
said: Because the Syrians have said
that the Lord Is the Lord OF the
hills and not OF the plains, therefore
will give over to thee all this
mighty army and thou shalt know
that I am the Lord >" The battle
was waged and again Ahab was
given great victory and Benhadad
escaped to the city, where he MD
himself until he could make COM
promise with Ahab.
This story is typical OF Just the
fight we are in today. For years
the temperance people have been
fighting in the hills, taking peak
after peak, but It has all been lead
ing down to this great battle that we
are in today, for we are meeting the
oromv fnce TO face and and are daily
nrovinr that our Lord is the LORD OF
the plains, as well as the NILS.
For the sake Of those who know
40 little OF what the temperance
hosts have been doing In the past
LOT us look at n few Of the peaks that
we have taken. First, we TOOK
Church peak, which was no easy
matter. For 70 years ago the church
of the living God did not stand on
the temperance question as II stands
today Seventy years ago, at all
church conferences and church ded'-
cot,ons. they had not only spiritual
ovorc,ses. but splntuous as well "
vas a common thing to find minis
ters serving liquor in their homes
and a more common thing ior
church members to drink liquor
INIT there has been an awakening
and today every church denon''no-
uon has rs aggressive temperance
committee pushing this work along
IAN lines, and at last the church has
caught step with the Lord Jesus
Christ and II Is going down the line
10 the tune Of Saloons, Saloons.
Saloons Must Co We thank God
that We took Church peak
Then we looked about for another
peak and the salnted Francis VIII
Hard, with her wonderful vision, de-
cldcd that we must take the cdu-
Icntlonal peak So our women began
20 appear at each meeting OF the
state legislature pleading for a
scientific temperance instruction law
which would teach the effects OF
lalrohol and nicotine upon the sys-
tenn of your boy aud my rlrl, for
she realized through this teaching
that Ia time an intelligent voter
along this line would be produced,