The Detroit times., 1912-05-14
REQ LIGHT DISTRICT AND
LAN-DtnInG SALOONS NEED
ATTENTION BEFORE TURKEY
REV. y. t. GALPIN.
Christianizing Constantinople
Less Important Than Blot
ting Out Local Evils
TELLS OF CURSE OF DRINK
Daily Toll of Liquor Is More
Lives Than We're Lost in
Titanic Disaster
TELLS OF CURSE OF DRINK

why try TO christianize Constan-
tinople when the red light district
Is rampant and the saloons Of our
city are defying the supreme court
of the state?" asked the Rev. Fred
eric Tower Galpin, pastor OF the
First Baptist church, in the course
OF an address before the Pastors
nnion, on the social service feature
OF the Men and Religion Forward
Movement, in the Y. NJ. c. A. audi
forum, Monday morning. when the
last monthly meeting of the union
for the season was held.
Mr.. Galpin's reference TO the
christianizing Of ConstantInople was
TO the recent decision CT Detroit
religious workers to maiGtain -Four
n. M. c. A. secretaries In CONSTANT
nople, establishing a branch associa-
ton on each side of the B3sphorus.
Mr.. Galpin tLen went on to speak
or the vices which are affecting the
United States and other countries
He said that statistics showed 1000
lives were being sacrificed daily in
America to strong drink. The toll, he
said, represented a daily Titantic dis.
aster Mr.. Galpin also related that
Jane Adams had reported in the
Men and Religion Forward conserva:
ton congress, recently held in New
York. the deaths OF 1000 girls was
caused yearly in Chicago by the so
cial evil, and that 20 per cent OF them
had been associated In the vice
against their will.
I'm regard to our duty toward these
vices, We are morally colorbilnd,"
said Mr.. Galpin. I'VE don't put social
righteousness under our preaching.
We must attack the dragon just where
he lives and we must get back OF all
those who have the social power and
tell them that certain things must
come to pass"
Mr. Galpin said that 1853 men at.
tended the congress, and he was con-
vinced that the country would be bet
ter for the campaign conducted by
the Men and Religion Forward Move
mcnt
W. s. Power, who was a delegate to
the conservation congress, along with
Mr.. Galpin, also gave review Of the
work OF the Men and Religion For
ward Movement and the congress. He
told OF prominent churchmen in diff
ferent parts of the country being ex-
PEELED from their churches because OF
an investigation showing that they
were renting houses which they
owned for immoral purposes; also how
iuen in police offices were removed
for icing identified with certain forms
of vice. This information, he said,
was given in reports to the congress.
Mr.. Power also related how the
Laymen's Missionary Movement and
the Men and Religion Forward Move
ment had increased the contributions
for missions in most of the churches.
He also made plea for more church
advertising In the daily newspapers,
and urged the pastors TO furnish the
newspapers with more news than they
were In the habit Of giving.
The pastors took UP the question OF
preaching in the streets and parks dur
ing the summer. Reports were pre-
sented, showing that the work accom-
plished good results in the past, and a
number of clergymen spoke in favor
OF continuing the plan. The subject
was finally left in the hands OF the
committee on spiritual work.
Committee chairmen were appointed
as follows: Spiritual, the Rev. N. t.
Hafer; civics and economics, the Rev.
Joseph A. Vance; Sabbath observance,
the Rev. f.. F. Fitchett; anti-saloon,
the Rev. c. w. Brugh