Evening journal., 1914-04-03
DR.. WATT SOUNDS
SUFFRAGE note
IN HIS REPORT
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arc suffering almost untold injury from
the border counties on the Maryland
side of our little state. Large quantities
of liquor are shipped to nearby Mary
land towns. and carried by autos into
Delaware, and distributed over the two
dry counties. We have some good
friends in the Maryland Legislature,
none more courageous and true than the
apple king Of the Eastern Shore. the
Hon Orlando Harrison, member oil
this church.
Convert 10 Anti.SalOOn League.
! cannot forbear in this connection TO
speak a word of commendation of the
Rev. W. G.. Poole who has. according 20
promise. delivered the Delaware Anti.
Saloon League from an unsavory debt.
a debt that hung like a pail over lovers
( Of honesty a well as sobricty. Let a
good word be spoken also for the Rev.
Cyrus p. Keen, superintendent Of the
Eastern Shore Anti-Saloon League. And
/ what of the organization represented bv
these enthusiastic and cself sacrificing
young meny ! record it as my deliberate
conviction, the more so in that I have
dor thirty years. been Third Party
( Prohibtionist, that this organization is
tho "way out" say this the more
emphatically in that my motives have
been impugned, my actions severely criti-
ciscd aud my party loyalty questioned.
because / am convert to the view here
Expressed. We need the Church Temper
snce Society, the Good Tcmplars. the
Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Soci-
ety. and We have not vet seen the day
when VIC could dispense with the Pro
lhibition party.
Pastoral Activities.
One OF the really notable pastorates
lis that OF the Rev. Oren l.. Rice at
Pomona. Rev. T. \. Given has brought
fairlee charge up to high watci
mark, exceeding the record of some oi
lthe ablcst young men among US AZ
clayton Rev. G. II. Neese has seen the
church improved spiritually and ma.
iterially, the membership of a hitherto
lnormal-sized Sabbath school more than
doubled, and one of the largest anC
most enthusiastic Baraca classes in Tho
State. At Ridgely, under the super
ntendencv OF Mrs. William T. Hab
bart, the wife of the pastor. there is a
Junior League of over 100 members
Ridgely. under Brother Habbart's sec
ond pastorate. is distancing all previou.
records Townsend had large anticipa
ltions at the beginning of Brother Burr.
pastorate and they have been more thar
'realizod in exceptional success in all di
lrections. If there is charge on thi
! district where greater relative success
! T.
with Brother SmOot hard at it. ] do no
! know where il is. Brother j. w. Pretty
man at Rock Hall, has seen the member
ship doubled during the past two years
The hcrosm of the Rev. David J. Moor
, at Queenstown, has touched my heart
in the midst OF an appalling epidemic o
= scarlet fever that closed one OF hi
churches for three months. this youn,
man tarried by the stuff. uncomplainini
and undisnayed, and the report of hi
work is the best for years. Anothe
p man who has wrought valiantly an
with gratifying success is the Rev
Harry Taylor, pastor of Crump'o
. charge. The Rev. y. H. DerricLsou
70 lclosing FIVE years Of marked progress j
r. all directions. Church Hin was nero
- better served in its long history. an
g when allowance is made for the tW
C churches that were. taken of ther
p years ago Brother Derrick-on has ad
- 1anced the benevolent offerings 50 pc
!. cent. during his pastoratc. a record (
e be proud of surely Owing to the goo
k natured but incessantly persistent ei
8, forts of Rev J. A. Brewington, the at
= Tendance of the Sabbath schools ON Boz
b man charge has been trebled, and th
work of the charge is prospering fnel,
G Brother w Y. Gunby has put Easto
= lwhcre it can become one OF the ont
standing churches in the conference.
One of the most cheering signs of th
). times is the awakening that has com
= 10 our community life in its relation I
I things spiritual And IN the midst c
% the dispensation of the favor OF tl
Lord" Easton district has not been pass