Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-17
REV. JOHN F. COWAN CHOOSES
TEMPERANCE AS SUBJECT FOR
STIRRING CONVENTION ADDRESS

and feather him and ride him on a
rail; they wiI blot his name from the
book of their political rememhrances
and bring him ten thousand miles deep
into oblivion. | hope. the churches
will serve notice on the future dele
gate. before this meeting closes. that
Washington without any shifting or
trucking or half-heartedness.
When this amendment is passed,
what then? Is our duty done? No!
The fight against intemperance will
be only starting. Splendidly begun;
hopefully begun, but to educate and
train up a generation Of temperate
men and women. who will, as Francis
Murphy used to say. have each his
prohibition law between his nose and
his chin. makes it the duty of the
church to provide temperance instruc-
ton. .-
BY far the most important part OF
this instruction is the temperance ed
ucation of the children. The late S.
P. Cafen, president of the American
! board. used to say: Catch man
and you have won unit but catch a
boy and you have the wohle multiple
cation table"
On Nov. next the Worlds Tenn
perance Sunday school lesson will be
before the thirty millions of Sunday
school workers Of the world. The sub
iect is, Sowing and Reaping." Every
minister and every Sunday school
teacher will then have a duty to dis.
charge on the liquor questionable
duty CT teaching all the 1924 children
in the Sunday school the strongest
possible lesson on the evil effects of
! strong drink To fail to teach this
lesson is to default in duty.
would suggest, in this connection.
that the Sunday school leaders coop.
crate with Dr. Wadman of the Anti.
| Saloon league, who Is doing a splen.
did work among the children of Ha-
] wall in behalf of pledge-signing which
he follows up with the organization
of Loyal Iegions, in which the chill.
| dren are banded together for work
that will deepen and make more lasting
the impression of pledging themselves
not to touch, taste or handle the un.
clean thing. -...
Not many months ago I had a com.
munication from Mr. Eshhorn, the en-.
tomologist of the experiment station,
Honolulu, asking me if I could dis
Tribute some parasites for destroying
the fruit fly and the horn fly. About
that time, dozens, maybe hundreds, OF
small glass bottles were sent to vari.
ods persons. all over the islands con.
tanning such parasites. with the un,
lderstanding that they were to be re.
leased in places where there were
fruit flies or horn flies, with the pur.
pose of destroying and eventually ex
terminating these pests. The duty OF
levery one receiving these parasites
was to set them free where they would
prey upon and destroy the fruit fly
You would say of man who failed
to use this remedy for the fruit fly
that he failed in his duty. :
The parasite with which we hope to
lovercome the liquor evil is the Bible
temperance instruction God has given
to the church to use The duty of the
church is to apply it. The most pow
erful agency in the world is the truth
IT is to evil and error what the sun
light is tn disease germs-give it free
play and it kills and annihilates. The
duty Of the church and Sunday school
lis to teach Bible temperance.
i a generation or two of temperance
will surely correct the errors and
weakness of alcohol, and clear the all
and give us nation Of men and won
en- who understand that alcohol is q
dangerous and deadly drug, and that
licensing its sale is most damaging
and awful mistake. -. g..
I have not time to sneak of many
things of the duty of the church tc
discipline Of its members who in any
way may drink, or sell or make al
Icohol. 49,.