The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-02

DR.. Charles M. Sheldon Writes
Of Conditions There.
T0PEkAN WELL RECEIVED
He Was. rendered Public Wei
come at Aukland.
Started for England the Fore
Part of September.

War excitement as been intense In
New Zealand according to an interest
ing letter received by the State journal
from DR.. Charles NJ Sheldon, who was
booked for addresses in all parts OF the
British possession in the interests OF
national prohibition. The letter was
written at Auckland. August 70. 1t
reads as follows:
these are very exciting times in
New Zealand. l enclose clipping news
photograph of the Dominion Contln-
gent, 2. 900. just ready to leave Tor Eng
land this week. Patriotism runs h1gn.
Nothing but war talk is heard. At every
public meeting audiences sing, Goa
Save the King The 1900 men are made
up of all classes. One Y. M. &. A.. mas
lost fifty Of it's members from one small
town. Business men, university ST. -
DENTS lawyers. ministers sons, WORKING
men, enlist in the same line.
For National Prohibition.
MY meetings will take me from one
end Of New Zealand to the other' anu
into twenty-five towns. At our 1i cso
meeting in the town hall We had 1000
people. I am speaking in the interest
of national prohibition for New Zea-
land. They already have secured my
five per cent of the voting popuialon
who favor it. but by a recent vote o.
the legislature must have sixty per
cont This legislative act was carried
SSHt- his
.It is spring here now. By the time
we get home it will be fall in the United
states We shall be glad to see the
Stars and Stripes again
DIR. Shcldon's Welcome.
DR. sheldon was enthusiastically
received in Auckland. An Auckland
paper had the following to say OF a
public welcome rendered the noted
Kansan:
DR.. Sheldon was rendered public
welcome last evening in the town hall.
the mayor of Auckland presiding.
After the national anthem had been
sung. the chairman. in welcoming the
distinguished visitor, said the 1sOla-
ton of New Zealand, separated as 1t
was by leagues of ocean from the
great heart Of the world, was we'll
broken when gentlemen from larger
countries came to tell them of the
great movements in the cause of hui
mainly.
DR.. Sheldon was received with great
applause. He said he took the hearty
welcome, not to himself but to the
country from which he had come.
Next October it would be just 104
years since Napoleon began his re-
treat from Moscow. and when the
great Russian winter gripped his army
the soldiers found the loot they were
carrying to be Of no value. Only food
and fire were essential. DR.. Sheldon
said his object was to talk about the
great things OF life. One was the fed
Grafton Of the different denominations
to unite in social work. The days of
preaching denominationaNsm and
creed we're passing away. People
were beginning to realize the enor-
nous waste of wealth and energy in
the different denominations. They
must unite to work for the abolition
of vice and drink.
Tomorrow morning DIR. Sheldon will
preach in Pitt Street Methodist church,
and speak in the Y. M. c. A. hall in
the afternoon. He will preach in the
Beresford Street Congregational
church in the evening. and an after
church meeting will be held in the
Kings theater. when the total amount
of the collection will be devoted to the
patriotic war fund. There will be a
young peoples rally in the tabernacle
on Monday evening. and the doctor
will hold his farewell meeting in the
town hall on Tuesday.