The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-28
MRS, ARMOR TELLS
Of HER AWAKENING
GREAT ADDRESS BY GEORGIA
CYCLONE AT MONUMENT
NJ. Il. CHURCH.
SEEMED GODS VOICE
SAYS ONLY NEEDruL THING Is TO
LODGE THE TRUTH OF SCIENCE
IN THE PUBLIC
SEEMED GODS VOICE
by w. M. BICKERS.

Mrs Mary Harris Armor, the great
woman orator Of the white ribboners,
continues to attract large and repre-
sentative audiences and everywhere the
sentiment is that she possesses phe-
nominal powers in cogent reasoning
and lucidity of expression. She reaches
for the intellect and the conscience Of
her audience, IN earnest, but never
fanatical. and there Is no hysterical
vein in her deliveranees.
Last night 'The Cyclone" made a
great address, at Monument Methodist
church. The audience was large and
enthusiastic. Rev. A. B. Sharpe prayed
for the speaker and her organization
Of righteous workers. Professor
Saunders presented the speaker in a
very graceful manner There were two
So Get solos.
Her Experience.
zone day | was aEonizing befoi @
God as l saw how the liquor traffic
cared not for man, nor God. nor Gospel
where there was no law; that there
was nothing in the world good and
pure, IL would not destroy for the
tainted dollars IL would put in It's tills.
and / said. how long, Ont Lord, good
and true. how long? And God spoke
to me these words as plainly as If He
had uttered them, why cryest thou to
me. Speak unto the children of Israel
that they 20 forward"
Then there came into my soul the
profound conviction that God had given
us everything necessary to win the
the determination that this should be
a saloonless nation in 1920.
"And so / am here tonight with only
one burning desire that l may stir the
heart of every man ana woman In this
house who believes in God to get up
and get busy and claim the victory
that God has already decreed."
Her Optimism TArills.
In an optismistic and enthusiastic
vein which thrilled every hearer, she
demonstrated the inoompatibility of
liquor license with popular government
and civil liberty and tore into shreds
the contention that prohibition cannot
be enforced or that It is contrary TO
right Of personal liberty
''why has the liquor trafic got to
go?" Hear me! Because every excuse
that was ever offered for believing in
the traffic or the drink habit has been
exploded by Gods eternal truth in
science; and today absolutely incon-
trovertible twentieth century science
has demonstrated that we have no ex-
cuse to have the beverage sale of liquor
go on than we have to allow cocaine
dens or opium joints.
Just get the scientific truths to the
public and that Is all needful to wipe
out this curse, for the people will not
stand for the liquor traffc when they
understand fully that alcohol Is q
deadly brain poison.
Just so sure as there is a spot in
your brain, wherein resides the power
of sight. the power of speech. there is
a spot in that brain wherein resides
the power of seif-control, of conscience,
of Judgment and In that spot is the
throne of the Deity: and the first thing
that alcohol does Ia to dathrone God,
and when God is dethroned man Is a
beast.
"Ati that man hath will b. giver
for his life. and all that a nation hath
will nation give for its life. and all