1900
Rev. Frederick W. Farrar, Dean of Canterbury, in a recent article on "Temperance Progress in Great Britain," said: "Whatever progress there has been, a stupendous work still remains to be accomplished. Not for one hour, ought we to relax our efforts to save the world from this clinging curse, from this master-engine of the devil's malignity. Would that God might send us some great prophet to awaken us out of our spirit of stupor and to arouse our hearts and consciences as with the crash of thunder ere it be too late!"
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 18.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Right to Restrict Alcohol Traffic
1900
The Interior says: "If a man say he has a right, in the exercise of his personal liberty, to get drunk, and the dealer to sell to him if he wishes to buy — very well, so he has — but the community has violable interests in the transaction, and has a perfect right to protect them. The rapid increase of the traffic makes it certain that drastic, repressive measures are necessary to the protection of the most valuable civil interests of the people."
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 21.
The Interior says: "If a man say he has a right, in the exercise of his personal liberty, to get drunk, and the dealer to sell to him if he wishes to buy — very well, so he has — but the community has violable interests in the transaction, and has a perfect right to protect them. The rapid increase of the traffic makes it certain that drastic, repressive measures are necessary to the protection of the most valuable civil interests of the people."
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 21.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
THE CHURCH AND THE SALOON.
Text: "For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?" 2 Cor. 6:14, 15.
I. As to the church. What is it? The word is ekklesia; that is, "called out." The church is an association of persons called out of the world to perform definite service for God.
1. It is not a holy club.
2. It is not a social coterie.
3. It is not a company of truth seekers. We are not seeking truth; we have found it.
4. It is not an ethical society. We are not casting about for a system of morals. Our moral code is in the Bible.
5. The church is a great living organism through which God is working for the tearing down of evil and the building up of truth and righteousness on earth. The emblem of our service is the sword and trowel. What is the sword for? To make war on iniquity. What is the trowel for? To build up all forms of goodness on earth; to lay grace upon grace, as the mason lays stone upon stone, until our world shall be a temple fit for the Holy Spirit to dwell in. Thus with sword and trowel we clear the way and rear the fabric of the Kingdom of God.
II. As to the saloon. What is it? A definition must be an indictment. It is the focal expression of almost everything evil.
1. It is an enemy of man.
2. It is an enemy of the home.
3. It is the worst enemy of the State. On last election day I took occasion to make the round of the polling places in the lower part of New York City. I saw scores of sovereign citizens staggering to the ballot box. Here is the Gibraltar of evil politics. Are there witnesses to verify this indictment? Aye, thousands of them reeling about our streets. See them issuing from the dram shop; mark their flushed faces; their shuffling gait; see them as they pass by hiccoughing down to death.
Are more witnesses needed? Let the wives and children of this drunken multitude pass by. Oh, these sad-eyed, pale-faced women; God pity the drunkard's wife; and his little children, ill-clothed and hungry, shrinking from the pointed finger and the taunt, "A drunkard's child!"
More witnesses still? Let me stand by the doorway of one of our multitudinous dive, and hear the laughter of lost womanhood. The evils which are wrought in this place of infamy are scarcely to be spoken of in this presence. But inmates and patrons alike are devotees of Bacchus.
Is more evidence needed? Let us pass through the corridors of our prisons. Here are thieves, murderers, and wrongdoers of every sort. Chief Justice Coleridge says more than eighty per cent of all these commitments are due to strong drink. Put one of our daily newspapers in evidence; cast your eyes over the police reports. What is it that nerves men to deeds of shame and violence?
There are criminals of many sorts and degrees, but the rum-seller is the criminal of all criminals; for it is scarcely beyond the bounds of simple fact to say that he is the maker of them all.
Still farther. Let us visit our insane asylums. See these poor demented creatures, driveling idiots, raving madmen. It was long ago that a wise student of human nature exclaimed: "Alas, that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains!" It is stated that seventy per cent of the inmates of our lunatic asylums have dethroned their reasons by inebriety, or else are paying by inheritance the penalty of parental indulgence.
Or pass through our poorhouses. Many of the paupers are old before their time, watery-eyed and decrepit through drink.
Or go through the potter's field. Oh, what tragedies of pain and sorrow lie hidden under these grounds! Here are men who struggled vainly in the grip of habit and died in drunken frenzy; here are wives whose life was starved and beaten out of them until they were laid out for their burial in borrowed shrouds; here are little children whose fathers were so impoverished by drink that not enough was left to purchase a meager four feet of earth to lay them in.
III. Now as to the relation of the church to the saloon. We have seen that the church is an appointed organism through which God is building up truth and goodness on earth. We have seen that the saloon is the practical expression of nearly all that is iniquitous among men. How shall the two stand in relation to each other? Or what in these premises is the church to do?
1. It can choose to do nothing. It can supinely fold its hands and say: "The saloon has come to stay." God save us from that cowardly sophism!
2. The church may sanction the saloon — that is, license it. The word license is from the word licet, which in the original is an impersonal verb meaning "it is permitted;" but brought over into the English tongue it becomes intensely personal and means "I permit it." And that is the meaning of a vote for license — "I permit it." What is it that we permit? The dram shop is authorized to do what?
3. The church may undertake to sanction the dram shop — that is, throw the cloak of ecclesiastical help and comfort over it. That is the last proposition which, in certain ecclesiastical quarters finds favor. It is incredible that so preposterous a thing should be seriously proposed. The saloon is totally bad; it has done evil and only evil all the days of its life.
4. There is but one other attitude which the church may assume, namely, it may antagonize the dram shop to the uttermost. War to the knife and the knife to the hilt! No quarter! There are thirty continuous miles of saloons in the City of New York, and every red light that streams from them marks an open mouth of hell. What can the church do but antagonize this thing? What shall ministers do but denounce it? If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what shall the suffering people do? Let us befriend the drunkard and the drunkard's wife and children, and defend them from their foe. Let us not undertake to cleanse what has been proven in the nature of things to be essentially unclean. Let us not lay a blessings upon that which God has cursed. We must needs do our best and uttermost to rescue the dram-seller from the error of his way, to break the chains of the inebriate and set him free; to heal the wounds of the poor and helpless whom the drink horror has stricken down. But as to that unmitigated evil — the dram shop — we can offer naught but bitterest enmity. The vow of Cato, "Carthago delenda est," must be ours. No quarter to the dram shop! The thing must die, because it is accursed of God. — D. J. Burrell.
I. As to the church. What is it? The word is ekklesia; that is, "called out." The church is an association of persons called out of the world to perform definite service for God.
1. It is not a holy club.
2. It is not a social coterie.
3. It is not a company of truth seekers. We are not seeking truth; we have found it.
4. It is not an ethical society. We are not casting about for a system of morals. Our moral code is in the Bible.
5. The church is a great living organism through which God is working for the tearing down of evil and the building up of truth and righteousness on earth. The emblem of our service is the sword and trowel. What is the sword for? To make war on iniquity. What is the trowel for? To build up all forms of goodness on earth; to lay grace upon grace, as the mason lays stone upon stone, until our world shall be a temple fit for the Holy Spirit to dwell in. Thus with sword and trowel we clear the way and rear the fabric of the Kingdom of God.
II. As to the saloon. What is it? A definition must be an indictment. It is the focal expression of almost everything evil.
1. It is an enemy of man.
2. It is an enemy of the home.
3. It is the worst enemy of the State. On last election day I took occasion to make the round of the polling places in the lower part of New York City. I saw scores of sovereign citizens staggering to the ballot box. Here is the Gibraltar of evil politics. Are there witnesses to verify this indictment? Aye, thousands of them reeling about our streets. See them issuing from the dram shop; mark their flushed faces; their shuffling gait; see them as they pass by hiccoughing down to death.
Are more witnesses needed? Let the wives and children of this drunken multitude pass by. Oh, these sad-eyed, pale-faced women; God pity the drunkard's wife; and his little children, ill-clothed and hungry, shrinking from the pointed finger and the taunt, "A drunkard's child!"
More witnesses still? Let me stand by the doorway of one of our multitudinous dive, and hear the laughter of lost womanhood. The evils which are wrought in this place of infamy are scarcely to be spoken of in this presence. But inmates and patrons alike are devotees of Bacchus.
Is more evidence needed? Let us pass through the corridors of our prisons. Here are thieves, murderers, and wrongdoers of every sort. Chief Justice Coleridge says more than eighty per cent of all these commitments are due to strong drink. Put one of our daily newspapers in evidence; cast your eyes over the police reports. What is it that nerves men to deeds of shame and violence?
There are criminals of many sorts and degrees, but the rum-seller is the criminal of all criminals; for it is scarcely beyond the bounds of simple fact to say that he is the maker of them all.
Still farther. Let us visit our insane asylums. See these poor demented creatures, driveling idiots, raving madmen. It was long ago that a wise student of human nature exclaimed: "Alas, that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains!" It is stated that seventy per cent of the inmates of our lunatic asylums have dethroned their reasons by inebriety, or else are paying by inheritance the penalty of parental indulgence.
Or pass through our poorhouses. Many of the paupers are old before their time, watery-eyed and decrepit through drink.
Or go through the potter's field. Oh, what tragedies of pain and sorrow lie hidden under these grounds! Here are men who struggled vainly in the grip of habit and died in drunken frenzy; here are wives whose life was starved and beaten out of them until they were laid out for their burial in borrowed shrouds; here are little children whose fathers were so impoverished by drink that not enough was left to purchase a meager four feet of earth to lay them in.
III. Now as to the relation of the church to the saloon. We have seen that the church is an appointed organism through which God is building up truth and goodness on earth. We have seen that the saloon is the practical expression of nearly all that is iniquitous among men. How shall the two stand in relation to each other? Or what in these premises is the church to do?
1. It can choose to do nothing. It can supinely fold its hands and say: "The saloon has come to stay." God save us from that cowardly sophism!
2. The church may sanction the saloon — that is, license it. The word license is from the word licet, which in the original is an impersonal verb meaning "it is permitted;" but brought over into the English tongue it becomes intensely personal and means "I permit it." And that is the meaning of a vote for license — "I permit it." What is it that we permit? The dram shop is authorized to do what?
3. The church may undertake to sanction the dram shop — that is, throw the cloak of ecclesiastical help and comfort over it. That is the last proposition which, in certain ecclesiastical quarters finds favor. It is incredible that so preposterous a thing should be seriously proposed. The saloon is totally bad; it has done evil and only evil all the days of its life.
4. There is but one other attitude which the church may assume, namely, it may antagonize the dram shop to the uttermost. War to the knife and the knife to the hilt! No quarter! There are thirty continuous miles of saloons in the City of New York, and every red light that streams from them marks an open mouth of hell. What can the church do but antagonize this thing? What shall ministers do but denounce it? If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what shall the suffering people do? Let us befriend the drunkard and the drunkard's wife and children, and defend them from their foe. Let us not undertake to cleanse what has been proven in the nature of things to be essentially unclean. Let us not lay a blessings upon that which God has cursed. We must needs do our best and uttermost to rescue the dram-seller from the error of his way, to break the chains of the inebriate and set him free; to heal the wounds of the poor and helpless whom the drink horror has stricken down. But as to that unmitigated evil — the dram shop — we can offer naught but bitterest enmity. The vow of Cato, "Carthago delenda est," must be ours. No quarter to the dram shop! The thing must die, because it is accursed of God. — D. J. Burrell.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Trumpet Calls — Sentence Sermons
1896Ram's Horn Sounds Warning Note to Unredeemed
Wine opens the damper to let all the fires of evil in a man burn.
God sends danger only where he has first sent courage.
To love an enemy is a sure way to please Christ.
A brewer's horse fares better than a drunkard's child.
Bridget starts her fire with coal oil. The devil uses alcohol.
The man who does not look ahead will soon have to fall back.
There is no sign that a man inflamed with drink may not commit.
Every moderate drinker is leading an army of boys toward the pit.
If we not hear God to-day, he may refuse to hear us to-morrow.
Appetite for drink is the devil's iron chain on the drunkard's neck.
The easiest time to let drink alone is before the first drink is taken.
It is when we are most helpless that Christ is most willing to help us.
The sparkle in the wine is made by one of the devil's sharpest teeth.
It is a long step toward heaven to be born in a home where Christ is loved.
One of the hardest things for some men to forgive is a difference in creed.
The man who serves the devil has to begin his day's work before breakfast.
Many a man puts his family in the dark to help the saloon pay its gas bill.
Many a man has started out to reform the world, and stopped at the first house.
The devil has gained his point when he convinces us that little sins work no ill.
The man who begins by drinking some time may end by having to drink all the time.
No man can grind down another without first placing his own soul under the millstone.
The Christian should never complain of his hard fortune while he knows that Christ is his friend.
If you would teach children to hate drink, give them the first lesson before they leave the cradle.
The man who has not decided that he will never drink, has more than half decided that he will drink.
When a man gets up early in the morning to drink, he is apt to spend the day in doing nothing else.
Our money is not doing us the good God would have it do us, if it is not doing anybody else any good.
If you are in the habit of going to sleep in church, you do not help the preacher any by occupying a front seat. — Ram's Horn.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Liquor Thrown Away After Conversion
Pennsylvania, 1896
A novel scene was witnessed at the North East saloon, East Patrick street, Frederick, yesterday. Wm. L. Gilbert, the proprietor, last week professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church during revival services.
On Saturday, Gilbert, who says he intends leading a moral life and to assist others to do so, informed his pastor that he was offered $150 for his liquor license and the stock of goods on hand, and while he was desirous of waging war against the traffic yet he was sorely in need of funds for the support of his family.
Sunday Rev. Mr. Zimmerman set forth the case of the new convert to his audience in the City Opera House and requested that the amount be raised to start the young man in a more legitimate business. The sum was soon raised, and yesterday afternoon Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, accompanied by a committee, proceeded to Gilbert's saloon, and in the presence of a crowd of several hundred people loaded two barrels of liquor, a keg of gin and a slot-machine on a dray, and driving out on a lot on the gas-house road, dumped the liquor into a hole.
Gilbert, who is 27 years of age, has been a member of several different churches and also of the Salvation Army.
—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Jan. 24, 1896.
A novel scene was witnessed at the North East saloon, East Patrick street, Frederick, yesterday. Wm. L. Gilbert, the proprietor, last week professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church during revival services.
On Saturday, Gilbert, who says he intends leading a moral life and to assist others to do so, informed his pastor that he was offered $150 for his liquor license and the stock of goods on hand, and while he was desirous of waging war against the traffic yet he was sorely in need of funds for the support of his family.
Sunday Rev. Mr. Zimmerman set forth the case of the new convert to his audience in the City Opera House and requested that the amount be raised to start the young man in a more legitimate business. The sum was soon raised, and yesterday afternoon Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, accompanied by a committee, proceeded to Gilbert's saloon, and in the presence of a crowd of several hundred people loaded two barrels of liquor, a keg of gin and a slot-machine on a dray, and driving out on a lot on the gas-house road, dumped the liquor into a hole.
Gilbert, who is 27 years of age, has been a member of several different churches and also of the Salvation Army.
—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Jan. 24, 1896.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
He's Still Active At 88 As Editor
Iowa, 1909
D. N. Harris, editor of the Missouri Valley Times, is 88 years old and active and vigorous in his work. All his life he has remained in the work, and he shows no signs of wearing out.
In a recent issue of his paper he gives a few words in explanation of why he is still with us. They are modestly uttered, but nevertheless filled with valuable information. He remembered his creator in the days of his youth and has kept right along at it and so, according to the promise, he is living long in "the land which the Lord the God giveth."
This is the way Mr. Harris says it: "We are asked, almost daily, how we manage to retain our good health and apparent youth to the good old age of 88 years. We have no particular formula for extending life, but think it is more the goodness of God than any effort of ours. We recognize the law that gives the life of man to three score years and ten (70 years), but for cause may be extended.
"We have always taken good care of No. 1. Have lived temperate, having been a member of every temperance organization from the Washingtonians way back in the '40s down to the Good Templars, so you see that excluded intoxicating liquor from our use. We neither smoke nor chew tobacco and for many years, just before retiring at night, we drink a bowl of hot lemonade and go to bed and sleep as soundly as an innocent babe. We have never had a rheumatic pain, and while it may not be from our way of living, is certainly worth a trial. We divide our time into three equal parts, going to bed at 10 p.m., and rising at 7 a.m., and attend to business during the balance of the time. We married at 23 years of age, raising ten children, all now living.
"This is our life, good or bad as it may be, and if worthy of trial, try it. Remember, we do not say this manner of life will prolong your life, but we do say we are 88 years old, well and hearty, and willing to try it for 40 years longer."
D. N. Harris, editor of the Missouri Valley Times, is 88 years old and active and vigorous in his work. All his life he has remained in the work, and he shows no signs of wearing out.
In a recent issue of his paper he gives a few words in explanation of why he is still with us. They are modestly uttered, but nevertheless filled with valuable information. He remembered his creator in the days of his youth and has kept right along at it and so, according to the promise, he is living long in "the land which the Lord the God giveth."
This is the way Mr. Harris says it: "We are asked, almost daily, how we manage to retain our good health and apparent youth to the good old age of 88 years. We have no particular formula for extending life, but think it is more the goodness of God than any effort of ours. We recognize the law that gives the life of man to three score years and ten (70 years), but for cause may be extended.
"We have always taken good care of No. 1. Have lived temperate, having been a member of every temperance organization from the Washingtonians way back in the '40s down to the Good Templars, so you see that excluded intoxicating liquor from our use. We neither smoke nor chew tobacco and for many years, just before retiring at night, we drink a bowl of hot lemonade and go to bed and sleep as soundly as an innocent babe. We have never had a rheumatic pain, and while it may not be from our way of living, is certainly worth a trial. We divide our time into three equal parts, going to bed at 10 p.m., and rising at 7 a.m., and attend to business during the balance of the time. We married at 23 years of age, raising ten children, all now living.
"This is our life, good or bad as it may be, and if worthy of trial, try it. Remember, we do not say this manner of life will prolong your life, but we do say we are 88 years old, well and hearty, and willing to try it for 40 years longer."
The Story of Samson
1915
The story of Samson bulks large in the book of Judges and in the interest and imagination of all men ever since his day.
Every race has its superman, and usually it is one of physical strength. That Samson had no physical evidence of his superior strength is evident from the fact that Delilah asked to know his secret. Nor was his strength in his hair, else there was no need that the "Spirit of Jehovah" should come upon him. The secret of his power is indicated in Judges 13:25, "And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times..." The word "move" suggests to play upon a harp, as if Samson's heart was open to God as a harp is open to human touch. As one said, "Samson's power was the result of a faith that was open to the infinite storehouse of the divine dynamic." Such spiritual power is within the reach of every man.
Samson ("sunny") was full of laughter; not the comic, but the joyous. He did the big things God gave him to do and was filled with gladness. But Samson came under the spell of an evil woman and all of this true laughter and glad joyousness left his soul. The laughter heard in the haunts of sin has lost its buoyancy, is forced, is different. is that of men whose hearts are unclean.
Samson's Impurity. A woman can make or mar the man with whom she associates. As a Nazarite, Samson was dedicated unto God, must not allow a razor to touch his head, was not to touch anything unclean, nor drink intoxicating liquor. This vow was usually for a short period. Samuel and John the Baptizer are other Nazarites recorded in Scripture, and are said to have been such from birth. Samson's strength burned out when he lay his forehead in a harlot's lap and the laughter went out of his soul. It was that which broke the contact between him and God. Samson's birth in a godly home, his knowledge of his relation to God not keep him from an ignoble failure. He left the atmosphere of God's spirit for that of sin.
Samson's Imprisonment. We find him after his excesses grinding in the Philistine prison, where he perhaps overheard praises being sung to Dagon who had overthrown Jehovah's judge. It is never safe to play with temptation though conscious of our own strength; then it is we are most apt to fall (1 Cor. 10:12). One act and the gay hero is grinding in a prison house. Directly a man goes into impurity, whether in act or thought, he loses the power that formerly moved men or worked wonders. Year after year Samson plodded his round of enforced toil, a type of the force and power of intemperance and other impure habits. During these years he doubtless put his hand upon his head and said. "My hair is growing again." and it gave him courage to believe that God would yet give him another chance.
Finally, "when their hearts were merry" (Judges 16:25), he is brought out to make sport. During one of his resting periods he said to a boy near by. "Let me feel of the two pillars," those upon which the main walls rested and which were within a man's reach. Then it was that be was able to grip the mysterious power of the unseen. Was Samson a suicide? No! He accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his act of duty (see Heb. 11:32.)
The growth of his hair was only a token of that consecration which he had surrendered when he failed to withstand the wiles of Delilah.
The story of Samson bulks large in the book of Judges and in the interest and imagination of all men ever since his day.
Every race has its superman, and usually it is one of physical strength. That Samson had no physical evidence of his superior strength is evident from the fact that Delilah asked to know his secret. Nor was his strength in his hair, else there was no need that the "Spirit of Jehovah" should come upon him. The secret of his power is indicated in Judges 13:25, "And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times..." The word "move" suggests to play upon a harp, as if Samson's heart was open to God as a harp is open to human touch. As one said, "Samson's power was the result of a faith that was open to the infinite storehouse of the divine dynamic." Such spiritual power is within the reach of every man.
Samson ("sunny") was full of laughter; not the comic, but the joyous. He did the big things God gave him to do and was filled with gladness. But Samson came under the spell of an evil woman and all of this true laughter and glad joyousness left his soul. The laughter heard in the haunts of sin has lost its buoyancy, is forced, is different. is that of men whose hearts are unclean.
Samson's Impurity. A woman can make or mar the man with whom she associates. As a Nazarite, Samson was dedicated unto God, must not allow a razor to touch his head, was not to touch anything unclean, nor drink intoxicating liquor. This vow was usually for a short period. Samuel and John the Baptizer are other Nazarites recorded in Scripture, and are said to have been such from birth. Samson's strength burned out when he lay his forehead in a harlot's lap and the laughter went out of his soul. It was that which broke the contact between him and God. Samson's birth in a godly home, his knowledge of his relation to God not keep him from an ignoble failure. He left the atmosphere of God's spirit for that of sin.
Samson's Imprisonment. We find him after his excesses grinding in the Philistine prison, where he perhaps overheard praises being sung to Dagon who had overthrown Jehovah's judge. It is never safe to play with temptation though conscious of our own strength; then it is we are most apt to fall (1 Cor. 10:12). One act and the gay hero is grinding in a prison house. Directly a man goes into impurity, whether in act or thought, he loses the power that formerly moved men or worked wonders. Year after year Samson plodded his round of enforced toil, a type of the force and power of intemperance and other impure habits. During these years he doubtless put his hand upon his head and said. "My hair is growing again." and it gave him courage to believe that God would yet give him another chance.
Finally, "when their hearts were merry" (Judges 16:25), he is brought out to make sport. During one of his resting periods he said to a boy near by. "Let me feel of the two pillars," those upon which the main walls rested and which were within a man's reach. Then it was that be was able to grip the mysterious power of the unseen. Was Samson a suicide? No! He accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his act of duty (see Heb. 11:32.)
The growth of his hair was only a token of that consecration which he had surrendered when he failed to withstand the wiles of Delilah.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Church Notes — "Down with the Saloons"
Ohio, 1912
Second M. E.
Corner Center and Blaine streets, Rev. A. H. Roebuck, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., William Rank, Superintendent; H. N. Henney, Assistant Superintendent. Lesson, "Wanderings in the Decapolis," Mark 7:31-37. Is Bible study worth while? Then come and spend an hour with us in that study. The Rechabite's teacher, Rev. Roebuck, wants to meet all members at the meeting. Let this be the banner collection class.
Morning service, 10.30 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, "Victory In Jesus." Let the inspiration of the Holy Spirit be within all.
Epworth League, 6:00 p. m. The lesson will be on temperance and let every one make it a talk and song service for the cause. Will Rank will serve as leader.
The evening service will be what we make it to ourselves. Down with the saloons and up with the white rose of purity. Preaching at 7:00 p. m., by the pastor.
A business meeting of the Epworth League will be held Tuesday, at 1:00 p. m. A nice program will be rendered and all members of our league and of all other young people's societies are invited to attend.
—Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, OH, Oct. 26, 1912, p. 4.
Second M. E.
Corner Center and Blaine streets, Rev. A. H. Roebuck, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., William Rank, Superintendent; H. N. Henney, Assistant Superintendent. Lesson, "Wanderings in the Decapolis," Mark 7:31-37. Is Bible study worth while? Then come and spend an hour with us in that study. The Rechabite's teacher, Rev. Roebuck, wants to meet all members at the meeting. Let this be the banner collection class.
Morning service, 10.30 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, "Victory In Jesus." Let the inspiration of the Holy Spirit be within all.
Epworth League, 6:00 p. m. The lesson will be on temperance and let every one make it a talk and song service for the cause. Will Rank will serve as leader.
The evening service will be what we make it to ourselves. Down with the saloons and up with the white rose of purity. Preaching at 7:00 p. m., by the pastor.
A business meeting of the Epworth League will be held Tuesday, at 1:00 p. m. A nice program will be rendered and all members of our league and of all other young people's societies are invited to attend.
—Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, OH, Oct. 26, 1912, p. 4.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Buckeye Self-Sharpener Lectures Crowd on Temperance
Ohio, 1845
"Hallo! Merchants, clerks, grocers, landlords, bar-keepers, loafers, and drunkards — come up." Such was the exclamation made by an individual who stopped in the middle of the street last Thursday afternoon.
A crowd immediately gathered around, out of curiosity to see what 'crazy loon' it was that should interrupt the tranquility of our street. But curiosity was shortly turned into downright pleasure, for it was soon discovered that it was no other than Mr. Fiester, the Buckeye Self-Sharpener, the great Temperance Lecturer.
He lectured to an audience of some 50 or 60 for about an hour, meeting with some opposition from two or three persons who were evidently enjoying the bliss of being 'three sheets in the wind,' and who were unwilling to have their rights and privileges attacked in such a sudden and unexpected manner.
Mr. F. lectured in the Methodist Church that evening to a crowded house, and the next day in the afternoon, to the Temperance Convention, which happened then to be held. — X. Y. Z.
—Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1845, p. 3.
"Hallo! Merchants, clerks, grocers, landlords, bar-keepers, loafers, and drunkards — come up." Such was the exclamation made by an individual who stopped in the middle of the street last Thursday afternoon.
A crowd immediately gathered around, out of curiosity to see what 'crazy loon' it was that should interrupt the tranquility of our street. But curiosity was shortly turned into downright pleasure, for it was soon discovered that it was no other than Mr. Fiester, the Buckeye Self-Sharpener, the great Temperance Lecturer.
He lectured to an audience of some 50 or 60 for about an hour, meeting with some opposition from two or three persons who were evidently enjoying the bliss of being 'three sheets in the wind,' and who were unwilling to have their rights and privileges attacked in such a sudden and unexpected manner.
Mr. F. lectured in the Methodist Church that evening to a crowded house, and the next day in the afternoon, to the Temperance Convention, which happened then to be held. — X. Y. Z.
—Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1845, p. 3.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Not Many Reverends Buried in Our Cemetery
Warren, Pennsylvania, 1877
— Rev E. F. Crane, will preach in the Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon and evening next, at the usual hours. He is from Little Falls, N. Y., and the understanding is that he will be secured permanently.
— It is related of a clergyman who received a call to a pulpit at Warren, R. I., that in investigating the question whether previous pastors had been kept for many years, he went into a graveyard and finding that no clergyman were buried there, declined the call.
— We doubt if "Rev." is engraved on many tomb stones in our cemetery. The pulpits of Warren, Pa., have been occupied by men of the best ability in the country, but we have kept them so well that they have always found it necessary to leave here to die.
— Titusville is convulsed with a temperance revival. Temperance is the absorbing subject among all classes.
— Over five hundred persons in Tidioute have signed the temperance pledge.
— The temperance revival widens and deepens every day. It is generally understood that "wine is a mocker and strong drink is" ten cents.
— Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle has a hard job on hand. He goes to Harrisburg soon, thinking to reform that town with a Republican legislature in session.
— "If you have sixty-six winters on your head, you have also sixty-six summers in your heart." The above remark, made by an elderly gentleman, the other day, has enough poetry in it to make it worthy of record.
— There were nine persons added to the Presbyterian Church last Sunday on profession of their faith in Christ. The church now numbers about 280 members. If each individual of this large number should, during the coming year, bring one other person to Christ; and should those thus brought influence others in the same way, how soon would the scripture, "and all shall know Him from the least unto the greatest," be fulfilled in this town. The Sunday School counted, on the last Sabbath, 265, visitors not included. There are six adult Bible classes containing in the aggregate about seventy persons.
—Warren Ledger, Warren, PA, March 22, 1877, p. 3.
— Rev E. F. Crane, will preach in the Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon and evening next, at the usual hours. He is from Little Falls, N. Y., and the understanding is that he will be secured permanently.
— It is related of a clergyman who received a call to a pulpit at Warren, R. I., that in investigating the question whether previous pastors had been kept for many years, he went into a graveyard and finding that no clergyman were buried there, declined the call.
— We doubt if "Rev." is engraved on many tomb stones in our cemetery. The pulpits of Warren, Pa., have been occupied by men of the best ability in the country, but we have kept them so well that they have always found it necessary to leave here to die.
— Titusville is convulsed with a temperance revival. Temperance is the absorbing subject among all classes.
— Over five hundred persons in Tidioute have signed the temperance pledge.
— The temperance revival widens and deepens every day. It is generally understood that "wine is a mocker and strong drink is" ten cents.
— Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle has a hard job on hand. He goes to Harrisburg soon, thinking to reform that town with a Republican legislature in session.
— "If you have sixty-six winters on your head, you have also sixty-six summers in your heart." The above remark, made by an elderly gentleman, the other day, has enough poetry in it to make it worthy of record.
— There were nine persons added to the Presbyterian Church last Sunday on profession of their faith in Christ. The church now numbers about 280 members. If each individual of this large number should, during the coming year, bring one other person to Christ; and should those thus brought influence others in the same way, how soon would the scripture, "and all shall know Him from the least unto the greatest," be fulfilled in this town. The Sunday School counted, on the last Sabbath, 265, visitors not included. There are six adult Bible classes containing in the aggregate about seventy persons.
—Warren Ledger, Warren, PA, March 22, 1877, p. 3.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Temperance Work and Sunday Closings Encouraged
St. Augustine, Florida and Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1911
Dr. Badger's Good Work
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record recently contained the ensuing pleasant item respecting the labors of Rev. Dr. A. S. Badger in that city. The article is headed "Splendid Sermon at Memorial":
"Upon the subject of temperance in the morning and "The Abandoned Farms of New York and New England" in the evening the Rev. Alfred S. Badger, D. D., pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church, delivered strong and interesting sermons at both morning and evening services yesterday. Yesterday was World's Temperance Sunday and his temperance sermon in the morning was most interesting and forceful and was also a scholarly resume of the temperance movement from its inception to the present day. His evening sermon brought forth forcefully the good that can be accomplished by co-operation."
Sunday Closing in Florida
Rev. A. S. Badger Relates Interesting Incident of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 13, 1911.
Editor Freeman: —
I see that Mayor Love is seeking to make Waukesha a city of law-abiding people. I would like to take his hand and encourage him.
One of the elders of my church is mayor of this city. He has insisted on obedience of the law. Not long since he was absent over the Sabbath and the saloons opened for business on that day; so the city editor of the St. Augustine Evening Record stated at my Christian Endeavor meeting last evening, which he was leading. On the following Monday the police court calendar contained a long list of cases of drunkenness, disorderly conduct, etc.
On the mayor's return he closed the saloons absolutely on Sunday and on the following Monday there was not a case before the police court.
It is with this incident I would shake hands with the mayor.
Fraternally,
ALFRED S. BADGER.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 6.
Dr. Badger's Good Work
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record recently contained the ensuing pleasant item respecting the labors of Rev. Dr. A. S. Badger in that city. The article is headed "Splendid Sermon at Memorial":
"Upon the subject of temperance in the morning and "The Abandoned Farms of New York and New England" in the evening the Rev. Alfred S. Badger, D. D., pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church, delivered strong and interesting sermons at both morning and evening services yesterday. Yesterday was World's Temperance Sunday and his temperance sermon in the morning was most interesting and forceful and was also a scholarly resume of the temperance movement from its inception to the present day. His evening sermon brought forth forcefully the good that can be accomplished by co-operation."
Sunday Closing in Florida
Rev. A. S. Badger Relates Interesting Incident of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 13, 1911.
Editor Freeman: —
I see that Mayor Love is seeking to make Waukesha a city of law-abiding people. I would like to take his hand and encourage him.
One of the elders of my church is mayor of this city. He has insisted on obedience of the law. Not long since he was absent over the Sabbath and the saloons opened for business on that day; so the city editor of the St. Augustine Evening Record stated at my Christian Endeavor meeting last evening, which he was leading. On the following Monday the police court calendar contained a long list of cases of drunkenness, disorderly conduct, etc.
On the mayor's return he closed the saloons absolutely on Sunday and on the following Monday there was not a case before the police court.
It is with this incident I would shake hands with the mayor.
Fraternally,
ALFRED S. BADGER.
—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 6.
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