THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, APRIL. 8, 1908.
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Rev. Edward L. Ogilby 's
Great Sermon Against
Liquor, Preached in '04
At St. I'eter's Episcopal church on'
.May I 1 :'. Rev. Edward L. Ogilby
i.ciic'.mi u powerful sermon against
Hie saloon evil. TIk- N'evrs published a
i uDiinary of his sermon at that time
and had this to :-ay in the introduction;
to the sermon:
"There was a larcre audience at. St.
IVter's Episcopal church hist niyht
that, hoard with much ijratincatioti the
masterly handling of the saloon ques
tion by Mr. Oi;iiby. lie was temperate
himself in his discussion of the sub
ject, and of course this added much
force to a lecture on temperance. At
the same time he was straight forward
in his nil or condemnation of the saloon
evil and his words to christian people
etui, er iiiii:; their duty in the present
contest in our' eiry was plain enough.
The sermon made a Sine impression.
Titus i: 11 and "'For I lie iirac
of Cod that brin.;;oih salvation haih
appeared to all men. teaching us, thai
donyim" umu .-.Unless and oi!d!. do
sires, we would live soberly, right
eously and :',odly in this present
world."
That branch of fne Holy Catholic
or I'n'u ersal Church of Christ which.
1 represent is Known as the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the railed
States. Her position, or lelation to
popular cpie.'i ions or movenunls o!
the da is o'.teu misunderstood b
many well-un-aniii::, persons.
When our l.onl and Master save hi.
final commission to his disciple.-. II.
i oiiinianded them to ro forth, to all n.t
lions, preaching and lea chins;' His j',s
iel. That, and that only, was n
be their w ork.
Now ihere are zealous people who
thinK the church is not broad and com
prehensive, but narrow and bigoted, ii
she coiilines her work to the teaching
of the tiospol only, wliile the truth
of the mailer is directly the opposite
of that view, for the commission .uiven
by .Jesus Christ is u' the broadest and
most comprehonsh e character. It is
world-wide in its scope, and if the
Church does her duty by it. she has
enough and more to fully occupy her
time ami energy. And so it lias conit
about that our branch of the Church,
authoritatively, as a body no mattet
what individual members here am"
there may do or say. confines herself
to the preaching of the doctrines oi
Christ, the fundamental truths of the
gospel, tints st living to develop and
enlighten the consciences of people
but leaving the individual conscience
to apply these principles and truths tc
the details of its own life. And. as
to wor"k. the Church endeavoring tc
follow tiie example of her Lord and
Master, endeavors to develop a practi
cal everyday Christianity, because she
lirmly believes that Christianity is not
r. i he;' -ry b.r. a life with a steady, con
tinuous growth, and she oxemnlifie
this by her great missionary work both
at home and abroad, and in establish
i ii ii" and maintaining everywhere hos
pitals, homes, asylums and orphan
ages, all of which is . so well shown
lorth in your own city. As to the va
rious humanitarian movements of tin
iay. the Church having taught her
members the fundamental principles
i f Christianity, thus encourages them,
either as individuals or in associations,
to help forward any good work for the
uplifting of their fellowmen. that may
come to their hands to do, and it had
come about that an association ha?
been formed ami organized both in
England and in the country, by mem
bers of our Church, which is known as
the Church Temperance Society, work
ing on the lines of moral suasion, re
striction and total abstinence. Thus
through this society we are in full ac
cord with temperance work every
where, and especially so on the line of
work being engaged in here in this
community, in addition lo the fact that
temperance in all things, being 0110 of
the fundamental truths of the gospel,
is taught and enjoined by the Church.
I hold in my hand a circular, which
reads. as follows:
Church Mission House.
Fourth Avenue and li.Inl St.,
New York City.
"near P.ret hren : The Church Tem
perance Society asks for the setting
apart of a Sunday each year, as the
day when the great subject of temper
ance may be presented to our peoph
If. is scarcely needful that, we urv
the necessity of plainly dealing with
so destructive an evil as intemperance
such a necessity must be obvious; to
all christian men.
"We. therefore, cordially second
their desire, affectionately requesting
the clergy of our several diocese and
jurisdictions to set lorth in sermons
on the day selected the duty of all
christian people in helping to restrain
the monstrous evil which is working
nic'u !i:.rm to the bodies and souls of
men." .
Signed by the presiding bishop of
the Church in America, the lit. Rev.
John Williams,. I). I., and thirty-five
other bishops, including the bishop of
North Carolina.
The limits of an ordinarv sermon
will only permit a general survey of so
large a subject, the consideration of
but few points in detail. We will, how
ever, endeavor briefly to lock into the
relations the individual bears to it.
While legislative and admininstra-
tive efforts should largely bo directed
against the fountain head of intemper
ance, the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors as a beverage, the
individual efforts of professed chris
tions should be directed toward miti
gating the evil effects of the traffic
by personal example, by persuasion,
and the helping hand.
Whatever may be the divergence of
opinion as to legisative methods of
limiting and controlling the liquor traf
fic, all reasonable persons agree that
the saloon, in its present condition
and methods of conduct is a most
dangerous enemy, both to the com
munity and the individual, a serious
menace to society, morality and relig
ion. The liquor traffic is so vast in its
extent that it is difficult, almost im
possible to grasp its magnitude. When
figures go beyond ordinary amounts
it requires a skilled mathematician to
comprehend them.
The statistics of the liquor traffic
are so enormous that the ordinary
mind cannot take in their vastness. As
to quantities, the nations at war could
float their battleships in the flood of
liqr.i.r '.hat is annually poured down the
throats of mankind. The great
amounts in dollars and cents paid out
for the purchase of liquor are but a
fraction of the enormous expense con
nected with the unholy traffic.
Five-sixths of the criminals and pau
pers that occupy ihe time and atten
tion of the police forces, magistrates
and fit her public servants, and that
crowd our prisons, reformatories, asy
lums, almshouses and oilier public
in-
si Rations, are brought to
ii!e condition Ihrough
irink. entuling upon the
trious citizen taxpayers
oil! lay iu money in the
order to keep up and
various institutions, ami
i comparatively small
I heir misera
intoxieauiig sober, indiis
an enormous
aggregate, in
.upport 1 hose
all this that
and legally
:ri iie.:ed
ciass ot
!v benefit
the community may
themselves, through
iie-i'ini ia !
the vile
Then
drink, t
'.OSS of"
i rathe..
again, every dollar spent for
aking into consideration ti-.e
im;', menus mere than a dollar
taken from better food, better clothing
ind better homes for both the drinker
and tiiose dope'idi nt upon him, and all
this enormous waste is to temporarily
exciie and gratify a base carnal ap
petite. Money, time and health
hiown aa with nothing gained in
el urn. bul on the other hand poverty,
li-.oase and misery follow.., in increas
ing ratio, as the time goes on.
litii time will not permit us to go
into the endless details of statements,
s'guros. statistics, and. even if we
iiad the time, where would we find the
space on which to place the figures
;f our statistics?
Take the walls of this church build
ing, inside and outside take the walls
jf all the churches in this city: i '
;he school houses, colleges, city hall,
Histoiliee ami business blocks take
.he long stretches of our great mill
it met ure.-? cover them all with figure1:-;
of microscopic . fineness; borrow the
vast expanse of the blue sky above us,
and cover its space with letters of fire
as numerous as the stars of the milky
way, and still we would fail to reach
rhe extent of the desolation and mis
ery of want and distress of heartches
uid despair, the waste of time and
money, and opportunities for good, the
cries of little children, the agony of
women's souls, the degradation and
ruin of manhood, the despoiling of
womanhood, the blotting out of heaven
from earthly homes oh the list of
Appalling woes is never ending; heart
2annoT conceive., mind cannot grasp
fhe enormity and extent of this hell
born traffic.
The countenancing and legalizing of
his mir't awful damning business, and
he indifference to its results, is a most
terrible arraignment of the peonle of
the land, the citizens of our country,
for fostering and favorable legislating
this principal ally of the devil, and
all for a delusive idea, the license fees
are so much monev gained to the pub
lic treasury.
Xo true follower of Jesus Christ, no
sincere christian, will countenance or
uphold the liquor business in any
term, nut on the contrary will throw
their every effort and influence against
it.
The individual cannot excuse him
self under the plea that it is of no use
to light against it; that it. is a hopeless
task to overcome the evil, impossible
to accomplish its downfall.
One might just as well claim that it
is of no use to fight against evil in
any form; that we might as well close
our churches and disband all organiza
tions that have been formed for Cue
spiritual and moral welfare of man
kind, because inevitable exists in
the w --M.
I toll you. in all soil: l.-nes, my
friends, that Almighty (Jod will surely
hold each and every one of us to a
terrible reckoning some day for all
this district and indirect upholding
and encouraging of these most, aw
ful forms of sin that exist, in our
midst.'
How earnest people, well meaning
people, and professed christian:; can
refrain from constantly raising their
voices and steadily exerting their in
fluence against this gigantic curse, is
ast comprehension.
If yen can persuade good men to
start in the right direction, it is not so
difficult to them to advance gradually
from one vantage point to a higher po
sition. Our Church Temperance Socie
ty does well to include these two lines
of work, as the two branches of its
organization.
Lei no one differ on these points,
but let. us all work together in the
same direction, doing our plain duty
as christians, with all the energy and
power we possess, and as fellow sol
diers in different regiments advance
on the same road to meet our common
enemy, an enemy ever alert, always
unscrupulous, more treacherously dead
ly than any other foe like the dragon
of mythology, striving to satisfy its
insatiate appetite with the nation's
heart blood. Oil let us stand up brave
ly, shoulder to shoulder, to fight to
a finish this common foe of our com
mon humanity.
Brethren, you have the weapon, the
elective franchise; you have the am
muntion, the ballots. Then I beseech
you to w-e them righteously; with
them you can drive Satan's greatst al
ly, the saloon, from your midst. With
the ballots silently falling from your
hands you can obliterate the hell
borne traffic as the snow-flakes falling
on the earth blot out the unsightly
THE JUMPING OFF PLACE.
"Consumption had me in its grasp;
and I had almost reached the jumping
off place when I was advised to try
Dr. King's New Discover y; and I want
to say right now, it saved my life. Im
provement began with the first bottle,
and after taking one dozen bottles I
was a well and happy man again,"
says George Moore, of Grimesland, N'i
C. As a remedy for coughs and colds
and healer of weak, sore lungs and for
preventing pneumonia New Discovery
is supreme. 50c and $1.00 at Woodall
& Sheppard's, druggists. Trial bottle
free.
1
things, leaving nil the land-scape fair
and white 10 loot- upon.
With your ballots driving out the sa
loon you can take one great step in
tdvance in the welfare against intem
perance, one great stride in cont roll-
ing the deadly traffic
putting
in
position where it can be :
t etii .1 n' 'V
from the grossly selfish interests,
whose greatest object and effort is to
ever increase the output of the liquid
damnation.
And now I can do no better., in clos
ing my discourse, than to quote the
burning words of Hon. Henry W. Gra
dy, that comprehensive writer, that
elonuent orator, that brilliant exponent
of the sterling young manhood of the
New South, as he uttered them
m one
before
of the last speech.es he made
his untimely death, a speech in
he most forcibly renounced the
traffic.
Each separate count in his
which
liquor
indict
ment is true, and each count is in itself
a 'sufficient reason for annihilating the
cursed things. Listen to his words:
"Tonigmt the demon alcohol enters
an humble home to strike the roses
from a woman's cheek, and tomorrow
it oha'le-nges this republic in the
hands of congress. Today it strikes
the last crust of bread from the lips
of a starving child, and tomorrow it
levies tribute from the government
itself. There is not a cottage in this
city humble enough to escape its dead
ly approach, no palace strong enough
to shut it out. It defies the law when
cannot coerce-suffrage: it is flexible,
io cajole, but merciless in victory. It
is the moral enemy of peace and or
der, the despoiler of men, the terror
of women, the cloud that shadows
the faces of little children, the de
mon that has dug more graves, and
sent more souls unsaved to judgment
that all the pestilences that have wast
ed life since Almighty God sent the
plagues to Egypt, and all the wars that
have ravaged the earth since Joshua
stood before Jericho. It comes to ruin,
and it. shall profit mainly by the ruin,
of your sons and daughters.
"It comes to mislead human souls.
and to crush human hearts under its !
rumbling juggernaut wheels; if comes j
to bring gray-haired mothers down in j
shame and sorrow to their graves; it I
comes to change the wife's love into
despair and her price into shame; it
comes to still the knight or on the lips
of little children, and stifle all the mu
sic of the home, and till it with si
lence and desolation; it comes to ruin
men in body and mind and wreck their
home", forever, and it knows it must
measure its prosperity by the swift
ness and certainty with which it de
stroys humanity."
Brethren, though the eloquent lips
of Henry W. Grady are cold and stiff
in death, yet they speak to you again
this night as forcibly and as plead
ingly as of yore. Oh will you not heed
them and act upon them in the holy
cause ot right and justice.
Of ye men of this fair Southland,
will you not rise in the courage and
true bravery and upright manhood and
strive to wipe out this dark blot that
is upon the civilization of today.
I tell you plainly that on you rests
the awful responsibility of these most
terrible consequences of this hellish
da.tion and ruin, all the sorrow, misery
and want, the awful cost in treasure
and lives, is all brought right back
to each one of you, for you with your
ballots, either license it to continue
its hellish work, or you restrict and
control its worst features by elminat
ing the saloon, and thus put Ihe traffic
in a position where you can hope to
so regulate if, that it will not be such
a terrible and successful drunkard ma
ker. Again I say that the fight against
the liquor saloon and intemperance is
a holy and righteous cause, which ev
ery Christian man and woman should
engage in. Oh ye christian voters, en
list in the tempeance army, let your
term of enlistment be until the end
of the war. It is a present day army
whose banner can well be the blended
folds of the stars and stripes and the
stars and bars, with the cross of
Christ on the top of the flagstaff. Fight
bravely and valiantly for God., your
county, your homes, your loved ones,
and when the fight is won and the de
mon foe is vanquished let the South
ern yell and the Northern hurrah
blend together in one grand harmon
ious cheer of victory. Alleluia, Amen.
oqcningaon yvbgk qj bgkq xzfiflffzfi
jno Mamie, dear, it is doubtful if
even a fishmonger could scale a prison
wall.
mill
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to be in a highly satisfactory condi
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and finances.
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