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Show DR. DOUGLASS. The Fearleaa Preacher of Montreal and Ills Southing AaUrou. The Rev. Dr. Douglam, pi rsldent of the Wodeysii Met hodist ool lego of Montreal, has turned loose nn the wealt hy and titled sinners of that city in a stylo that hat frightened the timid, enraged the suspected and cauuvi the hair of the prudbb to stand ou end like quills upon the fretful porcupine, lit an address Imfore the White C'ruNi society so-ciety of .Montreal ho attacked tho ofllcials of Canada and the city, the theatres and the wealthy classes. Much that he said caunot bo reproduced in a family paper, hut bore Is his reference to Langtry in tho play of "(' nolle:" " Who is Caniillef An abandoned woman, a social outcast, a French prostltut. In the denouement of the play this social wreck Is prnted in enamored dalliance Willi lillo and reek law do-baucbea do-baucbea The drama Is spiced with that infamy of the Kreuch language, lan-guage, wis) double entendre, full of all salacious suggestion, sugges-tion, and then, veiltol in couleur do rmte, we have the bitter finale of the so called woman of pleasure, in which the rubicund aitruss pales her luce wiui wane na. nouoLAsa. p,mder, array, herself her-self iu a white robe, reclintw voluptuously on a couch, simulates the ugoidxnd gupiuga of the consumptive, and in the villutu'a arms miniiclu the expiring groan when, lot your dowager duciirsN-a'of dillVreiit purl of thin city draw forth their perfuinwl handkerchiefs and wipe their weeping eyes oyer this burlesque bur-lesque of grim death itaclf. But thine same dm heesHS have no compawiloii, no tears, for the scores of Camllles that lauguiah in the city honpitttl." Turning next to the ofllclal, be anid: "Look at the meu that liave Iweri elected to our council and civic chair. Thia clly has dueled men from whose koines virtue Iim fled, men who have sought to introduce the Ottoman seraglio into our country, men whoae lives were a ierpotual defiance of the seventh canon of the decalogue. Thine men, whose immorality was flared in the vory fai- of heaven, have cotue forward again and again, aud have been elected and re elected until it would seem as If vice itw-lf iu this city of Montreal were one of the credentials for high olllee. "And look at tin men that our city council have appointed to ollicial positions companions compan-ions of tho fat, the dubious, tho flashy; poker player sot to catch gamblers; men in whoso ollieo is tho underground telegraph to kignoluui the bagnio when raids are to he made." lie then impeached the voter of "abnego-tiun "abnego-tiun of moral oiicrimination." a nhraw) t w tion of moral oiicrimination," a phraan to r-mlnd r-mlnd au Amorlcun of aoiue recent high official offi-cial remarks in bis own happy Uml; told tbetu they bad elected members of parliament parlia-ment and supported minuter iu office wlejao forehead bore t he ap-xaly ptlc mark of the beast, and, eominj as hour fi naming one man as he couid without actually doing an, to id: "Tell me of the buccaneer of tho Hpaniiih main; telimeof the very men that gambled fen- the scnmlc-sa coat Of the cru-itld Son of (Sod; 1 would sooner truot inooteuio ut the hands of any or all of these than with your Kleok, oleiiginouit and iKilih"d anuinlrelii t liat float alwut In society, on of whom, on Beaver Bea-ver Hall Hill, under (Kids sunlight, in response re-sponse to tha Inquiry for a registry ofllia, conducted a poor country girl to portals in- I fnrnal, whera ahs wa only savwl by the warning and compaosirni of the k'f-r, who haI more mercy than the K''d"d fiend." Jjotailing a jiwuliaily atrocioiia ram he gave the congregate i a clear idm of the man aimed at by th'n wor): "And where Is the villain who baa wrought thia ruination! Where) Welcomed luUi tiie al'riof St. pntii and Rherbr'ike atreeU, wh iak in g around the 'laughter of weaith In the revolting proximities arid the serni n'jilo indelicacies of the walu and polka, fiu .nation .nat-ion the feminius heart like as tiie inrt i faacina'd by the devouring flame. Kacinat-ing? Kacinat-ing? Yea; all the mor lecaueof the lrk romance that 1 whirred about that 'Charlie is a little fast, you know.' " And thus extracts proamit only the mikiit j part of the address. It wa acarcely nvav. j ary for the reporter to aId that the. is "sensatiou in Montreal. " Put no one baa ventured to bring suit, and Ilr. Douglas ia I still "among the most influential preachers i in Canada.'' |