Show PROHIBITION HER TAEME 1 Miss Ada Murcutt Discusses Liquor Traffic NOTED TEMPERANCE WORKER Miss Murcutt Who Is a Resident of Melbourne Australia is Lecturing Under the Auspices of the W C TIT T-IT and is an Entertaining Speaker She Says That Missionaries and Ruin Aro Being Sent Together to tho Heathen Natives Liquor Evil in Manila I < Under the auspices of the Womens Christian Temperance union Mrs Ada Murcutt of Melbourn Australia who la traveling In this country in the Interest In-terest of the temperance cause delivered deliv-ered a very able address last evening at the Congregational church Miss Murcutt was introduced by Mrs E 13 I Shepard and took for her text tho tlveuty first verse of the fourteenth chapter of Romans It Is good neither lo eat flesh nor to drink wine nor any thing whereby thy brother stumblpth or Is offended or Is made weak The speaker referred to the mission oC Christ as stated by himself to seek and to save the lost She said strong drink was a stumbling block in the way that it was directly responsible for 90 per cent of the crime misery and degradation deg-radation of the socalled Christian countries In England America and Australia it filled the prisons the almshouses alms-houses and the Insane asylums and by the law of heredity as laid down In the Bible the sins of the drunken parents par-ents were visited upon the children even to the third and fourth generations genera-tions The best way to reach the lost the outcasts under the very shadows of our beautiful churches and stately cathedrals ca-thedrals was to remove that stumbling block Strong drink had made Chris + tlunlty a reproach and a byword among socalled heathen nations MISSIONARIES AND RUM Missionaries and rum are sent to the heathen at the same time and the heathen believe they always accompany accom-pany each other In the case of the Philippines Miss Murcutt said strong drink got head for after the battle of Manila fourteen carloads of whisky were sent there In one shipment the largest ever sent from the United States before The liquor she said was shipped before any missionaries were sent and there were now 160 saloons sa-loons in Manila against two before It was not surprising that the Chinese didnt like missionaries after tho way the drink and opium traffics had been forced on them by the nattons who send the missionaries The wonder was they allowed any missionaries thereat there-at all The Influence of the moderate drinker the speaker said was wore than that of the drunkard for the reason rea-son that everybody despised dru kurds k-urds of whom 160000 die In the United States every year The responsibility for all the evils of strong drink Miss Murcutt said rested with every person per-son who had a vote The only way to stop the evil was to stop the traffic The voters could do it the church people peo-ple could do it for they hold the balance bal-ance of power Miss Murcutt in clost Ing emphasized this very strongly During the service Prof RadcUffe presided at the organ and Miss Emily C Jessup In fine voice sang a solo Forgiven |