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Show 4 HE CLOSED HIS SALOON". Then Handed the License to Hi3 ' M Pastor. For a week Fathers Purke. Murphy and Devine of the Paulist fathers in New York have been holding mission services in Morristown, N. J. Thursday and Saturday nights were devoted especially es-pecially to temperance work. Father Burke is one of the most gifted orators of the Paulists. He It , was who led the temperance services. ' James Lawless, who has made $100,000 as a saloonkeeper, attended the services ser-vices on Thursday evening, and was greatly impressed by Father Burke's ! scathing denunciation of the liquor business. On Saturday night Lawless was one of the first to enter the church. When Father Burke began to speak, denouncing de-nouncing the traffic as that of satan. Lawless listened intently, while his features worked with .emotion. With . . him was his wife, and she was as deep-y deep-y stirred. When the service was over, Lawless vent directly to his saloon. It wa3 illed with the usual Saturday night -rowd. Lawless walked behind the bar ' ' ' nd addressed his customers. ; "You must all get out of here," he -w i aid. "I'm never going to sell another ' Jlrop of liquor as long as I live. I'm ' done, with it, and you'd all better take my advice and get through with it, too." ;, The crowd was too sumrised to. move. They looked at Lawless, and f the old man's stern face told them ( that he meant what he said. Then ' they riled slowly out. Lawless turned to the back of hi3 . bar and tore the framed license from ' ' the wall. He had paid $."j0O for it just two weeks ago, and it entitled him to continue his business for fifty weeks longer. With the license under his arm he ! . locked up his saloon and went to the home of Father Flynn. the rector of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption, where the mission services are being held. There he found Father Burke. "I've given up my business., father." 1 hi told the priest, "and in proof that I I mean it, here's my license." |