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words, j-ou may be sure. I think we sang 

 a hymn they were all familiar with; but it 

 happened so many years ago that 1 cannot 

 fully remember. I do remember, however, 

 asking permission to kneel in prayer; and 

 I prayed most earnestly, not only for all 

 my Sunday-school scholars who were pres- 

 ent, but for the brewer himself, his wife, 

 and for his family; and I prayed, too, that, 

 for the sake of the wife and family, if for 

 no other reason, the fatlier miglit be in- 

 duced to engage in some business that 

 would be beneficial to his fellow-men in- 

 stead of being harmful. Forty 3'ears ago 

 strong drink had not made the havoc here 

 in Ohio that it now has. When winter 

 weather came I told the cliildren there 

 would be a Sunday-school every day all 

 winter. If nobody else came I would be 

 there aloiie, and there was quite a little 

 rivalry as to wlio would stand by the teach- 

 er. They were, a great part of them, Ger- 

 mans, and they had a German name for a 

 Sunday-school teacher, but I cannot recall 

 it now. 1 think I said at that conference 

 mentioned (in the foregoing part of this 

 talk) that if a Sunday-school was started 

 and kept up long enough it would do away 

 with the liquor business in Abbeyville, es- 

 pecially if the liquor trade did not hold 

 out the longest and kill the Sunday-school; 

 and I never lost faith; but it took eight 

 lonrj years to starve out the brewery for 

 lack of patronage. When the brewer quit, 

 the two stores also gave up the ti'affie; and 

 a good woman who has charge of one of 

 the stores told me a few days ago there 

 had never been, to their knowledge, drink 

 of any kind sold in Abbe_yville during the 

 forty years that liave gone by; and yet it 

 was all done quietly in the line of " peace 

 on earth and good will to men." I wonder 

 if our Sunday-schools in Ohio are waking 

 up to their privileges and opportunities 

 just now. Are they recognizing the respon- 

 sibility that rests on them in this crisis'? 



Some years ago a saloon was started on 

 an island down in the Ohio River. They 

 believed that, by getting off on that island, 

 they would be outside of the pale of the 

 law; and when the place got to be a stench 

 for both Ohio and Kentucky, some good 

 man or woman started a Sunday-school 

 there; and, if T am con-ectly informed, like 

 the other place mentioned, the Sunday- 

 school came out ahead. 



Xow, in view of the facts given above 

 and in these pages during the pa.st few 

 months, is it a possible thing: that any voter 

 in Onio, especially one who keeps bees and 

 reads GLrAxrN-r,.s, will vote wet? God for- 

 bid. Not onlv our Sundav-schools but our 



churches, our day schools, our high schools 

 and colleges, all places of learning, our 

 physicians (at least the progressive ones), 

 our manufacturers, our railway companies, 

 our penitentiaries, our asylums, our alms- 

 iiouses of every sort, demand a higher ordei' 

 of manhood and womanhood where " safety 

 tii'st " and " safe and sane " are the rule. 

 All of these mentioned above are agi-eed in 

 regard to the damaging effect of strong 

 drink on humanity — even moderate drink- 

 ing. Ts it a possible thing, dear friends, 

 tliat the bad people in Ohio, or perhaps I 

 had better say the had voi^rs, shall outnum- 

 ber the good"? If the women, the mothers 

 of our land, could be allowed to vote, there 

 would certainly be no question; and that 

 explains why the liquor party are fighting 

 female suffrage tooth and nail. May God 

 hasten the time when the mothers and fa- 

 thers sliall all have a voice in making and 

 enforcing the laws of Ohio and of the whole 

 L^nited States. 



• THE RIGHT TO BE BORN' SOBER, WITH A 

 SOIWn MIND AND A SOUND BODY." 



In an address in behalf of good government, de- 

 livered at Minneapolis on August 22, ex-Congress- 

 D)an John J. Lentz, of Ohio, put it this way: 



" We ought to concede tK) our babies the right to 

 be born sober, with a sound mind and a sound body, 

 rather than defef^tivo because of the alcoholism of 

 their parents. They have the right to be born iu an 

 environment that will not deliver them to reform 

 institutions in early manhood and womanhood. We 

 quarantine against cholera and smallpox. Isn't it 

 more important to protect our babies against alco- 

 holism ? " 



IMy good friends, is not the above good 

 sound common sense? and will not making- 

 Ohio dry in November go a long way to- 

 v.'ard bringing it about ? 



STRAWS SHOW WHICH WAV THE WIND 

 BLOWS. 



And by the way, friends, there are quite 

 a immber of straws floating about that 

 indicate pretty surely the direction of the 

 l)revailing wind. Read the following, which 

 I clip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



VOTK.S OtTT ONLY SALOON ; ARCADIA, OHIO VILLAGE, 

 RKFL'SES TO SANCTION BAR. 



FiND/.AY. O., Sept. 28. — The only .saloon that has 

 1'ieu permitted to exist in Hancock County the past 

 seven years was voted out today at Arcadia by a 

 majority of twenty-eight. The saloon was started in 

 that village two weeks ago, and it is said it had a 

 ru.,li trade from Findlay and other near-by dry 

 points. 



The <!aloon would have been vot«d out the first 

 week of its existence, but the council would not 

 meet to accept the petition of the drys. 



Vou see the people there were hum- 

 bugged by the "home-rule" proposition; 

 and no doubt that one saloon did a rushing 

 business, as we are told, until public indig- 

 nation got up to such a point that th^ 



