DR. HENRY'S MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 3

DR. HENRY'S MISSION.

A great audience gathered in the ■iown Hall last night to hear Dr. Henry's acjdress on the drink evil. It was suggested by Rev. XII." He did not claim that there was.any reference to the drink question in that .passage, but, ho said,' the evils wrought bj Ihu -habit and trafne in liquor could not be more expressively presented. The greatest problem in Christendom to-day was the. drink problem with its manifold ramifications. Drink was the first and worst foe of Christians, tho supreme ' enemy of. the Church. It was doing more to disrupt tho family, to destroy .boys and girls, to debase men and women than any oth*r single thing. Viewed from tho standpoint of the home, of society, of finance, of morality,, of spirituality, it was tho most pronounced, inveterate, resource* fnl foe with which the Church has to. contend. From seven-eighths to nine? tenths of tho crime of the country was traceable directly or indirectly to the influence of liquor. Statistics wero given 'from. high authorities in England and America in support of these facts. Dr. Henry claimed that the Church should bo clean, that the alcohol should bo tbanished from the ordinances of God's House. The Christian Church had' no right to enter into partnership with the publican. The nation licensed.the liquor-, seller, back of the 'liceuso was-tho'peo-plo's permission; tho' people who gavo permission shared the responsibility with the seller.. Every church should have a civic conscience. The. church .ought, to. ■be tho home of clean politics, ought to offset and nullify the power of the saloon.' It was as.much a Christian man's duty. ,to vote for Jesus Christ as to pray to Him.' As'much his duty to staud perpendicular for God' in civic life as in the prayer meeting. The local Christian church was on earth for the development of public sentiment, against an and vice... The call for Christian citizenship was as imperative as the call for prayer. .'The late'.Archbishop Temple declared that it was'.to him the greatest mystery that any Christian man could see the horror and evil wrought by strong drink and bo unconcerned about it. Moral conviction was. the basis of spiritual .power, and real revival cpnldn'f come till tho Church got right on this question. God's cure for ■ this evil was the same as for all sin, the power of Christ's sacrifice «-", perienced, l, believed, and lived out in life.

During the evening Mr. Potts sang "Memories of Mother."

The'mission will be continued to-day, when ,a groat children's demonstration will he held at i o'clock, and the usual meeting in the hall at 8. '