THE REV. DR. LUCAS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4155, 4 July 1892, Page 2

THE REV. DR. LUCAS.

Visit to Masterton.

The Eev. Dr. Licas, of Canada, who is now on a lecturing tour to Nei? Zealand in the cau ig of temperance, commenced a raits on in Mauterton yesterday, when lie gave addresses to crowded congregations in the Wesleyan and Presbyterian Churches, and in the Theatre Boyal. The Bvv. gentleman is a native of Canada and is a minister of the VVesleyan Church, He ia, in physique, a fine specimen of the Canadian race—tall, stout-built and powerful, with force of character .and mental capacity clearly written upon hia massive brow. As a lecturer he is somewhat out of the common. He ia cot possessed of that flow of eloquent language ind oratory which one would expect to find ia a Doctor of Divinity, neither isaa ho these gentle attributes of the ordinary9ver"yday Wesleyan parson. But he has a rough and ready style, h outspoken ill ail he says, apt ib illustration, and distinctly American in his address. There i$ up. nijnpujg matters with him. What he guests and galau r lates to ba right he has no hesitation ia udywating, and he reckons if people don't Bee things as he does, well, they ought tOf He is apparently about fifty years of age, and has done. good work in the J promotion of the cause of temperance in this ahij th§ adjoining colonies, The Prat of his addresses van givert on Sanday moaning in the Presbyterian Church, when for fully »n imi;-? he discoursed upon the duties o? Christians, urging, bis hearers to .devote their whole energies to the extension of the kingdom of Christ, and impressing upon them the necessity fpr reoogniaing the pvincipie of ail and .dependence, in the afternoon & njeetmg was held in the Theatre Bo|&i, when an ahpropriate addrsas »as given to the builcW attending the various Sabbath Schools. At seven o'clock in the evening the Eev gentleman entered the pulpit of the Wesleyan Church and for another hope expounded the Holy Word, penetrating tha hpkrta of his hearers w>ih his impresßjW thongfx sfroplo home-thrusts, . At 8.80. o'clock in address on "The Ultimate Success « tha Temperance Causa" wta given in tha Tliejftre Boyal, the braiding being c-owded in every part- - Tha [lecturer dwetfc at length Ujpoo the degrading influence of the drink tnfficJillustrating his remarks by thrilling incidents which Ilgilgflnie tinder hif personal observation, andfimprsgsirigupon iiis hearers th# posMbiliiy of overcoming the evil, ventured the opinion that before the

&Xt century was reached Prohibition would have obteinsd fcjs® tagfcf) apd brfltfth of Hew gealsail. for'Wr p,n bojirbp pgpupied tbe glsiforjjj, now railing (jow geeat : wW4 ba tba fall of Baeelias, tb© 3od af Wbaa. tbe» jwfailng'to tmuupcem olf Fiohibition ia America, ant! conelaSiog by reviewing tha progress-i lasde in the causa tbronjsfiaijt the 'world, (taring tbs p#jfc few years. Mis jfcditei teas iutereisiing and imp rgggive and was listened to attentively ibroagboat. .; I'.VBr. Luess tsetares to-aiglit in tbc Weslsyaa Cbtueh on. the <sulrject, 'f' 3fcKnb? Uf or Sbusubf Dowa," *