The Battle Creek Daily Journal reports a temperance meeting recently held in that city, as follows:
The meeting at the Methodist church last evening, was quite fully attended, notwithstanding the intense heat and prospect of a heavy storm. The great feature of the meeting was 'the intense earnestness of purpose and determination to continue the great work of saving our fellow men from the "pestilence that walketh in darkness, and, the destruction that wasteth at noon day."
S. H. Morley called the assemblage to order, and the meeting was opened by prayer by Rev. W. W. Holloway.
Mr. C. C. Peavey said he saw no occasion to relax our efforts; that the foe was ever on the alert. So long as we see drunken men reeling around our streets and going home to the suffering wife and family, to destroy their happiness, just so long was there need of work.
Mrs. Ellen G. White being present, was called upon, and made some interesting remarks upon the progress of the temperance cause in California. The temperance reform was a part of their life work, and they had aided it in every way and on all occasions. Intemperance was at the bottom of all sin. She gave an interesting account of the immense audience which daily and nightly filled the mammoth Advent tent at Oakland, and the great success that crowned the temperance movement in that city, which was the Athens of California. At Oakland the temperance ticket was carried by 250 majority, at Brooklyn by 50 majority, and the good work was going on in other parts. She said we should all strive to do our utmost in this great work. She had seen the great evil everywhere in her travels from Maine to the Golden Horn, and she felt that we must use every power and influence possible to stop the tide of sin and misery. She advised all to help in the good cause, especially the people in their part of the town. Human aid was feeble, and Christ himself came down from Heaven to unite himself with poor feeble man to help him overcome this great appetite. Her remarks were thrilling and powerful in the extreme.
Mrs. S. H. Morley said the news from California was indeed cheering. She read some statistics showing the enormous dimensions of this giant evil.
Remarks were made by Messrs. Roberts, Cooley, Morley and Chadwick, and Mrs. Ellsworth and Mrs. Betterly, the general idea being that we must begin to work in earnest; that talk is good in its place but work is better; and that every man and woman must individually constitute themselves a committee to prosecute the violators of the law.