The History of the First Inebriate Asylum in the World

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. It was thought best to have the first public meeting in behalf of the Asylum as widely known and as thoroughly understood as the time and occasion would allow; therefore the notice of the meeting was advertised in all the daily newspapers of New York city and of Brooklyn, and also in the religious journals, and notices of the proposed meeting were read in more than one hundred churches. As this work was a movement to reach the physical side of the inebriate, and to give him a better chance for his life under a pathological treatment of a hospital, it was thought judicious that all the clergymen of the Metropolitan district be called upon, and the object of the proposed meeting be fully explained. Of one hundred and twenty-two clergymen thus seen, but fifteen declined to read the notice. The notice published in the papers, November 7th, 1855, read as follows: Notice.--A public meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle is to be held this Weduesday evening at 7 o'clock, in behalf of the ' United States Inebriate Asylum.' Addresses by Prof. R. D. Hitchcock, of the Union Theological Seminary, Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., and others. The public are invited to attend. N. A. Presce, Sec. The following addresses of Dr. Bellows and Prof. Hitchcock, delivered at that meeting, will give the reader an idea of the advanced views of the reverend gentlemen. (62) ADDRESS OP REV. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D. D., DELIVERED AT THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE, NOVEMBER 7TH, 1855, I. BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES INEBRIATE ASYLUM. Ladies and Gentlemen: --Notwithstanding the immense and doubtless the greatly successful labors of the temperance cause, drunkenness, according to statistics that do not probably reach more than half the dreadful truth, carries off fifty thousand citize...