PARSON AND POLICEMAN.
A DARING REFORMER.
The career of Dr. J. Quincy Adams Henry, who is now conducting a great mission in the Town Hall, Wellington, and who comes to Auckland next month, is a unique one. In a, powerful sketch of this noted preacher and very aggrcsive reformer, by Herbert Booth, it is stated that Dr. Henry, who. has a fine scholastic record, was converted at the age of 18. Though a regular pastor in leading churches in the States, his notion of a Christian was something more than a prayer-repeating, psalm-singing pewholder. Ho understood the true disciple to be a wrestler in the arena of wickedness, sent to fight the good fight of faith as well as to feed on the Word of Truth. Upon entering Chicago to assume a great pastorate, he waxed practical and pointed in his sermons. The city wondered when he appeared in the role of prosecutor in tho city Courts. Champions of vice.gambling, and filthy photography were hauled to the bar, heavily fined, and their establishments closed. Then the pastor turned police superintendent, and organised a special force of detectives. With his contingent and five large furniture vans, he swooped down one night upon two notorious gambling establishments. Two hundred culprits were captured, and driven off to the police station. Such smart generalship in the buttle against rascality was considered good qualification for tho director of the Anti-Saloon League, to which post Dr. Henry was appointed. With much tact he enlisted the services of tho churches and civic organisations in the great lake metropolis of Buffalo, against, the low and liquor-sodden concert saloons which honeycombed the city. Within two and a-half years not only was this city marvellously cleaned up, but the doughty leader organised between 500 and 600 AntiSaloon Leagues in the States, whose members contributed 60,000 dollars yearly, and carried to the Courts 400 ewes. At tho end-of IGOI Dr. Henry visited Great Britain to conduct a short temperance and evangelistic campaign. So successful was this enterprise that the few months' engagement stretched out. to rive years, dm - -' ing which London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast, and scores of other centres were visited by this sane and powerful, advocate of individual and national righteousness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 7
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