Mrs Leavitt's Temperance Mission.

Southland Times, Issue 8007, 1 May 1885, Page 3

Mrs Leavitt's Temperance Mission.

Yesterday evening Mrs Leavitt addressed ; a la>g« aadience in the First Presbyterian ■Theßev. Mr Bethiine occupied r tho chair, attd introduced the lady in a few: 'apprbptiate remarks. "./; ' ,; MreLeavitt spoke chiefly of prohibition, „i»iM . enacted in inauy.-of the Apierican 'iA JSiatei, and:describea the results in a most i^vjiraphio manner.; iShe, indicated, also the; :=-itrength6£ the movenient towards ah ex- ■-■ tension of this principle, and the hopes *- -of* its yet ruling the American people. Mrs Leavitt* spoke foi upwards '"'• bt an hour, and succeeded in riveting '; 'of those 'that beard her. ! 3sb6; c&bolpdedby ad earaest and highly " eloquent though unforced appeal to the r,• Christian people of NeWr Zealand to!l?ieet 4he eyiLJof intemperance f by adopting the of prphiDitrdbl Mrs Leavitt is an r orator in the true sense of the term. Her * • discourse ia nnexaggeraied, keenly Ipgi- = m»!, ? and distingaished by an appeal to - principles and powerful elucidation of ' 'thenii ;Wa db 'not say 'that all ; her propositions wefe ''unassailable, but all were „/ it least maintained with very great dia- ' r; lactic sßil, .while moist wete establislied * beyond the '" j>6Bßibility of successful at- \ tack.^ :^have, never had the pleasiire^f i listening to) » lady -so oapable of condubt- * :;'M% an argtiment, or of bringing its', points * Jbdme to an ■ audience. And what gives a charm to her sinlple enunciations is ] the -Intel ■Amoral purpose by which they are pfeiraded. Those that have not heard Mrs Leavitt and that take any interest in the H^^ XJauWehe lose the I ! 6t hearing her, To-n'ght, We ..understand, sheis to. sppak in the Bipv .^tist Ghnrcbj Esk. street, , at '8 pan.,^ not s-:ti3o*iiiieretofpre. J ;/ - .; \