on the assumption that the
latter is a sinner, while this is to be a Convention of saints,
let that fact be known, so that sinners may keep away from the
Convention. If on the assumption that Mr. Barnum is an infidel or
a heretic, let that fact come squarely out, so that we may know
that infidels or heretics, either or both, are to be proscribed
at the Hewitt-Marsh Convention. For if there is to be really and
truly a World's Temperance Convention, according to any fair
meaning of the phrase, then we say women, as well as men, youth,
as well as adults, colored, as well as white, heretic, as well as
orthodox, sinners, as well as saints--so that they be earnest and
undoubted upholders of total abstinence--should be invited to
send delegates, who should be equally welcome to its platform and
eligible to its offices. An Orthodox White Male Adult Saints'
Convention may be very proper and very useful, but it should be
called distinctly as such, and not unqualifiedly as a World's
Convention.

Dr. Marsh thinks it nobody's business whether Dr. Hewitt did or
did not refuse the use of his church for a temperance-meeting at
which Mr. Chapin was to speak, because he (Mr. C.) was a
Universalist. Yes, reverend sir, it is a good many people's
business if the public are purposely left in doubt as to the
character of the World's Convention that is to issue from the
Brick Church meeting. For if Dr. Hewitt shut his pulpit against
so unexceptionable, assiduous, effective an advocate of
temperance as Mr. Chapin confessedly is (see Marsh, above), then
we have a cue to his objection to Barnum and to the general
bearings of the "World's Convention" to be incubated under his
auspices. That single incident of the pulpit-shutting will have a
great deal of significance to many other people; wherefore the
fact that it has none to Marsh is overruled.

Whenever a real "World's Temperance Convention" shall assemble,
an inquiry may be found necessary as to what Dr. Hewitt has done
and sacrificed for temperance these five years that should
authorize him to rule P. T. Barnum off a temperance committee;
also, whether men who live by Temperance, like Dr. Marsh, are in
the right position to judge those, like Barnum, who labor and
spend money for it. For the present, however,