Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-06-21
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es Neck Tmpern Convention, Society H april st 1886
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When we hear travellers in Egypt Greece uniting with loved
90 and then listen to the awful aenuaon No drnkard shall
the Kingdom of Heaven how must We mourn the amentaoe e anu
horror should back the awful crime of this WORK OF
devastation and ruin for time and for eternity Strange n a 2
nsous agent Satan and hold the lips OF their unssecng oh
anenabs evidence of our corruption and blind & T m & Su @
hcw friendship BY tempting and insisting on our trend 10 u @ @
daug which repeated and repeated shall rob him Of his reason ce
level with beasts, him into fcnd on ear'h' ao III MI"
companionship with demons in Hell :.
Let say that he will and yet not assist making @
appetite which urges habal nempcrance And strange as may
appear first thought the moderate dnker does vastly more T Icy
become asone aud repuc lie beacon ghto warn others
The socb and attractive before praises the @ean
enemy the form of an angel o'g that % he
dreaded Men temperate habits of standing and mu
ence in society when offer the Intoxicating your
man. you aiding his fell destroyer to lead hun
and soul forerer Pause o. let not guilt of upon your
has been done give assurance
of success may we'll enquire briefly that that we may
derive the and learn the better what
for do The principal efforts country seem 10 nave o
York. county societies most not all the
annually the city New York and furnish this body all the local mo
they obtain From the sixth Of this body we learn that there
actually and returned 35s932 members besides
$4,000 pledged or practising on the pnePe oa aosen %
This body with other State societies and together torn the
American Temperance Society," which also meets IN the c Oh @ U @
has established able press opened and kept up s
many distinguished friends of the various sections ts country
has already been made indeed able worthy of general PeTusa &
and shes that there country % State societies. that vast 1nS o
III, form Permanent Temperance Documents and Temperance
Manual " besides large numbers of Tracts, Ananack Newspapers &C.
encouraging attended their efforts that like evils Of
exist other countries those found here and that like powerful ana sue
~ efforts made elsewhere particularly Canada
and Great Britain In the latter regular lecturers on the arc
about addressing meetings at one Of which the city OF Lonaom erG hS were
has been raised by Parliament to enquire into the evh and the
expcdiecy atng subject with send for persons
permit be specially auedto Let me however take
Mississippi State Society has recently resolved to raise Wo
Thousand Dollars for the that State and that
individuals Immediately subscribed hundred dollars eac what nave
done, and what remains for US to do! wv
Here and doubtless good effected We
all remember that but few past the habit OF daily drnsang was
aos, when tho spirits the house was considered
about essential bread and which supports u.s. Now there arc
few houses which keep it, and but few who present % guests
which have lately visited had public dinners and social parties
where has been exhibited We have gone through some o. the most
og least not that genera eso
which dsgacd those efforts Many OF the more eecD portion
our 1us merchants have ceased @ our nd a ae become
pledged members Of anemperance societies. ah rom e USE
themselves their influence for inducing others to 90 SO too
while without becoming members practice on like principles io~
much drunkenness and its evils has been prsn we cannot Sly
but may reasonably suppose that have been no little
oae much might have been done and
much be done. Oar the subject has not been Su as
a s cd o oF be sgs u U svStGs We he several
several the districts throughout the State and some OF em are
many districts without society We Think State Society," and of
consequence but little direct connection intercourse WIN inc gca
c and have published but little than one or two reports
society Columbia these but limited circulation. VI
incentives action which energy and
to the friends elsewhere We know not the
proportion rukards we know not te num-
Der societies. of the members to them our state rev." any,
district Protesting to feel the importance
effort yet negecng the OF procuring Some
who the formation OF our soceu
yet upon principle they promote the cause better BY
joining How strange If they would river or construct ran
road school collect library would ney act thus 10 ey
thus act relation to the Bible Missionary and other benevolent societies
of day' should what would be done What d n DO
themselves ready Others obedience CUSTOM drawing
insisting their visitors TO drink! II
they produced the cngc For together
they Pracs themselves what they would not others aea
Where then the influence
example? Custom powerful and united effort alone could stem
power How many persons have such induced p OF
subject they been the
collecting g? What and support have they given