Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-22
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you. By the spirit OF our fathers, who
pledged their lives, their fortunes, their
sacred honors, that they would be free, we
entreat you, do it, Dash from your lips
the Intoxicating bowl, whatever lis name
OR character. Dare to be temperate
Resolve to be free.
TO WOMAN.
We take no undue advantage of YOUR
constitutional sensibility in rousing every
feeling of indignation, pity, self-regard.
religion, and patriotism, on this subject
Here are justified the most intense interest
and active zeal. You have been the
acutely anguished but silent sufferer
Unseen tears have worn untimely burrows
on your cheek. Alcohol has been the
bane of woman's happiness; the mildew
of her budding bliss. Il has robbed her
of her husband, and prematurely buried
the son of her earliest affection in dis
graceful tomb. Daughters of America
Be not responding; there is a edy.
Be not indifferent, because you may thus
far have escaped the experience Of this
anguish. The cup of sorrow may yet be
yours. And if you escape remember
those who are in adversely; suffering ali
the shame and anguish ofowning drunk
ard for husband or a son. We come to
ask for your influence Say not, we have
none! All could the victims of your
influence in the past fashions Of society,
come back from the drunkard's eternity
and tell you their woes, it would fill your
soul with unutterable horror. You have .
an influence, lovely, but mighty; an in
huence which can break up almost every
destructive fashion in society, and save
husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers, from
the river of death. We are grateful to
heaven, that in our cause it has been felt
in the length and breadth Of the land; we
only say let it increase, Press onward.
press onward. By example, by conVcrsa-
ton, by warning, by entreaty, by Danish
ing from your presence every devotee OF
Bacchus. Oh! hasten the time when
the curse shall no more be found when
sorrow and signing from this dreadful
evil shall be done away.
TO TEACHERS.
Our hope is in the rising generation,
The appetite for strong drink is wholly
yet it is often ear y acquired;
by slipping at fathers table; by Ioung-
ing around taverns and dram-shops where
many are drinking, and by juvenile dar
ing and foppishness. By whom is it TO
be stayed hut you, beloved men and
Think not that you have no
with the morals and the eternal
interests of your precious trusts. What IS
he cultivation Of the mind, where the
moral habits and religious principles are
neglected, but curse! On the subject
before us, your opportunities to Go good,
and consequently your responsibilities are
greater than can be :old Teach ycur
children and youth 10 dread putting liquid
poison into the stomach as they would
melted lead or burning Goals. Encour-
age them to sign the Temperance pledge
md to league together in the morning of
ife against the greatest foe of their coun-
ry and their race. Whether toiling in
be elementary, the Sunday, the classical
school or the university, toll with US in
his great cause And we beg you to be
borough. Total abstinence from all that
how difficult soever with those
n manhood, may here be included with
he greatest ease. Sicze, then, the pre-
:ious moment. DO your duty in the
ength and breadth of the land, and all
S safe.
70 MINISTER'S AND CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
Our enterprise flows from the Gospel
IF Christ. 1t goes forth in the spirit Of
Him who came to seek and to save thA!
which was lost 1t procIaims peace on
earth and good will to man. 1t removes,
We believe, the greatest obstruction to IL"
reception and spread Of the gnsYcl, and
must and will universally prevail before
he world shall be filled with the knowl-
edge and glory of God. But can itpre-s.
vail without your most ardent co opera-
ton? We need not put the inquiry, DID
ever any moral enterprise succeed from
which the church and ministers of Christ
held back. The church and the world is,
in ordinary esteem, the standard of right
1t would be SANDER upon their profess
ons, if it were thought TO be otherwise.
Nor will we ask, Do you not need the in
6uence Of our cause for your own purity
and safety? Alas, the records of church.
es, the memorials of ministers, tell solemn
ales, never again we trust to be repeated
On earth. Everlasting thanks may the
church give 10 her guardian angel for the
Temperance Reformation. In our enter
prise we know nothing sectarlan. AS
individuals we are of various denomlna-
ions. AS a Temperance Union, we
know none. We would pour blessings
anon all: we ask the hcl p of all. Our
columns are open to the resolutions il'I OF
all. as they shall favor the truth and con-
ribute to the triumph Of Temperance
And by the purity of the churches, the
owe of Christ, the salvation Of men, we
,eseech all to touch not, taste not, handle
lot, the intoxicating cup in its mildes'
arnns uKnnu We not that NoIr bodice