Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-04-06
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From The Christian advocate and Journal.
Grand Temperance Jubilee.

Messrs Fditors,-I send you the following, !
from memory and brief notes, taken at me recent
temperance celebration of Washington's birthday
at the tabernacle. -,,, j., ,
After an appropriate prayer by Rev. f. W. An
drews and good anthem by the choir, the Rev
Mr.. Pierpont of Boston commenced with Inc prop
lem solved by the pilgrims that man, under you,
was competent to take care of himself, IN affairs
of Church and state, as we'll as in common duties
of life Any number of persons, SAID ne, assocla'-
ing for spiritual improvement, might coHS'ltuto
| Church, and the same individuals might organize
a state, to grow into great Republic The church
was made for man. not man for the Church; ana
the state was made for man. not man for the statGj
in the same sense in which 4" the sabbath was made
for man, and not man for the sabbath" ne
teacher. the most important IN the Chufcn' he on
= served is minister, or servant, not ruter ana
his doctrne was established not first on the rock
, of Plymouth, but two meniuns ago, by the very
E best authority Even as the Son Of man came
mot TO be ministered uno but to munster, ana 10
ii Give his life ransom for many" The same doc
- Itrine is true in the state. Man was not made TO
i he merely passive subject independence Oh t [io
and action are essential to ratonai Hpe''y' nI
> cives exercise to the highest mental ana moral
energies of the people, on objects OF highest inter-
= est. .,.it-..c.c..
There must be, not merely independence of for
!, eion domination, but of political or religious
party and of prevailing fashion, where wrong anc
- of every undue appetite 10 uphold ffee govern
- ment. there must be hearts contormed to just ant
# equal laws.
h. Mr.. P depicted in living colois the strictly TEN
~ nerate and viruous habits of the Pilgrims, tey
-, of them including QComen, the historian says, lana
"a ed first and after short excursion, reported tina
he they found, among other objects, Il" 6rooE an
~ snrinps of pare avater" This decided the queS
,or ton Of settlement at Plymouth. This hardy an
NO temperance band living for time mostly on 1lsl
a clans, &C., reduced in their farinaceous ratlons
W. five kernels apiece,'' were still happy, and cou
= devouy thankG God for the abundance OF the sea-
in The first recorded of spirit among (not by) II
ast Pilgrims was in 1921. At an interview betwet
bot Gov. Carver and Masasot, the Indian king, he
9n- peared timid, the Governor gave nun " strol
nss water" to raise his spirs-which, says the INST
To- rian, made him Slceat;N and the race has Deeh
rs a perspiraton eVersince. ,
20 Mr.. p went further back, and showed tro
,on Hume and Thomas Fuller, that thesdeieat OF nj
rth Harold at the battle of Hastings, by w ilIiam
"a Norman, was in consequence Ola drunken reVel
yer among the English army the night preylous
section of Fuler's history is headed, s. The drum
rth Ell English conquered by the Normans," And
oar GOES on to say that theDuke of Normandy conqu
one ed the English with force as much below the
rise in number, as above it in temperance The lat
,ot p had passed the night in rotlng, while the N
.one mans had engaged in appropriate deyotions,
ions drank nothing but pure water. The Temporal
like ing the nobility, have ever since possessed
the lands of England, filled the throne, and kept
stem drinking multitudes in depreciation. 80 much
}! one night of intempe lis it not then best
hree keep sober! ESPECIALLY before battle; or
ober great enterprise? Will you send men to Congr
8 of on whose low indulgence for night or an h(
wilt may hang the destinles OF your republic! Y
wake YOU entrust such men with your navy' Think
dav the fate of the noble Chesapeake, Gin the last
$ Of hardly out ofthe port Of Boston, after scene
'Fhe indulgence, OF which dellcacy forbds descript
ID en- But passing by such disgracelul events, loof
{ his Ireland, for ages deluged with whisky. See
and or perhaps eight millions, now steadily and ha
glori- lessly moved, though powerfully excited, by
+ the voice of one man. Nota chicken is killed, n
mon pig has his toe trod on. 1t is because Fa
wilt Matthew went before OConne and sprinkleC
v for nation with cold water. The emerald Isle is
NAV an emerald indeed of bright lustre.
error The orator alluded to the late visit of Con
hide dore Jones at the Sandwich Islands, who, fiji
ave no spirits there, in speech to the people
soul commended them as being, in this respect fl
Ce?- mongIthe nations. Mr.. P. had son on
ess?- with that COMMODORE, and said parents woul
ntoler relieved from much anxiety when tee-tot
saving should prevail throughout the army and ma
is to He deprecated the inconsistency of those
,vment acknowledging the excellence of temperance
saliva had not the independence to practice accord
band he spoke, however, of many changes, of la
what a mong leading men, he had recently made a
r with to Maine, where Ex-Governor Kent, and
ID wilt Fairfield, with all his council, as he found,
It soul teetotallers, with the exception of one, who
as the rum seller.
foreverI He had also just heard that the Governor