New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-28
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
TEMPERANCE.
r.. Meeting al National Hall on last sunday
inc a,., 90 hear 20 Reformed Drunkards.

"a. uee,ine nj National nun "" '"'' """''
Yx.r,ug 10 hear 20 Reformed Dr""h"'"''
e,oxded audience was assembled at Na'loha
-, sunday evening attracted there TO hear the
.Id.nc. Of t<ufy romed iaobri~es gwen IN iavor Oh
-. from intoxicating drink. The addresses
o.ly Eve minutes each in length but there was
IL aid nv each speaker in those FIVE minutes
-. t,a.ed a novel sight to behold many OF that
de,us,d and unfortunate class OF individuals com
-s.,,rs,a ON the PLATFORM one Immediately succeed
- =, other pleading in eloquent tones the cause OF
y. .,aerpg fellow crcaturcs-those who were still
- h, the chains of a degrading appetite-chains
- we're riycicd around the brightest incentives Of
49,, leins-toldy proclaming the evils OF the monster
una lptemperance pointing TO themselves AZ living
b. Gof what they asserted and exhibiting In their
.eo condition the happiness Of life of sobricty. AZ
- one Of those redeemed men made his appearance
"a .poke Of to misery and awful suherngs-the in
,,,be attendants a career OF intemperance and as
,b sneaker left the stand 1t seemed that 1t was like
ps,on ON Ossa piled in favor OF abstinence from the
.,oxies,ing cup-that cup when mas INVADED ana
made desola,e the domestic circle squandered fortunes
S.bonocd bright nance, hardened hearts scared con
nes and brought gray hairs in sorrow TO the grave
rbere they stood before the peope-old men and
,,;a5jcaeod men-some who had been drunkards fifty
,ears-therc they were lifting up their warning voice TO
Inc multitude before them there they were, and you
b.,rd the drunkaIds suheriDgs described to you by
those who had actually undergone those very suierings
There was no fiction about those they described
they were alas sad realities and yet you looked upon
the sneakers and could hardly imagine that humanity
had ENDURED such but there getting around it
me heart might scken, bit these things had btos And
,he esuss Of all this told you it Intoxicating
1o,k And then the speakers told what abstinence from
,,oxieapg drink had done for them It had made
her mon and reasonable creatures opened new life
10 ,hsm from the very lowest depths OF degradation,
xe,ebelpe,. and despair they had been elevated to
o.,ioo which their God intended they should occupy.
instead Of in. and mislortunes which beset the drunk
ard. path bright hopes cpoyrnents and happiness were
now their lo, home with its joys' had now more at
u.c,ou for them than the dram shop the happy faces
to be found a, their hresides more pleasant Tor
,be u, look upop than the bosed oounenances OF bar
nom companions cheerful and contented mind was
more desirable than one rscked with anxeties and
care. the pure drink provided at Natures table was
more pleasant beverage than the noxous STUFF dealt out
:, the rum.eer and to be looked up to good, use
n members Of society better. far better than to be
Looked upon ss curse TO themselves their friends and
There were some among those twenty who had been
ianksrds nearly all their lives and considered as ire
,.imabe ones The world had always hitherto looked
upoa the drunkad lost to all sense OF his de
trading situation be had been viewed ia the light oil
necessary evil OF society, whose etuaton was much
10 be depored but for which there was no remedy, no
balm in Glead The world had thought him poor
miserable misguided wretch, void OF all the tender
sensIblites Of humanity whose heart was closed 10
all kindly feelings and emotions and that world IN Its
sshshness had turned deaf to the sad condition
Of that drunksrd had held the false idea that the
moderate drinker and he only could be saved and be
who had INDUCED to excess was considered as being
beyond the pale Of all human reclaim But these men
stood there that evening putting to flight all such old ne
tons which the enlightenment of the age had condemned
sunehrssn and unbecoming the true spirit that should
excite man to action in the holy cause of Reform.
There they stood making glad the heart OF the morsist
and phlsn,hrcpist
What would have been the fate OF these twenty re-
Nmed men, had they continued in their wild career
u dissipation, can easily be imagined.
The following beautiful and touching story was re
lated by DR.. ScHNEBLY of Maryland:
drunkhd who had through his property, re
turned one night to bis unfinished home lie entered
Hsempy hsh-sngush was gnawing at his heartstrings
ADD language inadequate to express his agony as he
en'e'ed Dis wes apartment and there beheld the vic
inns OIL his sppetiehis lovely wife and darling child.
h9foss and sullen he seated himself without word
Re could not speak he could not look upon them. The
mother sad 10 the little angel by her side, Come, my
sald 10 tine TO go to bed" and that little babe as
ws her won't knelt by her mothers lap and gazing
Ssnay mo the face OF her suffering parent like g
psee Of ehsned sta,usry. slowly repeated her nightly
gson and when she had finished, the child (but
Rrfls tO q
nc, OTTER up more prayer - Yes, yes, my sweet
PEI pray and she lifted up her tiny hands closed her
eyes and prayed o, God spare, oh, spare my dear
papa Taxpayer waited with electric rspidity to
the throne OF God |, was heard ON hish-twss heard
ga esrh The responsive Amen T. burst from that
Mhefs i2s and his heart of stone became heart
81 uesh Vile and child were both claspcd to his bo-
son, ana IN penitenee he said, My child, you have
nsn the pledger