The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-08-31
TEMPERANCE.

T,emont Temple was filed TO overlooking,
Sabba,h evening, 10 hear Mr.. Cough.
lie said he felt the difficulty OF speaking
before Boston audience. The people her
knew that intemperance was great evil and
i, wonld be an insult 10 such an audience TO
attemnt 10 prove it. Yet if they really felt
nom Great. there would be seen very differ
emf interest in its suppression. What is the
cholera. or what are the hUrrors OF famine.
compared with The evils and the wretched-
ness resulting from iniemperancel
Last Saturday night business called him
into the streets after ten O'Clock, and he was
astouished at the numbers,,of intoxicated per-
sons ne san-Ihe scores ofyOung men pour
ing out of the saloons and grog shops. He
pitlied them; from his soul he pittied such
young men He did not say every one Of
Them was or would become drunkard. But
he would ask how many, who were % years
ago in the habit of frequenling such places,
could now be found, that are men OF property
respectable citizens
Mr.. Cough related. in his original style oil
impassioned eloquence, several thrilling an
eodotes, illustrating the dangers of moderate
drinking and its direct downward tendency.
He said the appetite for intoxicating drink
was disease Fl ON which could be found no
e.cape. Men who had contracted It wOnld
drink. in view of all the disgrace. poverty and
suffering, which they knew would come upon
rhem. With memory Of mothers prayers
ever before him, and starving wife and
children haunting his every footstep-with
no star of hope TO shed its beams upon his
dark pathway, knowing that he labOrs for
crown of everlasting coutempt.still he drinks,
stiil ba n, ra "a his onWar.l course,
When Young men assemble for a little
pleasure, they knew that they did not intend
TO become soIs. But what is the pleasure
for which they have imcuned such fearful
h1zard o, IL is pleasure. They must have
it, they will have il. Yes, they have got it
bubble, that burst in the Iand-Ihe apples
Of SODIUM, fair and inviting TO look at, bot
mere shell, filled with black and bitter ashes.
But he would say TO the Young man, thai
there are pleasures that i'll not mock his ex-
pectatons. If he will pour over The works
OF the mighty dead ill his own soul CLOVIS
with their lofty senriments-if he will sand
on the mountain top, and drink in The beaut
iiful and The grand that lie spread around
him. and remember that He who made
him made these enchanting scenes for his en-
Observation-Disclosures the Sun, in all his bright
ness and glory. and remember that ii shall pass
away, while his own spirit shall endure for
ever-let him feel that this world is but the
nursery Of The childhood Of his immortal be
ing, and consider of how much more value is
the child than its nursery-lhat as one Of the
children of the Most High, he may he living
for bis Fathers honor and G Tory. aud sharing
IN it-lhs is something real, something sub
stantial, someihing that will afford him endu
ring happiness wiihouT alloy.
The Pilgrim Fathers, W no founded the in
situations 0foni boosted Commonwealth, have
MI passed away, long since and the revolu-
Honary fathers are nearly all gone; the noble
Johu Hancock. who wrote his name so large,
that the English read it acrnss the ocsan. he,
loo, is goae. The responsibility of sustain
my our position among the nations. and the
reputation acquired by these illustrious ia
thers. rests now upon our young men-and
ne would say to ihe.r. there is field OF glory
and of usefulness that might satisfy the most
enlarged patriotism and The most lofty amb
non.
The i Temperance cause invites every young
nIau To enlist in the cause of his country's
weal-to engage with all his energies in be
Allf OF suffering humanity. Let US, said the
speaker, grid Oh our armOr Let us do whaI
we can to wrest the generous AMI The noble
from The grasp of the destroyer. Let every
yonmg nau resolve that he will gather tho
green and heaniiful flowers of youth. all a.
rnund crushed into Tho earth, and save them
20 adOrn his countrv's diadem. Yet, he may
sinI them as 4 laurel about his own brow.
and 1t will DuL BE- faded when ages have pass
Ell away.
We could not but think that Mr.. Coughs
recent visits TO our Colleges, where lie has
h 'cu invited by Tbs students 10 address them.
h al awakened fresh interest in yo' ng men.
and new zeal tn save them from their great
Oil: my. LOT. AHGS,
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