The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-11-28

hand could award. Well may woman love the
Bible, for where its glorious beams have shone,
earlhs malaria OF crime and degradation has
vanished, and she has stood
"A rich perfection,
Born tosline in any world of loveiness
The first"
We well know that nothing that is great or
noble, comprehensive or sublime, has ever az.
compished, its end unless with the aid of woman,
and it is not f1altery to say,
"She rules the court, tho camp the grove,
And men beow"-
And almost had said, "the saints above. y
She has taught man the glorious properties of
his nature--the high moral end for which he
was destined. and made radiant his path DER
life's stormy way by the glit'eIins sunlight Of
her smiles.
We then, appreciate your Gift, as the star
which sha guide lis in search OF our later Beth.
lehem. We read in this volume what 'Pea.
SAINT thing it is for brethren TO dwell together in
unity" We will hear its holy teachings that
we may not give our sisters pain. II bids u.s.
too, to "love one another" And ontonr very
insignia is inscribed the glorious wa'ch.word
with that omnipoent present awarded Us ny
fairer hands and pnrrr hearts, will 90 forth 4"
the determination Of vice. and plant the stan.
dard of moral freedom, from the icy c'ines
where the Grepnlander hunts his seal, to tbe
sunny vale, where, by moonlight, the hIghiln'
gale woos the rosp.y
And shall we not sl,ccprd7 The present oc.
, casion answers. When first the gtfering ban.
ner Of stars and stripes waved in the breeze OF
freedom, men called it an experiment, aye. and
1t was glorious experiment too: for now those
stars shed their genial light over land where
live twenty millions of people-uncnrsed by the
wIfherlng hand Of espotism-untranrnelled by
any power bni their own. That flag has wa.
ved DER the conqnpror. when wars dread thun.
der loomed. and fna'ed in the tranquil freeze.
when evening zephYrs echoed hean,v's strain.
bnt 10. IN the storm cove ered sky Of The moral
world nnflirls banner with new device
Excelsior the pass sword of its bearer and on its
iods inscribed The trio, Lore. Purity and Fuieli.
ty Men call IL an experimani-butt the sian.
dard. hearers have shouted their walchword,
Excelsior, and like the magic word Of the Ara.
ban knight, the wiihpring form Of intemp"r.
ance has faded beforr it, and a hundred homes,
where envy and strife and dark confusion re-
yelled. mid the ruins Of withrred hopes and
blasted love, when they saw that the banner of
l.. p. F., have sboulpd hack Erce7sir, ill the
blue gill skies seemed filled with the joyous
sound.
! Bnt who shall tell when the victories OF that
banner shall cease? Already il hoa,s in every
breeze, from that that is stirred by fhe eagle on
the Al pine summit, to the far west, where ar1
has usurped the throne ol nature. Then wh"
would not bs rnarshallrl in this glorious army!
Will you stand alnof and gain II" 'rophied
wreath. and whnn an effort, ser one after an.
other sink leaving memory with no bright spot!
Depend upon it. ifthey inherit an immortality
in a strain Of sadness like the nisht.wlnd's
storm, will curse you with thunder loud enough
to shake the snn from The sorkrt of his sphere.
Have yor not seen the mother az she fondy ca.
ressed her boy, and prayed ~ mothers alone
can pray that she might he the mother Of a Grac
chii-bul manhood's; day Of temptation game
the wine.cnp met him Il, fashions board, and
with its soft and fascinating in.in"a'ien, wrealh-
ed with bca,ny's smile perchance, and spark.
ling to the voice Of gaiery, stabbed With deathly
wound. Il mothers hopes and prayers; laid her
in the tomb oa srirl, aad filed anosbes drunk
ards grave.
Yon have seen the youth. with buoyant hope.
and glittrring prospects, start ei'on the sea Of
lie, in the gay craft Of hope, with every inch
Of canvass spread, and breezes which seemed
stirred alone for him; but he has Grsot '"take
his quadrant aboard-the triune banner OF l..
P. F. fioated not from his masthead and soon,
with his rich freight Of sangnine hopes, entbusI
as,c anticipations, and brilliant talents, hs was
wrecked; not by the evening tempest, when
thunders rolled and lighDinss pl"wed the hery
vault, bu. by the morning storm, ere he was ont
of sight of his native pnrt.
70 save these-,o heal earh's moral wound,
and WOO mankind from lost, degraded ruin. is
what our noble order is loaccompish-and shall
we no, be victorious? We will-we must, for
in this glorious crusade we have tn" aid OF wo.
man. She has wept sad tears Of blood, and
! sroaned the long tones Of griet TIL our banner
advanced: She ha, thrown her influence on our
side and each heart has sworn on the ai;'ser oI chi:
vary. that woman si,aI! be oppressed by Alcohol
no more, The chrlstian too, has given US MS
aid going before tho Church as did the will
derness forerunner of Christ, We paye Tho way
for The car ofths eternal Gospel from the desert
rocks whore locusts and wild honey bsd The
roaming Ishmael,e, 10 Jordan's fertile plain,
where rise the towared cilos of Jew, and sPlred
synagogucs point their vanes to Heaven. The
preparatory school for the Church, we train the
youth, and teach him 10 huckla on tho shining
armor of christianity, to battle in the mnral
warfare, to gain an inoorrup'ihle crown hoyond
the skies. We hava, finally, the aid Of every
patriot in The land. | care not for the patriot
ism of him, however loudly il may he prolossed,
who in sight Of the drnnkard's grave==n hears
Ing of the orphans cry and the widows NOAH
the maniac scream of her, who in LIES bright
hour, pledged tho affections of a heart as impul'
| I.ol sLaal Of SAQi b.