Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-11-14
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Father Matthew preached his farewell sermon oh
this continent, in St, Marys church al New York on
Sunday, the 10Th ult He to leave for his native
land, the following Saturday We copy from the
Tribune synopsis of his interesting discourse:
Fourteen years have elapsed since ] first erected
the pure and spotless banner Of Temperance nmy
beloved country. Ny counrymen. always ready
follow vrinous impulses focked around the standard,
and the highways were literally crowded with multi
tudes coming 10 my residence 10 enroll themselves in
the Temperance Association; tha in the cOulse OF
six years, upwards of five millions of my countrymen
had taken at my hands The all saving Temperance
Pledge Glorious was the change that followed crime
and vice disappeared and the change in their manners
remarkable as their change from the of IN
toxieating drinks The Jails We're all empty, and
even the great Richmond in Dublin entirely co-
Sed. This happy state of things continued for sever
al years and Ireland once might be entitled the
g Island of Saints" Oh. happy state of things, which
should never have been interrupted, and which should
have lasted forever but the devil began exert Lis
heIlish power, and some had fallen.
lie was happy in being able 10 assert, that millions
may still be found faithful 10 their solemn engagement
The pIinci pal falling off had been among emiglanls,
who had abandoned Ireland for this great republic
deluded by Satan they believed that they would not
he able to endure The harlshps Of the voyage without
strong drink, and receiving permission from weak and
too nduIgent persons 10 make of it, continued 10
avail themselves of the opportunity Tins afforded after
Their arrival. Many pledge breakers attribute their
present poverty and degradation 10 This fatal
Before commenced this great temperance movement,
ntemperance swept all before it, and young and DID,
high and low, were borne along the rushing tide of
evil. | had many evils to encounter-tle existing
customs and habils-the opposition of inlerestei per-
sons, ready to pour upon me flood of caumny. |
felt a mighty pressure from without to prevent my
commencing, but | felt mighty pressure from within,
do not say that taking wine is sin, but this as
Ser from this sacred chair, that such indulgence 3
always attended with danger. No one is born drunk
ard, Yet them everywhere: from whence do
they Gomez Not from heaven, for ST Paul says mo
lrunkard shall enter the kingdom of heaven"-not from
hell, for IFS adamantine gates closed will
again open 10 permit The drunkard's egrpss; oh 10,
virtue shall never again be contaminated by his pres.
'Let him that staudelh take caie lest he fall
have invited ma%y TO take the temperance pledge,
and their reply was, ! have occasion, am sober
enough, and no drunkard;' ah. these words, have
40 OCCASION, have brought many to a miserable end
the greatest drunkard that lived might say
the Men have been reduced 10 The Lowest stale
of debasenent, anl have reduced their wives ana
children to misery unuerabe, who We're once as
temperate here, and might also declare, |
sober enough
Father Nj conclu led by allnling to his visit to the
Tomhs, and evhoIed his hearers 10 enroll themselves
upon the sale side The pledge was then administer
ed TO large number of applicants.