Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-11-03

THE END.
LEGISLATION.

The October number Of that excellent Pc
riodica7, The Southern Methodist Pulpit
edited by Rev. c. F. Deems, Greensboro,
n. c., at 81 year, has an admirable Sermon
on Temperance, by Rev. B. T. Crouth, SEN,
of Kentucky, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
It is time, however, that we take up the
closing part of our subject; on which, more
than any other, we wish to dwell. The best
method of securing the discharge Of duty
especially the duty in the text, sobriety,
temperance, must now claim oul attention.
l. One method Of securing the discharge
of duty, consists in showing its advantages.
Aatian with the duty
matteTE but we may not enter it now =
time flies
2. Another method Of securing the object,
and one Of great potency, is found in holding
up to view the evils attendant upon the neg
leet of duty. The range for thought and re-
mark here, especially in view Of the duty
now under consideration, is extensive indeed;
but cannot be occupied at present.
3. There is a third method of accomplish
ing the object in our proposition, securing
the discharge Of duty-which consists in re
moving the inducements and temptations to
leave the part Of duty. The surest and
most tfectual method Of securing sobriety,
is to iemove the temptations to drunkenness
) Thislis the great point take away the
J! causd and the effect will cease. The cup
of deah must be dashed from the lips Of oul
felIo9men, or they are doomed to hell, and
our c cIlntry to infamy But, from their
lips, cannot be kept, unless it be put out
of thdr sight.
: It IS Lot our work to-day, to prove tna'
intemperaaee is a vice, or that sobriety is s
$ virtue. TIN necessity for this does not exist
that day is gtne by. The darkness lsPast
and the tr74 light 9aoso shipeth.' Nor is
! the business Iof the hour to make Sons Q
: Temperance, or to build up their order
| Though this a grand enterprise, and al
: we can do forSt is not too much yet "
y have on hand aricher cause, Of wide
RANCE and broader platform; cause dea
Of to earth and allied to heaven it is caus
a. Of life aud death. 1t needs your aid, brett
- rem and friends-it merits that aid 1t Wi
n : not bs denied that aid. The grand china
le ofthd enterprise we educate, is to crush, an
IN scout and every where and forever to p1
IL down and keep down the nefarIous hqH
nd tmdt. Demons dread the effort. H.
y shud ers
n II salvation Of an immortal spirit fro
= end Is negdition. is an Object Of suffice
he ina aektude not cnly to justify, but also
Ter H5aA,,sse-agd d-iimmortallize any proper mea
nd that hay be employed to effect its achie'
or ments This work,-remotely # net pro:
he mate E,-fna}ly ifnot ostensibly, is our wo
In liz; work now on hand. For drunka
= in death is soul doomed to the pit! !
9;O TO die islcast the fate is unalterable s.
h She IS lostk Whit mind. withits greatest sire
ian Of thought isable to trace a scene so da
ltly a snbiect so i,expressibly dreadful! a
S to lt;onaibeing-f for heaven, held
NIB, from all the appliances Of grace by the
Ies. Of leoalized pfson, and swept down to
sac bv the force 4 fatal habit, formed and
re ees at the licenseI shop Of plumber and murd
the M IF the Bibk be true and good people
AIDES lieye it is-Io man is farther from hea
wers than the dhnkard. And, with the
sun stealing cuj at hand. none is more likel
arth maintain. t bit distance and never sho
ace = Ill ba down-trodden snirit. dislod
eooh eoid from mtdered body, shall plunge the
s;nt oior mai guild, and wall its loss in eternal
that that ishmesf from its God. Shall the fatal
Of ri ri vss,;r at hand or shall it be da
d lis awaa? lie who has If in his power to
.yton Ees Ind willingly omits to do so, is g
ooled oe ,a,rdar in the sight of God. Shal
Ell 8J;f, ~ kiL?'-we must either
the s. '7..t,o,, II (which will it be
# the egt,o uso. !. ao;nt there are some
.nt for- ling specialtics to be considered. Me
b;I;tv RESPONSIBLE to God and to society in Vi