Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-02-16
QUE OPINION.

We are often asked by good temperance
says the Cayuga Chief, if we really
'think that the temperance reform will ever
and the liquor traffic be done away"
We DO. We never have seen the day or
the moment we did not. Our faith is root
ed in the very hearts core. In the darkest
hour of our reverses, that faith has grown
stronger. Years but add strength to the be-
lief. We glory in that faith. 1t bears US up
in the battle and puts \ soul IN every blow
It lives and throbs within US. 1t is a beacon
light which CLOVIS unlalteringly by night and
by day. We feel and know that Almighty
God is with our armies, and we toll with bright
hopes against n gigantic power.
We are not mistaken-cannot be. We are
as sure Of a triumph ultimately as that God
lives. As Con LIVES. To day-to morrow
-years-agcs hence; no matter VIC shall
triumph. Would to God that every temper
nnce heart could be made to throb with the
same sublime faith, and that our action in all
the transactions Of life viii go upon record for
or against our integrity. If We did not look
for a day Of redemption, we never again
would rally around the old banner.
There is a great fault with our people
In some stirring time, we have a host Of he
rocs. The occasion passes as does their zeal.
Do such people expect to reyolutionizc public
sentiment in a day?
When we entered upon this work, it seem
ed tous that a principle so iustmust triumph
after a brief struggle. We now look back
upon history and find that every good princi-
pie has had its ordeal Of conflicts and defeats.
But truth has lived through alll Luther
died, but his blows shivcrcd n worldwide
system ofiniquity. \ Hampden and Sidney
died, but their names are scripture words in
the history of struggling freedom, and their
memories cherished where liberty is loved
Warren died as the first fury of the Revolu-
tionary storm swept Bunker Hill, with its
sleet Of death. But the shaft that oyerlooks
the field of martyrdom, bears UP his fame to
the clouds, and its granite sides proclaim to
the world that the principle for which ne yiel-
ded his life, died not with him. Upon Calvary
aSayiour diedignominiously. The Christian
religion has often grown dim at the stake
and upon the rack. But to day the story of
his death is rehearsed where the broken affairs
Of h athcndom lie in ruins. So it has been.
Right and Truth may be trodden in the dust
but never die.
Yes, good friends, we know we shall tri-
umph. No matter when. As God wills
All that live to-day may toll out their brief
day, but will ruth dio with them? What
an idea!
One has but to look back over his history OF
the Great Temperance Reformation to gather
brighter hopes and stronger faith. Its yery
reverses have been but the gatherings of the
storm ere Il iicry bursting. Look upon the
dark era of ourcountry's history when like an
angel Of death, iutemperance sat undisturbed
mt It's feast Of blood in nearly every home
when not a beacon broke ia upon the univer-
sal gloom. tits but a little while since, and
yet what Il change! How different the state
OF public sentiment. Hearts and homes
enough have been blessed to reward us for
ages Of effort. Let every one but for q mo-
ment reflect upon the blessings which the
reform has scattered in his pathway, and he
will step more proudly and look upward to
God with Il brighter faith.
Aes, God is IN the work, and the rum traf
fc willflil. Every augury is against it. II,
desperation, is but the frenzy Of dissolution
The spirit of the age-thc voice OF long iuiur
ed humanity, is against it,. Domestic anf
social happiness, and peace, virtue and COOS
o%rlcr, and individual and national prosperity
demand It's extinction. Revolution is agains
it. 1t must die. Let all feel this, and worl
accordingly.