Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-16
STATE OF PIE ORDER.

port to the National Division, giving an ex- 9
hibit of the operations of the Order of the '
Sons of Temperance during the year 1852; $
which gives the following aggregates:
No. admitted during the year 1867; No.
suspended s47; exoellel 1855; deaths SO;
violated pledge 1907 reinstated S51; viola /
ted second time 223: No. ofrnembers in North I
Carolina Dee. 81, 1852, 10.174; amt. of re-
ceipts during the year s23,O7l 66; amount
paid out for benefits SIGH; ant in treas
ury of Sub. Diys. 1926; paid for contingent
cies s12,052; public meetings held 1876 tenn
perance tracts and papers distributed gratu-
itously by divisions 6,456; per centage to
Grand Divis. $l15S; 81; per centage to Nat.
Div. s57 66.
In this report, a number of Divisions are
not included, owing to a failure to send re-
turns for last Quarter; from which fact it
may be inferred, if all were reported, the
membership of the Sons of temperance in
North Carolina is IS large at this time, if not
larger than at any other period since the in
PRODUCTION Of the Order into the State. What
do timid friends, and croaking opponents
think Of this representation We know
many, good as we'll as evil wisher5 to the
cause, haYe thought it was on the decline;
we are happy however to inform them upon
the authority of these un1nistakable data,
that their fears or hopes arc groundless, and
that we are boldly and confidently marching
on to victory.
W. har ~ coll atfapEiOa RI Tho -.orgoI;Ev ~,
our Order during the year-only 50 out Of a
membership Of about 10, 000-only about | in
every 1l0!i B. it remembered too, that ours
{ is a mixed class, citizens ofcvery calling and
profession the divine and the iurist; the
r physician and the mechanic: the farmer and
f the eaman-scattered over every portion of
E the State inhalinS the humid and fetid at
mosphere OF the swamps and lowlands as well
as the pure air and invigorating breeze Of
the uplands and N )unta;n heighths, and then
compare the bills Of mortality with any 9th
I er 10, 900 Of the heterogeneous mass of our
people, AMI see if it does not triple or quad
ripple that which ours presents There is no
, more fixed fact" than that total abstinence
iilloAtNNbihn tiiH O. "a AH liz
" best health insurance policy in the world, and
q tends to length Of days more effectually than
all the exIixirs" that have ever been dis
covered or invented, from the days Of the
Arabian chemist who first discovered the
mis-called : Aqua Vita," down to the latest
nostrum, which have sent their myriads to
u~ntimely graves.
= There is another feature in this Report to
which we would call attention, and that is
the amount paid outas 8 benefits" to suffering
, and INDECENT brethren. Five thousand, SIX
hundred anu forty-four dollars! How much
: sorrow has this sum alleviated-how so@thed
: and quietei the anxieties Of the suffering IL
valid, knowing that hj5confort would be pro
- Vi lei, an the wants Of his flmily supplied.
= How many a disconsolate widowed heart
been soothed and relieved from the oppres
sions of care and dastitution. How many ar
orphan girl and boy being educated and pre-
pared for stations Of usefulness and honor. by
the aid Of this fund, who might otherwise
have been Migrants and outcast5 from society
Aal yet there are some clrping, pharisaica
~canters, who wag their haa Is most sagely
- aud declare, /" the devil is IT the bottom Of it
> and they will all 50 to the devil together.
80 And the scofing, wuuli-br-lristocratic wit
- ling looks on cuntemptu,ualy, and mouth
~ out-'smaIl business!" Pope was not wid
:" Of the mark. when he wrote
"Of all the causes which conspirc TO blind
ef Mans erring iudsm mt. and mis- guide the minC
WHAT the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never failing vice OF fools"
"Snail business!' Is it II " small business
to follow the command Of the King Of Glory
by . visiting the sick, relieving the distresse
,be and buryins the deal" Is it a "sm4ll i,
ght siness0 to redeem mea from the CALLING slaT'
18th ry Of APPETITE an passion AMI restore hin
sound and in his right mini, to the bosom
hat his family anl friends, from whom he had lei
roe been torn! No, verify Ours is a missi,
no. and service subordinate oily to His vi
his brought glal tldings o great JOY T. a 81
ons stricken worll-lnd like a G5spei-preachc
we 90 through the land, restoring sight
the blind, ears to the deaf, life to the dead
a year Of jubilee to down-trodden, suferin
rum-curst humanity. Let such . small tn.
ness" employ our time and talents while |
new shall last, and give US the assurance fines
We ing some in a purer world whom We have be
IN instrumental in reclaiming, and we ask
er a other reward
ex- And one other feature still, in this Repo
be we would call to the particular attention Q
certain class OF our opponents, and that
the disposition Of our funds. 1t is a favor
objection with some, that the moneys paid
r; ts to our Subordinate Divisions are sent of a
bicb appropriated to bad and miscellaneous par
ses, or at least for objects not known to
), &c masses in the Orders themselves. Now.
!, h;s will be seen from this Report that out of
; N; large amount paid the last year into the s.
go ordinates, (S23,O7D Only S1l53 is paid i
a.od the State Grand Diyision-the balance be
ole the sole property and under the exclus
control Of the Sub. Divisions themselves, Il
: H. used in works of Benevolence and for prom
$3.50 ~