Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-11-01

SCTEUttOH 4C0to O'S
,,;tb;u that time, the paper giU be discontiaaed.-
This rule wiu be igIReribly adhered to-.
To the Sons of Temperance.
The Grand Division has met and ad% journed
and the members have returned to their res
pective homes, we trust with q more ardent
zeal and determination to labor more ener-
g~etically for the building up of our beneh-
cent Order. But renewed energy and activl-
ty must be infused in to our common Broth
erhood, if we would see the good cause march
on to prosperity and final triumph. The
masses in the order havo ceased to work
to work energetically and continually-to
restore the fallen, bring back the wanderer,
and throw around the youth of the country
the shield of protection and safety, which our
excellent Order affords. We must arouse
ourselves, nor sit longer supinely by with
folded arms, and see our friends, and rela-
tives, and ~neighbors fall by the hand of the
ruthless destroyer, without an effort to save
them, on our part.
From the Reports of the Grand Officers,
there has been an alarming declension IN mem
bershiu in the Order during the past year.
| This has been occasioned, not so much by
our membership abandoning the cause of
temperance and ranging themselves on the
. side of our enemies-on the contrary, the
, number of expulsions for violating the pledge,
: has been, comparatively, very few. But the
o decline is owing mainly to a lethargy and
! supineness that has crept in among US, caus-
v ing many to abandon their meetings and
: which has resulted in the breaking up of Di-
y visions. Most of these, however, adhere to
u their pledge of total abstinence and range
' themselves on the side of the friends of re-
is form in the liquor traffic, but in a great meas
ure their aid and influence is lost to that or
ID ganization through which public sentiment
~ u has been so much elevated and enlightened
to concerning the enormous and heart-rending
10 evils Of intemperance, and upon which so
81 much yet depends for the removal of those
- evils.
Oh We wish we could say something that
to would cause our friends who have rather un-
re consciously and undesignedly, or in any 9th
er manner, suffered themselves to be severed
from our Order, to return again to their first
love, and labor with US as of yore, for God
We and humanity. Never were the signs so en-
couraging and the prospect of success Sc
fattering. The voice Of commentator now
.a salutes US from whence once the harsh notes
ice of distrust and disapprobation came. The
I'll cries of the struggling victim to free him
'ut from the tolls in which he has been caught
appeal to US with unabated intensity. Suf
hi fering womanhoOd and neglected orphanag'
en- send up their earnest prayers to US not tt
emit desert them in their time of trial, till we have
zen saved their husbands, fathers, sons and broth
O. ers from the inebriate's degradation and woe
Shall we turn a deaf ear to their e~ntreaties
of and heartlessly allow them to go down tn
oD- sides of the pit without an effort to save p
Shall we have them charge us with a want o
zen faithfulness else they might have been save
ken from a drunkard's hopeless doom? Forbi,
it neutrality-suspicious. it gracious Heaven
av;. We would send then a clarion voice into tn
fec ear of every Son ofTemperance, and of all VIII
per- have ever belonged to our Order, once more t
come out and take a bold, decided, energeti
,raI stand, and labor with zeal and f~ervency fc
cen the rescue of our fellowmen. Has your ID
nks vision gone down !? Set to work, then, wit
'no a determination that it shall be revived an
rtv. flourish again-such a resolution formed an
7ere carried out by five good and true men, wi
'ocl- ensure a prosperous and useful Division. ]
now Ia IoL. ...
lade = - o0'U' O'6 !.
lore Visit among your Dretnren, arouse them {
they appeals to their love to the Order, by exhibi
and ing the good to be accomplished, &C., ar
lave you will be rewarded not only by the appro
al of a good conscience, but scores of yol
and friends will be saved through your efforts
Used Try it
- 4O "