The Trinity journal., 1856-02-02

ELOQUENT ExrRAcTs.-"What fills the
almshouses and the iails? What hangs yon
trembling wretch upon the gallows? 1t is
drink! And we might call upon the tomb
to break forth: 'Ye mouldering victims
wipe the gravc-dust trembling from your
brow, stalk forth in your tattered shrouds
and bony whitcncss, to testify against the
drink Come, come from the gallows, yon
Spirit-maddened man-slaycr; give up your
bloody knife, and stalk forth to testify against
it! Crawlfrom the slimy ooze, like drowned
drunkardS, and, with sulocation's blue ana
livid lips, speak out against the drink! IN
roll the records of the past aud let the Re
cordng Angel read out the murder-Indlct-
mcnts writtenin Gods book ofremcmbrance;
aye, let the past be unfolded, and the shrlekS
of victims wailing be borne down upon the
night blast. Snap your burning chains, ye
denizens of the pit, and come up sheeted in
the fire, dripping with the flames ofhell, and
with your trumpet tongues testify against
the damnation of drink OF those
who began this work, some are living to-
day; and | should like to stand now and
see the mighty enterprise as it rises before
them. They worked hard. They lifted the
first turf-prepared the bed in which to lay
the corner stone. They laid it amid persc-
cution and storm. They worked under the
surface; and men almost forgot that there
were busy hands laying the solid foundation
far down beneath BY and by they got the
foundation above the surface, and then com
menced another storm of persecution. Now
we see the supcrstructure, pillar after pillar,
tower after tower, column after column, with
the capitals Love, truth, sym
pathy, and good will to all men, All old
men gaze upon it as it grows up before them.
They will not live to see it completed, but
they see in faith the crownng cap-stone set
upon it. Meek-eyed women weep as it
grows in beauty, children strew the pathway
OF the workmen with flowers. We do not
see its beauty yet-we do not see the mag
niicence Of the supcrStructure yet because
it is in course Of erection. Scallolding,
ropes ladders, workmen ascending and de-
sccnding, mar the beauty Of the building;
but by-and-hy, when the hosts who have la
bored shall come up over a thousand battle
fields waving with bright grain, never again
to be crushed in the distllery-throu%h vine
yards under trelliscd vines with grapes hang
ing in all their purple glory, never again to
be pressed into that which can dcbase and
degrade mankind-whcn they shall come
through orchards, under trees hanging thick
with golden, pulpy fruit never to be turned
into that which can injurc and disease
when they shall come up to the last distil-
lery and destroy it, to the last stream of
liquid death and dry it up, to the last weep
ing wife and wipe her tears gently away;
to the last little child and lift him up to
stand where God meant that mankind should
stand; to the last drunkard, and nerve him
to burst the burning fetters, and make go-
rious accompaniment to the song Of freedom
by the clanking Of his broken chains-thcn
ah! then, will the cope-stone be set upon it,
the scallolding will fall with crash, and
the building viii start in its wondrous beauty
before an aatonishcd word'-John b.
Goag4.