Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
For the Spirit of the Age.
Suggested, by Seeing the Hall Of Pasquo-
tank Diipisinn- filed arith Ladies

Suggested, by Seeing the Hall Of PdsQuo-
tank DiDision, filled wih Ladies.
Welcome to thee ! fair daughters of Crea-
ton. Right gladly throw we ope our doors,
and bid you enter. Honor to thy object in
coming into this circle of brothers true for
with thee can they share thy labors and tolls;
pleasures and triumphs.
Truth bids thee welcome without are SLAM
der, calumny, falsehoed, and vile detraction
the King upon his throne, in pomp and state
the poor man lying at the feet of wealth
the high and low, male and female, all have
felt the degrading effects of intemperance
and to remedy this we have as an auxiliary,
beautiful Truth. We know your hearts to
be good and true, and again we bid you wei
come.
Welcome to Virtues Temple Here is
peace, and joy, and love, and lasting hap
piness fer all who enter and where sweet
Virtue ever sits enthroned. What more sui
table or appropriate companion could she
have, than thee, fair one?
Bright Temperance stands ready to receive
you, as its chosen advocate. Here within
this circle she doth rule, in brighter glory
than without the door she doth appear.
: Here are her friends, her sons, her guards,
! and all who have been most faithful in bat
6 6 ties with her deadly foe. And Temperance,
: with her co-laborers of Truth and Virtue,
: meet you here to beseech and entreat you to
! use your heaven bestowed influence, with the
Sons and Daughters of men to arrest the
{ tide of the cHrse-that sin-begetting-God
: defying-widow making-orphan creating
and whitening curse.
i They tell you, "That here is thy influence
= to be felt /; here they need your encourage
- ment, your smiles, your influence, to stimu-
= late them on in the path they have entered,
and for the cause they have SO nobly espous-
> ed. And here on the battle field, where the
sss plans of attack are drawn, where the com
~ = mander marches forth with his body guard
i Oe to beard the lion in his very den," here, We
VI repeat, you are most needed.
And when you 60 out into the world, there
show, both by precept and example, the hap
&c plying and renovating effects which flow II
= the bright train of Temperance; and tn
" wrong involved in the gift of Intemperanee
which the present seems but too willing t
.uo bequeath to future generations.
Tell them that temptations Turk aroun
them-dangers beset them-and snares ar
y set to entrapt thy wandering feet at ever
~ y. turn /; that bright in the glass, the ruby win
doth shine, and pleasures smile while yout
~. and age the poison sips but soon the tenn
ter, long concealed, comes forth and stin.
Il its victim Ruin comes; Despair doth fc
, 0Oobh SAOeOo IL ONCA q
ius doth throw the mantle of oblivion. b
> ~ them to turn away from Ruin, Crime al
~ Death, to Life and Light get them to 81
pins but one word, and that word" l WHIP,
~ and far cast the red cup of ruin and swe
ness peace shall smile upon their pathway. {
VI forth, then, ye Ministering Spirits, into t
na world Lift up the fallen head. and che
Is.el the fainting heart ; visit the family of I
Pun inebriate, and bid the author of that shan
t a;O poverty, and crime, to join our Order, a
III nn be again a man, a father, a son, a child
'nees the heavenly Father.
Go not one, but all of ye, and work ye
PLY ~ part in the great human reformation.
'g ylo know your power, and knowing it, bid J
A use it. Fair in your Virtue-smiling in y
,aseo goodness-you WELD an influence that m,
! Jug ed warriors never could.
lung your strength is in your graces-s
= 1is- your weapon is love; and your power is
nun ~sistless, when these are combined with m
est merit, and dictated by conscious duty.
a. Fail not to use, then, thy noble and sa
mage like influence, in a cause so noble and go
'1aDie and Pasquotank Division will yet arise Fl
osing her lowly position, and take her stand as
banner Division of the State for verify
!" harvest is plenteous, but the laborers
Age. few" G. W. +
81. E. City, Sept. 1857.