Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10
Temperance Column,
WEARY NOT IN WE'LL DOING.

WEARY NIL LIN WE'LL DO1N0'
Seeing so little good manifest from the
exerrtions of the past, the temptation is very
strong for the Son of Temperance to lay
aside his noble weapons of warfare, and re-
solve to no longer try to reform his fellow
men from the ruinous habits ofdrunkcnuess.
He has been long in the harness, and used
every honorable means to induce his friends
to abandon the practice of drinking and to
unite with him in his praiseworthy efforts to
reclaim the poor drunkard from his utter
degradation and shame; but his success has
only been partial-his warnings have been
unheeded and hisadmonitious disregarded-
he still sees drunkenness abounding, and its
curse darkeniug land that he loves, and
consuming the hopes Of people sacred and
dear to his heart. Notwithstanding all the
efforts that have been made, the ravages Of
the rum fend are as fearful as when the
first blast of alarm was sounded on the tenn
perance bugle. Homes are yet made desc
late, children beggared, humanity degraded,
the fires of crime famed in a fury, jails
crowded with rum-debased convicts, aims
houses sufocated with sighing paupers,
grave yard worms feasted with the premature
dead and hell thronged with the souls Of the
whiskey damned! 1t is terrible and
fearful picture to contemplate The soul
sickens as the field is surveyed. Isitstrange
that the Son of Temperance should feel dis
couraged, and tempted to cast off the har-
ness and resolve to toll no more ? Not at
all. He has done his best to arrest the
wide spread havoc and the plague-spot
burns with as livid glare on the brow Of
those in his midst as ever.
But he should not grow weary in we'll
doing, though he labor life's long day till
the lengthening shadows of its solemn even
ing begin to close in upon his path. He
knows that he is right-that it is his duty
to live soberly, and to faithfully warn his
fellow-men of the alluring dangers of the
dram cup, and to pursue this course until
he lays off the harness at the gate of the
grave. We should not grow weary for some
little good may be done when we are least
expecting it. Some word dropped in season
may go away down along the dark corridors
of the druukard's heart-away down to its
hidden door, and gently tapping there with
the finger of love, it may open, and seed
be dropped there in fallow ground long
unbroken that shall bring forth a glorious
harvest to bless, to cheer and to gladden.
Tho foiled thousand times, we should try
again for another effort may be the magi-
clans wand that shall rcnd the dark cloud
in twain, so long shadowing in gloom some
home, once bright as day with the glorious
light of love; and through the affrighted
cloud golden sheen shall speed down to a
poor wife's throbbing heart and with angel
voice bid the dropping soul 'look aloft,' for
her poor lost husband is found, and restored
to her again, pure and noble in the holiness
of love. We should not grow weary; for
another effort may be the blessed, messenger
that shall 60 to the hungry child-group, hid
den away in some dark recess from the an
ger of a drunken and brutal father, and bid
them come forth to meet parent, such as
their sparkling eyes never beheld-noble,
affectionate and sober, who shall take them
in his arms and blessing them shall give
them thousand comforts to which they had
ever been strangers. We should not grow
weary; for another trial may be the means
of bringing back proaigal son to the en-
braces of fond old father, whose failing
eyes had long been dimmed with tears
mourning him as one hopelessly lost. We
should noe grow weary; for we may be un-
consciously sowing great harvest that
many angels shall gather to be garnered in
"a city that hath foundations Weary not
in we'll doing-'in the morning SOW thy seed,
and in the evening withhold not thy hand !;
for though your eyes may never be glad
dened with bountiful harvest, yet it may
be gathered by angel hands when your eyes
gaze with rapture on bri ghter fields than
are found here on earth.
Brother! when we have we'll nigh des-
paired and been almost ready to try no more,
these considerations have fired US with ener-
gy anew and nerved our arm to give the rum
devil fight again. ..st
And so we have fought right on-help us
fight spirit the Age.