Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-09-01
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Temple Of Honor and Temperance

Temple Of Honor and Temperance.
MEssRs. EDIroRs.-The Society above
named was never more prosperous than at
the present. The meetings Of the Grand
Temple this year have shown a life and
energy that ss,oBished many Of its most
active members. The attendance was ney
er but once before, as large as at the last
session ofthe Supreme Council, which met
this month. TIE reports from ten States
we're The order is looking up; the deter
mination Is fixed 10 work for the spread Of
the Order In this State we have never
been in a more healthy condition than at
present. Some Temples have bal as high
"a eighty four net increase ia the past year
Several Dew'Tsmples have been institu
ted, and &hers waiting to be organized.
We hsazsseiermined to assume an active
position in the temperance cause in this
State. We have two Grand Lecturers sp-
Fpointed to travel, and lecture on Ike prin-
ciples Of the Order, and organize new Ten
pies, and we are happy TO say their Ia
bors are crowned with success. Firmly
believe the Temple Of Honor is yet to be
the great leading temperance organization.
have labored in all the old temper.
ance organizations, and am ye! member
Of the two that have been most popular
ard numerous, and know that there is a
deep seated prejudice in the minds Of a
large portion Of the community, against
them, as reformatory societies. aud they
will laugh at you If you talk Of reorgani-
zing either Of them. have found this
objection urged by all the leading men |
have talked With, in fifteen counties. /
have not found this prejudice against us,
but have been told 10 thirty different pla-
ces Your order, is just What zoe rant
il is no use for us TO try tie Sons, or the
Good Templars, Il wRI Be money hroWR
a,Oay; ahty hare had their day; our relid-
Die men wal not touch either Of them.'.-
Our pledge is life-lsstiug. Our ceremo
nies make deeper impression on the mind
and have an attraction that no other ten
perance organization can boast Of. Our
fraternity is equal to any of the old and
ancient orders, in helping and protecting
worthy brother, or bis family. You will
have to travel far before you find our
degrees (six in number) exceiled 10 beauty
ofthougit, or the forcible manner in which
the truth is presented to the mind. 1t is
not merely temperance society; it labors
to educate the mind, cultivate the heart
and be4utify the character
1t proclains an uncompromising war
with intemperance, profane swearing, gam
bling and fraudulent dealing. 1t has been
thought that the millennium was upon US,
because Christians could come together to
pray, while, in this order, many Of the best
men in the different Churches have been
for years laborng together like brothers to
benefit our fallen race. At our Grand
Temple in Ohio. eight different branches
of the Church Of Christ were represented
by men IN official stations, all working
tremendously for God and humanity
You ask, What has it all amounted to?
| viii tell you little that has been done
In eight Temple, we have, within the last
five years, picked up fifty'seven men that
were common drunkards, that are now wor'
thy members of the Church Of Christ
In those eight Temples | can point you to
one hundred aud three husbands that were
drupkards, that are now sober, industri-
Gus men, be,ides many Others that would
ere this. bave been sots. Is not this
work wolthy Of the Christian and philan-
tbropistl Can man that believes in the
Christian religion place a price on one res
cued from the grasp Of intemperance!
Reader, do you love God and your fell
low mani Will you help us in our labor
of love for our race? Are there not pIa-
ces in your community where fathers are
ruined, husbands debased, sons destroyed,
and society demoralzed? viii you not
open and retreat from the destroyer-a
place of safety, where the kind hearted
and benevolent can labor for the weak,
the victims of appetite IA Society that
has beauties and charms, one that will pos
sess elements of stabiity--in word, a
Temple of Honor and TemPerance--one
that will not break down by its own
weight, the financial arrangements Of which
will hold it together, and furnish you
with the sinews Of war?
lfany one wishes for further info!ma-
ton, and will address me at Monroe, But
lei county, Ohio, l will cheerfnlly reply.
A, W. TIBBITs.
P.S We would respectfully ask all
Editors friendly to the Temperance cause
10 give this an insertion in their papers.
A. W.T..