Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-20
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
PINE GROVE DIVISION.

Mr.. Editor BY invitation of Pine Grove d.
vision I attended their demonstration on Saturday
last. This Division is located near Antioch church
on Kings Creek. The assemblage on the OCCASION,
taking all things in consideration, was respectable
in numbers and was graced by . handsome collec-
ton Of the better part of our kind, from the staid
matron to the sprightly, blooming maiden in all
the glow and freshness Of life. Kind feeling, har-
mony and the utmost decorum both in the Sons
and citizens characterized this demonstration. No
meeting Of the kind any where could prove more
pleasant, or evidence a higher respect for the a.
menities of social existence and that good order
which should mark an intelligent community
On arrival in the neighborhood learned On impor-
tant fact, the very reverse of an apprehension for
merly received and entertained. Antioch is o nu-
merous Baptist congregation. So far from being
a whiskey -distilling and dram.drinking church,
the congregation, as 1 have been informed, have
actually passed q law forbidding any of its mem
bers from d~istilling, retailing, or using Intoxicating
drink, and have proceeded to enforce the regula.
ton by an actual expulsion of several members
for violation Of the church law. The Baptists of
Antioch insist on the position, that they ore q to-
tai abstinence congregation. If my information
be correct, Antioch-on Kings Creek-in o grain.
growing region-in n section not long since cover.
ed with still hcuses-is far, very far in advance,
in the Temperance cause, of every other religious
denomination in York District, unless we except
the Methodists. II the strong and influential men
of Antioch congregation were now to unite with
the members of Pine Grove Division in intoxicating
the principle of total abstinence--mee with, and
encourage the young men, who are not mem
bers Of any religious denomination, in stunning
the use of intoxicating d%rink-in using all their
influence with those dram-drinkers, who now feel
sustained by the example of church MEMBERS in
keeping aloof from q Temperance society, who can
calculate the important good, which might thereby
be produced on the whole neighborhood, affecting
society moi only in its temporal but eternal inte-
rests? Can any man, when he comes to die, who
who has refused to throw the whole weight Of his
influence into the scale of total abstinence and o.
gainst the use of the intoxicating poison, lay his
hand on his heart and say, he is sure his example
has not sent some soul to q drunkard's grave and
the realities of o drunkard's hell? Let christians
reflect, and answer to their own enlightened con.
sciences. How can any man be sure in such q
case The Son of Temperance, if he have dis
charged his whole duty in this respect, can have
an approving assurance. The Sons can reach men,
whom the Church dare not take into its commu-
MON. The writer is uuler the impression, a GER
tain congregation in York has not admitted into
its pale q single male adult communicate during
the last eighteen months without being first a Son
Of Temperance.
After an address of q couple Of hours in length,
and partaking of a bountiful pic-nic, prepared
and superintended by the ladies of the vicinity, the
writer was compelled, to reach home, to be the
first to break away from the agreeable scene.