The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-09-16
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From the Cincinnati Gazette.
pie Of Honor and Temperance

From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Temple Of Honor and Temperance.
MEssBs. EDIToRs:-The Societyabove
named was never more prosperous than
at the present. The meetings Of the
Grand Temples this year have shown a
life and energy that astonished many of
its most active members. The attend
ance never, but once before, as large as
at the last session Of the Supreme Coun-
Gil, which met this month. The reports
from ten States were, "the Order is
looking up; the determination is fixed
TO 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 had as high as
eighty-fOur net increase in the past year
Several new Temples have been institu-
ted, and others waiting to be organized
We have determined to assume an active
position in the Temperance cause in
this State We have two Graud Lee
turers appointed to travel, and lecture
on the principles of the Order, and or.
ganze new Temples, and we are happy
to say, their labors 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 yet mem
Der of the two that have bcenImost pop
ular and numerous, and know that there
is deep-seated prejudice, in the minds
of a large portion Of the community,
against them, as reformatory societies;
and they will laugh at you if you talk
of reorganizing either of them. 1 have
found this objection urged by all the
leading men l have talked with, in IF
teen counties. 1 have not found this
prejudice against us, but have been told,
in thirty different places, "Yom order
is Just lohat zoe t0alt; 10 IS no use for
as to try the Sons, or the Good Tenn
piars; u i5iUbe money thr0igR diCaV; then
hire had their day; Our reliable men lgiU
not touch either Of them" Our pledge
is life-lasting. Our ceremonies make
a deeper impression on the mind, and
have an attraction that no other Tenn
perance organization can boast of. Our
fraternity is equal to any of the "old
and ancient orders" in helping and
protecting a worthy brother, or his fam
lily. You will have TO "traveF far be-
fore you find our degrees (six in num-
ber) excelled in beauty of thought, Of
the forcible manner in which the truth
is presented to the mind Ii is not
merely a Temperance society; it labors
to educate the mind, cultivate the heart,
and beautify the soul.
1t proclaims an uncompromising war
with intemperance, proiane swearing,
gambling and fraudulent dealing. i'll
has been thought that the millennium
was upon us, because Christians could
come together and pray, while, in this
Order, many of the best men in the diff
ferent Churches have been for years la
boring 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 har-
moniously. for God and humanity. You
ask, 'What has it amounted to?' II
will tell you a little that has been done:
In eight Temples we have, within the
last Eve years, picked up fity-seven
men that were common drunkards, that
arc now worthy members of the Church |
Of Christ. In those eight Temples
can point you to one hundred and three
husbands that were drunkards, that are
now sober, industrious men, besides |
many others, who would ere this, have
been sots. is not this a work worthy
of the Christian and philanthropist2
Can a man that believes in tho Christian
religion, place o price on one rescued
fom,tho grasp Of Iutemperanoo7