Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-12-17
Cbe Grimitp gomnal.
WEAVERVILLE,C CALL.
sntsrdny Morning, Dccembcr ~, 1889.

/ FROM WEALTH AND FAME TO INTEMPERANCE
/ AND THE GRAvE.-E Eldrdge T. Paige, the Dow
| Jr,' of the Golden Era, whose amusing and in
structive lectures in that paper for the last ioul
| years have been read and extensively copied il
every quarter of the mines, died in squalor and
wretchedness, unattended and uncared for at Sar
Francisco on Sunday week. Mr.. Paige started
! the New York .Mercury, ten years ago, and was
at one time rich and universally admired both a;
writer and man. But he contracted love foi
strong drink, which grew upon him with age
and finally ushered him into the presence of his
Maker the verdict of the coroner's jury being
death from intemperance. His last sermon wat
on " Charity" and appeared in the Golden Erc
on the day he died. AS a sample of the authors
quaintness, we publish part of his last essay
! My HEARERS Il shall preach to you plain
common sense kind of discourse. Unlike the
cabinet-maker, who so smoothes polishes, stains
and varnishes his articles, that it is difficult tt
tell what kind of wood they are composed of,
! shall be so plain in prosody, and simple in syn
tax, that you can hardly help understanding wha
! / intend to say.
10 commence 1naJ tDere is Wllu ana untu
mable lust forever lurking in the breast of mar
to publish his neighhors share, is as correct as
! calculation for rn eclipse. Why il is that we
I like flies which take pains to light upon one
sores. shoud delight in seeking out the errors
and petit sins of brother-n blood is more thaI
| can nationally explain but true it is we al
/ have an itching thusward, and no moral physi(
nor external application can allay it. Let an in
! dvidua in the humble walks of life, who makes
! po aneio tn nj Init ri q
! fair reputation, do an uncommonly praiseworthy
deed, and the report of il dies like an echo upot
sand hill. Then let him accidentally tread up
on a little violet of mOdesty, and th thoughtlessly
pluck single bright blossom from the garland
of virtue, and it is trumped abroad TO his ever
! lasting disgrace.
Ny Hearers You have no right to tear a man.
character to pieces for the sake of patching VI
your own tattered trowsers or morality and yot
have no business to know what he does privately
if he does not publicly set pernicious example
Some of you go to the theater TO hiss and per
haps to drive u good actor from the stage, because
/ he is given to certain little immoralities. Thi
shouldn't be--you should look alone at the acto
and forget the man. You visit the place to b.
neutrality-suspicious. amused-and, il the per
! former act we'll his part" you ought to give
him just much applause as though he were
pure as chrystal and chaste as new fallen snow
! So my friends, it should be with regard to The
parson of your parish If he gives you goot
! advice from the pupit-encourage the Christian
! in his pous career-warns sinners to repentance
and points out the dangers that beset the path o
the transgressor---if he goes about doing good
comforting the widow and the orphan in the
| sorrows-visits the Sick and endeav0rs to alevi
ate the sullerings and tighten the burdens of the
! heavy faden and weary-enters tho house of al
versity and calms the souls troubled waters will
a pennyworth of the oil of peace-gives hop,
and consolation to him who is about to set sal
upon the ocean of eternity accompanies him Il
the dock of death shakes hands and sees hin
safely of, with ardent wishes for his eternal wei
lare-l say, my friends, if your pnrson does al
these things, it is none of your business if h
takes an occasional glass Of brandy and waite
behind his own door. If Betty, The servant mait
should happen to discover it and. with the ait
Of scandal-mongers, circulate it through the par
| ish-you make fuss about it, and discharge hin
| from the ministry. Now what is the consequence
Why, the poor man, not conscious of II sing |,
! fault, but pierced to the heart with the arrows
| public opinion, takes TO the bottle to drown biz
! grief-not remorse, for he has done nothing tc
be ashamed ofand feels his way in log to tb,
/ tomb as fast as he can---and YOU are the murder
ers of this unfortunate man Truly, all his vir
tuOus actions were born bat to die for the wan
of that protection and nOurishment which q fool
ish and niggardly community was never known
| to afford.
! My Hearers You are too apt 10 annihilate
/ good and virtuous reputation, merely because
! you fancy you can discover a small stain upon it
which, after all, generally amounts to no NOR,
! than ily-speck upon clean lable-cloth Th
is wrong-decidedl wrong and | hope that, b,
rejecting upon The subject, you will become con
vinced of the fact, and for the future behav,
better, grow wiser, and become happier. So
mote it be