Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-06-09

tions, acting under the great Captain of Sal
vation, avert so awful calamity. But MEM
bers of the church may say that we belong
to higher society, and this thing of tenn
perance society is too small business for
them. Now, remember, your Divine Master
was willing to do good in any form he did
not consider anything as too little for him.
Upon one occasion we find that he washed
his disciples feet; so then you should be will
ling to come up to the help of the Lord in
every good and noble cause. But you may
say that there is danger of these societies sup
planting the church. If there is danger,
then it is your duty to join them and keep
them in their proper place; for they will 60
on and they will prosper in spite of all the
opposition which you may throw in their way.
If all the members of the church were uni
ted in this great movement, the supposltion
is that the relative power of religion will lu-
crease and all opposition shall gradually die
away; and all the happy millions of this
continent shall live together as brethren,
adoring their Creator and Redeemer, and
lending cheerful influence to every good
design. Then will be day of glory such
as the world has never witnessed. AS the
sun rises on Sabbath morning and travels
westward from Newfoundland to Oregon, be
will behold the countless millions assembling
in the temples with which every valley,
mountain and plain will be adorned. These
considerations are not to be set aside as q
theoretical discussion. We have an agency
in fixing the destiny of generations to come; ;
and in fixing their destiny, in what we shall
do or neglect to do. In this very matter OF
the temperance cause, Christians in the
United States have a character to sustain or
to lose. They are to receive the appreciation
of posterity for perseverance in well-dolng,
or TO be sentenced to public reprobation as
betrayers ofshigh trusts. They are to be re-
warded as benefactors of their race, or to
share the doom of the servant who hid his
lords money in napkin. When John
Carverand his associates landed at Plymouth,
and afterwards John Winthrop and his as
sociates arrived at Charlestown, they might
have doubted, on some accounts, whether
their names would be known to posterity.-
They labored, however, for the good OF man
kind, and laid foundations with distinct
and special and declared regard to the bene-
ft of future times Their posterity remem-
bers them with inexpressible gratitude, and
their names will receive new tributes of ad-
miration with every succeeding age. Our
humble instrumentality in this cause will be
commemorated, if we are faithful to our en-
pagements. But should we become weary
of our work and relinquish it, should its
difficulty dishearten US, and the confused
shouts of the enemy terrify US; should we
say that these Anakims are too tall for US to
encounter, and their Notifications too strong
for US to assail and that We must leaveto better
men and after times the glory of such high
achievements Should we fold our hands
and say that we must remit our efforts, and
make up our minds that our children and
our childrens' children for centuries to come,
are to grind in the vast prison house which
is preparing for their reception? If these
are to be our conclusions, let no man write
our epitaph. The sooner we are forgotten,
the better.
It is painful truth, but thousands Of
facts prove it to be truth unquestionable,
that large number of those who are regar-
ded as the real friends of Christ, are in no
degree awake to the responsibility which
rests upon them in this matter. Christian
friends, if you are opposed to the temperance
cause, .sstell it not in Gath, publish it not in
the streets of Askelop," lest you should be
the means in the hands of Satan of destroy
ing immortal souls.