Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-01-26
From the Journal.
Save the Young from Intemperance and
success is sure.

success Is sure. s
The whole history of the Temperance o
Reformation, in each stage, is one of Pro- v
gress. Under the first pledge againt ardent r
spirits alone, what mighty results, what t
blessed fruits followed! when wine and beer !
threaten to undo the work Of the old pledge, !
a good Providence led on the Temperance
army, to the higher ground of Total Absti-
nence. Washingtonianism did much in its
day. Sons of Temperance, and other or
CARNATIONS, have done and are doing a
great and benign work for Temperance.
But to the writer, nothing appears so bright
in promise as the present Wide-spreading
effort to save the young. An effort in
which he thinks the Church of God is to
participate, far more than ever before.
While corrupt politicians, for the sake f
the support which rum and its advocates
give them, labor, and too successfully, to
defeat our efforts, while they nulIify wise
and righteous legislation and encourage
that business which is draining the life
blood from our communities, there is hope
GLORIOUS hope, in this effort to save the
Young. While we do our utmost for the
adult, 10y moral s%uasion, and by the pro-
curemcnt of legal restraint of the traffic in
Intoxicating drinks, let us place our firmest
:, hope and reliance for success, upon snatch
/ ing the young from the snares of the de-
r stroyer. Do this and in a little while the
Y generation of drinkers of intoxicating drinks
= will-alas for them-have died ont. A
d generation of Temperance men will have
z, risen up, to stand in the places of trust anC
l. power, and they will sweep away the traf
d hc with the bosom of destruction. Nay
d the traffic will have died out for lack 0
S, aliment.
l Now, in what way shall we proceed, il
:! our efforts for our youM? We rcjoic
h that Bands of Hope are being forme,
t, all over our land, uniting children an
j. youth, under the pledge against %intoXics
Of ting drinks. Let them be formed every
l. where. Let ministers and laymen labc
~ together to promote these association
wherever practic able. There are, howcve
e? some parts Of the country where it is diff
n cult to get up and sustain such organic
of tons. And the writer wishes to suggc
l. a plan for such v%icinities which he thin
on will be greatly successful. Let the fricn
he Of Temperance procure q handsome blaI
a book for every school. Rule it into CT
Jay umns for dates and names, paste the pledg
- (Which is now published by the Americ
nd Temperance Union, with a handsome Vi
lge nette,) on the first leaf. Have it inscrib
re- as The Roll of the Band of Hope"
zen otherwise. Place such a book in ca
ok. school, with the consent ofteachcrs. Th
will let the friends of Temperance and hum;
we ity, visit the schools from time to tr
,cv, and address them on the subject of TEN
e of rance. Offer the "Rolr' for signature
all whose parents will consent. There
societies abroad formed, and meetings
ready whenever we please to 90, a
young and impossible hearts to be won
the cause. 1t is believed that teachers
ielt scholars and parents will agreeably
lred prove, and that very few will refuse to
ana roll themselves under the banner of t.
ana, abstinence. On the fourth of July
lanu there be a Temperance celebration.
III not this the most simple, efficient, and
'cca- manent plan of saving the young from
NAH temperance, and thus achieving sue
and finishing our work.
ID on f. B. !