Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-12-21
For the Spirit of the Age.
GREENSBORO, Ala, December. 1875


DEAR EDfrREss:-Your messenger comes
weekly, spreading sunshine, difusing beauty
anu happiness. The seeker is generally re-
warned IL, cleaning in a scanty harvest, some
niue gram Is the reward; but if otherwise.
he reJ!oices IN precious burdens. So is it in
peruslng column after column of your paper.
mat our arms are filled with sheaves of liter.
AZURE. here, a beautiful sentiment COM
mends itself to the heart; there rich imagery
noios the intellectual vision spell-bound.-
NOW, well-rounded periods fall on the CRATE
iui ear like the silver chimings of vesper bells
through the hazy ~softness of the evening air:
ana anon, there bubbles up more cheerily the
happy, loving oyerfowings of a cav younr
heart. e
And we rejoice in the over-fulness. nroft-
ing oy all, and gathering spiritual life and
fragrance from the heart chronicles, that of.
ten, with heart-throbs at every stroke, are
penned hat the world may read and grow
wise. Happy hearts carol their joyous war
ollngs, that the disconsolate may be wiled
irom their sorrow. Philosophy brings from
ner store-house calming influences for the
Observation-Disclosures 4aastthe~ ~ .n Pro
OF consolation, and speaks to the storm-tossed
soul in tones that soothe to rest.
The spirit of the Age is nobly adyoca.
ting q cause in which our deepest solicitnde
is enlisted, and its appeal to woman is not
IN vain. When needed in a noble cause. can
she Wltnoid the influence ever so potent over
the heart of man? Will she not, with un-
ceaslng effort, cultivate the faculties Of heart.
ana mind, and soul, as so many auxiliaries in
acquiring a more powerful iRfuenee that win
win him from grosser enjoynhents to bask in
fhn cyrn1tnhr &c hnr a-sl1 O III 4sr3 - aZl
science, and pursue pleasure fraught with i'll
to others, she sometimes disclaims all inau.
ence, and represents herself as the impotent
something We could wish she were. should
she fail in e~nlisting with heartfelt enthusiasm
on the side of Right. But oftener. by far
does she exert heart and brain for the nro,
motion of all that is holy and good. It can
not be that witching smiles and Establishments
OF love will be added to the ruby tint of the
sparkling wine, or the tempting cup be ten
dered by fair hands. No, no; the eye of such
an one would see too distinctly, the face of a
fearful mother limned on the rosy surface
or a sisters pleading would be heard in the
chime, walked by the kissing of the crystal
tipped goblets. Too true is it, that the SER
pent smlllngly soils his folds round his unsus-
pecting victim, and though we caution ear
"NotJ "hu NofHiSiys dS our eager hearts
prompt, some will fall into the snare of the
destroyer. There would seem no danger in
one social drink, did we not know that the
chain is forged by repeated ~indulgences, and
some links are hid in each smiling glass.
Woman is the greatest sufferer when drunk
enness desolates the land. The mother weeps
in agony over the sinful career of an inebriate
son, and the wife clings with hopeless love
to the wreck of her once noble husband
Woman's smile, her song, her fearful eve are
all powerful in softening the proud heart of
man, and when once be is drawn within the
charmed sphere of her influence, his mad
dened brain is Gained while pure thonphts
. An holy resolves supplant the blind dszslav.
70 baccnus. Some there are on v nnsae tho
no tHek efs infHfaence. Fhuus gsaq hsE there is
sanall, there will be some over wb earcie De
co oi is ~unbounded; some whose ao.: ner
Dut reflections of her own onin;ons ons
None, then. can escana al. aho
b blring Jaw, and there is no one. humblss gov y
ier sell-estimate may be, whose earnas4 ie as
. leasors may not give a powerful ;mnes. en-,
NE cause of Temperance. peeus 10
we pledge You oar influence. and e a..
al : On whose ear our counsels will na.
unneeded, our voice, in time Of noe
landle not" NOT taste not,
LILY