Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-03-14
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the seal of sound Judgment on its character,
and makes broad It's arena Of action. She
does much in the cultivation and enlighten-
ment of Conscience. II is by the aid Of Tenn
perance that we may duly inform, improve
and enlighten conscience, and thus save man
from the degenerscy and baseness of Intem-
perance, which makes the life Of man period
of discomfort and uneasiness for man with
out an instructed conscience is like the gilt
tering icebergs Of the poles, though grand
and beautiful, yet frozen and cheerlesz =
Again, Temperance does much in the culture
Of the rational motive power Taste We
learn that Taste fits and adapts man for that
high sphere which places him above the
brute creation. Thoughman may have Rea-
son and Conscience. yet be is incomplete
without the susceptibility in question.
Temperance is a strong stay of this facul-
ty, without which it would soon lose its beau
ty and power. As proof Of this assertion,
You have only to look at the demoralizing
effect OF lntemperance upon Taste. How
corfup are the MOI ais of the 1ntemperate
man. Temperance, also nurtures and strength
ems that noble faculty The man,
who has happy memory, has good foInd
alton for wise and just Judgment Of things,
il ne has any sagaclty Of genius to make
right use of IL; for if man must Judge the
present and future by the past memory as
sisls him much in forming an equitable
judgment Of The future A writer has we'll
said thai. = Without memory the soul Of man
won d le but poor. destitute, naked being,
with an everlasting ilank spread over ii, ex-
cept the hsstipg ideas Of the present mo-
ment
Memory brings the past into the present
it stores up the generous deeds Of noble sires
It brings to view The torture Of besieged
Leyden, and the CORY brow of Mount Cal
vary. How important, then, il is, that We
should strive to keep unimpaired and i'm
prove our memory Who will say that tenn
Psfance will not do this to a great degree 2
How many sound, active memaries have been
destroyed by the curse of Intemperance p
Agair, Temperance keeps pure and undc6led
imaginatlon do2 1t may very appropriafely
be termed the great pillar of happiness. Il
can cure when the salye but irritates Il ear,
give strength and might to the weak. and
cause the thrones of the powerful to fresnble.
| Il is this that gives comfort and solace to the
depressed, when appa, entity there are none
1t brings the weary pilgrim to the harbor Of
ease and happiness Napoleon once said
that imagination rules the world f that
master mind then gave utterance to truth.
v hat an Important faculty IL must be How
much should man not do to make pure that
faculty which can cause widow hood and or
phanage to be carried in thunder tones to the
cottage home. which can blind the eyes of
parents and relatives with tears of agony.
and darken once happy dwellings with life
long wrefchedness. But what does the cor
rupt imagination in the mind of man dol
" hat SLAUGHTER Of the natural faculties
does it make! Who can calculate the value
OF that virtue which gives an unvitiated char
acter TO the imagination No one will or
can doubt. that Temperance gives purity to
the imagination.
kut again, the virtue of Temperance is
controlling; that is, the temperate man
can govern all his natural motive powers.
which uncontrolled. soon render the strong
weak, change beauty into deformity, ema-
tia:e the corpulenf, dethrone reason, uproot
sound Judgment vitiate all good virtues and
destroy the soul. The virtue in question
keeps the weaker faculties in their proper
sphere and permits them not to transgress
their natural limits
Finally. the temperate man is one who
respects himself Temperance inspires his
bosom with principle which eleyates him
above the bascness and revelry of the epi-
cure; gives him courage and fortitude In
battling against the qualification of his appe-
tites, affections, desires and emotions, and
enables him to laugh to scorn the vicious and
perverted principles Of the inebriate youth.
Thus we may judge of the moral worth of
Temperance upon the mind of man. It Is a
great auxiliary to The full development Of the
mind which gives beauty to youth adorns
nature with the wreath Of excellence; makes
glad the parents, and proclaims the grandeur
and subliInity Of the harmony and symme.
try of natures laws. While Tntemperauce
strives to check nature in her course to
make pallid the blooming check; u bring
depression on the youthful mind, and to
make gloomy his future. To the intemper-
ate youth. no ray of deliverance CLEANS forth
to cheer him in his deplorable condition bis
present is full with perplexities and bis 70.
tnre replete with fear and evil omens. and
life seems to be dreary waste designed only
to make and fit man for horrible eternity.
'fis to thy rules Oh temperance that we owe
All pleasures which from health ard strength 5ov
Nlgor OF body, purity of mind =
Uncl0uded reason, sentiments rein.d
unmixed, untainted joys without remorse.