Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-08-09
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, AUG. 9, 1860.
Temperance.


81 say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven
over one sinner that repenteh, than over ninety
and nine just persons which need no repentance"
We have below a communication from an es
teemed patron, who, although personally un-
known to us, has promptly paid for hispaper the
Clme ne has had it, and now pays us compli-
ment which we cannot pass by unnoticed. We
somewhere heard Of the old man, who, when
labored with by his faithful pastor, told him to
|" go teach the young, for their habits are not
liked, and they can be influenced, but, said he
" let us old men be we have become confirmed
IN our habits" The communication below is
variation from that idea. 1t is an instance of
anolder person resolving to leave his early formed
vicious habits, and turn to the path of rectitude
and we would offer him word of encourage
ment. Verify, joy shall be in heaven over one
sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety
and nine just persons which need no repentance"
We are glad to see the moral courage which in.
duced the SHINING man to put his determination
upon paper. 1t will help him to keep bis re-
solve, and without some such aid and restraint,
it is too easy to turn again. for just this time, to
the destroying cup. Look upon the thousands
of poverty stricken homes We think we can
tell the house of the inebriate at glance The
old hats and old clothes stuffed in the absent
windowpanes the boards loose, shingles falling
off, sheds sliding from their under pinning,
barnes going to decay, doors unhung, and half
starved poor beasts, they arc no more hungry
than the little barefoot souls, born in Gods own
image, which vainly cry from hunger and cold,
and sleep on hard beds in this poverty stricken
home. Think of the widowed mother, the orphan
children. Young man, is your father such
pattern to you as will lead to such future
Are you leading q life which will make you the
object ofsuch home? Think not it is only six
cents day, perhaps, only some twenty five dol
lars per year, but that the neglect of business
and the compound interest eating you up, eating
away your buoyant energies, eating away your
noble manhood making you a brute beast in
stead Of noble, manly, stern and dignifed hui
man being, born to command and sway the ma
ton.
We rejoice if the Freeman has been in small
extent the influence by which one man has been
persuaded to turn from his down-hill course.
We have labored with no rabd fanaticism, we
have abused nobody. We have scorned nobody,
but at each passing opportunity have given a
quiet item of influence which would steal un.
consciously to the reader q sool, and teach him
Of RIGHTEOUSNESS and greatness And with
the assurance that these little endeavon have
been felt by one single person, we shall have
new courage, and make new endeavors to give
Others the Same convincing arguments as will
prevent young men from going astray, and re
call the SHINING ones back to virtues ways. We
hope every man and boy in the circle of our ten
thousand readers will peruse the following letter
with care, and lend it to their erring neighbor
! if such they have, that he may do likewise TX
Mr.. Carpenter, we congratulate him, and ask
him 10 occasionally put his ideas on paper fol
his own encouragement, and the benefit of his
erring friends. We would that every one woult
take the same wise STEP and then his dreary
household would be pleasant and his garder
blossom like the rose.