Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-04-10
But oh, how aches that parents heart,
When DER his mind dark shadows fall
The child so loved so reared with care,
Is deaf to virtues friendly call;
Is lost, is doomed to endless woe,
While fond hearts bleeding DER it mourn.
And in their bitterness of grief,
Curse the hour that child was born.

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Is deaf to virtues friendly call;
Is lost is doomed to endless woe,
While fond hearts bleeding DER it mourn.
And in their bitterness OF grief,
Curse the hour that child was born.
NV friends, | need not trace further the
remote cause Of drunkenness. The drunkard
himself is rarely able to recall the particular
circumstance that made him one. The vice
creeps upon him insensibly, and he is involved
in its fetters before he is aware, and when too
late, he finds he has drawn upon himself the
odious name Of drunkard, and exchanged eve
rything lovely, orderly and decent, for a com
pauion that Liteh like a SCI pent and stinge;h
| like an adder. The remedies recommended
for the cure Of habits Of iutempcrance are Of
/ little utility at best, and, unfortunately for
/ the mi, rests of humanity and the happiness
/ Of mankind but too often thrown away on
| the confirmed drunkard. Deaf to all entrea-
/ tv, his march is onward and downward to
/ damuation; he reels and staggers on towards
/ the gates Of hell, regardless alike of the con-
| tempt or admontiOns Of those around him.
His friends may be mortified, his property
wasting. father, mother, wife, children, all
may groan IN agony, OF weep in sorrow all
are unheeded in his downward course to &c
structiOn. No situation in life seems suffi
cient to arrest him. | Ihave seen the drunken
son at the side Of his parents coffin and the
father st gger at the burial of his dead child.
1t h 5 BEEN proposed to mix various articles
of the materia medica with the dIunkard's
, drink for the purpose of breaking up his
, morbid habit, such as taiter emctlc, ipecac,
lobclia, &c. Such cures, however, ere dan
gerouS, and might destroy life 1t has also
been re commended to saturate every article
: that the drunkard uses with liquors, so he
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, This cure like the other, is fallacious. The
only hope of a permanent cure is in the Order
of the Sons of Temperance. 10 your Order
the drunkard owes his salvation. The same
\ good YOU do to day, you may also do to- NOR
Y row, YOU may look back with pride upon The
past and take courage for the future.
Ladies and gentlemen of Homony Division,
the noble gratitude of the reformed drunkard d
the PRAYER Of the widow and the blessings o
the orphan are yours. You have raised th'
d drunken outcast flom the lowest depths o
q deg adation and misery, and restored him t.
&c his family, his country and his God Io'
L have wiped the foul stigma from your beau
u tiful Ilomony Valley, that you were all a va
rt ley of drunkards and gained for yourselves
l. the plauditS of an admiring country, for be
- ing among the first TO make united efforts t
SC pat down the most destructive of huma
Id vice, and direst of human foes. | beseec
:y you then, to keep steadily in view the object
IN tor which you are banded together. Let
cy not be "a mere matter Of foimality that 20
have gone through an initiatory ceremon.
'al and enrolled ourselves members of this Oh
an der The temperance cause is too sacred, t.
ed holy to be tritled with. Remember, n
no friends, that you are pledged one to anothe
en- by every principle of honor that can biz
de man TO man, to abstain from the use of into
TN icating drinks, and use your best endeavo
lds to exterminate the vice in this communit
NY How noble. how benevolent the object. HC
IN great and how glorious your reward. NJ
Its the Almighty God be with you all. A
the may truth, mercy, justice and wisdom go W
ol you. III