Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-08-08

Soldiers Of the Temperance army
Who should labor fight and pray,
Loving eyes still watching o'er ye,
As ye walk the better way
Are yo faithful to your promise,
Lifting up the downward trod,
Guiding them along the pathway
Ending at the throne Of God2
Sailors ia the good ship ' Temperance"
O'cr the waves of sin and shame,
Burns your beacon fire still brightly
with calm aud steady hame2
Yours the task to raise the sinking
From that guf of death and hell,
Are earnest, constant, loving
Can yc answer " An Is wellY'
Should my friend and Brother in the lecture
field, George Bramal, Esq, visit your county,
you viii not hnd him given to any incouSstcn
ccs | believe Brother Bramall is now in your
part of the State, and | can assure all Temper
ance men he is honest and reliable.
The Free Masons and Odd Fellows are also
strong and popular in Santa Cruz, and many Of
the members of these Orders are leading spirits
in the Sons OF Temperance. This Is as it should
be. A man is not exactly good Mason unless
he is temperate. And as many Of our fellow
men are so organized that taking little Alec
holic Poison leads them to take little too much
! all good Masons and good men will not regard it
as hardship to abstain entirely for the sake OF
the benefit their example will have on their fell
low men, The Apostle Paul eujons this where
he tells the Romans that" we then that are
strong ought to bear the inhrmites Of the weak
and not to please ourselves" | care not how
strong man may be, mentally physically or
financially, if he allows alcohol to get its fearful
/ angs fostered on his vitals and on his brain, 1t
| will weaken, wound and dlahonor him. The
safest course is to abstain entirely. The example
of the teetoteller Injuries no one, the example OF
I the moderate, respectable drinker IS what keeps
up the drinking usages and customs, aud upwards
of Gity thousand persons perish annually IN tue
/ United States victims Of Alcoholic Poison. II
would require grave seventy miles long TO con
/ tain tho destroyed of the vice Of lntemperance
annually. This is worse than war The conse
auences to individuals, families aud the Nations.
/ OF the use of what all are the better for abstain
/ ing from, are most fearful to contemplate. Re
aection on the subject will in general lead all
good fellows to take u stand with the Sons OF
Temperance ia their efforts 10 redeem and re-
store their erfing fellow men.
noble young man of this town, named James
Heacox, soldier Of the 2nd Regiment, died here
/ this week, and was buried with all the honors of
! the Sons of Temperance and the military
/ Heacox was Christian, too, and was one Of the
first to volunteer in defence Of his country. Dis
ease contracted in the army carried him off
/ Three young men OF this town have died in the
army since the war commenced. The throng OF
ladies and gentlemen al the recent funeral showed
how much the young man was beloved here
Rev. 7. Y. Cool preached the sermon Hon. w
L. Lovett of Monterey, nominated for the Sen
ate, lectures on Temperance here this evening
| wish all our Senators were like Eovett. He /,
one Of the rignal " Dashaways Of San Fran
CISCO and u noble fellow.
Yours truly, J. A. DAVIDSON.