Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-04-21
Slack not Thy Hand in well
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worthy cause uot III 'uo oPeu hS'N "
traitors heart not forever in the VI
lev of undecision where nothing is e.
done not in the horrible pit where
of the filth Of the earth gathers to TO
the miry clay that holds fast the man
extravagant habits and principles
among those that come within the pa
of the church, protesting godliness, al
possessing everything but the latte
lastly, not among the temperance adv
Gates as mere mocker, playing the by
ocrite, with the poison Of asps under |
lips.
The author of those pieces that hay
appeared in the Standard, headed 6.
Burning Shame" Water Brooks an
Rum Rills," "Rum and the Count
Seat" with others of like import, mus
be admitted as one Of those not foun
among the number above mentioned
Though he may not be all that SCUM
reason and the bible teaches he should be
he must be acknowledged as one of tn
few who are regardless of "PooKET" Of
the praises of men, and that will venture
TO speak the truth. And how the differ.
ent societies of a moral and religion,
character in our country and world suffer
for the want of such men at the present
time. For the want of them we attrb-
ute the downfall of moral societies and
national authority. Men of wealth and
influence to save their money, their rep
utalioD, TO satisfy their evil passions and
selfish principles, have succeeded in court
ing the favors of the cold, careless and
Indifferent, who are almost invariably in
the majority; and thus they have sue
ceeded 10 perverting the laws Of church
and moral government, and are INDUCED
in the same until church and government
have become Invested of every power to
do justice to man and to promote truth
and good morals.
But what shall we do? Leading men
seem to be blind to the interests of man
kind and society at large and if there is
a man that arises among the sons Of
temperance who possesses a spirit of true
fidelity and frankness, he is at once sur
rounded aud furiously assailed by an
band Of temperance hyp-
,crites and the very hand that led him
along in apparent friendship while he
Kept pent up in his own bosom bis hon I
est convictions, is now ready to smite
him. for no other reason than that he has
ventured to speak aloud. The bland,
} m Goth tongued, genteel, fashionable
is now ready to turn into a
tyrant who would crush him (;
and to save himself alive will now suffer
The boated inebriate, the hoary blasphe-
mer, the merciless destroyer of the limo
cent, to triumph over every regulating
influence and power, because to them it
is paying business and serves to swell
the pocket Of leading men.
Poor deluded man ! that will try to
destroy the influence of the labors of our
friend Earle, who has faithfully presented
;he facts on this point and brought tol
light the iniquity and horrors connected
with selling and drinking liquors, spread
iug it before the community in its most
vivid aspects. Some will say that he is
not professor of Christianity and has
no right to treat upon moral subjects
Then professor has no right to induce
a non~professor to come under moral in
huences. Better talk and act more than
you profess, than TO profess and fail TO act
out in word and deed the precepts and
principles OF pure and holy profession.
II may be truly said of many, "One has
built wall, another has daubed with I'M
tempered mortar, but the wall shall be
torn down, and the foundation thereof
discovered
And let me hers say to the inhabitants
of lrasburgb, TO the members of the TEN.
perance band, and even the church,
withdraw your support from Earle and
disgrace and shame will forever sit like
a dark pail upon you and bury your viz
tues in oLlivious night. He tells the truth
and you kn0t0 IL and to leave him onI
that account is to desert the cause of TEN
Perauce. To cease reading his paper a
because he has presented these undenia- '
BILE facts is to shut yourself away from the
true light and gradually sink to the low D
ast forms of heathenism. Some say that b
Mr. Earle is making enemies. Truth. o
But he is making friends faster; not mo- e.
nentary friends, for the truth received p
md valued according to its worth make p
he receiver perpetual supporter of the d
anne. To Mr.. Earle should be rendered /
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