Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-05-30

may be gathered up and rise in a "new
and more beautiful edition.u
Ladies, many Of you who will have
been instrumental in this great work OF
q higher civilization, may live TO receive
| the blessings OF nations. Many Of you
! may see the time when the incense
OF grateful hearts. mingled with their
humble invocations that the Hand that
sustains the frail bark on the mountain
/ wave )" and conducted it safely to its
! wonted mooring, may be your ark of
SAFETY In your voyage of life to comfort.
and sustain you under cloudless sky
I until you reach the wished haven Of
| your bliss"
| I consider it fairly within the subject
! OF lntemperance to treat IL as q solemn
national concern, demanding the con-
current legislative action of all the States.
All history, sacred and profane, proves
that great national sins will, sooner or
later. be punished by corresponding ma
tlpnal calamities, in which the just may
suffer with the unjust. 1t Is also true
that national prosperity and strength
are always coupled with express or i'm
piled conditions of obedience. Adams
disobedience doomed every man to eat
bread in the sweat of his face. 1 will
instance the Jews, peculiarly favored
people. When Moses stood on the top
OF Pisgah, taking his last lingering view
OF the promised land, he had lust pre-
sented a choice to them between good
and evil, life and DEATH with promise
that, II obedient, Isreal then shall
dwell in safety alone, the fountain of
Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and
VINE; also, his heavens shall drop down
dew" But if disobedient, "thy heaven
that is over thee shall be brass, and the
earth that is under thee shall be iron u
and their rain shall be made t'powder
and dust" All the curses that were
pronounced against them thrty-three
centuries ago on Mount Ebal have been
verified. Where now is the glory of
their Temple at Jerusalem? Look at
the splendid Mosque of Omcr, standing,
as If in scorn, upon the desecrated tomb !
OF King David, where the Koran has /
displaced their Pentateuch-the Scepter |
has departed from Judah, their nation |
atty is lost, they are dispersed into all |,
nations: Shiloh has come, and they re-
lected him, and they are still looking |
IN vain for another to come and gather .
them into new nationality. Look at |
France, in the last century, when her
is no God, and death is an eternal sleep.n
For that fiendsh national declaration.
almost every hand in France was made
red with the blood of neighbor; and
the just suffered with the unjust. Now
let us turn to two great national sins in
this best land of our love-" intemper-
ance, the greater, because more widely
extended, and slavery. I" | saw the tents
of Cushen in affliction, and the curtains
of the land of indian did tremble.n Or
in other words, He saw the sojourn of
Legislation and Temples of Justice did
tremble. But, "This shall be the heri-
tage of the Oppressor,-if his seed be
it shall be for the sword
and his offspring shall not be satisfied
with bread" Ethiopia has stretched
= forth her hand, and that appeal was
answered by a Constitutional Amend
nent, which turned aside the captivity
'f four millions, left them free, and
wipes away that national sin. :
AT this moment not less than six mil
ions of our people are wading in grief, ,
'esulting from the vice of intemperancc. /
some in sympathy and shame from kim {
ired ties-and others from positive suf- I
ering and want. Do you suppose that
his vast sum of misery, the tears the
anguish of good mothers, good wives, {
he cries of children for bread, will con- 7
inually go up unheard? No! "For t
he needy shall not always be forgotten {
he expectation of the poor shall not /
'cllsll lOIcNeT.
Long trains of evil pass unheeded dumb '
ut vengeance is behind, and justice is to come" r
For this great. national sin "the ar {
oWs of war" may again become. drunk C
With the blood of our people. Some fa- t
III Simeon laden with pestilence may {
isolate our land. Your fertile country t
nay dry up like the Mountains of Gill v
oah, where there is neither rain nor O
ewn =
Young Gentlemen, Good Templars- 8
'ou have plighted your faith in a vast
nd glorious cause, worthy of your own
Ugh standing, and worthy of your coun- II
'y,-and | trust that neither of you will
ecome n n
STRANDED wreck upon the shoal of time" 9
Go on. Blot, out this greatest of ma ST
onal evils, and the time will come when g
ne memory of those who shall have Il
rought out this great deliverance will b'
3 deeply cherished, and great mauso- al
ums will then proudly rise over your ca
'mbs. Let sober, intelligent and Z
Ugh moral impress commingle with the m
ee institutions of this splendid fabric fl
government Let it rise in its beauty III
I'D grandeur as light to enlighten ia
her nations, who will then strive and &C
ope until finally the eternal Sabbath OF al
liberty shall arise, and universal man I'll
md walk forth in their new freedom; g,
here the record of the once existence ia
despotisms shall become dinmed by III
me; when the Stars an l Stripes shall oo
J the only national banner on earth al
nd when that banner, with its azure he
I'D, shall wave in common glory fiji
erywhere on Oceans wild flood, and ty
er every spot on the vast map of ma he
'ns. And side by side with that proud W
nner, and with equal pace, shall be til
blished the long promised "good til be
ngs of great joy, which shall be to all sil
ople." WI
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