The national Republican., 1867-12-19

AFFAIRs IN LAuREL.-In former communiea-
tion from this place gave your readers brief
dent Order of Rechabites among us, instituted
by Brother J. T. Lighter, Of your city In Decem-
formation which Immediately followed the es-
tablishment of this Order In Laurel and the ad-
Joining villages. In that letter promised to
vivai which has been In progress here for eleven
weeks past. In doing so now l do not wish to
occupy more space In your columns than the
patience Of your readers VIII warrant. Brief
let me be-"
I. Reforms never go baekwards.n The truth
fulness OF this axiom has been strikingly ex-
emplified in this community. Some OF the men
who had been initiated into our Order, and there
by saved from drunkard's grave, felt that there
as abiding guests In the family circle, that peace
and happiness which the genius Of Temperance
nss Mss ,shs
and Christian associations seemed essential to
protect the reformed husband and father from
tavern and in the rum-shop, and who, In order
to entice these men back again to the inebriating
cup, would resort to all the "praetiees Of cum
About the lst OF October last 1t was proposed to
hold G series Of religious meetings at the Metho-
The proposition met with general favor among
the members OF the church, and was responded
70 by many others outside OF the different Chris
To R6aiS 2RlesRsa EoSe AZ It was decided
the people could conhde, both as to his fidelity
as a minister and his capability as a leader. An
eyes were at once turned to him whose disinter-
here had brought happiness to so many homes.
An Invitation was Immediately extended to Rev.
circuit, tRey. William II. Lsny,j and a Irotractcd
meeting was then commenced, and still oontin-
ues, which has been prosperous beyond the ex-
pectationB of the most sanguine revivalist. For
nearly every night, for the past eleven weeks,
Brother Lighter has talked to large and deeply
Interested audiences, and as yet there has been
No noreantibla uiminutiOn In numDprB and r
tainly not In interest, although another meeting,
under the supervision OF Rev. J. w. Bull, has
weeks past. As the result Of this revival, be-
tween sixty and seventy souls have been added
K the
Among some OF the touching incidents OF this
meeting, / might mention that Of husband
pleading for pSrdoning love at the altar, while
his wife, without his kn9wledge, was seeking
Both were converted almost simultaneously.
On another evening, a wife made her way to the
altar and on tho same evening that she received
penitence at her side, and they are now worthy
members of the church, and exertlng much infG-
ence for good In the community.
In some eight or ten families, prayer and praise
now go up from happy fresides, where religion
heretofore was stranger Christianity, with
now mould the character, and seal, for eternal
happiness, perhaps, the son and the daughter,
saffoundsd thus BY such ennobling examples
piring In every community that
"0yercOme US
lake summer cloud
Without our special wonder;'
but these remarkable transitions from clark |
ness to light, and from the power Of SataB nnts |
God,n and that, too, in the absence OF all out |
ward excitement, prove conclusively that the |
work Is of God and not of men.
This protFacted meeting has not only been the |
meanh 'of changing, to very great degree, the |
moral tone of this community, but has relieved |
the Methodist Episcopal church, through the |
efforts Of him who has labored SO earnestly with
u.s. from her previous financial embarrassment, |
usehristianity follows ever in the footsteps
of temperance. Like "Juno's Swans" they go |
Occupied and inseparablen In their onward march |
for the Rmelioration and redemption of fallen
humanity.
May the prayers Of every philalthropic and
Christian heart go UP to Heaven for the speedy |
and complete accomplishment of God's great
work on Garth. u.
LAUREL, Passes 1RoR0as COUSrY,(
MARrLASD, December ID, 1867.
SELLING LIoUoR WITHOUT LIcENcE.-JNmes
BAtemAn, d FeatAurant-keeper, was arrested by
0mcer nuhnia and taken before ,JuRtice Tucker,