Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-05-06

When you see man, on moonlight
night, trying to convince his shadow
hat it is improper to follow gentle
man, be sure that it is high time for him
To join the Good Templars. s
The prohibitionists of Iowa are en-
! iorcing the prohibitory law of the state
quite thoroughly, at least in some Sec
tiOns. At the last session of the court in
Clinton County 2S rum-sellers were con-
victed. Their fines and costs amounted
to 81 900, or nearly $50 each.
| Children, says the Herald of Health,
] should never be allowed to remain in q
room where people are smoking. / have
known many children ruined by breath
ing, day after day, the vile smoke of the
father's cigar and sometimes the moth
ers pipe If a parent is so very ignorant
| of the laws of life as to smoke where
young children live, he is barbarian,
| indeed. -. $50
A THOUGHT EoR YOUNG MEN.-No
wreck is so shocking to behold as that
of dissolute young man. On the person
of the debauched or inebriate, iufamy is
written. How nature hangs labels over
him, to testify her disgust at his exam
plei How she lOosenS all his joints
sends tremor5 along his muscles, and
bends forward his frameI The wretch
whose lifelong pleasure it has been to
debauch Others, whose heart has been
spotted with sin so that it is an ofenss
to the heart of theunblemished!
The Eastern New York Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at its :
recent annual meeting in Aliddletown,
c., adopted the following preamble and
resolutions: --..---.-.. - l.,--.-.
Whereas, The financial, social, and
n.orai evils resulting from the use Of
alcoholic stimulants as q beverage are
ncalcuIable; and, ,s[.-f. ~.
Whereas, The church and the world
expect the clergy to inspire and direct
public sentiment in relation to moral
questions; therefore, --..,.-...,.. ...y....
Resolved, lst That each member OF
this Conference will, at least once a year,
preach to each congregation under his
care upon the subject o. Temperance.
RssotUed, I'd, That in his sermon upon
ihis subject such of the following facts
and principles should be presented as,
all the Judg gment Of the preacher, will
best serve the interests of the cause, viz:
/. The church, as a total abstinence
society, has the power, by organized
social effort and by special Sunday
school instruction, to make its temper
ance sentiment q governing force inso-
ciety. Therefore, it is under obligation
to do so. Ht'
3. The sacramental use eofintoxicating
wine is often attended by serious danger
to those whose appetite for stimulants is
only held in allegiance by a rigid course
of total abstinence; therefore, the expe-
diency, and even the rightfulness, OF
such use should be carefully considered.
8. 1t being physiological fact that
the use of the powerful narcotic, tobac-
co, inducing a craving for stimulants
that leads, in multiplied instances, to
the cup; and it serving no good purpose
in the economy of life; therefore, its use
should be. .discOuntenanced by9precept =
and example. '-aN - = -, =
4. BY the operation of the law of de-
scent multitudes inherit powerful pre-
disposition to indulgence in the use of
alcoholic stimulants, which can scarce u
ly fail to be aggravated by the necessary
exposure and temptations which the
use Of domestic cider and wines as bev--
erage entails; therefore such use should
be regarded as unjustifiable and wrong.
D. Those predispositions are often
strengthened by Indulgence, Until, in
the presence of the temptations afforded
by the traffic, they become sources of
motives which are practically constrain-
ing upon the will of their subjects. So
ciety, therefore, ought 10 protect its
members against such constralnt, py
organizing antagonizing motives arising
from prohibitory legal enacIments, with
such constabulary or other arrangements g
as will secure their enforcement.
6. Much of the Medical practice OF the
dav engenders tendencies to indulgence,
and feeds such existing tendencies Is it
not, therefore, the duty OF the church to
abandon the patronage Of those physi-
clans who prescribe alcoholic mixtures
freely, and substitute those who classify
them with other poisons. and admins
ter them with the caution that eIpsrf-
ence has proved to be needfug
''DEY DoN'r DIE DAT WAY."-The
comment of colored preacher on the
text, at is more blessed to give than
10 receive" is inimitable for its pointas
we'll as elouuence. '.f've known many
a church to die cause it didn't give
enough: but never knowed asehurch
TO die cause it gave too much. Dey
don't die dat way. Brederen, has any
YOU knowed church to die 'causs it
give too much ?, IL you do, just let mo
know and III make . pilgrimage 10 q
dat chuch, and IN climb by de soft light
of de moon to its moss-covered roof, and q
TiIl atand dar and lift INV hands to loay- =