The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-17

proud of the high moral courage of our little
band, and regard them as the nucleus of a great
social and moral power in the community.
The Independent Order of Good Templars COM
pose the grand army of social reform and progress,
and they are moving forward silently and resist.
lessly to the accomplishment of their object. They
have achieved n victory over themselves; they
have enlisted for life, and bear onward the proud
banner inscribed with total abstinence to a glori-
GUS victory over others-to the regeneration OF
man, and a final triumph over the use of intoxl-
eating liquors as a beverage.
Brethren, let US not forget that we have a great
work before us. We have to struggle against in
terest, prejudice, appetite and passion. 1t re-
quires the exercise of patience, firmness and per-
severance. Let US with fortitude pursue the line
Of our duty under the guiding stars-Faith, Hope
and Charity-the emblems of our degrees, and
success will crown our efforts. There isa power
n strength in our union that no individual genius,
however brilliant and lofty, can ever attain in
moving the minds and hearts of men. An undis-
ciplined rabble, however numerous, can be put
to rout by a handful Of disciplined troops and a
few men banded together for n common object, if
properly disciplined, acting on one common plat
form, and guided by frmness and fortitude, csn
overcome any obstacle, conquer any difficulty
can rout and put to flight the whole host of error.
Let us remember that intemperance has caused
more crime and woe and wretcbedness on the
earth than either war, pestilcnce or famine, and
Its effects have been actively felt in the accelera-
ton and Development of these evils. 1t has re-
duced the rich and opulent to want and beggary.
Ii has stripped the purple and fine linen from
those who have lived in case and luxury, clothed
them in rngs and turned them outcasts into the
streets. 1t has changed scenes of love and domcs-
tic happiness into dens of loathsome and hellish
discord. 1t has destroyed families and covered
the brightest and proudcst names with ignominy
and reproach. 1t has made more widows and
orphans than the most desolating wars. 1t has
produced more disease and death than the pesti-
lence which walketh in darkness and the destruc-
tion that wasteth Mt noon-day. 1t has dragged
angels of intellect down from high places to grovel
as driveling mockeries in the dust. 1t has been
n terrible moral and social Upas that has scattered
poison and death and ruin around. 1t has filed
the insane a%sylums, prisons, hospitals and poor
houses with its deluded victims. 1t destroys char
acter, blights hope, ruins the intellect. 1t causes
ON3N A'OhSA
debasement and ruin, sercs the heart, fires the
nerves, maddens the brain, causes premature
old age, and destroys every noble and manly SEN
timent in it's wretched votaries. 1t palsies the
arm, the heart, the brain. All the best affections,
the noblest energies Of the mind wither under
its terrible influence, as if the desolating fires of
Gods wrath had swept over them. The pearl
of the soul Is melted away in the fiery cup. 1t
insidiously corrodes, and finally sweeps away
every religious feeling, every bright dream of the
future, till the drunkard drifts hopelessly through
the portals Of death to the dread doom beyond.
Well did the great Apostle of the Gentiles
So reason OF Righteousness. temperance and judg-
ment to GOMEZ" These three propositions lie at
the basis of Christianity. Temperance is the main
pillar in the structure. Indeed it supports the
edi6ce. Sweep it away and the vast fabric
would fall crushed to the Garth by mans social
generalization. No ~intemperate man can be n
true Christian. The pillars Of heaven have not
their foundation in the deepest hell but upon
the firm and durable basis of temperance, Chris
would grow and flourish with q beauty
md glory lit by the smile of God 1t would then
be indeed the religion of humanity. Then would
Is influence be for the regeneration of the race,
Tot only religiously, but socially and morally.
No religion can flourish in its purity where there
S social d~ebasemcnt. Temperance should be
aught and preached as the basis OF all Christian
Tirtues, and no religion is pure and holy where it
8 not thus taught. Why are the ministers of the
;ospel not among us? He that is not for us is
.gainst us, and n pretended friend who withholds
rs active cooperation, encourages the opposition,
nd is worse than n declared enemy. Among
uch friends We will find the neutral ports where
are fitted out.
And woman noble, generous, sympathizinp
roman I, where is she? Has the influence of eli
withercd her lofty virtues, or has she not a
Ugh moral duty to perform in these isles of the
In every other land she is the first in every
and beneficent enterprise. She is the great
and enlightener ; she is the generous
with the woes and sorrows of man.
With a high moral courage and mistaken perse-
erance, she enters heart and soul into the good
1ork, as if it was part of her nature, and with
virtue is its true, great reward. She sOothes,
clevates-sbe gladdens our Order with her
resence-she enlightens by her counsel-shc
by her disinterestedness, and excites our
imiration by the moral sublimity Of her char
,ter as she binds up the broken heart and pours
into the wounds intemperance has made.
he is the Good Samaritan, who ever stands ready
it'll her generous aid. / see her not here among
wearing the bright insignia of Faith, Hope and
UdIlly. II ~ HOt dIOucc ITOm UtT lcb1drgy
I'd find that she has a great moral duty to per-
rim? or will she set supinely with her arms
lded as she finds man drifting on to ruin We
wife you to come stretch forth your hand and
We those who are ready to sink into the abyss of
and wretchedness. Here is the theatre for
e exercise of great moral and social duties.
hen, come and join us liz the social work, and
member that
aThe world was sad. the garden was a wild,
And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled" -
Our Order especially recommends itself to the t
'ung. Within the sacred precincts of our Lodge
is safe from the allurements and tempta-
ons which the ~votaries of intemperance 80 Sc
ictively throw around it. With us it learns les
Ms of wisdom and experience, and is strength
ed by the examples OF frmness and resolution
hich the older members set before it. Then too, =
the morning of life, in the glow and gladness
youth, ere a contact with vice and crime has
aimed the purity and freshness of the heart, is
9 proper time to form habits of sobriety and
mperance-to take n stand on principle and
nth, and battle through life for the right. Thus 4.
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