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Temperance. Address,


Rev. Mr.. Miles, agreeable to appoint
ment, delivered all address last friday
night before Newberry Division Sons oI
Temperance. Although the time had
been changed from previous notice, and
many doubtless Trad not been apprised,
the audience was large and appreciative.
After the signing Of an ode by the Di-
vision with pleasant effect, and the Of
fering up of brief and fervent petition,
by Chaplain, Rev. John Stout, Mr.. Miles
was introduced to the assemblage, and
began his remarks by felicitous avowal
of the fact that he was not member OF
the organization before he would en-
deavor to present few simple truths in
favor Of the noble observation-disclosures
showing the dreadful results OF inrenl-
perance-ether within his personal
knowledge or from the reliable testimo-
ny of friends. ...!, ea..,
Mr.. Miles, candid statement Of his
early views relative to societies in the
which some might possibly give prior
claim and precedence 10 their e5pousals ;
elevasing the principles of their order to
a,l equal position with the churcf-the
nursing Mother of ell the elements
which sucor; soothe, sustain and sanctl-
fy acknowledgements his mature and mod
it;ed convictions, were quite happy, and
placed him the being not "a member of
the brotherhood of Temperance, but of
Society which includes within itself
all the principles of temperance, and
which commands obedience to the law
OF Temperance in all things,") where
he desired tc be with his audience-in
no euuiyOcul posi- ton. -. a., i -:
: The address as we have said was made
up of dark ife-pictures--shadows deeply
flung uthwart the hearth-stone, of bro
ken homes, and broken hearts of chat
tering gibes and cruel DEMONSTRATING
love!iness, the pail of death, and the
yelling grief of tender, helpless girl.
hood and unconscious. infancy. The ad-
dress was az it should have been we
think, all appeal to the heart agonies en-
gerdered by the insidious monster
Rum, and not an intellectual dissertation
about the effects of alcohol upon the
blood and brain, and the nerve forces,
or an argument deduced from statistical
reports, &C. ~
Mr.. Miles closed his address by q rec
ognition of, and adversion 10 the fact
that societies instituted for the purpose
of alleviatlng Distress assuaging grief,
want, helping up the fallen,
evil, elevating, ennobling
and blessing men in all the ramifica-
tions of fsociety, were, not inimical to re-
ligion, but were its active allies, and as
such he wished the Sonsof Temperance
hearty God-speed in the good cause Of
making men truer to themselves and
hence more noble in all the relations of
life. -, ~ Fe
Mr.. Miles took occasion to remark
that while he had always thought it a
to an audience for the speak
er to confess himself unprepared, yet he
felt it due to the society he was address
ing, and the worthipessy of the theme
upon he had been privileged to speak,
to state that imperative circumstances,
not under his control, had very mate.
rally interfered with the preparation Of
his address. He expressed his deep
sympathy with the Temperance move
ment set on foot by 80 many earnest and
high-toned men Of Eewberry, and de-
clared he had never esteemed himself
more highly complimented than when
invited to address this Order of the Sons
of Temperance. He felt much more
than ne had been able to say, and hoped
they would believe he had, under very
embarrassing circumstances, done all
he could to serve the noble cause he, as
a man, and Christian, most assuredly
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