The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-24
TeReevAaEe Address.

Alta pic mic OF the Keeoluts ucd Olivo
Branch lodges Of good Tsmplars, ., Jef
ferson barracks, St. Louis, on the 18th,
II. b. Ellis, d. g. w. G. T., delivered
the following address, which was pub
lisbed in the Republican Of the l4th:
Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Eel
low citizens: am indeed proud to
NEE. with you oday, and delighted to
see the large mum bers out on this festive
occasion. as yell as pleased and grati6sa
to know that your numbers are composed
Of such hightoned, respectable and intel
ligsnt citizens and thorough business
men Of your Aourishing city. When |
see such gentlemen as these take hold Of
the temperance cause, aided and assisted
as they are by such fair and accomplished
ladies, there is reason TO believe that our
cause will Yet be success, and as each
demonstration is one further step on in
its advancement, and coming from the
direction in which it does, the proud city
Of St. Louis, with its immense popula.
ton and its great commercial advantages,
must WELD an influence which will be felt
and respected all over our broad and
beautiful state. Other counties, cities
and towns seeing you manifest zeal and
earnestness in it will feel encouraged to
follow in your wake, and as the ball rolls
on it will gather influence and power,
until throughout our length and breadth
the distant hills and extended plains will
resound and vertebrate the echo Of tenn
psrance Every school district and
every hamlet within our fair domain will
ere long feel tho moral effect Of our or
ganizatlon. Euery household will vel
come it as the olive branch Of peace to
its portals, and every member, | hope,
will enjoy its inestimable blessings
Temperance is perl of great price, and
he who would win the prize must over
come his animal appetite The general
who expects to gain the victory must be
IA hero and conqueror. Patience and
forbearance can alone achieve this great
end. A moral rsetitude of character -
with fixed, an unmoved aad determ
ined purpose, will not only bring you
peace and happiness, wealth and pros
peri,y here, but will bring you the bles-
sings of heaven itself If there were no
others, are not these sufficient reasons to
make US all Good Templars? Are these
not sufficient reasons to unite US in a
common cause ? Our interests and our
aims are in common one with the other
Then are they not sufficient to unite US
as one common brotherhood, with warm
and tratsrual feelings. uniting and ex-
tending to all the cordial grasp of friend.
ship, and throwing wide our doors and
our hospitali,ies? With such a band Of
brothers, we feel that we can effect much
good in advancing the moral tone Of
society BY raising and training the youth
to lofty aspirations and to nobls aims, by
making our lodge room moro attractive
than demoralizing amusemcnts, and by
the recognition Of common brother
hood, giving strength to tho weak, com
fort to the afflicted, aud seeking by social
means to counteract the social vice of the
age.
Individually we can expect to do but
little towards bringing about this great
moral reform. The work is Of slow
process. aud 10 as progressive as is in
temperance, consequently everyone will
see the necessity Of concentrating our
strength and our efforts, and the i'm
portance of binding ourselves together
with fraternal ties. ln union there 10
strength, aud acting in concert We can
wiold an influence aud exert a power that
We could never expect to do as individu.
ais or singly aud alone. Take, for in
stance. . sun. glass aud concentrate the
rays of light, and you throw SO much
heat upon given object that the con.
rentrated rays will soon set it on fire,
So it is with our organization, BY con
esntrating all the bright and shining
lights in the temperance cause in the
lodgs.room, and they extending forth
their warm and genial feelings bsget a
like feeling in others, until they become
warmed up aud enlisted in the cause, and
thus little lsaven leavens the whole
mass. We live for the happiness Of each
other, and by each lending his part makes
a happy family. To attain this end il
requires the overcoming Of appetite our
grosssr passions and our prejudicss. la
this organization weschool ourselves
on these points, and asws advance We
knock off the rough corners Of the
raw material, and refine and elevate
them to higher and better lfs. and 10
honor prsfering one another. Thus the
causes Of strife and ooutsntionbeing re.
moved, the effect ceases. and youhsve
instead of q bslligsreut people . peace
full aud happy society, with all tho at
fractions thrown around It to make it
a. lasting as it is permanent.
| You have selected these tarrack
grosnds to day for your picnic. Here
you have around you the weapons Of war.
fare, to hurl death and destruction to our
fellow men, and the means Of sending
untold misery to families aud generations
perhaps yet unborn. But you have met
here for different purpose. You have
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