The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-05-01

ante communion service, dispensed with the
sermon and happily spoke Of the sacred
supper, and alluding 10 the errors Of the
medaVel church, briefly and eloquently set
forth the grand principles OF the sacramental
feast. His afternoons discourse before the
prisoners in the jail, is said to have been
q noble effort.
TEMPERANCE ADDREss.-Rev. Mr.. Miles,
agreeable to appointment, delivered an ad-
dress last Friday night before Newberry Di-
vision Sons of Temperance. Although the
time had been changed from previous notice,
and many doubles had not been soapprised,
the audience was large end appreciative.
After the singing Of all ode by the Divis-
ion with pleasant effect, and the offering
up Of ! brief and fervent petition, by Chap.
lain, Rev. John Stout, Mr.. Miles was intro
duced to the assenlblage, and began his re-
marks by fcicitous avowal of the fact that
he was not member of the organization be-
fore which he would endeayor to present q
few simple trnths in favor OF the noble ben
cfactionSincidents showing the dreadful re-
suits of intemperance-citherw within his per-
sonal knowledge or from the reliable .esti-
mony Of friends.
Mr.. Miles candid statement of his early
views relative to societies in the which some
might possibly give prior claim and prece-
dencc to their espousals e!eYating the prin-
ciples Of their order to an equal position
with the Church-the nursing Mother Of all
the elements which succor, soothe, sustain
and sanctify humanity-and his mature and
modified convictions, were quite happy, and
placed him Che being not z member OF the
Brotherhood OF Temperance, bat ofa Society
which includes within itself all the principles
of temperance, aud which commands obedi-
encc to the law of temperance in all
things",) where he desired 10 be with his
audiencc,-in no equirocal position.
The address as we have said was made up
OF dark Experimentation deeply flung
athwart the hearth-stone, Of broken homes,
and broken hearts; of chattering gibes and
cruel blows-fadiag loneliness, the pail Of
death, and tue yelling grief Of tender, help
less girl-hood and unconscious infancy. The
address WAS as it should have been We think,
al appeal to the heart in behalf of heart-ago-
nies cngendered by the insidious monster
Rum, and not au intellectual dissertation
about the effects of alcohol upon the blood
and brain, and the nerve forces, or an argu-
ment deduced from statistical reports, &c.
Mr. Miles closed his address by a recogni-
ton Of, and adyersion to the fact that socie-
ties Instituted for the purpose OF alleTiating
distress, assauginS grief, relieving want,
helping up the fallen, amelioratiny evil, ele-
Yatiny, cunobling and blessing men in all
the ramiications of society, were not mimi
cal 10 religion, but were its active allies,
and as such he wished the Sons OF Tempe
rance hearty God-speed in the good cause Of
making men truer to themselves and hence
more noble in oil the relations Of life.
Mr.. Miles took occasion to remark that
while lie had always thought it q discourtesy
to an audience for the speaker to confess
himself uuprepared, yet he felt it due to the
society he was addressing, and the worthi-
ness of the theme upon which be had been
privileged to speak, to state that imperative
circumstances, not under his control, had
very materially intertercd with the prepara-
ton of his address. He expressed his deep
sympathy with the Temperance movement
set on foot by so many earnest and high
toned men of Newberry, and declared he had
never esteemed himself more highly compli-
mented than when invited to address this
Order of the Sons of Temperance. He felt
much more than he had been able to say,
and hoped they would believe he had under
very embarrassing circumstances. done all
hc could TO serve the noble cause he, as
man, citizen and Christian, most assured.
ly had 1T heart