Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-22
Extracts from the Addresses Delivered
by Rev. p. b. Fisk and Rev. III.
p. Cushing at the Barton
Temperance Meeting.

Mr. Fisk began by saying that he
was pleased that this meeting had been
opened by prayer, for this work depend
ed on competence for success. He was
pleased also that the prayer had con-
tanned sentiments and petitions that
were necessary for the times and ref
erence was made to a portion of the |
prayer which asked that we might have
the backbone and the other bones nee
essary to carry GU the work" The speak
er said that he sympathized with the
Incorporate man, but he detested the
rumseller and when he discussed the
subject of temperance he was accused of
being too radical. But one must be rad
ical if he treats the subject of temper
ance there is no middle-no conserva-
tive ground. 1t is less difficult to be
radical temperance men now than it once
was, even in this part of the country. A
few years since in every town, graln,and
potatoes were worked up in whiskey stills
and almost everybody drank whiskey.
Then the question was, not whether one
should drink liquors or abstain from
them, but how much one could drink
and not be considered Incorporate At
that time temperance societies were but
just beginning to be known. and one of
the first that the speaker ever knew, was
formed, not so much that it might save
mems life and reputation, as that it
might prevent the loss of money by the
cost of the expensive habit. In the So
ciety mentioned it was agreed that each
member should. at the end of every
month, report when. where, and how
much liquor he had drank, and also its
cost. This society resulted in much good.
as the cost of drinking when it was taken
account of, was such that great ma
| ny abandoned the habit from its ex-
J pense and others were ashamed that a
foolish appetite should so often make
them debased. The speaker mentioned
one other society, which he denomina.
ted the best ever known. This consisted
of one member, collegiate, who to pre-.
, serve his health, resorted to this means
r He made daily record of the food eat
en-, the fluids drank and the exercises
; taken, aud whenever anything was foune
| injurious to his health he discarded it
n Very soon after he began to note the eff
i fects of his food and drink, he wrote il
9 his minutes, Call kinds of liquors az
l injurious Never from that time dit
: he use anything of the kind he wa
S temperate and lived to be extremely old
He was renowned for his virtues and re
markable for his strength and health
his prospects for a long life unimpaired
when sad accident terminated his life
at the age Of ninety-six. Temperate
societies of that kind, where men hav
abandoned drinking or have never az
quired the habit, because it is dcleter
7e Gus to health. ruinous to ones mean
es and fatal to happiness here or hereafte
p = are the best possible to form, and tt
ct speaker would rejoice when the worl
Mt was blessed by multitude Of them.
ne better love of SELF its purity, its hon'
and its worth, should be learned by ii
IS, best training, that we may come up
to higher moral standing. The speak
m referred to the great sympathy felt f
he rumsellers, but thought the sympatI
was only terrestrial. If a class of pc