The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-27
Address OF Rev. L.. w. Brigham at
Montpelier.

l.. w. Brigham of Whatcly Mass, for
merly of Rutland occupied the pulpit at the
church of the Messiah on Sunday Aug. II,
and in the evening addressed the Ladies
Temperance Society at Bethany Church.
The following report ofhis remarks we find
in the Montpelier Jeu,nn.
The Rev. Mr.. Brigham said he was graft
fed to find our meeting of the social order,
every one being at liberty to give in iesti.
mony in favor of the good cause, This field
was so large, and the call foc laborers so
urgent, that we could hardly wait for con
gratulatons: we must indulge in only
enough to keep our courage up. We are
coutending with an evil that has for its root
appetite and avarice, which are deeply i'm
beddcd in the deprayed nature of man. 1t
has been growing and increasing in strength
until its gigantic proportions shadow the
whole land. sapping its very life, and threat
ening our country with moral financial ruin.
The great sums of money that are used to
send and spread misery, crime and death
over our land, cannot be computed. 1t is a
sin with which the sin Of slavery can hardly
be compared. That was sectional, COM
paratively, although it cast its blightng in
flucncc over the north, and the life of the
whole nation was endangered by its death
throes. This sin extends over the whole
civilized world. Men look at it with blinded
eyes. The love of it comes between them
and clear sight of its dire consequences
When society protects itself by laws from
it and its evil results, they are called sump-
ua,y-uacOnstituti0nal. But they have
been tried by our highest courts, and pro-
nounced constitutional, for they have UNI
dcrlying them the principle of all law:
''Thc greatest good to the greatest num-
Der The first thing to be done is to try to
open the eyes of the people to a full sense
of this monster evil, and make them to feel
and look upon its evil consequences as they
would if caused by anything else. So
with moral suasion in one hand. for those
who have understanding and will sec, and
law in the other, for those who are so blind
that they will not see, will 30 forth piano.
piled to meet the enemy, and with Gods
blessing we may in the end hope for vic
tory. Ten years experience with Good
'remplars in helping to reclaim the fallen,
had taught him the uselcssness of the task
of helping a man to reform unless he was
possessed of a spark of manhood, and used
all there was of him to help himself. He
must be made to feel his personal respon-
sibiity in the matter-that, without his
greatest effort all other helps are futile. If
once the tide of public opinion could be
set fully against this vice, it would sweep
everything before it. Mr.. Brigham said
he once lived in town where no intoXi-
cants were sold or drank. Not for one
| hour would there have been tolerated a
drinking shop or drunkard. At dance,
one evening, in this town, ayoung man be-
traycd to his partner by his tainted BREATH
that he had partaken of the forbidden. She
whispered to other ladies' in the same set.
after which he could find no partner, and
soon the young men waited upon him out
of the room, out of the house, and gave
him permit to leave town. Temperance men
and women must first awake. In this
place you have commenced Alright. Go on .
Call in the Indifferent. Strengthen your
forces by educating the people on this sub
ject They but need to see the enormity
of this sin to make them your allies. Keep
to work. God bless you! Keep to tc0rk!