Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-19

upon the Unity Of the Order,

OF the Grange:
Sisters sad Brothers Of Pahoas of
Husban1ry..
In the language Of the immortal
Poet, Coming events cast their
shadows before" Your meeting here
to-day, to celebrate the anniversary of
this goodly Order in connection with
thousands of other similar meetings in
every district, county and State in our
Union, under the same wholesome
polity and for the same laudable ends,
portends the approach of momentous
evants either for the veal or adversely
of the laboring classes generally 1t
is within your power by your wise,
prudent and temperate conduct, to
make this day day of rejoicing in all
future time; day on which dawned a
new era to the world, rejecting fresh
and brighter light to illuminate the
dark and rugged pathway of the hum
BILE farmer. A day that gave birth to
an organization of sacred principles
that it adhered to aud properly Guilt
waited, will raise the tiller of the soil
above the frowns and contemptuous
taunts Of his less worthy but more ar
rogant fellowmen. Eight years have
elapsed since our glorious Order first
unfurled to the breeze its bright ban
ner, and the tocsin first sounded that
sacred talisman that aroused the farmer
from his mental torpor. quickened his
slumbering energies and liberated him
from political servitude preparatory to
the great work of reformation. No
Order was ever raised on frmer
foundation and none has ever made
the same unparalleled advancement
commencing itself by its imperishable
principles to the highest and humblest
conditions of every patriotic class OF
society. Justice is its weapon of war
fare and with it in hand it has bearded
the railroad monopolies and other
rings of injustice in the west, and they
have succumbed to its sacred wand.
By adhering to this holy principle
your power for good is illimita bic
but we are fallible beings and liable to
commit many errors, and it is my pur-
pose in this lecture, in my feeble, des
ultory manner, to guard you against
some fatal errors we are likely to fall
into. 1t behooves you to guard sacred
Jy the principles of your Order and
develop as rapidly as possible its prim-
airy objects, as the only means of per-
petuating this day as day of festivity
and rejoicing in all time to come. The
first error L propose to guard you
against is one on which this noble in
stitution may yet be wrecked. though
its prospects to-day are so bright and
fair. mean want of unity of senti-
ment and action in carrying out the
primary objects of the Order. With,
out unity of sentiment and action nc
object, however laudable, can be at.
tanned. That want Of unity Of action
will, as a natural consequence, create
an antagonistic action in the develop.
ment of opposite effects. Hence the
all importance of preserving the strict
est unanimity of sentiment and action
in our Order. You have all, no doubt
observed the evil consequences result
ing from a want of unity in families,
in neighborhoods, in the establishment
of schools for the education of our
children, in the affairs of your County,
State and Government Unity is the
sacred principle on which depends the
workings of all the vast machinery OF
universal nature. 1t is the foundation,
the fountainhead of all creation, the
source from whence all success, tenn
poral and divine, physical, mental and
moral, must emanate. 1t is the sacred
principle that harmonizes the trinity
and binds the created universe to its
God. 1t is that plenitude of power
that keeps the vast works Of nature in
motion. 1t keeps the countless mil
lions of suns, moons, planets and satel-
lites in their respective orbits, brings
you your regular seasons, your days
and nights, your rains and SHOWS, your
heat and cold. at their proper times.
1t harmonizes the multiplicity of
sounds into all the delightful modula-
tons of music that delight the ear of
man and perfect the bliss of angels.
This holy principle. consecrated to
the success of all undertaking, is
spoken of by a writer under the direct
inspiration of the deity in this wise
Behold how good and how pleasant it
is to dwell together in unity! 1t is
like the precious ointment on the head
that ran down on the beard, even
Aaron's beard, that ran down to the
skirts of his garments, and as the dew
of Hermon, and as the dew that de-
scended on the mountain of Sion, for
there the Lord commanded the bless
ing, even life for ever more" With
outthat holy JUNCTION we infer no priest
hood could have existed, because it
was an emination from the divine mind.
Without the copious showers of dew
on Mount Hermon, on which rain sell
dom ever fell, no refreshing influence,
no verdure, no blooming forest, could
have blessed and fertilized that re-
giOn. Naught but an arid, barren
waste would have existed. Hence,
unity is likened by divine authority to
the consecrating influence of that holy
admixture used in establishing and
perpetuating the Aaronic priesthood,
to the genial and refreshing power of
the cOplous showers of dew on the
rainless mountain of Hermon. You
observe in the kingdom of nature all
around you, that all things are accom-
plished by perfect unity of action in
the principles or causes necessary for
the development of the required end.
The giant oak of the forest is reared