Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-19
WHO Is RIGHT!

severe critic would say, contradicto-
ry. tits plain that the writer did not
like the temperance lecture of the Rev.
j.. H. Reynolds. What sarcasm against
the Dover correspondence. In phrc-
biological phrase, cOInbativeness is
very large" in the Uranium of South
slider. Rev. j. III. Reynolds has de-
livered the lecture in question at Be-
thesda and Peytonsville, his home
both Methodist communities Nobody
has charged him with teaching that
members of the NJ. L. Church, South.
can make, buy, sell, drink spirituOus
liquors, without disciplinary protest
or expulsion. He is sorry the new
rule" did not become a law; he is glad
the old one remains. So am |. lie
feels that the same idea is cOuched in
both, only the verbiagc of the new
rule makes it more explicit than the
one in the discipline. He thinks that
the present law is not so vague as to
Iorsid execution or application. To
the trained mind the present law is
sufficiently clear; to the masses the
proposed new rule is of easy compre-
hension. The suffiIges of the annual
conferences were in favor of no change
All loyal Methodists acquiesce. This
is the platform of brother Reynolds.
[ am willing TO risk him. | have in
vited him to deliver the identical Ice
ture OIL the south side of certain
river.
How can one publicly enter his
caveat against the temperance lectur-
ers and writers of his community, and
yet be friend of temperance? Where
is the reconciliation? Is there not a
difference as wide. as deep. as rugged
as canyon of Colorado? Is lie not,
as Mr.. Burke in austere irony said Of
the national assembly, THE ablest ar
chitect OF RUM" The dextrous Cap
uchins never choose to preach on the
life aud miracles of saint till they
have awakened the devotional feelings
Of their auditors by exhibiting some
relic Of him-a thread of his garment,
a lock of his hair, or drop of his
blood. SO it seems ihat the writers
against temperance organ cations and
iecturerS, before they write, take as Il
beverage modicum of ardent spirits.
Then, almanac divines," trcmble at
the iulminatiOns from olympus.
Temperance, as to its organic, cps
tClary and proclaimed character has
done, and is doing, much good. The
fountain by the hillside, the cistern
near the mansion, the well where hangs
the old oaken bucket" have, time af-
ter time, sejaieed over returning prod
igals. On the yirtges Of temperance
aud the evils of iutemperanle the ora
tor has made his happiest effprts, logic
has written its most iorcible lines and
the painter has drawn his most heart
stirring scenes.
Intemperance claims a greater car
mage than the battle field. IL has
driven the merchant prince from his
marble palace to lanes and alleys
Many young man. honored for his
talents and priced for his usefulness,
has it eternally ruined. A beauty with
jeweled hand amidst the glory of her
smiles aud Transporting music of her
words, gave him a conventional %
dram. Such is the commencement,
but who can tell the magnitude of the .
catastrophe? Star alter star palcs from
his crow His banner no longer
waves in the breel4S At a hallowed in
fluence. He is Abandoned IL society.
Without self-help, like pebble Ia a
Wountain torrent, he is urged on. Who
will co1G t. his aid? He needs some
thing better than aG occult theory
Who dare stand ON the nargiG Of this
food, with his back to the sufferers.
and with pen and tongue arrayed like
spesss in ThcrmOpyl9 pass against
the approaching temperance organiza-
tons and lccturerSi
Oh what is the history Of intempe,
lpce for even this day! How many
splendid argosies have struck the fatal
rock and gone down with all on board!
How many tears shed by widows and
orphans have baptized the mound of
lew made graves. This day the soul
If the l,arble has blcd as the incisive
,hiscf cut the irapkards epitaph.-
How many trembling spirits karg gone
o the regions outside the horizon Of
he sURriSe-thc outer darkness"
FAIR PLAY.
COLLEGE GROVE, TENn., Juae 3.