The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-05-20
Editress Woman'S Temperance Column

EditreSS Woman's Temperance Column
IN the Register:
In thinking and looking over the vast
multitude with which we are coming 10
contact all the while, feeling there is an
evil which is hunting them down to des-
truction and he'll itself-heads Of fami
lies, fathers who are dragging their belov.
cd ones, devoted wives, tender children,
to poverty and ruin, no wonder that
women are rising with enthusiasm to uuel
the storms which are bearing their loved
ones away
In perusing the latc accounts We see
that women are on the track OF King AL.
cohol everywhere all over the land. Cast
your burdens upon Him who rides upon
the wind and directs the storm, and even
the seas obey Him who is able to help us
still. Mothers, it is for you-for me to set
early examples in the cause of temperance
and christianity. See that these little ones
committed to your charge take not the
first downward step
There is not mother in the universe.
trust, who would not lay down her life
for her child. How many mothers have
already done SO, striving to teach them
ito live soberly, righteously and godly in
this present evil world Teach them that
eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard.
neither hath it entered into the heart of
men the things which God has prepared
for those who love Him. Temperance
and christianity belong together Verify
l believe that no man or woman can be a
christian unless they are temperate.
almost hate the word Temperance, but
abstinence rather from all that iptoxi.
Gates.
These Old mummies who are weighed
down, degraded below the level of the
brute, | hardly think We can do much
for them, but We may and can do some.
thing for their children.
They who are SO scorched with this in
toxicating liquor until their flesh has be.
come iiAe a sponge and they are SO bloat-
ed that you CAP scarcely know whether
they are man Or rum barrel, it seems
that such cases are almost hopeless for
US to have one ray Of hope for them; but to
Him who rules in the armies of heaven and
among the inhabitants Of this lower world
We would commit and commend their
cause. He only can save them, but the
rising mothers, sisters, It's
for you to be on the alert while it is call.
ed to-day Watching carefully, tender.
ly our beloved ones. bending these young
twigs, jus: as we would have the tree in.
clined, day by day teaching them to as
pire to something noble, something that
vii outshine, outlast when these mortaIs
will have put on immortality. Mothers.
believe our children are like plans in
the garden, which need pruning and hoe
ing all The while, careful not to have
weei- about them. Never be weary in
weli'doing Your influence will be. felt and
feared long after yoar bodies are laid
away 10 the grave
However much We may love our chill.
dren, dear as they may be to Us, purely
as we may wish to keep them, tcnjerly
as We may dande them, they must mngle
with the world; therefore it becomes Us
to lock after the welfare OF our neighbors'
children aud try to do them good.
The young man who steps up to bar
aud drinks his first draught never thinks
OF being drunkard. The young man
who takes the first game at cards never
thinks Of being gambler No. uor the
mother who bushes the babe in her bosom
-lulled in her lap of luxury, thinks that
it will ever overleap the bounds of recti-
tude and virtue. No no no But
such Is life. To arms Mrs &.