Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-12-07
THE GOOD TEMPLARs GONE.

THE APPOINTED OFFICERS SOME OBsER-
vATIONS ABOUT THE WORK AND THE
WORKERS.
The Good Templars left on Friday night.
No convention Of representative men that
has been held here has created more ia
vorable impression On our people, both in
the material Of the order and it's high pur-
poses. They were an earnest, courteous
and self-sacrifoing as we'll as self-preserving
set of men-and women, for the uninitiated
must know that the ladies are not only
valuable member of the order but held
some Of the most important official posi-
tions in it. The Chief Templar on Friday
night appointed the following officers of the
| Grand Lodge: DR.. G. @. Barbour, Grand
| Marshal; Mrs. Mary W. Gaver, Grand
| Deputy Marshal; Rev. Geo. G. Brooks,
| Grand Chaplain J. Rice Smith, Grand
| Assistant Secretary; Charles Joseph,
Grand Sentinel. J. NJ. -Henkle, Grand
Messenger; Messrs. Theodore N. Ramsey,
R. McCantllish, w. r. Stokes. and w. w.
Wood were elected State Lecturers
| L =.
body to visit the Deaf Dumb & Blind
| School, and seemed to be greatly delighted
| at all they saw. In the music hall where
| Prof. A. J. Turner, one of its memb re-,
conducted the performance whica was ex-
| crllent, one had an opportunity to see
them.
One looks at these temperance assem-
blages with q dash of the same curious
feeling that he goes to the sea shore the
morning after q wreck. They are ali there
the rescued and the wreckers and ever
the scene is written: behold show you
a mystery" For it is the greatest of mys-
teries, first that men should 50 fall and
then that afterwards they should be saved
at all. It is not hard to tell the savers
from the saved. They are dearly marked.
The former are Of one type and the latter
are Of many, but you can tell them all.
That young fellow that looks like what is
called a mothers boy, SO neat, with SO
much Of gentleness about him, has never
been in the flood over ankle deep. He has
been long shore and been wet by the spray
now and then, but he has never been to
sea. He has found out the safe place early
in lfe.N
That gay looking fellow with the dyed
moustache and seal ring and red cravat,
is not one of those that realizes his narrow
escape and will likely go to sea again. Of
dyed moustache and red neck ties is not
the kingdom Of Temperance. just as
no Christian ever dresses loud, so no earn
est worker i'll Temperance ever yields TO
the same weakness Having stopped the
wide gap thTough which the world poured
in on him, he does not afterwards leave
frivolous leaks open
That middle-aged man, with scattered
gray in his hair, who SO patiently stood out
the Chaplain's lengthy prayer, on whose
eyebrows has gathered the sentinel's fur
row, coming from long and painful men
tai watching, is the man that will stick
He was, we venture to say, dragged out OF
the surf S;ith hardly breath enough left to
take the pledge. He is the sort of Tenn
plar thai thinks it would be better to die
than to take alcoholic medicine, and take
the chances Of going to sea again. 1t is
!
its dregs; who has of nights said, would
God it were morning and in tie morning
would God it were night!' He has been on
a Monday the sensitive gentleman, aud Oh
Tuesday the coarse brute, and it is this
sort OF man who is stung with q SHARP
pang when lie sees young man drinking.
The wEeckers, the coast-guard, who pick
up the half drowned people, are easily told
from the rest. 1t is clear from those peace
full faces that long time has passed since
they were at sea, if they ever were, and
there is a tender. fatheriy solicitude to-
wards the saved that is unmistakable.
The ladies of the lodge were pretty
enough and stylish enough, but there was
| that resoluteness in the faces of the of
ficers among them, that shows how dam
gerous it is to give woman the whip hand
of men. The title of Wife is generally
authoritative enough, but when one of
them becomes III addition a Grand Worthy
Past Vice Templar it strikes us that her
husband had as well make up his mind TO
throw up the sponge, as far as home rule
is concerned.
The presence of the State lodge here
gave a healthy impetus to the cause, and
we learn that on Friday night Prof. Tur-
ner turned a score Of the Temtlars into
Jonadabs, and on the following night an
other batch. 1t is q good work, and is all
| iml ortant to the church as well as lie
world, for we venture to say if alcohol had
| 70, and
| it would reduce the number of CHI stians
one half in a fair fight OF five years.
THE THANKS OF THE GRAND LODGE.
The following resolutions were adopted
by the Grand Lodge:
| F2eso1red, That the profound thanks of
this Grand Lodge l. o. of G.. T. lie re-
| turned to the authorities of the Virginia
Institute for Deaf, Dumb and Blind for
| the kind invitation extended TO the Grand
Lodge through Prof. A. J. Turner, and
for the great pleasure afforded lis in wit
Messing the manner of instruction and
hearing the charming instrumental and
vocal music.
ResoIred, That this Grand Lodge, I. y.
Of 6. T. of Virginia, hereby unitedly ex-
press our sincere gratitude to the members
of West Augusta and Mizpah Lodges I. q.
Of 6. T and other citizens of StauntoIl for
their rich abundant and cheerful hospital
ity during this session. also to the various
railroad and steamboat authorities who
have so generously reduced our rates of
transportation, and to Messrs. Hunter &
Co., Stationers, for their klndues in furn-
ishing this body free Of cost the necessary
stationery.
Resolred, That copy of these resolu-
lions be furnished the city papers flr
publication.
RELICS OF 4 HANGING.-Mr. Jas. T.
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