Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-01
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A TEMPERANCE MISSION.

A TEMPERANCE MISSION.
LARGE GATHERING TO HEAR COOL
TEMPLAR INSTRUMENTATION OF HI
ADDRESS FIFTEEN CONVERTS TIL
MISSION FOR THE COUNTY,
&C., &C., &C.
The Good Templars this week have beef
holding what, If it were church matter
would be called mission" The occa
sion is the visit of Rev. W. W. Wood
Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge O
Good Templars of Virginia. The first o
the meetings was held in the Methods
Church, Monday night, and the large lee
ture room of the building was packed.
large number Of gentlemen having to fnd
standing room in the hallway. The ladies
were in decided majority, but there must
have been at least two hundred men there
Mai. J. w. Newton called the meeting to
order, and after prayer by Rev. Mr.. Wal
lace, of Richmond, and the singing of Am
I soldier of the CROSSE" led by Mr.. Robt.
o. Haines, the Grand Lecturer was in
troduced.
THE ADDRESS.
The lecturer is minister of the Baptist
Church, of very impressive personal APP
pearance and fine delivery, with nothing
of rant about it. His pronunciation is de-
cidedly Tuckahoe, and includes interests,
hospittle, character, and the like. He said
that there were one million Good Tenn
plars in the world, including the poor and
ignorant, the wealthy and learned, men
prominent in church and state, and some
Of the most accomplished ladies of the
land. They were allied to combat intem-
perance, which, next to unbelief was, he
believed, the greatest enemy of mana
greater evil, even, than war. This intern
perance was caused by liquor, which des-
troyed health-that was the evidence OF
the most distinguished physicians, 10000
men die every year in the United States
from alcoholic drink; it destroyed the
mind-that was the official record OF every
lunatic asylum in the land; it destroyed
asroperty-that is matter OF history; 1t
destroyed family ties-a sample was
gentleman in Kentucky, who married a
lady worth 100000, wasted her proper
1ty by drink, and last year was carried to
see bis children in an orphan asylum at
Louisville, where the death Of their mother
had consigned them, 1t destroyed proper
5y in another sense, because it made it pass
from the owner to Others. One of tie
committeeman of the Grand Lodge. which
70, GENTLY assembled in Stanton, was groan-
ing md struggling under a weight Of debt
he haG contraeted when he was a slave OF
liquor. On, the cnyetousness OF the liquor
dealer. tl,at will see man spend his last
cent that I've may put it ia his till
LIQUOR m; ,de the country financially as
well as morally poor. The money spent
for it would soon pay national, state, and
even county debts. 1t stands in the way
Of national, state and personal honesty.
It degrades character, produces crimes,
and finally damns the soul. Solomon, Paul,
Aaron all denounced the evil OF intern
perance. John the Baptist never tasted
liauor; he was filled with the Holy Spirit,
and it kept whiskey out of him. NO
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom OF
God. But see how it is spread out to en-
snarel Richmond, with 20, 900 inhabitants,
has between 300 and 400 liquor shops, SOME
of them conducted by professors OF the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. There are 1900 in
Louisville, 5000 in Chicago and 1900 in
Cincinnati. There are 1O6, 100000 gallons
of liquor drunk in New York city in
year. Staunton, he said, had Is or ~
whiskey establishments. and about three
wholesale ones. God bless the propriotors
and owners We believe in Christian
charity to our enemies, and they are The
greatest enemies the public can have.
Fay this in the name of the public good
Mr. Wood then gave some statistics
H. owing bow wide spread are the Templar
,roa nizations. There are 900 members in
Virg .inia of which 5000 are in tidewater
In North Carolina there are 49,
700, wisconsin II 900. Illinois $4,000, Ken
,uckey 5000 and so %. tie gave most
account of re Iepr esenlaIives
of all nations and races " men Ill on0
Grand Lodge of the World. In7io 10
lodge at Malta where St. Paul was sup
wrecked, and one at st. HeleIsa,s "nei0
Napolean was confined. An ex, utsion
ship had been launched at New York, 'Ae
of the stipulations about her, being t. as'
there should never be drop of liquor o.
board of her. He described the usefulness
of the signs and passwords of the order t.
members travelling afar off. Most of the
ritual of the order was to be found in
Proverbs, Ephesians, Galatians and Jere-
miah. Everybody might enjoy the meet
ings in the lodges, even the children. He
5 poke highly of the Juvenile Templars, of
Mai. Newton's lodge, saying it was raising
child zen to be men who would not drink
LIQUOR. nor sell liquor. He urged upon all
the imp, ,rtance of giving their influence
TO the orL,er by joining, whether they used
liquor or OF.
Rev. Mr.. Wallace, of Richmond said he
was RechaLite and Son of Temperance,
and then went on to take the side of liquor
in an ironical exhibition of the good it
does. He said it was a good thing. 1t
was going to pay off the interest of Vir-
ginia. It was good for a higher purpose
it would begger women and children, and
a still higher purpose-it would M axe wild
ows and orphans; and still higrher-it
would fill hell with souls.
Rev. DR.. Chas. Manly, who was present,
gave Lis emphatic appreciation of every
proper effort to promote temperance.
ADDITIONS.
Rev. Mr.. Wood announced that the fol-