The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
rhe Success Of remperance.


had ex-tempore addresses last evening
from an ex-telegraph superintendent and
an ex-editor. 1t is always a pleasure to
communicate through the columns of the
ARGUS the notable events which are taking
place in the city, and we rejoice heartily
when we find that the instrumentalitIes
of human agency are blessed with the
happy results which augur divine
approval and blessing. The religious editor
of the temperance department, who for
many years past has been on favorable
terms with the professed objects of all
temperance tidal waves, has watched with
longing hopes, and sometimes with fearful
sympathy, for the conversion and reforma :
ton of men whose talents and usefulness
have been eclipsed by the shadow of an
unregenerate habit; and has felt tender
and fatherly interest in their welfare which
was akin to "the infinite yearning' of a
beloved morning cotemparary when scam
ing election returns aud seeking soothing
Opiat6 10 IeHtfe lHc uUIIOtS VI Epu-
partizan victory.
A generous and discriminating public
ought not to infer, however, from these
introductory remarks that the religious edi-
tor aforesaid has ever felt undue misgivings
as to the ultimate fate of the gentleman
who is mentioned as ex-editor, or that he
is the person specially 10 our minds eye as
our pen traces these lines of encourage
ment and hope in behalf of those who are
already safely sheltered within the tempe
rance fold; oh! no,-the care and anxiety
which would be surely depressing, and pos
sibly more than our bodily strength could
bear, were not our spirit sustained By sub
lime faith and the comforting assurance thai
while there is life there is hope, - is the
care and anxiety we feel as religious
editor of temperance department for The
unhappy condition of tho trembling anC
purblind souls who are still in the way o
inebriatiou and the bonds of an intemperatt
appetite. If only the saving influence
which have redeemed the ex editor ant
have caused his soul to rejoice 10 tn
strength of his salvation could reacl
and redeem those who 10 times past hav
been co-editors, who have followed
as bis successors, and are now covered will
the mantle which has fallen from the shoul
ders of the rapturous and redeemed ex
editor, surely the city might rejoice an
} the wards thereof be glad. Our hearts
have been given to morning prisons an
our lips attuned to invoke the aid of
Mighty Power that their salvation nigh
be wrought, and the people delivered,
that temperance, ever blessed! and ever
glorious! might reach and save the rest o
the editors of that dearly beloved cotem
porary journal, even as the ex-edito
has had happy deliverance Can the
be saved? We trow they can. Let til
tears Of the faithful, the songs ofthe saveC
and the prayers, yea, even the supplies
/ sions of all truly good, pious, and devoted
religious editors of temperance depart
r ments Of every press in the land, be like
penitential sacrifice made early7 and ofte
T. in their be half; and though the age
! miracles is past, yet, perchance. the Ang
of Mercy, may save even them; aye, eve
this exhortation to sobriety and terperano
o possibly, they may hereafter find pIeasul
in recalling TO mind-as they think of the
course at the last city election
0 PERsONAL.-Should this meet the ey
t of the individual who created a di.
turbance in church last Sunday by h
continued coughing. he viii confer
favor on the congregation by procu
h inga bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syru
which win cure him.
FIRE.