Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06

Again, lntempefance S"o'
except in disregard OF the solemn
warnings. in violation Of all the teach
mos and in bold defiynce of all the
threatened judgments Of the Almlgh'
ty. and under such circumstances &c
become Incorporate, to walk the patn
wherein to become drunken is posi-
hle is holding controversy with the
Alm;obtv. and In which man, poor,
foolish, stubborn, thoughtiess man
sooner or later, will be terribly over
come and confounded.
The elementary, the cardinal doc
tuine, IN all our Instructions must DC
the warning injunction-"touch not,
taste not, handle no" anything tna'
can intoxicate. ''Look not upon tne
wine, when it giveth it's color In the
cup'' assigning, as personal consld'
,eration and reason, "For. at last i
biteth like a serpent and ssingeti
like an adder" and enforcing this
4sline upon line, precept upon pre-
cept." In your school of temper
ance, all, from prsttling Infancy u
tottering age, must be prolouhuls M
impressed, that none can even .o'
with anything that can ihcoAicaI'
without infinite danger OF lt'slnS d.
of value to him and his-that ll'oAl
cants are but the ministering angel
of the common enemy of God an,
man, sent out by him to, and which
will, enchain and ruin all who will
tarry, to listen to their enticing
syren voices. That safety lies, alone,
in the full and honest performance OF
the obligation of your pledge, in the
spirit of its beautiful legend.
Then, as advancement and prog
ress is made in the suggested tenn
perance school, it will become neces-
sary to instruct in moral science,
social duty, personal obligation and
accountably, making in fact a round
ed education.
And your committee, and each
member oft, thinks further, that poe
try and music, painting and song, nor
the winning smiles of woman, shall
be utilized only by the workers in the
perverse schools of intemperance, but
believe, and hence have been and are
determined that all such sweet evan
gels ought to and shall be transferred
into your systems of temperance
education, that with all their soft,
though invincible powers, they may
WOO, persuade and lead into your
temperance university, your Union
many to learn and embrace our
temperance gospel, and be induced
to walk in our ways, whose ways are
ways of pleasantness and ALL whose
paths are peace. g.
Such being the understanding, be-
lief and Judgment of your committee,
will account for the order and char
acter of the exercises each evening
of its meetings. Your committee
has, at all times, toiled to make the
exercises, each evening, attractive,
entertaining and highly educatinnnlL
and Instructive. Much attention has
been given to the end that the sweet
est songs, most enobling music,
should be rendered by the highest
musical ability and best trained vol
ces--the interest felt in the youth,
has induced many recitations and
declamations by lads and misses
respect for the cultured literary
tastes and habits of your citizens.
has induced the reading of many
original essays, or selections by Ia
dies and gentlemen, while for what
may be termed the general combats,
your committee has furnished the
best thought, the most varied expe-
rience, the most persuasive eloquence
and the ripest scholarship, at its
command, for service, upon the plat
form, in the advocacy of its great
truths, that underlie, cluster about
or depend upon the work in which
you are SO ardently engaged.
While so striving to obtain the
most valued labors of the ablest adj
vocates of your cause, your commit
tee has been alike careful, that no.
person, whatever may have been his
reputation, as temper
ance worker or advocate, however
desirous such may have been, to ap-
pear upon your platform, should so
appear, until your committee were
amply satisfied, that no word should
be uttered that would make the cheek
of virtue tingle, or the head of the
christian to droop, or from
whom should be vended the stock in
trade of the peripatetic lecturer, an
tiquated stale, or ghastly jokes, or
vulgar personal history, to the per-
of the minds of the youth, or
the insult of the good taste of your
Your committee thinks so much to
be necessary, to explain the uniform
classes, character and variety of the
exercises of your public meetings as
we'll as the real theory of your work,
as your committee understands 1t,
and upon which it has acted. And
your committee thinks the fruits of
such theory, applied in practice as
are most obvious and val
liable, as seen in the regularly in
magnitude Of the crowds at
ending your regular meetings, the
constant increase of your member
hip, the manifest elevation of private
md public taste i'll your city, the
apid diminution of crime anu cense-
luent increase Of good order, in your
community, the largely increased at
enhance upon all the schools and
egular services of the churches, in
7oar city, and above all, the utter
of all "middle walls of
'artition' that may have, in other
ears, divided your people.
Your committee is happy further
0 be able to report that drunken
ess is almost entirely unknown in
our city, so far as her citizens are
oncerned, that temptations to the {
oung are most rapidly disappearing
nd, as evidences of these, your COM
,ittee need but state, that through
ut the entire holidays just, past, not .
single arrest was reported by the
olice of your city, though that po-
ce is most vigilant and vigorous in