Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

of the pool and note the effect. From TINS
point will start out tiny wave that VIII
grow larger and larger until breaches the
entire circumference of the pool, and this
will be followed by smaller waves in
quick succession until the entire pool is in
motion. And thus it is with our Influence.
The example we set has its influence upon
some one, and they will be actuated by
that example, and thus the first wave from
the pebble has gone out on its mission !
the next will pass it TO the third, the third
to the fourth, and thus it becomes wide
spread in its circulation. Do not, my
friend, say that you have no influence.
Do not withhold that. the giving of which
will not impoverish you, for in SO doing
YOU may directly or Indirectly help in the
downfall of others. Oh, my Christian
brother, how much your presence would
cheer and encourage US in our work, and
how many are looking to you for an ex-
ample. Have you no sons on who you
hope your mantle will fall when you are
gone? on whom you are looking in your
declining years with the fondest hopes OF
a parents heart that they will grow up to
manhood spotless and pure, to sustain
your good name and character when you
haYe passed away? If so. then remember,
dear brother, they are looking to you fol
an example, and the Master as surely calls
for you TO do something in the temper
ance cause as He does in your Christian
work other ways. Oh, what suffering and
misery rum is heaping upon this fail
land of ours; upon every breeze is waited
to us the sad, agonizing wall of broken
and crushed hearts. The plenty that
crowns the rumseller's board, the costly
apparel they wear, the diamonds that
sparkle upon their persons, the luxurious
homes they possess, what are they but the
price of blood; the price of untold suffer
ing inside the drunkard's home? All! the
wicked shall flourish but for n season
Hank, bark! my brother, my sister. Dc
you hear that sad, despairing wall, that
famished cry Of want that is borne upon
the zephyr from all over our land? Listen
it is calling to you and me; yes, it calls as
surely as did the Savior by night to the
Apostle Paul in vision, Come over into
Macedonia and help us. To you. Oh
Christian man and woman, it says, Come
to our rescue and help US. Will you heed
the call and lend a helping hand in the
work of reform? Grid on the armor and
be marching along, and cry aloud ant
spare not. Lift up the standard among
the people and God will speed the right
To arms. to arms, We brave,
The aveugiug sword unsheath;
March on, march on, all hearts resolved
On victory or death.
The temperance star is in the ascend
ency. and never shone with brighter lustre
than to-day. Now let US strike hands in
this great work earnestly to hasten the
advent when it shall be said, it is done. ]
love this work of reform. 1t is in the
spirit of Christian love that l have endeav
ored to pen these lines. love to mingle
in the associations of Christians and
Christian work, for it brings peace and
Joy to the heart. And now, my Christian
brother, if there is in the temperance
work anything that is wrong, will you
not come to the work and help us to make
it what it should be? Workers in the
cause Of temperance, take courage. All
along the lines of this army,a general ad-
vance is being made. Weld faithfully
the sword of temperance, and soon we
shall see the foe driven to the last ditch
and we q conquering army, standing upon
his fallen kingdom; and with the sword
of truth and justice we will pierce his foul
carcass, and with its last expiring groan
thrust his loathsome body down into the
awful pit Of its own destruction.