The daily gazette., 1879-05-09
Z Temperamce.
For the GAZETTE,

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A writer In the Republican, who does
not know what he Is about, takes "Afen-
tor" to task for writing about religion,
not being responsible for Mr.. Butchers
course. If such irresponsible writers as
he would not write and speak SO much,
1t would not entail so much writing on
others. Surely religion has a right to
defend itself, and the friends of temper
ance to set its principles in q proper light.
We had right to correct the Philadel-
phia paper, that Mr.. butcher had fallen
from grace, and inform the public that he
had never had any religion to fall from.
We know that he made use of God and
religion in his speeches and took ministers
and churches to task as II he were holier
than they, and seemingly professed re-
ligiOn, and 1t was encouragingly reported
that he was Methodist; but, as we
said, he belonged to no church, did not
go generally, except with butchers clubs,
NC. That we were right in our defense
Mr.. butcher himself said, we believe in
his last letter, as If something ought to
be said to disabuse religion of himself or
in his own defense, he was only poor
sinner saved from intemperance. So
"Mentor" need not go any further in
proof of his writing. We do not wish to
go into history of the past. We are
glad Mr.. Samuel Hall acknowledged he
knew but little about religion. We tell
him now that merely reforming from
drunkenness Is not religion; making
temperance speeches is not religion !;
hospitality to drunkard deceivers and
dissemblers is not religion. Mr.. butcher
got much glory here that Mr.. Wells and
others ought to have had considerable
money that some others ought to have
had. There ought to have been no
butcher clubs. Don't name societies
after men or deify them till they are
dead. Mr.. butcher is not the temper
ance cause, and modesty ought to make
such men forbid that reform associations
should be named after them. Many of
the moral reform associations don't know
the origin of the temperance reformation
to whom honor is due. The hole of the
pit whence they were digged and who
digged. There stands George w. Wells
who had been digging for years and the
women's temperance society of Whining
ton; and the women's Ohio crusade which
was the greatest religious temperance
movement save that of the Church ever
in this country and whose tidal wave
swept over all this country and reached
our Town Hall in songs and shouts and
earnest work. There were the ministers
and the members of their churches, and
the unfortunate signing pledges, and the
temperance reformation. Many believ-
ed that had the temperance cause been
carried on under the same auspices,
greater, better and more permanent
would have been the results. Mr.. Wells
labors were worth more than Mr.. Dutch
ers. We say not this to disparage Mr..
butcher, and to set the cause in its pro-
per light, and that the admirers of Mr..
butcher should not give up their tempe
rance principles because Mr.. butcher has
departed from his integrity, and then
say, aye have taken away our gods, and
what shall we do ?" Do! We will tell
you what to do. Adhere to temperance
principles. Do! Do good. Do. Get
others to join the temperance cause. Do
Help to shut up the rum-shops vote
right. Don't depend ON blowing. "Keep
thyself pure and avoid all appearance OF
evil" Instead of self-conceit and self
righteousness and self-assertion, "Let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall" Go to church, you have
need of it. Pray; you have need Of
help. But above all, flee to Christ, that
you may be made partakers of divine
nature. "a prudent man forseeth the
evil and hideth himself, but the wicked
pass on and are punished" We have
been brought into this writing by Mr.
Hall and the necessity of setting the
temperance cause in proper light. Mr.
Hall thinks he had better not write. We
think he had better hold his peace. He
thinks we ought not to publish our name
We are not afraid of publishing oul
name, but we say it, is about as wei
known as his; principles are better thar
names as we sign ourselves again.
MENTOR,