Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-27
COMMUNICATED.
Temperance,

Good TenpIailsm is booming in cur midst.
Miouchaha Lodge, organized ebout ten months
since, With membership of only ten. has
grown into aourisLiog Ledge Of about forty
mem trs, composed of the most energetic, 10,
fu,ntial workers Of cur community; aud still
they c5ms, for We have application for adnis-
sion nearly every meeting night. Our growth
has far Exceeded our mostfauGuine expectations.
Our Lodge is spreading herself like a green
bay tree" plated by The rivers of waters, and
shedding her benign ilhletc, throughout this
entire neighbCrhood. 1t seems that the people
| ere just beginning to understand what Good
Iempsrlsm is, and to fully realize that it is not
something to be despised or rejected Of men"
but to hnd cut that the Independent Order of
Good Tempars is not only designed to cure the
| laebllae and avert the possibility of bis filling
On uOllmely or drunkard's grave, but also to
educate tho young OF cur land 10 sobriey aud
lncu!cito ieto their young minds tho
| Importance Of totally abstaining from all that
| can lnt3xcate, and teaobiCg them 10 aDhor the
beWllderlog sparkling elixir of death" alcohol"
| which We are told biteth like serpent and
stirgoth like an adder, and which has been de-
| ciaret BY God as only fit for those who are
hclcs OF pordlioD. The Biblc says
Train up the ycuog in the way they
should 60, aud when they arc old they
| will not depart thcrefrom." This is what We
are trying to DO, for an ouroe of proven
ton IS worth a ton OF euro. Ought any
| Christian man OF woman refuse to cid US by
their 90 operation aod influence 10 this noble
| work? Tho word of God answers tho question
in the negative, yet tho vast ms ,riy OF Chris
tians content themselves by remuiLing neutral
10 this matter. They propose to compromise
With this gigantic evil, By taking 90 active part
IN trying TO drive from our midst this moral
desolator, this fell destroyer of the peace and
responsibility of such largo portion Of the hu
man family. We would say to all such persons
that God thuDders agaiss: all compromise with
evil AID toretclS certain defeat, for tho least
compromise with evil is moral treason to God.
They say, they arc temperate. We'll. we ad
nit that. but no Christian, | hope. would feel
a spark cfpride 10 sayiog that ho did not know
what lutox:cition wss. Christian friends; your
|sympa,hlcs aud good wishes without your CO.
opcrailoo in this particular struggle is worth
nothing. We appeal 10 you to take m ore active
and stronger part 10 thiJ struggle to rcsc 10 our
fellow man !rUm the demon OF drink. We ss-
scrt Without fosr of contradiction tba,
The church has it 10 it's Iower to
roll away the stone from tho mouth of the moral
sepulchre and bid humanity rise from this state
OF degradation and ruin. Is she doing it ? or is
| she not rather folding her arms and bidding the
iniqultous pillows surge on2 Let tho church
stand out as cloar against the sin of the battie
and the curse of the gre shop as it standst~ day
sgsInst irfdelity, superstition, or crimes of any
her recognize the Independent Order of Good
Tom plsrs as an auxiliary and give US her hearty
cooperation and will venture to say that in
less thsn three years every erog shop and drink
ing saloon in our State will be closed and LEGAL
option swallowed up in prohibition; snd the
ststa would no Longer give legal sanction to a
Traffic that is purely sn agency for evil. IAN
lshlhaollto warning against all the true interest
| OF man." S.B. w,
! 1nE PLAINS. VA, March 26!h, 1880.