Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-12-21
CHAPEL GROVE, Dec. IL, 'sl.

| observe 10 your ISSUE Va
1.-The 7th a grand temperance movement
in the upper end Of the county, under
the leadership OF Mr.. ]. W. Pence, such
q reformation is almost Indispensable
lin the lower end of the county. we
lhave begun to build a new town three
miles below Mt. Olive and some three
miles also from Slrasburg near Chapel
lGrove church, it has been called Moss
vile after Prof. VIM. Tell Moss,
teacher who built the first house 10
order to regain his health BY out door
labor last summer. This place Is IN
tested by stlll-houses and brandy oru-
isers. of The many sights and scenes ana
daily occurrences. We shall give but
one for all. The other day as we came
down from Mt. Olive We met first
boss shoemaker, slightly under the in-
lAnence of the deadly poison "Quite
a gentleman in the absence oil The per-
verted juice" Next we met an engineer
f,l, nm 70 the rafters-further along the
wav met No. 3. who had come to halt
seemingly located against his will, and
hest wishes. for we notlced his purposes
ware good; he wanted to remount his
horse and 20 on as if nothing had
happened. But brandy, that mean
enemy Of mankind, would work con-
trary wise, and confuse even confusion
II, self. and turn bis head sometimes
where his feet should be, there we
observed also that the horse was lat and
round, and that the saddle was deceit
full. for as oft as he would adjust the
saddle bags with the vOlumiuous paper
documents, and rememberances, NC
and put his foot in the stirrup just SO oil
| the saddle would turn and down would
come saddle.bags, precepts, brandy
Iconstable, and all. Now there was q
fault some where, either in the horse,
the man. the saddle, or the brandy.
i Well it was not in the officer Tor he
wanted on bad enough, 1t was not IN
1.-The horse for there was no wrong ID
| the horse being fat, nor in the saddle
"ior any saddle will stick on a poor
horse. so then it Is clear that all would
lh I'VE went well enough if it had no.
beeu for the devilish brandy, the OIL
sprlnc of satan the invention OF the
d .vils.u While we would give 10 satan
he things that are satan's we would not
rob God of the things that are his, the
fruits of the earth are Gods to be re-
lceiyed by us with thanksgiving, enc
used by us in every possible way con-
duciye to health aud happiness. AND
/. we may follow the good to the very
+ Verge of where it turns bad, where the
good providence Of God stop, and the
9 impudence of satan goes on, III you
, will you may observe the extreme
turning points of this question. 'Iu
the good providence of God the kettle is
40 formed as to allow all the poisonou'
yapor to escape to the open air and
loose their bad effects while wholesome
food is left as the result" In the bac
, inven ton of satin the poisonous vapeTS
, by the Obstruction Of the part CONSTITUTE
inc food so that the parties operate
: Dramatically opposite TO each other"
What God retains as good Tor food
isaiah destroys, and what satan holds
(in letters of "COPPER" God lets escape to
open air, to be desolved," but satan tc
emprison The deadly poison must resort
10 force hence that coiing brasen tube
or plpe some twenty feet long, coiled
round serpent like in q tub OF colo
water, this called loom, but 1t should
be called Crooked serpent" after lis
, author the evil one. "We have giye'
this as our belief 10 t. the dividing line
between good and 5ad--"%here Gods
Gifts cease to lie lis creature" now "e
sincerely love our neighbpr and "a
, sincerely do we declare that we lnstinc-
lively hate drunkiness, and strong
drink; land acting on these principles
: we have made call on Mr.. Pence Il
- come over and help US. If successful
We may at once organize and officer ou
army at Chapel Grove church aud g
out 10 meet the foe. But OF the sue
cess we are not quite sure-it remind
us of a revival meeting we once atten
y ded, among others a itch and wlcke'
J. iron master came forward to be praye'
for. A neighbor of his, a good honest
praying man seeiog the terable sinner
Icame forward, filled with sympath
to pray for him. o Lord Che said
~ now send some thing worth wlile-
= lit impressed US that the mao re
carded the case as desperate
, lone, and thoEght a powerful remed
= needed. So we have some desperate
cases we know but whether sc have III
y, uroper medy is yet TO be tried. G. n