The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-09
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"7he Lord of Hosts is Nth US, the God
of Jacob is our refuge"


President. Mrs. W. II. BUTTON
Ist Hice President. Mrs. DIR. CYRUS HAMLIN
2d Vice President. MRS. s. l.. Il. SPEARE
81 Vice President. ......... Mrs. J. w. QUtNLAN
EditresS ...................MRS w. W. THOMAS
Recording Secretary. Mrs. GEO. C.WALKER
Treasurer. Mrs. V. w. BLANCHARD
THE executive committee of the ma
tional prohibition home protection
party has issued call, signed by the
chairman, Gideon Z. Stewart of Ohio,
for a national convention at Pi tSburg,
Pa, May 81, 1884, for the purpose of
nominating prohibition candidates for
President and vice president of the
United States.
THE American party managers -
Senator Pomeroy at the head, have
addressed an open letter to the eXecu-
tive committee of the prohibition party,
asking that there may be such united
action of the two parties as will result
in one nomination for both. The
American party has as strong pro-
hibition plank as the party committed
to that cause and while its main effort
Is directed against secret organizations
as contrary to the spirit of American
institutions and true liberty, it never
theless embraces all the reforms that
are dear to the hearts of prohibition
lists.
"TAKE the safe path, for | am fol.
lowing you," is the theme of a para
graph by Henry Ward Beecher as well
as the name of tract by Rev. Charles
Garrett. Mr.. Beecher SAYS: In all
your virtues, in all your rectitudes and
in all your liberties. you are not to go
trampling like an elephant through
chicken yard, crushing everything that
comes under your ponderous foot. Re
member the men round about you, and
see to 1t that your knowledge and your
liberty do not work destruction to them.
Suppose, as have said on another sub
ject, a narrow path which an expert
could walk, running along the face of
cliff to spring. You could 90 down
easily ; it is rather II plcasurable excite
ment to you, and dip water out of the
spring and drink it, and, turn and
come up safely; but it is in the neigh
oorhood OF a school of children, and
thew seeing You do it, think they can
do it too. One goes down and tum-
bles over; another goes down and
plunges over. Would you go down
such path as that, knowing that the
children would follow YOU? No matter
if it was a spring of medicine, you
would not do it.
How much the temperance reform
owes to ''modern improvements The
steam engine whirls our workers from
sea to sea the electric telegraph makes
their engagements-the telephone car
ries their splendid speeches to the'shut-
inst and now comes the stereopticOn
and oilers to bear the temperance gos-
pei to every creature that walks the
streets. In Boston the W. C.. r. L.
have arranged with an Illuminated adj
vertising company for tho privilege of
| throwing some two hundred illuminate
ed object lessons by means of the stcre-
opticon on one of the great thorough
fares of the city every Saturday night
of the year. The streets in the vicini-
ty are thronged continually during the
evening, and groups of young and old
stop to see the pictures as they are run
through, creating much comment, SOW
ing seeds of truth III the minds of those
who never hear temperance lecture
or read temperance paper Besides
these slides prepared to order, the pro-
prietors have interested themselves
and bought sets of slides, "Sewal's
Stomach Plates," "The Bottle" and
others which they exhibit gratuitously,
as their contribution to the cause. One
feels inclined to shout at such tidings,
"Shine abroad, thou temperance Cos
pel' and to take long breath of in
spiration and courage Union Signd}.