The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-23
INTEMPERANCE.
BY P A. ROSS.

PSAohON SolilEC1oa We pAttJ yOO
God speed in the grand and noble work in
which you are engaged. Continue to adj
dress yourselves to every condition of suf-
fering humanity increasingly labor for
the moral. social and personal ameliora-
ton of mankind, and no matter i'll what
guise you may find the cankerous, implaca-
BILE foe of Intemperance, exercise all the
vim and energy within you for its over
throw and determination. Have the cour-
age of your honest convictions and the
daring independence to work for God,
and Home and Native Land" regardless of
all viperine opposition.
Be assured that if you do your whole
duty you shall be signally victorious, for
God has always largely rewarded the faith
full servant. ''Be not afraid. neither
doubt, for God is your guide"
Thank God the time is fast coming that
where our fathers had sideboards of liquor
and wine their children will have libraries
of Bibles and religious publications-a
period when with glad hearts you can ex-
claim, in the language of an inspired
writer, "Intemperance is at an end, inf
deity is cut off, righteousness is grown,
and truth is sprung up" Be not weary
in well-doing for in due season you shall
conquer, if you faint not.
Temperance people, take courage from
your past victories and press forward with
renewed diligence, for only by hard,
Will ba lot of
the earth be converted from seething vice
to golden virtue-from the bane of liquor
to the blessedness of sobriety-from the
dominion Of sin and Satan to the obedi-
ence and glory of God
A regenerated man who was once as de-
graded drunkard as ever shuflled through
the streets of New York. tells me that
there are distilleries in this city Tor, as
the tramp calls them, dead-houses), where
five cents worth Of rum can be bought BY
a poor drunken outcast And worse than
all this, five poor drunken tramps may
"chip in" one cent q piece, and at these
places purchase his measure of rum and
then stand around that place of death and
divide the contents. They of course re-
ceive more and stronger spirits chan they
can at the lowest dive. And from these
distilleries is dealt out to the wretches
any quantity, even on the Lords Day, by
displacing a brick from the wall of the
building. This is what the tramp calls
drinking through a stone wall" men,
tion these facts as they must be new to a
majority of our readers, and also to ask
our friends of thigh license how large
tax should be levied on the respectable
distiller, T" who will even wink at such q
base prostitution of man and business
E.rchdnge
1.-The success of Christ's mission in
volved the destruction of the whole world
of falsehood and unreality. of which every
existing religious, social and political in
stitution was then full to OVERLOOKING.
The Kingdom of truth, therefore, from its
very nature, must enter into deadly con-
Aict with the kingdom of error, and as
such it must exert revolutionary in1u-
ence on every department OF mans lndi-
yidual, political and social life until it has
effected it's complete regeneration. H-Ro,c
Signing the pledge is merely taking
away the great stumbling block. The
work has to be done by the chaplain. The
minister of souls has to bring the man up
to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who alone can save him from the foe into
whose hands he has fallen. Therefore the
rescue work must be religious work. -
Canon Ellison Chairman c. b. T. s.
Among the facts referred to in a pam
phlet entitled, English Woe, = is one as
serted to by Archdeacon Farrar, that in
four hours in one evening, in one city,
sc, SOB women were seen going into public
houses. The statement is startling, and
reveals a painful aspect of our social con-
dition.
The brain is the palest of I'LL the inter
nal organs, and the heart the reddest
Whatever comes from the brain carrie
the hue of the place it came from, and
whatever comes from the heart carries the
heat and color of it's birthplace. Homer.
The life Of a nation is not i'll political
institutions. and not in political parties,
and not in political or great men, but in
the love-inspired, home-life of the people.
Dr.. j. G. Holland.
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