St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-19

my and showed that it was not all fur
even in the inactive condition of the
army at that period in the rebellion
His account of the first movement OF
the army for that campaign showed
how the soldiers chung to the many
things they had gathered in camp, and
how they dropped them one by one Oh
the march, literally strewing the way
with articles of wearing apparel, etc.
| He was followed by ten-minute
speeches from John Mcdonald, Carl
ton Felch and Albert Paddock, all OF
whom were in that campaign.
GOSPEL TEMPERANCE MEETING.
The union temperance meeting foI
March, under the auspices of the local
lodge of Good Templars, was held at
the Methodist church last Sunday even
ing. after singing by the choir, and
prayer by Pastor Culver, Mr.. w. II.
Sargent, in behalf of the lodge spoke
briefly of the object and aim of the
order, and introduced for first speaker,
Rev. d. H. Adams. He alluded to the
fact that what he should say would
necessarily be things which had been
said many times before, but that was
no reason why they should not now be
repeated. He would therefore preach
short sermon from the text, "Cursed
be rum; and let all the people say
Amen" He began by saying that the
monster intempsrance would not down
any more than Banque's ghost. He
considered the curse worse than war,
pestilence, famine or fire and told why.
Law was insufficient to effect cure
alone moral suasion was not sufficient
nothing but religion and grace in the
heart would remedy the evil. He closed
his ten minute sermon by telling a
vision he had of two mothers, which
was touching and applicable.
Rev. E. T. Sandford was the second
speaker. He referred to the fact that
the American people we're Incorporate
in many ways; that whatever they cid
they generally carried to excess. He
believed the Christians of the land
lacked courage to attack the sins and
evils of the time. He then spoke of
the Incorporate manner in which
American youth went into amuscments,
and read an article from Harper's
Young People which gave the evil
physical effects of roller skating, quot
ing such eminent authority rs Dr..
Hamilton of New York. These evils
are summed up briefly in unusual aud
dangerous strains upon muscles not
used to hard usage; fine splinters from
the floor, which fill the air and pene-
trate the air passages of the lungs and
cause fatal disease and vitiated air.
The moral effects of the rink were not
considered at length, but they are be-
lieved to be worse even than the ply
steal
After a recitation by Cora Hawley,
on ''What the temperance cause has
done for John and me-" Judge Walter
P. Smith was introduced as the last
speaker. He took for his theme, "Wine
is mocker." This comes not only
with the authority and solemnity Of
holy writ, but it tallies with the expe-
rience of centuries. He would define
the word "mocker" as ''imposter," and
if ever there was an imposter it was
strong drink. The nine hundred million
dollars squandered upon drink every
year did no good but was the cause OF
untold evil and wrong.
The music during the evening was
given by the regular church quartette
Mrs. John Marshall, Mrs. Harry
Blodgett, DR.. Grow and Mr.. Harry
Webster. The house was well-filled.