The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
TarPley's Shop.

As announced Mr.. Rankin of
Pulaski was at Sharon yesterday at
the appointed hour and delivered a
lecture in the interest of the order
known as the Temperance Alliance.
Mr.. Rankin is an honest man and
we think is doing, and is calculated
to do, in his honest way, a great
work for the prohibition movement
in our state. His speech yesterday
was so simple in its get-up, so solid
in its argument and so earnest in
its delivery that. all could under
stand and none could refute; and
the result was he organized a lodge
and got for its membership 46 of
the best people of the community.
We also have at Sharon an order
known as the l. o. @. T. and if you
will allow US space in your most
valuable paper we want to tell your
many readers how it was organized
and something of the good it has
done for our community. l said in
my last we were live, energetic
people and l made no exception.
Two years ago / could not have
been so explicit on this point, some
of our big hearted men were bound
as it were with a strong chain, and
were unable it seemed to extricate
themselves from the grasp the
great curse of our country had up
on them. Some of our most useful
business men never came from Pu-
laski without being under the influ
ence Of whisky, and others kept ii
all the time in their homes and
their systems were never free from
the influence of the accursed stuff
And our churches it seemed were
powerless to throw any restraint oil
| check upon the influence this mon
ster evil had over US, for some oil
the parties who were INDUCING in
this ruinous habit, l am soery tC
say, were members of our churches
About a year ago some of these par
ties met on a Sunday afternoon fol
a social chat and during the even
ing their conversation was turned
upon the subject of intemperance
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themselves became terribly alarmed
at their impending danger and their
inevitable end in the near future
without change and they one and
all resolved to make desperate eff
fort to free themselves from this
evil. They went to work in earnest
and in a few days got together II
persons and organized the lodge
and they have continued to work
and continued to gain help in this
grand work until to-day they mum
Der about 65. Now as to the infu-
ence of this work on our communi-
ty. Our attendance at church is
almost double what 1t was a year
ago. Our Sunday school has chang
ed from a dead, Intellectual work to
live, earnest, efectual, interesting
and flaming work with almost doub-
lie the attendance, and in our pray
er meetings we see an interest that
was a stranger to US only a short
time ago. And thank God We have
not got q drunkard in our commu-
HlIJ anu DuI lOn Vi lAC SO-OhllSO
moderate drinkers. This is only a
small part of what we might say of
the great good this temperance Or
ganlzation has done for our neigh
borhood. In conclusion we want to
say is it not about time our preach
ers were with US personally in this
lodge of Good Templars? We feel
certain that we have had their pray
ers and we also feel certain that we
owe much of our success to the in
iuence of said prayers with the
most high God, who rules all things
for good, but could they not do US
more good and could they not labor
more effectually in this grand work
if they were personally with US in
this great temperance work.
FRAGMENTS.