The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-19
AN ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY PROF. G. T. FITZ-
HUGH AT THE ANNIVERSARY
OF The w. c 7. v. OF BROOK
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viii ne NOminS. but II seems TO me that
IL tins, the 18th, Is not solely hers, She at
least Possesses a controlling interest there.
Ini Tor never before in the history of the
world has her sphere of usefulness been 50
enlarged, never has her influence been so
great or her power 80 strongly felt She now
occupies throne so high that if all the
gllttcring thrones OF earth should be piled
one upon the other, they would make for
her only 4 fitting foutstool. And from
tins lofty throne she Is sending out and
setting to work influences that are con-
| stantly purifying the world by elcyating
and enrolling the human race.
But OF all the different kinds If work
which engage her hands, mind and heart,
there Is none, il seems, which She considers
50 essential To the accomplishment Of her
noble purposes, none TO which she has 81
ConSccrated all her efforts, and to which
she devOtcs 50 untriuglv all the energy of
her nature, As that Of temperance reform.
And to me this seems in no wise strange,
Tor when | think Of the thousands upon
thousands of human souls that are CRYING
ont in the agony of an un"nding death
from the bottOmlCss pits OF the nethcrmost
hell, and the two millions OF crushed and
broken hearted widows sending M their
walls and lamentations to the throne of a
seemingly merCilesS God, and countless
thousands of orphans whose cries pierce as
with a cold dagger every true and manly
heart when think OF all these immortal
beings brought to their present state OF I'M
told misery and suffering by the sale OF
that greatest Of evils and strongest OF foes,
whose mission on earth Is to turn back the
wheels of progress and CHRISTIAN civiliza-
ton, to blight the fearful hopes Of the fond
mothers heart, to blast with the midew
OF death the aspirations of youth, and to
swell the already fast increasing popula-
ton Of hells domain-whcn think OF the
growing enormity of this evil and its far
reaching, damning results, how it is fast
crushing and crowding out the grandest
evidences OF high and noble civilization
and putting III their stead those Ciod-repu-
dating Institutions of the devil, each one
Of which is a blighting curse to our land -
when | think OF how, gloating over it,
past progress and triumphS it is fast
planting its iron heel upon the neck Of
the tairest, the youngest and greatest OF
nations. and waving its bloodstaiucd ban
ncr over sixty one millions Of people who,
though free, are vet cnSlaved by nation
al sin that Inilicts greater hardships, caus-
Is more lasting misery and brings more
terrible woes than did ever British tyran-
nv or the iron manacles of African slavery
when all these terrible hcart-rending
thoughts fit through my mind, | do not,
nay, cannot, wonder that the women Of our
land, who suffer most from the evils OF
this traffic, with crushed and bleeding
hearts have united themselves by a com
mon hDud Of -ympathV and rrSoly we'd DESPITE
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