The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-16
THE NEW YEAR.
The Alliancemen Who Have Graduated.
CARLTON NJ n

CARLTON, N. @.
Mr.. EDITORIALS 1893 has passed
away and we are at the beginning of
1894, it is our privilege, it>~God grants
us life, to look back a year upon the
days OF this year we'll spent. How
much better must man feel when the
last day of year comes and in his
mind he goes back over it and can
have the pleasure of realizing that it
was we'll spent9 Not that all he done
was perfect and could not be improved
on, but that it was done with his best
Judgment and purest motive. No com
punctious throb disturbs the bosom of
him whe lives such a life. Though the
SORROWS which the good have to bear
may be run on his face, yet he is now
utterly cast down for he feels that
lasting joy which duty done always
brings.
How many Alliancemen in North
Carolina will re able to say truthfully
when another year shall have rolled
around that they have done their best
fought their hardest and stood up on
every occasion for the grand and glo
rious cause they have espoused4 Let
us hope that every one will do his best
to further the cause. If we do success
will crown our efforts and that success
will be a reward of far more value
than the price we will have to pay.
have heard of some old Alliance
men saying that they were graduated
in the Order and that they need not at
tend it any more, but just keep their
dues paid up; that it did them no good
to attend. hope the number is a
small one that entertain such an erron
eous idea and that it will speedily grow
less. For the men who are old in the
work are the ones most needed. He
who stays away from the meetings of
his Alliance even if he does give it his
financial supp ort, is certainly not
more than the half of a member if that
much. In staying away from where
his duty is, all his influence, il he has
any, you are in the wrong direction.
Such a man is trying to serve two
masters, which can not be done, and
he who tries it throws away his ser
vice entirely. Such beings do not
amount to much in this age. They be.
come as sounding brass and tinkling
symbols. The world to day it seems,
more especially than ever before, is
calling in thunder tones for men. Men
who think something and will act on
their convictions and stand by them
until they are called hence to their
eternal reward. May God hasten the
day when every Allianceman will be
made of such material. When that
day shall have come the achievements
of the Alliance will rank with the ac
complishments Of all the great minds
and hearts of the larger part and the
good it will have accomplished will be
second only to that acquired by our
Lords religion.
Men may pay their dues, read ALI
ance literature and preach its doc
trines with eloquence, surprising that
of Roman orator and even then his
influence is for the pulling down that
which he may honestly want to retain
forever unless he attends the meetings
of the order and ahiliates with it in
every respect.
Dear brethren, let us try during this
year to use every means in our power
to find what our duty is to this grand
order and to this fair land of ours, ana
then like men worthy of the aPFelation
90 forth and faithfully discharge our
duty though this old earth rolls from
beneath our feet. Then when the year
draws fo close we may sit around our
heartstone and feel as did our ancestors
after the SORROWS and trials of the rev.
olutionary victory which wrung from
the tyrannical hands of England that
freedom which was dearer to them
than their lives.
We missed THE PROGRESSIVE B'ARMHR
a great deal during it's absence last
week yet we hope it had a happy
Xmas, and that happiness we hope was
a true owner of it's future prosperity
and the grand success we hope and De-
lieve it will achieve during 1894.
J. II. w.
! TuNTTGHTS