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COLUMN OF HONOR.,
Georgia Lodge, Atlanta, takes twenty copies.
Grand Lodge Knights Jericho, twenty copies.
I nion Lodge, Spalding county, takes twenty
copies.
Netv Councils of United Friends.
Hack Branch Council No. 217 just organized
by brother G. W. Peterson. It is a fine council
and will do well.
Farmers’Council No. 288, in Warren countv,
by our esteemed brother. Judge W. C. Worrill.
This council is doing remarkably well, as they
have initiated six or eight new members already.
Brother \\ orrill promises to organize another
council soon. Every community in Georgia
should have a council of our young, vigorous
order. (j. y.
(Quarterly Returns.
Quarterly returns have been received from the
following additional lodges during the past week
and since my last report in The Sunny South:
Nos. 349, 309, 238, 164, 323, 236, 97, 351, 156,
112, 330, 389, 378, 43, 316.
The above reports were received in the order
they are here placed.
I am gratified to state that the reports were
never more encouraging, nor were the lodges
ever before so prompt in reporting. Since my
communication in reference to the extension of
the Order has been sent out from this office, we
have organized new lodges at many important
points in the State. In Hancock, Walton, Floyd,
Fulton, Clayton, Banks, Carroll, Habersham and
Jasper counties, good lodges have been put to
work, and not a day has passed during that time
but what applications have been received and
supplies sent forward for new lodges.
While many Lodge Deputies are at work organ
izing lodges under special commissions, and a
large number of traveling ministers have just
started in the work, we have secured the entire
time of two good Lecturers, who are already
canvassing the State and organizing lodges at
various places. By the next issue of The Sunny
South, we expect to report the organization of
many new lodges and give the result of the
labors of these brethren.
We have supplies on hand for any Deputy who
will organize a lodge, and, while we are pressed
for organizing officers, will give any Lodge Dep
uty a special commission to organize a lodge
near him.
All orders for supplies, and inquiries in refer-
ence to duties of officers, or in regard to speak- 1
ers or public meetings, will be cheerfully and
promptly attended to.
Samuel C. Robinson, G. W. S.
The Temperance Victory.
Victory always follows, in the end, the perse
vering, laborious effort in a right cause. Every
obstacle imaginable may rise to hinder, and the I
darkness of ignorance and prejudice obscure;
but the reward is certain—success is sure. On
life’s battle-field, human efforts are the only
weapons we can wield; but these rightly directed
call down from above the decree that the right
and not the might—that truth shall conquer.
In human conflicts, truth has its triumphs
and defeats, but is never conquered. The same
yesterday and to-day—it will be the same to
morrow. Time cannot efface it, no alloy enter
it, and no effort destroy or mar its beauty and
DUTY.
An Essay Head at a Public Meeting of Atlanta Lodge, K. J.
BY MISS MAMIE PETERSON.
This is a small word, yet one whose import is
broad and deep, and whose performance ceases
only with life itself. A full and realizing sense
of it impels to acts of the most exhausting endu
rance, no less than of the sublimest courage. In
its nature, it is two-fold:—on the one hand, de
manded by authority of the government and by
our ties of kindred; on the other hand, it is a
voluntary act on the part of ourselves for the
good or for the advancement of the highest in
terest and welfare of those around us, amongst
whom our lot may be cast. It has been said,
that while the grandest military hero of modern
times seldom sent a dispatch which did not con
tain the word glory, his less-gifted conqueror
never sent one which did not contain the hum
ble yet significant little word, duty! And on
the morning that Nelson won his memorable
victory at Trafalgar, there was signaled to the
squadron from the mast-head of the Admiral’s
ship that inspiriting legend which brought every
man to his gun—England expects every man to
do his duty !
Duty bravely performed, like the bright, fixed
stars in the azure vault above, shine out bright
est in the darkest hours, and will shine forever—
long years after meteor-like glory shall have
passed into immensity’s oblivions space.
The soldier who endures the fatigue and pri
vations of long marches over rough roads, through
dangerous mountain-passes, and across swollen
streams, to risk his life in deadly strife on the
battle-field, in defense of his country, his home,
and of loved ones, does so more from a sense of
duty than of glory.
The sailor out on the ocean, when the winds
shriek wildly and the white-crested, frowning
waves run high, ’mid thunder-peals which seem
to shake the ocean to its profoundest depths,
and blinding flashes of lightning, in perform
ance of duty, launches his boat to save the lives
and property of those who have trustingly con
fided these to his keeping.
A few years ago, in performance of what she
deemed no less a duty than an act of humanity,
a maiden on the bleak New England coast
launched her tiDy boat and saved a precious
life. The world applauded, and in some meas
ure rewarded her noble deed; but the sense of
duty performed was undoubtedly the most thrill
ing and enduring experience of her life.
Now, have not we a duty—second only to that
due our Maker—to perform in the work we have
undertaken ? Our lives here are often symbol
ized, quite as truly as poetically, as a battle-field
or an ocean. All around us are those engaged in
a struggle for success—perhaps for existence,
but seldom over themselves. On the one hand,
life’s battle-field is bestrewn with those who have
fallen victims to their own unbridled passions or
vices; on the other, the bones of yet other vic
tims lie whitened beneath the bitter and tumult
uous depths of the ocean of a misspent life.
Of all the causes which have disgraced prom
ising youths and brought them to an untimely
end,—which have filled poor-houses with pau
pers and prisons with criminals,—which have
sent gray-liaired fathers and doting, aged moth
ers sorrowing to their graves,—or which have
made countless thousands of widows and or
phans,—none has been more potent and wide
spread than intemperance. And if it was a brave
and meritorious act to save one human being
from a watery grave, how much more brave and
meritorious to make the effort to save from a
worse than watery grave—to save from a living,
active, social and moral death ami burial—the
[Ftfr The Sunny South.]
THE DEATH-CUP OF THE SOUL.
BY JOHN D. WHITE.
In a lone and dreary cabin, where the moonbeams faintly
Btole
Softly through the open window, like God’s mercies o’er
our soul.
Lay an aged man whose life was ebbing slowly, surely
away—
For the angels dropped their mantle over all that was of
clay;
And he murmured, softly murmured to the ones who
gathered nigh,
To receive his last death whisper ere his soul was called
on high:
“Yes! I’m going, gently going, down life’s dark and
troubled stream.
And the past comes up before me like the memory of a
dream.
You will gather round me softly, only murmuring, ‘ he is
gone,’
But remember my last parting word, though I am weak
and old,—
Shun the wine-cup as a demon—’tis the death-cup of the
soul.
“ I remember my old mother, who has long since * gone
before,’
With that saintly look of heaven that she used to wear of
yore—
How I promised her so faithfully, when lingering at her
knee,
That never in life’s future would the wine-cup conquer me;
But I forgot her teachings—all my promises of old—
All the hopes of life and heaven, by this death-cup of the
soul.
“And my loved and gentle Mary, she whose life was all my
own,
She whertrusted me so faithfully in days that long have
flown—
With her pure trust in heaven that I’d always faithful be,—
I have wronged her in my waywardness when she was true
to me;
And down beside the willows, ’neath that little grassy
knoll,
She sleeps; and I’m a victim to this death-cup of the
soul.
“ I believe they’d rest more calmly if they could but know-
to-night
That the pledge lay folded o’er my heart that once was
pure and bright.
And that I've struggled hard to place my trust in Him
above,
And hope for mercy, rest and peace, and pardon by His
love;
And if he but receives my doubting spirit to His fold,
It w-ill be because I am reclaimed from this death-cup of
the soul.
“Let my warning fall not heedless on your hearts, my
friends, to-night;
There’s a noble band of templars who are working for the
right.
And when the days have grow-n so weary in the years that
are to come,
And the Master calls the faithful and forgiven ones up
home,
May God’s angels sweep a sweeter strain as they answer
to the roll
That proclaims their safe deliverance from the death-cup
of the soul.”
APPEALS AND DECISIONS.
All decisions under this head are made by the Grand
Worthy Chief Templar, and are law in this State unless
reversed by the Grand Lodge, or on appeal by the Right
Worthy Grand Lodge.]
W. O. H. Shepard. Marietta. Ga., asks:
1. If a person who has once been a member of
our lodge wishes to join again, is it necessary to
initiate such a one ?
-Answer.—It is.
2. Can a Deputy Grand Worthy Chief Tem
plar, if requested* by a two-thirds vote of the
lodge, grant a dispensation to instruct the Mar
shal to cast the ballot of the lodge in favor of
applicants who wish to join the subordinate
lodge ?
-Answer.—No. The ballot for candidates must
be a secret one, and no member has the right to
know how another votes. To protect the mem
bers in this right, candidates can only be elected
by ball ballots.
3. Has the Lodge Deputy the power to decide
a point contrary to the decision of the Worthy
Chief Templar, provided he (the Deputy) thinks
the Worthy Chief Templar mistaken in regard
to the point under discussion ?
Answer.—When the lodge or any member
thereof is not satisfied with the decision of the
Worthy Chief Templar, an appeal may be taken
by either party to the Deputy Grand Worthy
Brother Boring asks:
Can a Lodge Deputy Grand Worthy Chief
Templar hold the office of Worthy Chief Tem
plar and Deputy at the same time ?
Answer.—He cannot. If a Deputy is elected
Worthy Chief Templar, he must resign as Deputy
before he can be installed: he can be elected to
fill any other office except that of Worthy Chief
Templar.
Can a lady who has been a member of a de
funct lodge come into another lodge without,
being re-initiated ? And if so, in what manner ?
Answer.—-A member of a lodge that has sur
rendered its charter desiring to join another
lodge without initiation, must present to that
lodge a certificate from the Grand Worthy Sec
retary to the effect that said party was a member
in good standing at the time said lodge surren
dered its charter. Of course, any one desiring a
certificate of this kind must furnish satisfactory
evidence to the Grand Worthy Secretary of his
or her standing in the lodge before the surren
der of its charter, before the said certificate can
be given.
[For The Sunny South.]
Georgia Lodge No. 132, I. 0. (I. T.
For some months past the meetings of this
lodge have proved the centre of attraction to all
the Good Templars in the city of Atlanta. At
every session there have been present, also, mem-
■ i, r , ly Tr ,, , or , Ul - v bers of the Order from other parts of the country
Chmf Templar, and his decision would be law ftnd a u have gone away with renewed interest in
the cause of temperance and an avowed determi-
until reversed. The Deputy should not inter
fere with the lodge or its workings unless said
lodge is working in violation of the constitution,
when it would be the duty of the Deputy to cor
rect the Worthy Chief Templar or the lodge.
W. J. Evans, Bartow, Ga., writes as follows:
This lodge has recently had to contend with
several complicated cases of trial under charges
of violating article second of the constitution.
I wish to state clearly and correctly all the facts
in each case, the circumstances connected with
them, and the action of the lodge upon them. I
will, however, preface the whole by stating that
when our lodge was instituted by brother Atkin
son, D. G. W. C. T., he stated that “sweet cider''
was excepted in the pledge.
Now come the cases.
1. Brother . Charge—Violation of arti
cle second. Specifications:
1. Drinking cider (ipiported) supposed to be
sweet.
2. Drinking same cider after it had had time !
to get hard, and being told by members that in
either case it was a violation.
Before the committee and the lodge brother :
—owned the act, but denied any intention |
of violating the obligation, and promised to j
drink no more. The evidence bearing upon
this statement was that brother —— drank the
cider contrary to the advice of older members, I
and stated frequently before the trial and during
the trial that he would drink cider whenever he
wanted it, and if the lodge was disposed to expel
him it might do so.
Lodge decided by ballot that brother
had violated article second—i. e., sustained the
charge. He refused to be re-obligated and was
expelled.
Second Case.—Brother . Charges, spec-
perance t
Then, let us gird on our armor and do our
duty, in a brave and prolonged effort to reclaim
the unfortunate victims to a depraved appetite.
“ Make sure thy aims and purposes are right,
Then gird thyself with courage for the fight;
Clad in the well-provided mail of honor bright,
The victory shall be thine in manhood’s might.
“Be not disheartened by man's scornful jest;
Measure thyself with him by inward test;
With noble emulation do thy best—
By making thyself better, not him less.
“Thy Heavenly Father’s aid and guidance crave
To make thee self-contained and firm and brave,
Master of every impulse, free to soar
Where earth's poor fragments vex and harm no more.”
purity. When T.ome aloft by the pure zeal of ^ OU8 ^ ds , of f ‘ iends ? nd neighbors staggering
its advocates, its lustre is shed on all abroad and [ 1°“^ br ° ad “ ml downward road of mtem '
creates a halo around every virtue. When trod
den in the dust and enveloped in gloom, like
the diamond, the surrounding darkness forms
only a medium through which it may shine the
brighter. It can never die—all the eternal years
of God are hers.
This truth’ is a precious one to the temperance
advocate. He loves his cause—he labors for its
triumph; but he percieves that victory is hard
to be won. He grows weary in the waiting for
the good time coming and almost faints by the
wftyside. Sometimes his cause brightens up
and it seems that no hand can stop its benefi
cent tide; prosperity dwells in ways, and happi
ness and love blossom radiantly on every hand.
Then his heart beats high and his hopes are
brightest. Sometimes the gloom of despondency
overhangs his cause—it is wounded in the house
of its friends, attacked without by foes, and its
light removed from the liiljs. Then would his
heart fail him if it were not for the faith that
truth crushed shall rise again. It is this that
stimulates him to new exertions—rekindles his
•zeal and bids him labor until his cause again
shines forth in matchless beauty.
Friends of temperance, the cause that raises
the fallen and binds up broken hearts is a right
cause, and must triumph in the end. Do not
fear. “Every year vindicates our glorious plan,
and time will reward each pioneer who clears a
higher path for man.” W. E. H. Searcy.
The Good Templars.
Friend Seals,—I find it a pleasure to report my
first introduction to a lodge of Good Templars;
not that I have been initiated into any of the
mysteries of the Order, or expect to be, enter
taining as ’I do a line of thought or conviction
which would prevent me from taking the vail.
I have certainly, however, discovered one secret
not generally known to outsiders, which is too
good to be kept inside the walls of a mystic con
clave; and I consider it no breach of the cour
tesies extended me to say that I never saw, on
any occasion, an array of brighter eyes or hap
pier faces, or grouped together a more complete
realization of the ideal of a happy people on
earth, than I met with at Georgia Lodge of Good
Templars last Tuesday night. I had been hon
ored by an invitation to be present with them to
take part in the social and intellectual enter
tainments for the evening, and to contribute a
share from my store of poesy. There were pres
ent Rev. Mr. Warren and others of prominence
well known in our midst. There were old men
with their sons and daughters, and young men
with their sweethearts—all in comely attire
adorned with snow-white regalias—emblems of
purity—in attendance, tilling every available
space, and all under the control of the officers and
the guidance of the most perfect system of order
and decorum. That it is an educator of the first
importance is patent to the mind of every one
Gainesville and “The Sunny South.”
Dear Sunny South,—Your correspondent is
now visiting the live, thriving city which gave
you “a club of six in two minutes,” and which
will next September open its hospitality to the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Georgia.
Witnessing the busy, bustling scenes of this
queen city of the mountains, and watching the
busy throngs that pass up and down the newly-
made streets, I was convinced of the wisdom of
choosing Gainesville as the place for the next
meeting of the Grand Lodge.
Perhaps no city, young or old, in the South,
exhibits more evidence of outgrowth, materially,
mentally and morally, than Gainesville. Nes
tled at the feet of the towering mountains which
speak of the eternal, fanned by breezes as gentle
and pure as Italy can boast, and watered by
springs that gurgle up and out of the solid rock
traversed with golden veins, it is but a natural
result that her sons are active, enterprising,
heavy-muscled and big-brained; and her daugh
ters beautiful, intellectual, and possessed of those
precious elements that so fitly characterize our
Southern womanhood.
Built up and controlled by such men and
women, we are not surprised to find here a com
modious college building, new and elegant
i churches, shops musical with the buzzing wheels
1 of manufactories, and societies and lodges of all
kinds, designed for the improvement of man
kind and the diffusion of a spirit of love for the
beautiful and temperate, the good and the true.
Chief among the elements of her rapid and
substantial outgrowth and prosperity, are her
three newspapers,—The Southron, the Eagle, and
the Democrat, the first of which is ably edited by
our old teacher and esteemed friend, Professor
Vincent, who is ever in the vanguard of all up
ward progress of Northeast Georgia.
Waiving further special mention of her many
enterprises and advantages, we cannot refrain
from alluding to the healthy condition of the
temperance cause. Accepting a cordial invita
tion. we to-night visited “Morning Star” Lodge,
and participated with pleasure and profit in the
In that lone and dreary cabin where the moonbeams
faintly stole
Just the night before, at morning there had passed away
a soul;
And the man of God bent softly as he murmured forth a
prayer
For the rest of that poor one who lay so calm and peaceful
there;
For upon the heart of him who once had heard a mother’s
prayer,
In the silence of the lonely room the pledge lay folded
there.
[For The Sunny South.]
Insidious Politeness.
BY MISS EMMA J.
The world is full of examples of the failure
of virtuous endeavor, from a blunt and unpol
ished mode of persuasion and proselyting. It is
just as well provided with instances of the suc
cess of vice from the blandishments and refine
ment with which it is insinuated. Burke uttered
a fearful heteredoxy when he said, “vice lost
half its evil by losing all its grossness.” This
antithesis has nothing good in it but the exceed
ing beauty of its language. For our part, give
us a gross, vulgar, stunning aspect to all vice,
ifications and evidence same as above. Brother
refused to come before the committee or
\ lodge. Charges sustained and he was expelled.
j Third Case. — Brother . Charges as
j above. Specification — Selling the cider above
I spoken of. Brother was told on joining
(more than a year ago) that cider was excepted;
he joined with that understanding; had never
been able to attend since, and was ignorant of
any modifications or changes in the spirit of the
pledge; claimed exemption on these grounds.
Lodge decided that brother had not vio
lated obligations. Brother poured out
j his cider as soon as it became hard.
| Fourth Case.—Brother —. Charges as
above. Specifications:
1. Buying whisky.
2. Issuing same to laborers under his employ-
* ment while rolling logs.
j Brother plead guilty to specifications
and denied the charge; claimed that he did not
give the whisky as a beverage, but as an induce
ment to get the laborers to do the work. Lodge
decided that brother had violated his ob
ligation by buying the whisky; also claimed that
he sold it, inasmuch as he gave it in part as the
price of labor. Brother was re-obligated.
nation to make the meetings in their own lodges
rival those in which they have just participated.
The presence of these visitors has reacted upon
the members of the lodge, making them more
careful to perfect their working and more anx
ious to make their meetings pleasant to all.
Lately, they have adopted a new plan for the
“Good of the Order.” At each meeting, some
one member is appointed to prepare and carry
out a programme for the entertainment of the
lodge at its next session. This has worked ad
mirably, and the lodge has been entertained by
music, select readings, recitations, speeches
both humorous and grave, and other recreative
and instructive amusements. At the meeting
on Tuesday night, March 16th, the programme
was arranged by Mr. C. A. Howard, who intro
duced to the lodge Colonel J. A. Stewart, of this
city. Colonel Stewart is not a member of the
Order, yet his record as a temperance man is
clear and well known. He delighted his audi
ence by reading the fine poem which he deliv
ered a short time ago before the State Agricul
tural Society, at Thomasville. This poem has
appeared in print, and as the only suitable crit
icism upon its merits, we would advise all who
have not read it to do so without delay. We re
gret our inability to convey to those so unfortu
nate as to be absent on this occasion, any just
conception of the judicious and appropriate re
marks with which Colonel Stewart introduced
his poem and prefaced a short essay on tobacco,
with which he concluded his contribution to the
pleasure of the evening.
After Colonel Stewart had resumed his seat,
Mr. Howard entertained the audience for a full
hour with fine scenes from foreign countries,
sketches from life, etc., all accompanied by hu
morous and lucid explanations.
At the close of the meeting, a resolution of
thanks was unanimously tendered Col. Stewart
and Mr. Howard. It was delightful to see the
parting of the members after the meeting closed;
such warm hand-shakings, pleasant smiles and
general cordiality. It was like the hearty “good
night ” of one happy family. Critic.
It Don’t Pay.
It don’t pay to have fifty working-men poor
J and ragged to have one saloon-keeper dressed in
; broad-cloth and flush of money.
[ It don’t pay to have these fifty working-men
live on bone soup and half rations in order that
| one saloon-keeper may flourish on roast turkey
and champagne.
It don’t pay to have the mothers and children
j of twenty families clothed in rags, starved into
I the semblance of emaciated scare-crows and live
j in hovels, in order that the saloon-keeper’s wife
j may dress in satin and her children grow fat and
hearty and live in a bow-windowed parlor.
It don’t pay to have one citizen in the lunatic
asylum because another citizen sold him liquor.
It don’t pay to have ten smart, active and in
telligent boys transformed into hoodlums and
cording to the constitution, or are we wrong in
either case? if so, which one and in what partic
ular? The discussion of these cases and the
action of the lodge have given us much trouble,
i and have probably (in a numerical sense) done
,, ,.t ... ., - . „ - , - I us some damage. But I do not offer these as
that its “hideous mem may shock and revolt the item8 of cons r dera tion; I am simply seeking
moral sensi hi lines. Now tor the annhe.fl.ti on. , ,1 t • i , nn \ J
Now the question arises, Have we acted ac- j thieves to enable one man to lead an easy life by
~ J ’' ‘ selling them liquor.
It don’t pay to give one man, for twenty-five
dollars a quarter, a license to sell liquor, and
then spend twenty thousand dollars on the trial
of McLaughlin for buying that liquor and then
committing murder under its influence.
moral sensibilities. Now for the application.
An intoxicated man who staggers and reels out
of a grog-shop with bloated cheeks and blood
shot eyes is an object of pity and horror. All of
that man’s surroundings only intensify the dis
gust of the beholder, and no human being is
tempted ever from that spectacle to go and like-
truth and right. When our delegate returned
from the Grand Lodge last September, he stated
that the use and sale of cider in any condition
is regarded (by that body) as a violation of the
obligation. I hold then that those who remained
members after that statement was made cannot
claim exemption under the exceptions made by
not only as a promoter of the cause of temper
ance, but of all other essential virtues, begin-
r— ; - . . ' ~~ . I evening exercises. It is in good working order,
who will take the pains to investigate its utility, consta £ ly receiving members, and is blessing
with the light of truth and temperance many
....... , , , . households hitherto made unhappy and darkbv
nmg with strict temperance or total abstinence th curse f int em P erance. Working here in
from intoxicating drinks as a preparatory step the country of cor £ and app l e -juice-here at
Georgia’s "fountain of liquid fire and distilled
damnation,” Morning Star Lodge has a great
work and is nobly executing it. Among its
members we find the same pride in Southern
institutions—the same high culture and ad
vanced intelligence that now throughout the
entire South appreciates and prizes The Sunny
South, and which guarantees to it a wide circu
lation. H. H. P.
The idea of calling whisky “goods, wares and
merchandise." as ‘the dealers in the article now
do. is amusing. They know it as a trade of
“blood, snares and death,” and would blind (if
they could) the public to this fact. Gentlemen,
it won’t do; your mask is “too thin." Your
from intoxicating drinks as a preparatory step
to a proper appreciation or conception of other
duties; thus .wisely maintaining an unclouded
or normal state of mind for the investigation of
the true philosophy of life, and our relations
one to another essential to the proper enjoyment
of this world. When I see for myself, as I saw
there, a man whose locks are btau • ling, an 1
who, but a little while ago. was lost lost to his
wife, his children, his friends and his country,
a slave to intoxicating drinks, and a constant
frequenter of the haunts of dissipation—leaning
upon the arm of a bright-eyed daughter through
whose love and entreaties, and the kindly aid of
the Good Templars, he had been reclaimed—had
been restored to the bosom of his griet-strieken
family—I feel that nothing in reason should be
left undone to persuade men to abadon the traffic, features can be plainly seen through the disguise
or on the part of government, by wise and salu- with which you fain would cover the damning
tarv laws, to abate the evil. J. A. Stewart. business of whisky-selling.
wise humiliate himself. No; satan is too wily ; the institut f ng officer , and that & their cases the
and too clever a missionary ever to go about col- , use of cider ib ? striotly spea king, a violation.
' goi
lecting converts by any such instrumentalities
as this “shocking example.” But he elects the
dinner party. The sheen of crystal wine-glasses,
the bubbling sparkling, roseate nectar; the ac- evidence or statement of an outsider competent
compamment ot beauty, and the exhilaration of to convict said member against his den ial of the
the witty answer and the sharp repartee, and ' -
“the feast of reason and the flow of soul,” and
wine mixed, — these, these are the charming
agencies that creep rather than force their way
Brother will probably refer his case to
you.
P. S.—Again, in the trial of a member, is the
charges ?
Ansicer.—I fully endorse the action of the
lodge; provided, however, the law governing
into our love and end by binding us soul and trial of such cases was complied with.
body in the web of witchery. Then we have the
select party at night of choice and brave spirits.
The eloquent monologue delivered with flashing
eye and speaking feature; the racy, side-splitting
anecdote; the account of accident and adventure
by “flood and field; all made joyous by the in
citements of the sparkling bowl,—these, too, are
the selected agencies by which the great enemy
accomplishes his task. Worse than all these
(and here let us tread softly among the tender
sensibilities of our fair friends), is the etiquette
of the first day of January receptions. Would
that we could so divest our words of all asceti
cism and puritanical cant as to gain acceptance
with the ladies of our State. But can it not be i
seen at a glance that when the leaders of our best j
society hold out the tempting glass, that one of
the most insidious and dangerous forms of in- i
temperance is taken under their immediate pat- j
ronage ? The young man of family respecta
bility and social position, who would flee the
sin of drunkenness as he would pestilence, so
long as he must drink in a grog-shop, would no
doubt find a thousand plausibilities to excuse
indulgence and sin when he had a lovely woman
to stand sponsor for his indulgence. O*, women .
of Atlanta—you who have such a stake in the
virtue and sobriety of men, think well of what a
fearful work you are effecting in the morals of
the young men of the land. Let us appeal to
you in behalf of these successors of all who now
rule and uphold the State, that you look well to
it that no act of yours shall ever give encourage
ment or warrant for the monster vice, intemper
ance. Then when the next New l'ear shall come
round, with so much to remind us of our obliga
tions to God and so much that should encourage
and elevate us,- let us not cause the religious or the
moral man or the true lover of his country to
blush for very shame at a glaring, cruel vice
which has been robbed of “all its grossness,” j
but for that reason made ten times more deadly
by being made respectable by the protection
and patronage which is afforded by the mothers
and sisters of the land.
In answer to postscript, would say that the ; that fact-
evidence of any one competent as a witness in a
civil court would be a competent w’itness in this
or any other case of violation.
It don’t pay to have one thousand homes
blasted, ruined, defiled and turned into hells of
discord and misery in order that one wholesale
liquor-dealer may amass a large fortune.
It don’t pay to keep five thousand men in the
penitentiaries, and prisons, and hospitals of the
State, and one thousand in the lunatic asylum,
at the expense of honest, industrious tax-payers,
in order that a few capitalists may grow rich by
the manufacture of whisky, and by swindling
the government out of three-fourths of the reve
nue tax on the liquor that they make.
It don’t pay to permit the existence of a traffic
which only results in crime, poverty, misery
and death, and which never did, never does,
never can and never will do any good. It never
pays to do wrong; your sin will find you out;
whether others find it out or not, the sin knows
where you are and will always keep you posted
It don’t pay.
W. Wolf, P. W. C. T., writes:
The Bar-Room.—Young man, has n*t your eye
been frequently attracted to a sign having the
following ominous word on it,—“Bar?”
Avoid that place; it is no misnomer. The ex-
Please solve the following difficulty for our j perience of thousands have proven it to be a bar
lodge: A member violates article second of con- j to respectability, a bar to honor, a bar to happi-
stitution; charges are preferred and committee ness, a bar to domestic felicity, a bar to heaven.
appointed, but before the committee can see the
offending brother, he moves away permanently;
Every day it proves to be the road to degrada
tion, the road to vice, the road to the gambler’s
but, upon the eve of his departure, writes a letter ! hole, the road to the brothel, the road to poverty,
to the lodge, acknowledging his violation and ; the road to wretchedness, the road to robbery,
the road to murder, the road to prison, the road
to the gallows, the road to the drunkard’s grave,
the road to hell.
asking forgiveness. What action is necessary or
proper on the part of the lodge to get his name
off of its roll?
Answer.—Section six of .article eight reads:
“A member who has violated article second
shall be declared expelled unless he again takes
the obligation in open lodge within four weeks
from the time he made the acknowledgment or
was found guilty.”
The natural and legitimate effect of the pledge
is to restrain the individual from using intoxi- j
eating drinks, and lodges should always exercise j Anything that is difficult to do is made easier
the greatest amount of charity toward a fallen j by the aid of sympathy. This is the philosophy
brother. The case referred to is a peculiar one. of temperance societies. The drunkard can re-
I would recommend that the lodge devise some : sist temptation easier when he knows that some-
plan whereby this brother may be reached and
re-obligated. Such a course might be the means
of saving an erring bi-other. The problem to be
solved in this case is, how to reach the offending
brother. It might be possible, if the brother
could be communicated with, that he would
make it convenient to return long enough to
attend one session of the lodge, and be re-obli
gated within the limit set by the constitution in
the article referred to above. I would recom
mend this course, and by all the love your lodge
may have for our noble Order, let no effort be
spared to save a fallen brother. “Never let it
be said that a single soul, having once tasted the
sweets of a redeemed manhood, goes from our cir
cle of safety because our pledge to him has not
been most sacredly kept. ”
A Puainville clergyman insists that he saw a
snake forty feet long and as big around as a
barrel of whisky. A pretty good sized insect
that. We have no doubt that he saw it, but he
unquestionaby saw the barrel of whisky before
he saw the snake. It seems more reasonable,
somehow.
body has a deep and pure sympathy for him and
is pledged to help him.
A large temperance revival has been going on
in Bangor, Maine. About two hundred persons
accustomed to use intoxicating drinks have
signed the pledge, some of them rum-sellers.
The Massachusetts Temperance Alliance dur
ing the past ten years, as a part of its work, has
influenced over one hundred thousand children
and youths to take the pledge.
A bill was introduced into the Vermont Leg
islature to repeal the prohibitory law of that
State. It was dismissed by a vote of one hun
dred to forty-seven. |