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n mi! j^j ) j^j fo j ji\ | jj^ yOL. XVIII. bamkeb 1 IS THE i r an of the Sons of Temperance ’ * AND OF TIIB 1 State Convention of Uwia: rUBUSURD WERKLT, B r Bevil’in KiIAVFLY. srß-OneOoll.r.yMn-1v.,,c.. otters mint Uj IWpU <° r-c-'ivoat j |^< gaaraasrap-zaf i Banner Aimliuick- for \ / , 1 -’ f” -'I “, ?! ‘• * - S-. ( U s ■ , 5 1 --i —i“i a a,* <; <5 fetes 3*4 > |r,v- t■!•i f-’ Si,l: ‘ u ®'‘ J| 3ip iUjlhih, vI ’ ,8 : ; :!? | I ‘j- i : : 4 ‘“•-’’ll’ i U’lM-n 11|2 IV>| j) S’ til i | l , • , A TTt-i! ill! I I* I I I |\ S ■ , i'v oT , i, 2i 3< , * ‘ v ISWA, iiWrjiili A . iin ,!i •<•;• of-IriiiK-W 'lw ‘ iin v j I?*"’’ “ lß i,h'*.frf iriK!n<■*'< ’ ‘ • 9 I h , v - h , , ‘•warm. V >•- When h” i * • ™*- Q j C Hj&SrtSS* Pi X• REfclßr. f ‘*■ vrr X AA. lVlieiihf.nl re y. 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Whereas it is now an isiinit\*ii f*ci in no wav can nsition imaease ia wttlih *n 1 power so fist ns ly encour aging *n l securing rupid improve. m ent iw ill© science oi AH admit that, whilst manufactures im prove, couinfierce vaiup, <m 1 1* - bor ii lll l capital s’i nuiate, it is agri culture aluuc that originates, iho eart j is pueut <f them all} ail o(|ii;*!l\ derive their origin froiu the cultivation of the earth, and all must be ctjuall v ci* pendant upon it for sustenance, ite gariling it, tin'll, as the basis of all othei arts, it justly cluitus pre-eminence over all otii.-is; and such is its connexion | with all the c-nutoits ot the liuninu race, | that it may justly be said tliat agricil- , lure is the only lirui an 1 stable toundn tion of national greatness. And thej various State societies have already’ fully demons!rated the f.iut t lint in imj vvny CRH lliis greut, v ilnuhle seii-ucc i hi |'so s.ibstumiitl an I r ipi liy impr.iv.-d I ashy orduniz •< I ami concerted aciioii;! and it is therefore a s lt-cvident laci j that the f iriuatiou ut a Natioiinl Agri i cultural Society is at. this time a mai-j ter of sjreat moment and importance. | Therefore, for the purpose of forming J such society, be it. Res dte'i, That we recommend the! calling of a Convention ot agriculturists i of the. United Stales, to meet til tile j city of Washington at snob time as’ may be lixed upon, ns soon as it is as. J ceriained that a suilioieiH number of j States of tiiis Union have approved of; the plan lo warrant its undertaken. lie-solved, That ihissoei ty w.ll elect one delegate from each C mgrt sssiotial! district of the State, who .shall ho a j memher of this sccietv, to represent] this s leiety in said proposed National j Convention. Resolved , That this society expects,! and earnestly request theco operalion of every State in the Union in this matter, j Resolved, That all states or state so j cieties willing to co-operate with us in , Jliislaudahleenterpri.se, are rt quested to j infirm the president of this society of; such fact; ands) soon as five Stales! have so signified their willingness to| ael in the in itier, then the presi lent nf’ this society shall innnediately, after as j certuinpil (by corresponding with the ■ several Stale socii tics upon the snh j j-’et) the most suitable time fir calling j such Convention, fix on a time for t li<• j meeting of said C invention, of which; he shall give notice in as many papers; as may be necessary. Resolved, That the secretary of this society shall forward a copy of this pre amible and rt solutions to the president | or secretary ofeverv S'nte agricultu ral society in the U-iite I slates; and alv>; ftirnielt a copy to the N eio.wl I-itelli geiiccram! \Vb,sliington Union, for pub lication. It. C. WALKUII, Secretary. Harris3(7r&, Jandary 23, 1952. From the Olive branch. Skstch of aSenrton Preached in Sybertsvillc, Pa., ly the Rev. John Johnson, on Sunday Morning November 30, 1851, — im proving the solemn death of one of the innkeepers of that place, who dieil of Mania a pot a. Text —Luke, 21st chap., 3 till verse: “ l ake heed to \ ourselves, lot at am time your In tins be overcharged with sui Id mug, and di unketint ss, -iinl cart s ol Hus li’.e, and so that day conic upon you unawan s.” The word of G and contains important insiructiou, wliieti if rig l tiy received, and wiib Hie blessing ol God, is ealeu luted to m iec men wise unto salvation. As to that important instruction then! which is necessary to the soul of man, : and which wu h ive here reoor ltd in the word of God, limy leave iioiliing un ! inetl, in order to arrest the intention of man, in warning him against those tiau : gel’s that surround him. G id in ilis word lirst reproves, but if these gvrule reproofs have n > eil’ect, men tie Uire.tiens, and at the same 1 time bol ls oat encouragement. Every argument therefore appears to be em ployed widen would have a tendency jto make a deep impression upw tne i mind of man. At one time the scriptures cheers us iby ns promises, and at another time ; taey in isi ten ieriy admanisb us, ami j ail i*is is done to put us on our guard, j Now tne Inner is evik-ntly the course , tlmitiie ri.viour uses in lue language ot O O ! oie text : ‘•lake head to yourselves, lest at j any inr.e your lieaits be overcharged i null surfeiting and drunkenness, and ’ cares of tins life, nil I so that day come j upon you unawares.” i deie ate two points presented in the ; text, tor our serious consideration : i 1. i'liore is a danger m mioned. r 1 2. l ucre is u camion given, j To these two pouts then we invite I your serious ana pinye-itul attention. 1. I'nen, the danger mentioned. And wnut, my hearers, istliat dang er, lest that day come upon you una wares. iitit me question here may he asked wlui day lias the Saviour refer ence to l In consulting the chapter we find dial th* Saviour was speaking of the de struction oi the temple and the a vf'ol calamities that were coming upon Jeru salem, so iimt speaking to ilie Jews He meant the day when the Romans would destroy their chy and nation. Rut we also scee that He had reference to the solemn dv ol Judgment, so that the full sense of the passage we under stand Him to be sp uking of another day, the day judgment. This then is a day in which we are deeply concerned. Bot it is not lit o ess.try to confine the meaning our Sa viour to this day. j Tne re is a solemn hour approaching |to us all when we must me. And | when our souls leave tlm body, then wv I shall immediately enter into u state of ! happiness or misery. \es, while our j ii lends are dressing our holies for the ( grave, wo shall know all about eternity. ; t o all such then ttie day of death is the same with the day of Judgment.— ! \V nen, however, the day of final Judg i ment comes, lie- body will again be ! raised uiH j lined the soul, then the sol ! emu sentence will be puoliely pro ! iiouiici and upon us all, and the e.teou | lion will lane piaee. At the day of death, then, tho char acter ol every one of us will ho deter-j mined; our eternal happiness or mise- : ry vt ill then begin. ‘Fins truth our Si-j viour has m.t plainly taught us in the parable of the rich man an.l Lngarus. ! Fiie ricli m m die I, and in hell lie lilt-! ed up liis eyes, being in torment. L z-\ arus died, an I his soul was carried by | angels to Ahiaham’s bosom. To both! these peisoiis, then, you perceive the! the day of tilt ir death may he said to fie the day’ spoken of in the text. Now the great danger is this, lest it l come upon - vou unawares. Do you; ask. then, wie n may this day he said to! cooie upon unawares ? 1 answer, lirsi when we are nolle’king for iiscoming, | or in oilier words, w hen it lakes us by j surprise. But you in iv ask, is not this the case with us all ? Is not death oi wavs an unexpected messenger, and | do not good men .sometimes die sudden- ! ly, as well as had men? Wt: admit all! this—many a good man has died sad-! deni v, hut then such were in a state of readiness for death. While the bridegroom tarried, we are told, all slum hero I and slept, the wise as ivell as the foolish virgins, fn lids then, they were to hi am •, but the wise not only had lamps, hut they had oil in their lamps, and these lamps were trimmed. But it was not so with the j so dish virgins; they were taken una-i wares; ilicir language wan, “give us i>t vou roil for on r I imps ha ve g me out,” | hui the wise answered, “go ari l buy tor yourselves”—aliev had none to spare, teaching m that the best of u> will stand in need of all the religion We! have in a dying irour. PENFIELD, GA. FEBRUARY 28, 1852. Idle danger, there fore, is this, the state in which we are found when we are not prepared to die. To all such I would say, “take hoed to yourselves,” ibis day is coining “upon you una wares. And what danger, let me ask you, my friends, have we so much lo dread us this, when we are not pro pared to die ( Look, for instance, nt tint disappointment and the woe con nected Mini such astute. Then it is that the sinner must be torn away from all hiseurihly j lysuml pleasures which surround him in this world. Then ii is Unit such must go hum this world of light and hope into a place of darkness .uni despair; then it is that such are awakened up from ilnu sinful stupor, ani find themselves in hell. Wnat a solemn cousi Jeralimi! And ihen again, when we consider the fact ill it such are dragged before the t h roue of a holy an I orfeuded Go I, and that too, without any prep .r iiion, tins is also another solemn consideration, and should be deeply im pressed upon our hearts. Tiiere such siaml then with the bur den of their unpardoned sins upon their guilty heads; souls that are filthy, im pure, full of all eyd passions and unho ly tempers. But again, look at the solemn ac count that such have to give. Taey must there account to Go I fir I lie waste :of gifts and talents bestowed upon tit in; they must tiiere account for the abuse o! time, and (or the mercies which Go I has bestowed upon them; they must there account forme irnusgivs-ions ol ilia holy and righteous law, for their contempt ot the Gospel, and the neg lect of G.irist and tne great salvation. Now in view of ail liiis, I ask, my hearers, who can estimate the misery and horror of such a moment? G> I toi Ijid that unv of this congregation should feel it ! Gid forbid that that day should come upon any of us una wares, but may we all escape the dan ger mentioned in the text Fake heed to yourselves, lest at any time your Hearts be overcharged with sui foiling and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you una wares.” hi the second place we will noliee the caution given. “Take heed to yourselves.” l’imt is, we must b> on oug guard. If lids is not ihe ease it is our own fault. Gid is giving us suffi cient notice ot its approach. II iw in t ny warnings have we of its arrival in tlie death ot our friends and neighbors. All loose solemn calls should he heard by us. There are two evils men tioned, as you peeeive, in the text, that Hie and i viour calls upon us t guard! against. Filese may fie sai lto bo two ol Hie greatest evils; the fountain from which all other evils iij.v. They are j [ very sinking, especi illy when we see I itiai tlie dtviour appears to h ive s.-loe- ! led them Iron all other sins; evils widen h .ve a tendency to hear ten the heuri. )le guards against tie in lulg uiiceof seiisu.il appetites, and an i n moderate care an mt worldly things, ••tost your hearts be overenarged with stnliei'iiig and ilniiilieiiness, and uaivs’ of tills life, and so that day coma upon! you un.iwu:es.” Now tne plain, sim ple moaning of this language is tins, n, nave our Hearts filled With, and devoted lo these tilings. An i now in view of these evils, I ask, my hearcs, can the in in whose heart es overcharged with drunkenness, ! Hie first evil mentioned by the di viour, fie pi t pared to die, ami if not prepared, | what, i ask, is the language of Gil’s! word concerning such? Do we no! ! find that drunkenness, twilings ana i such like are ranked among the works | of tne dash of wntoh it is p isiiivlv said luey who are guilty ot such filings 1 shall not inherit the kingdom of Go I ? Are snort, then, 1 risk again, prepared! lo die ? D ii:s not intemperance, ms ! liearc.s, keep the heart from ivo dving ! tne truth? Do s i* not make all such deaf to the voice of God? Y.-s, these fleshy lusts war against the soul. There is more hope of every other description of si mors than that poor tin- i fortunate in ill who rises up early und! fbllows after strong drink. You may! speak to such with tears in your ev*'s. You tiny pointout to then: the awful! death oi such. You mav speak to ’ ttiem of their misery hereafter, & i will make no more effect upon such than ii would if you were to speak to that stove. ! Such can stand by the dying bed of thej poor inebriate who is dying with the! Mania a potu, us was tho c.is: in our : midst but a few days ago, and see Ids’ eyes as they rolled in his Head and the drops of sweat as it trickled down lii~ j face, anj yet many of his assiciutes could go from that dying bed, after wit- j nessing such a sight ns tiiis, and walk ; up to the bar and drink down that; poison which brought him to fins awful j end! Now in view of all this, and the! half has not been told, 1 ask, does not in- ! temperance make all suet) deaf to the voice ot Go ! in such solemn dispensa-1 lion as this/ I have m ire hope of the greatest sin-1 ucroii earth, wiiuu 1 speak to him on J the subject of his soul’s salvation, than 1 the poor drunkard. By pursuing such a course, such labor to destroy their reason, tm i noble gift of God to man, and such bring themselves down on a level with ilie brute. Did you ever see a man with reason—a man who was sober, lying by iho side of the road or wallowing in the mire like the brute? All! no, hot the poor drunkard whose j reason is destroyed does. “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts Ire over charged with surfeiting mi l drunken mss.” Is it any wonder then, my hearers, that G id should leave such to their own choice? But again, I would call upon the you in the language of the text, “ Fake.!’ ad to vo irs lves.” How ma ny young men in our midst are in dan ger ol ibis sin? iM.iny temptations are thrown om before you. O, young man, when vou are tempted by any of your associates, remember the advice of the wise man : “if sinners, entice tlire, consent thou no .” When you are tempted to take into your hands that fa tal glass, remember there is danger— death standeth at the door—let him not come upon you unawares. Bo sober; the end.of all tilings is at hand; watch tin o prayer. 1 call upon fathers and mothers—if \ou do not wish to see your sons die such an awful death as was witnessed.!! fi w days ago, then put forth your influ ence to save them before it is too late. But tile second evil Spoken of bv the Saviour, mid which wo are cautioned against in the text, is the cares of this life : that is an imnifTdefaie care about wnrdly objects. This is another evil. An immoderate care, then, is meant here, an I how many of this class are there to he found in this world and in our midst ! 3i>-cl> are living as though they had nothing to do hut to provide tor their ‘>o!ies. T/ieir language is. what shall we eat and what shall we di ink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed? Now all such are not in n state of preparation for death. Now an immoderate desire fir these filings is termed in tiic scriptures covetojs 111* s s. This great evil will appeal when we tuke into consideration lint this love of tlm world shuts out the love of Gil from the heart. There is no room for Gid there. The nlf eiions of all such ire placed upon tiieir riches. It is ilietr thoughts day and night how they liny ad I house lo house and field ti field, while others can lay down up on their beds and sleep sweetly. ‘File man whose heart ami atfeytions are centered upon these tilings, spends ma ny a sleepless night. The cares of this world—O, wlial a dangerous evil ! Fake heed to yourselves,” that while ia tin: midst of all ymir plans this dav co no upon you unawares. Lost Gal say to you, as he di i to one of old, Fiiou fool, this night thy soul shall he required of thee.” But again, the cares of this life draw such into in my sinful pi act ices.— Wnat will not such do in order to fill their pockets! B-iuh will engage in anv employment, no m iller wlvot eiteol it may have upon society. What do they care lor Hie morals of the commu nity, o.ily s , lliey can hecomo rich ? Now ill view of al) this, how true is the languigeof St. i’.iul to his son liniuihy: “Fney who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, und into in my fooiisli and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.’ L t me now, in conclusion, endeavor to enforce our Saviour’s admonition.— - Let me warn you then to hevVai'e ot wor.li v miii'ledtiess. Beware of nil im moderate anxiety after these tilings. I am aware tint you who are pursuing this course, in ay m :et mo here Wifi) mu. ny exons-s. You liny endeavor to urge wmt you may consider many plausible reasons. Vou may stv you are p hir, und tlie times are b ird, and expanses great. Tiiis may all ho true, hut let me ask wh it is the language of Golds word ? “Seek first the kigdom ot Go i, and hix righteousness, mid all things else shall fie added thereunto.” Hero then you have the duly uml the promise. II you neglect this, voii are liable every day you live, to all the dreadful cons'quuioes of being unpre pared for d:at.i. And what, I t me ask you, will all these riches profit yon when you come to stand b-.-fore God in the Judgment? R, ‘member then they; will rule up in tiic Judgment against you, torthi-y have been your idols upon winch your heart ami attentions have! been centered. But again, let me enforce tho exlior- j ration concerning the indulgence of sen- ; sud appetites spoken of in tho text. — ■ We have endeavored to lay before you ibis danger. We have seen that there ; was hut little Imp ‘of making iinpres sions upon the minds of such persons, for i sii h have become so Cal’ gone us to stand upon the very brink of eternal tor ir. and dare tin-. Almighty to plunge ; them in; and the language of all such is, I will have mv pleasure, though; tl'-ll he my pinion f never. The prevalence of this awful vice, | intemperance, is spreading to such an 1 alarming extent in this valley that it be comes your speaker to lift up his voice and cry r aloud. God has again visited u-s in a most solemn manner, in the aw lul death of one our neighbors. Your speaker warned him, but he would not lake heed, and now he is gone. Many j of you witnessed Ins agonies. ]t was i one ot the iiio.-U awful and heart.rend ing deaths ol tne kind, ever witnessed; and can it be possible that we will not! listi uto this .solemn dispensation? God I could not, (we speak with reverence)’ have called louder, unless he had spo ken with an audible voice from heaven. Remember, then, you have been warn ed, and ifyou p rish, it will be without excuse, llmvecleard my skirts, but there arc others her: that need this ad monition. I now speak to those who may not ho habitual drunkards, hut oc casionally guilty of it. This is the case with such at the return of certain seasons, such as the approaching holi days and other seasons. Such suppose they are excusable. To all such 1 say, i when you are tempted to take into ; your bunds the fatal cup, remember I the text —“Take heed to yourselves lest your hearts he overcharged with ! surf iting and drunkenness.” The on ly way to avoid this is to touch no:, taste not the accursed thing. You may think that those who tempt you arc your friends, hut he assured that they are your greatest ( nemies. Awake then from that fatal slumber! Break ofF from these sins, and may the fear of that day Spoken of in the next make an impression upon your hearts-, and may God pluck all such us brands from the eternal burnings! Intemperance and Law. The friends of the Maine Law arc now resolute and aetive throughout this State and New England, and aiv beginning to make head in the Far West. They court investigation and ‘challenge dis eussion.-—They appear before Legisla tive Committees with cartloads of peti tions, with arrays of facts and argu ments, vainly defying their antagonists to meet and rebut them if they can. But rumsellers have no arguments for tlie public eye. For the venal they have cash, for ambitions they pretend to have the power of control ing nomina tions and elections; but though their ernisaries swarm in every hall and darken every lobby, they are al! dumb dogs and do not dare to come up to the ordeal of impartial scrutiny. They deal in abstractions and predictions, while the appeal of the champions of ! legal suasion is mainly in facts. i When the rums filer's agents confi lent !l v assert that the traffic in alcoholic and inks cannot he repressed, their oppo nents answered by evidence from Maine that it has been. When the former as sert that stringent legislation against tippling houses will he openly resisted, the luller give in answer the fact tiiat the tradiic has been abolished in Maine, and yet that State was never more tran quil an I law-abiding than it now is. When the rum interest asserts that the r.-firm in M line is only superficial and that (here is really as inucri drinking; there as formerly, they prove by the great diminution of pauperism, begga ry, police business and crime in that Ntate, that tiie fact must he otherwise. And linallv, when the firmer threaten all who vote for the Maine Law with | polithciai destruction, the latter point j to the foots that no parly and not even ‘ a clique in Maine openly oppose thej present law, that nobdy dreams of its! repeal, and that, the present Governor, i who was orginully opposed to it, now ‘ proclaims himself, instructed by expe rience, a.s its decided -supporter, to soothe the nerves of the timid and strengthen ihe hearts of the doubting. In short, the contest is maintained oil one side at long shot, while the oilier engm tocome to the closest possible action. Who can doubt tne final result. —New York Tribune. Preparing fur tha Lax?. During the session of tho temperance convention in Albany, last week, our informant was standing in the tele, graph office, and heard’ a conversation between two men, one of whom was the principal brewer in tho city, as to the prospect of the passage of the Maine law the present session of ourLegisla ture —-ays the gentlemen to the brewer, ‘you suppose that law will pass this winter?’ Yes was the emphatic reply, there is no doubt on the suhjeat, and and distillers and hi ewers are making their calculations in anticipation of such un evant. Wo ore diminishing our purchases of grain, so as to avoid a heavy stock on hand, and the exp eta tion that the temperance men will car rv the day in the Legislature, bus al ready reduced tho price of barely five cents in u bushel. — Rochester Journal Tho Rev. Mr. Hatfield, one of the m>t el quern preachers that we havo ever had in Rhode Island, lias taken the field fur temperance and tho Maine Law. Providence Journal. For the Temperance Banner. “.Never grotv weary in well doing.” Intemperance is a plague of might, That so strewed disease the world around; Over land and sea, their wide extent, The funeral dirge of death is heard.’ Its ruined v’etims fast are dying, In every city, town and village; W Idle liuahn and peace—with ev’ry virtue, Are blasted ’neuth its poisonous sweep O, thoughtless earth! in power arise, To impede the mighty rolling tide; Break down the curse in ev’ry clime, And slay old Bacchus, God of wine! ; No heart should quail in this noble strife, , To defeat fair hope’s brilliant end, I But while our lives continued be, Let’s spread the cause o’er land and sea. Then when at last, the world’s reformed,- Andsobrie.y reigns on cv6ry shore, A glorious virture of heaven’s creation, Will adorn the character of ev’ry Nation. To become tired of doing right, is ev idence, more or less conclusive, that our hearts are not imbued with th proper principles, and that our purpbsa to do good, is not firm and fixed. Shall iL he said of those who have been horn ed anew, und made to view the world ’ and the duties of man iiF anew light, ! that they have become tired in well do-’ ing ? ! Tl, e bible teaches us, that the chief j pleasure of the genuine Christian, is de i rim ’ the performance of those du | ties that God and conscience enjoin up on him. Whatever renders man hap py, he is apt to pursue with zeal and energy, after the race has been ones commenced, so that when we see tho® who cull themselves the disciples of Christ, serving his cause with a lazy backward and indifferent effort, we generally conclude—and I think corc sistenly too—that they take no real ! pleasure in this thing, but are making a vain and fruitless uttempt to serve two masters, which thing, holy writ de dares, no man can do. Every child 1 of God should remember that the tree is known by its fruit, —and though wo may not be blessed in time, or eternity, for our good works, yet, ifour hearts be right, they will always follow as a le gitimate consequence, just as sure arf the axiom is true, “that a certain cause wiil produce a certain effect.” Where are tiiose short lived advocates, of the “cause of all mankind” slumbering iti that were so active, bold and°e(fi jcienta few years since ? Alas! alas! | these champions and heroes of reform, When the cause rolled in its full-tide | novel popularity, have disappeared i with it, and the ebbing flow brings back no tidings of their whereabouts, or what they are doing. Now when a well be comes dry, it i3 pretty gooJ proof that its source or reservoir has failed, and I fear that the fact, that many of the tem perance cause’s earlier friend's are now j playing the game of mum, is a cogent reason to influence the belief, that their ‘original supply of promptings to virtu j ous actions, have become exhausted, i and were radically defective in their j nature. Why is it, that all these cannons are j spiked just as the plains of Italy have j oeen reached ? does the country lie conquered before us, or is the enemy dead upon ilie battle field ? No, dear friends! the victory has not been won ; the great moral conquest has not been achieved. We need the eloquence of other days, that is now slumbering in the tomb of oblivion, just as much as we needed it in ’44, and ’4s—aye, we need it more, as tiie opposition of the foe has been fully aroused by pastas suits. Like ancient Gurdiage upon the eve of the second Punic war, our ene my is fast rising from his recent defeat, and 1 fear will soon be able again to dispute the field of victory. In plain language, Prince Alcohol is now re gaining the ground apparently, that life formerly lost, and continues yet to sweep the earth from the wilds of the mountain’s top to the ocean’4 verge, day and night, with his fiery breath. Though tho world may not care which reigns in earth, heaven or hell, yet, I am sure that it is no time for Christians to sleep, or “grow weary,” in view of the great work that lies before them. !t is obligatory upon the wirole hu man ruce, to use every laudable means’ in their power to sluy the progress and and curtail the influence of this great evil, Intemperance, that they have crea-. ted themselves, and that they continue to feed with vital existence. Nothing can be more true, than that man is the maker of ardent spirits j had it not been for his inventive genius, this migh ty agent, a curse to every interest tern porul and eternal, could never have exT- 1 isted. Alcohol is found nowhere in the works of nature. Jt is a “good crea ture of God,” that he never made.— You may search the arcana of nature, throughout its labyrinthiau recesses, its world of fluidity; in fact, you may search earth, ocean, air and sky, but you will tint find the devil’s co-workef and assistant, in a natural state of ex istence, search where you may, or a* NO. 9-