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F«r the WnJuoc'.otua.
Weep not.
■** enc hinting prelude to repo«e,
Ttw dawn of Win, the twilight of oar woes!
Yet half l hear the parting sfirit *tgh,
It u a dread and awful U.iog to die.”
Campbell.
Weep not for those
Who sink within the anno of death,
Ere yet the chilling wintry breath
Os sorrow o'er them blows;
But weep for those that here remain,
The mournful heritors of join.
Condemned to see each bright joy fade,
And mark grief’s melancholy shade,
Flung o’er hope's fairest rose.
Nay, she«l no tear
For those who soundly, sweetly sleep,J
Unheeding the cold blast that sweep
Across their lonely bier;
But weep for those who see the clond,
Os misery, youth’s bright hearen enshroud,
And views the flowers that deck life’s path,
Scath’d by the dreary tempest’s wrath,
Fall dry and sere.
Fear not the tomb!
To those who feel that youth survives
The joy that youthful feeling gives,
It wears no face of gloom;
£ It is a quiet, peaceful borne
For those who through life’s sad waste roam,
A place for wearied one’s to rest,
Where o’er the painful care worn breast
Spring flowers may bloom.
PROMPTER.
Augusta, Jan. loth 1845.
Co Sign the Pledge.
Heed not the scoffer’* ghastly grin-
His bitter word or sneer,
But cast aside thy rum and gin,
Thy brandy-slings and beer:
Go sign the Pledge—go sign the Pledge—
Thy very soul’s at stake—
Then humbly bend to God’s own streams,
Thy burning thirst to slake.
What! shall the thing that reels along,
Despis’d condemn’d by ad—
The laughing stock of every thing —
Shall such command thy fall I
Because he taunts with bitter words—
Himself upon the edge
Os broad eternity—shall he
S Snatch from thy hand the Pledge 1
Nay, heed him not—hutsfor thyself—
For all who hold thee dear,
Go sign the Pledge— redeem thy soul,
In manly strength appear.
Better to brook the scoffer’* jest,
His Bcathless smiles to brave—
Better to bear alt il s lieside,
Than fill a drunkard» grave.
.... > [Sparkling Fountain.
John Hawkins and his Daughter.
From the ” Life of Hannah Hawkins.”
From this time a flew era dawned
upon Hannah and her suffering moth
er. Mr. Hawkins soon felt himself
strong iu his pledge, and he entered
with great zeal into the wotk of re
claiming others. He had, in early
life, been a professor of religion,
member of a Methodist church. A
recoveiy from his horrid courses
seemed to awaken in him deep|>cni
tence for the past, and lively grati
tude to the Father of mercies; and
he resolved to devote himself anew
to his service, and give him all the
praise of his restoration.
Possessed of a clear, strong, and
mellow voice, and having unusually
warm affections; being emitely wil
ling to relate the whole of his bitter
experience, and doing it, not in a
spirit of boasting, but contrition, he
soon became a prominent speakei;
and under his addresses, large and
intelligent audiences were often in
tears. In the course of the ensuing
winter, he attended the anniversary
of the Maryland State Tempen.nce
Society, at Annapolis, and related
his experience before the members
of the State Legislature, with much
effect; the house, it is said were
dissolved in tears. In the following
March, he, with four other reformed
men from Baltimore, eurne, by invi
tation, to New York, where, under
the relation of their personal expe
rience before immense crowds, com
menced the Washingtonian reform
of that city. At the first meeting,
while Mr. Hawkins was speaking,
in the Green Street Methodist
Church, a poor drunkard cried out
in the gallery, ‘ Can I be saved too ?’
Yes, said Mr. H., you can. Come
down and sign the pledge. With a
little solicitation, the rnan came down,
and, supported by two others, came
*p to the altar and signed the
pledge. The victory was now gatn
; ed. The work of redemption among
; poor drunkards commenced- Ano
; ther tittered forth the feelings of his
heart, and was induced to come down
and Rign the pledge. Five or six
otheis of the miserable class soon
followed, and some thirty or forty
besides, well known as hard drink
ers or drunkards. It was the first
fruits of a great harvest.
While Mr. Hawkins, with his com
panions, were for three successive
weeks addressing crowded assem
blies in New York, a lady who spoke
with great detestation of the wine
cup, was charged with monomania.
The charge induced her to pen the
following lines, which she requested
might be sent to Mr. Hawkins, for
his daughter, in case she should at
any time have the same charge to
encounter.
Go, feel ivhat I have felt:
Go, bear what I have borne;
Sink 'math a blow a father dealt,
And the cold, proud world’* ecorn:
Thus struggle on from year to year,
Thy sole relief, the scalding tear.
Go, weep as I have wept,
O’er a loved father’s fall;
See every cherished promise swept —
Youth’s sweetness turned to gall:
Hope’s faded flowers strewed all the way
That led me up to woman’s day.
Go, kneel as 1 have knelt;
luiptoie, t>eseech, and pray
Strive the besotted heart to melt,
The downward course to stay.
Be cast with hitter curse aside—
Thy prayers burlesqued—tby tears defied.
Go, hear what I have heard—
The sob of sad despair —
As memory’s feeling fount hath stirred,
And its revealing* there
Have told him what he might have been,
Had he the drunkard’* fate foreseen.
Go, hear, and see, and feel, and know,
As that my soul hath felt or known,
Then look within the wine-cup’s glow—
See if its brightness can atone;
Think, if its flavor you would try,
If all proclaimed, 'Tis drink and die.
Near the close of their visit in N.
York the father of Hannah, with one
of his companions, (Mr, William
Wright) were inviteil to Boston,
Massachusetts, to repeat there the
story of their restoration. They
complied with the invitution, and
many thousands were deeply effected
by their honest and heart-touching
experience. The depth of Mr.
Hawkins’ feelings at his sudden
transition from fifteen years of low
debasement and public scorn, to so
high a place as he had now attained,
nmy be seen in the opening of his
speech before two thousand people
in Faneuil Mail, the cradle of Amer
ican liberty.
“ When I compare,” said he, “the
past with the present; my days of
intemperance with my present peace
and sobriety; my past degradation
with my present position in this Hall,
the cradle of Liberty, I am over
whelmed It seems to me holy
ground. I never expected to see
this Hall. I heard of it in boyhood, j
’Twas here that Otis and the elder!
Adams argued the principles of in
dependence, and we now meet here
to declare ourselves free arid inde
pendent ; to make a second Decla
tation—not quite so lengthy as the
old one, but it promises life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. Out
forefathers pledged their lives and
fi rttines and sacred honors; we, too,
will pledge our honor, our life, but
our fortunes have gone for rum !
Boor though we drunkards are, and
miserable, even in the gutter, we
will pledge our lives to maintain so
briety.
“The cause of Temperance!
what is it, but the cause of humani
ty ? 1 need not talk long to show
its connection with humanity. 1
have suffered from every description
of drunkenness—have borne the
heat and burden of the day in rum
tnill*, { grog-shops,) and know all n
bout it—and rejoice to say, in this
Cradle ol Liberty, that whereas I
was once a drunkard, I am now a
sober man.”
Os the dangers and results of
the drinking usages of society, and
the horrid traffic in intoxicating li
quors, he spoke with an honest but
just indignation, shewing talents of
| no ordinary character.
“This drinking hus killed more
men, women and children, than war,
jiestiience, and all togeth
er. You cannot bring upon man so
awful a curse as alcohol; it cannot
,be done; no machinery, or inven
tion of death can work like it. is
there a moderate drinker who says
he can use “ a little,” or “ much,”
and “quit when be pleases?” I
tell him from experience he can’t do
it Well he can ts he mil, but he
won’t will, that is the difficulty,
and there is the fatal mistake. —
Does he want to know whether he
can ? I ask him to go without his
accustomed morning bitters or his
eleven o’clock, to-morrow, and he
will find how he loves it! We have
come up out of the gutter, to tell
him how he loves it, and how he
may escape. It is the moderate use
—the little, the pretty diink, the
genteel and fashionable that dots the
mischief—the moderate drinker is
training to take the place of the
drunkard.
“ This making the drunkard by a
thousand temptations and induce
ments, and then shutting him up in
prison, is a cruel and horrible busi
ness. You make the drunkard, and
then, if he comes into your house,
you turn him out; let him come to
the church and you turn him out:
friends cast him off; the grog-sellers
turns him out when his money is
gone or midnight comes. When he
serves his time out in the prison, he
is turned out with "the threat of a
flogging if be is ever caught again:
and yet you keep open the place
where he is entangled and destroyed.
You are bound to turn the whole tide
of public opinion against the traffic.
The seller will pour down your son’s
throat a tide of liquor, and you do
so to his son and he would cut your
throat. Ask him if he is willingyou
should make his daughter a diunk
ard, and why should he make your
son one ?”
To Itumso'Urs. —lf there is a bu
siness on earth in which the candi
dates for hell are laboring, it is
yours, and full well you know it.—
Were it not a conscience-killing bu
siness, you could not take the last
six pence from the trembling hand
of the drunkard, and give him in re
turn a poison that, ere the next ri
sing sun may send him to the tomb.
Were in not a demoralizing traffic,
you could not stand by unmoved, and
see the lust spark of morality and
virtue driven from the mind of man
by the poison you administer
Weie it not an infernal business,
you would not be so assiduous in
serving the devil with victims for his
abode of endless misery, for he ex
ults over every drunkard you pre
pare for a drunkard's doom.
Then, cease y< ui business of ru
in, ere the cry of humanity ceases,
and ere the wrath of angry Heaven
he poured out upon your head ; for
God has pronounced a “ Wo to him
who putteth the bottle to his neigh
bor’s lips.”— Watchman of the Val
ley.
What a Mother Can do.
I knew a lady who married in early
life, with as fair prospects of domestic
comfort and happiness, a- falls to the
common lot of mortals. She became a
mother, but before the birth of her sec
ond child, which was a son, it was appa
rent to every one, that her husband was
in danger of ruining himself, and de
stroying the peace of his family, by the
use of strong drink. His business was
neglected, and be was not unfrequently |
seen, by his distressed wife, reeling
home from places of public resort, under
the influence of intoxicating drink. Af
ter the birth of her infant son, the moth
er with the deepest anxiety for his safety,
resolved that he should never become a
drunkard, if it was in her power to pre
vent it. She would never allow him to
taste of liquor; and would tell him of
its poisonous nature, and of the evils the
drinking of it would produce, until she
succeeded in instilling into his mind such
an abhorrence of it, that no persuasion
could induce him to taste of it. He has
now arrived to manhood, and knows not
how ardent spirits or wine tastes. That
mother has now- the happiness of seeing
her husband, and a large family of chil
dren, all members of a temperance socie
ty, and living up to the principle of entire
abstinence from cul intoxicating drink.
Ilnd every mother adopted thi* couw
! with her children, cur country would not
now be sending annually its 30.000 vic
tims to a drunkard’s grave, and to the re
tributions of eternity. How much crime
and suffering would it have prevented !
i Mothers do you keep this poison in your
houses; this poison which kills the soul
as well as the bodv? Do vour children
«* y
\ see you offer the wine cup toyour friends?
Do they see you occasionally put the cup ;
|to your lips? If so, wonder not if your !
I children, whom you love as your souls
! and for whose happiness you labor, and
toil, and pray, should become the misera
ble victims of intemperance. It is in
your power, with the blessing of God,
(which will not be withheld if sought
! aright) to make the next generation a so
ber and temperate generation. Mothers!
; Christian Mothers ! will you not come
i up with a helping hand to this work of
i Moral Reform ? Form yourselves into
associations, and give your pledge to
banish frcgi your houses all intoxica
ting liquors, and use all your influence to
extend this blessed reform, “that it may
be well with yon, and with your children,
to the latest generation.” W.
An Awful Circumstance.
We have hut seldom, even amongst
the many fearful and terrific incidents
which we have heard and read of rum’s
doings, met with one the recital of which
spread such a thrill of horror through us
as the following:
It was my custom, said Doctor P****
R****, to spend some part of mv time j
South ; and being a Dentist as well as a
Physician by profession, I employed mv 1
time with the former occupation, in the
villages wherever I spent a few weeks.—
Some years ago, near the village of
Hampton, in Virginia, I was called upon j
tojfle and set the teeth of a young man.
who was then bar-tender in a place of;
no great repute ; but who once possessed
a princely fortune.
He was about half drunk when I got
there, and I at first hesitated whether or
not 1 should go on with the operation.—
But as the job was a good one I com- I
inenced, and had made but little progress
when a young companion of his carne
in, and calling him familiarly by name,
ripped out an oath and said it was no
use for him to have his teeth filed, as the
folks generally said he w as going to soon
die, and he had better save bis money,
and spend it for something that would be
of some service to him. I know, said
he, with a dreadful oath, they say I shall
die soon and go to hell; but as 1 under-1
stand there is to ''be. gnashing of teeth and
gnawing of tongues there," I want to
have mine put in good order before I go.
It is needless to say, said the Physician,
that I could scarcely finish, under the
feelings of horror that look possession
of my soul, ■nt this awful and blasphe
mous expression, and which was fearfully
realized in a very short time after—for 1
think it was not more than a week after
it was uttered, before the unfortunate
young man terminated his existence in a
fit ot "delirium tremens!"
Were many taverns reduced to
the original elements from whence
they sprang, what think you would
appear in their stead. Why, hun-|
dreds of ruined houses once the a
bode of neatness, peace and com- j
fort—thousands of stoves, pots, ket- j
ties, pans, dishes, plates, tables, i
chairs, hats, coats shoes, and various
other articles too numerous to men
tion. Thus we see that a prosper
ous liquor dealer, is actually made 1
up of the “ odds and ends” of oth
er men’s miseries. Every dollar of
his funds may represent a disease—
every shilling a crime—every cent a
head-ache, and every null a curse.
O! fora pen omniferous, to write
upon the “plaster” of every wall of
every drunkery, in characters of
awakening light, the history of all
the calamities of the grog-shop “om
nium gatherum” of wretches who
are notv undone ; the blessedness of I
whom is extinguished in the “black
ness of darkness forever.”— Banner.
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O’ A number of Boarders will be received
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