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rk.So.layen.inCD-sixcn-low err i ted rumIDgandSei-^yl of ion. rin-tled «ff.Me-i en-ene, rate theney.luti-•xe.'*Port'ore-use;cadscan.Btrn-ODg.aey;theittlepro-ugli’lab.I sat the pre-w. * rand0 return r the -inter well rnary nin g eeial 5 Xo. b in* hem. hall, whoOn re or that ry to1 the irday away darn Divi-■d in vara. 7mlM 1 andthe ti sity i fur | wliic posit or tli limit prop nitac lmd I cend pua taineXew Hartford I found a heme with Rev. A.Winter, formerly of South Coventry, tthose hand is ever ready unto every good work. ; ln He is doing much to create a just temperance ; \ng t sent iment in his place of labor. Since his ad- j leave vent in this thriving village the Minnehaha ; Chun Todgt) of Templars has taken a new lease o» mnij life, and a total abstinence society lias been | l»Atri-formed that holds monthly public meetings, j up y There is ueed of much temperance effort, and , the united colt;q«-rntion of all the moral and j eomii Christian people in reforming the intemperate and shutting ut rumsphops. There is one of the meanest rum taverns in the state on the road to - Satan’s Kingdom.” a rocky gorge through which the Farmington River roar* and rushes, and along which a railroad is beiug constructed. Last week was pay-day on the railroad, and money was plenty and liquor ran free. The toiling Irish laborers awanuedaround this den of death, and the wildest of _____drunken scenes followed. Similar things | were noticed at Collinsville. It is shameful I prey that such scenes are permitted In a state whew rumselling is ss unlawful as sheep-stealing, and infinitely more mean and hurtful. I *ug gcsted this thought in my lecture Isst evening at Riverton : the liquor vender’s eon was pres-aat. - How do you like that r inquired a gentleman of him at the close of the lee! ure. ** O. pretty well.” said he. * though 1 never got classed with the sheep men before.* How much better is a man than a sheep. If it I*1 * disgrace and a sin to steal a sheep, who can measure the sin of robbing a father of a sober son by making that son a not ? Tbs guilt of rumselling is as much more terrible than sbeepstealing as a man is in the sight of Hod more precious than n sheep. If there were plsces where slieep were regularly toted in and butchered.as there are for toting in young men. and killing them by the lingering torture of drunkenness, it would not be possible to persuade tlio indignant sheep raisers to keep quiet. They would not wait for the slow process of justice by tlie eourts.but would take the vengeance into their own hands, as if the thiev«w were so many wild wolves devouring the flock. W e would not evoke the aid of the stern Judge Lynch, but we do pray all men of heart, of conscience, of principle, to combine and enforce the law upon these guilty liquor sellers. It is seldom that you can get them within the range of tongue-shot, and so appeal to the vestige of conscience left In them; but they can understand a fine and imprisonment.It Is due to them no less than to the drunkard and his suffering family that you enforce the ^law upon them till they quit their wicked jg t(trade, and resort to some honest and harmless parbnnnces. At Xew Hartford plans are taken to of Iorganise a Band of Hope. One has been or gaoised in Riverton,and gives promise of abun- quildant good results. Many youth go into intern- wotperance quite early in life. At Colebrook River groand Thompeonville temperance organisations ^have been formed, as also at some other places j reg{ visited. There are tokens or progress. The at 3world moves,and when good men do their duty to Jwill move more swiftly. Ministers are preach- Uying for temperance with Increased frequency, fercand force, and zeal, and our cause is ad vane- Chiiag. ___ I* BntKKloil. ™WHAT SHALL WE DO?decliI loutirenimenhnt 1theFretan iargiicreaitingto tiupoimailcnt inudpeojme*giouwouversHe]eJ tlt;Jsmroyafor iof tanymenwitlfor ]to tipawandorgitogcil,ligilt;Thetiesof bponestacom
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State Temperance Journal
New London, Connecticut, US
Fri, Mar 05, 1869
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