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* -.-«»• . » <• t. C H R*1 S T 1 A Ñ ♦ ■ H E BALD. . ■ • ■ j a' ■ * ..» ... ... f. •— . * ‘ • ■- .ployer ployer and employe, master and ;— i Officers and members of Tetoperance organ- 3ervanf- teacher and pupil, and all on.1 frjendi^’ nF 1 1 • ' izstious, and of TamnAHinrA Temi>eranee LFAnfirMlly generally are invited to contribute, tu this- Department, the relations that arise from.society Address, Monmonth,. Oregon. Monmouth,-Oregon. , as it is, carry will a them grave -res c ponsibilities that demand our best energies, and impose tiusts that we I An address by Eld. .T: \v, Spriggs, delivered have no right to be recrean^. to. before tlie Saleni (. hristian Temperance Union, i i i While civil government is desired May «882 f ‘ May 22. 22, yss-2 _ ¡by men for the best interests of the (Colitt u iied-jrem last nuv\ber.) _ , governed, it demands a sacrifice of certain natifral rights for the com Jn the soul we .see the crowning mon good, in order that we may glory of man =the power’to choose his destinj’5 the power to say have more protection of life and property. Consequently, govern througli God’s gi^e w hat Le will | ments are instituted»among men for bc.i I leaven. W’itlr its elysfan blissn is lpyiting and wooing, while hCII. G. < / . , ,. rights of men. LaWS,are made for 1 o . - - with its yawning despair, would) thel purpose of. restraining and' Warn you. “ ’come,' not bithei . s To . . • , , the say whether w'e^AVill be lolty and punis nnn t iQstr ,cn ‘ , ■■ >..>1 rights of others, and conswiuently grand,in our-lives and ltrllul the! 1 J „ governments have the. right to the puriMisejj-ol.(jotl i|i our creation, = •. . . , by retaining , . r . . ' - restrain men-who seek to miure his glorious image, or * i it,* and i de- i their whether we -'ll will pollute v fellowmen, even by J putting' 1 . » Temperance . > •— z.- » " ■ s ■ ■ Temperance Department. ' varied relations of society as^ear- imparts when impartially and faith with chains in helpless bondage. iii- * k, 'the-bottle to their lips, -at«I to ln- .graihi-lhat image, I liclievrk to be - 1 I ■ fully administered, then would we have no words of bitter calumny ceaSe to debauch durselves, and for those who are their own worst would" perform lovingly the obliga enemies? I .have no reproaches for tions which society lays upon us, souls steeped in iniquity out of and equally zealous would we be of which they would' fain rise, if._ the rights of others with ourselves, sufficient resolution of soul were under our great and free institu left them. I could have ^npihing tions. But the manacles that bind but tears for this great w’ork of the souls of men can never be fully desolation, were it not for “ heart *> • broken but by the benign influence within and God o’erhead. a To the struggling tempted ones! of the Son of God. He came and walked this earth with trs ’foot-' would say, try again, God is able to prints, hath he truly left on "the inake all. grace abound unto you. T(»£he discouraged worker 1 sands-of time—he hath moistened our sorrowing earth with hid own would say; God yet reigns, though tears and -blood—here upon the clouds and-darknesshe around thee theatre of his suffering and shame thrown? he still lives tb gjiide to In our struggle against —here where men struggle for the- •• victory^ • tfS*, - mastcry over evil here we may evil we need faith in humanity in yet see the beacon light guiding us ’the inherent power of goodness'in to the haven of eternal freedom^ the,souls of men, to inspire its'with L and over the.roar of the billows' we hope for their rcdejuptioii. x . may catch thé voice'of our < aptain And over and al'ove all we need. calling: “1 ani the i'uy and the faith in God farUó,Ì4i li is goodness. - ti'iith ami the life," Verily,“ If the; I >vcr all the mysteries and discour Son of God shall make us free wo agements of life let us hold on to shall be free indeed." .But he frees this reality that God is good by the omnipotent power of truth- clinging to this truth as-the drown ■* And when all m^n comedo know ing mariin.dr cling.,f“ti> the Pock the tiuth in the love of' the truth, when the waves dash around him. realizing-tliat God is Father of all This is tlie struggle of human life and good to.-all, __ that win and 1 think we.may sometimes rise .-r- he . ... would __________ -'■< ,. ' T *"'"t«'*— --------- -- — ----------- ■ tiie privilege and eboiee of evcry «iet a penally, upon those « l.o jier- Innnan being. nl>« has' in tact the in Jelyrng the law and n..|urn,g taulties ori-ia being, that is, where j?1«“ "eiglpbor. ^Meir« ho have re- tlnl faculties of body,'.mind an. < l '« ..’ • .‘onatci cal twin natural rights * not l'oiielcssly d -raded H ,c y * ,a d barbarians, and : spirit are n have entered into the solemn com- But .«the individual is not' albne _ -one i ’■ - . - • - - pact of civil, government have, no affected by his conduct; there;are are 1 . ... ... s, pledged tlieir tliciv *^ css ^a ,L the fathers, _____ relations which we sustain tool „................. ........................... ....... as.- ^ives: their fortum’^ and tin it v;tcc(*<l.j ;tI1(| ww-tts-by the power ol hi. ,j„ t|ie conception of I’atif, words, —r -soinc'r»f tlwse'TerationK we . -have ■s, sitmed ashusband or wife,'ami tlx-. llo,H),'stu tb’" '*>ainfenancc of th. a]| pervading love to be go.-4 and ’■ Let God be true though every • ’ ’ - patentai - relation; Other relations ‘’"»htsj/f men, and the transmission true.and like him, tiren will hydra man a liai.'’'.' of these lights unimpaired to their headed sin hide its d-eibrmed and I'he Hoods of Intemperance has . are laid upon lia.by the conditions posterity. We ar>'.'all plcdgeil hi , blusliin ig. J ’ a ce; ’ ami j ighteou mess spared no section of our fair couii-. ,7.f soeiel\ and government stich as' the duties of citizenship,' and wy | triumph.over evil, and the Gospel try. No circumstance or condi- neigh bòi' ami citi.z-us. N’o person -|i-as a’right to disregard these fela-' liave no right to relegate the duties} of Jesus Christ be reflected in the tion in life has -beeif saved from its ,p > of citizenship to the lower element lives of all men. Peace ami plenty ravages. The. lich and -the ]>ooi., ■- / lions.-and the. duties arising there- The himhnml and fai.be, are i "f s,’ci<'tX- '«»>»»«’. ¡«»--oil., politics shall fill the laud, “ TJie solitary the high and the lov^^lui illiteratir- from.- - by virtu o'of their' positions the'no may be-corrupted. I'lul, lather, as places < 11a 11 be- gla<I, ami tlmilesexU THidTbewarned, have bee» swept ------- o l-.a,,,.,, ».I. . |.av, l -'.val «iOz. -n-. title to the -aem-l "Hiall bjossoiy^s the' lose.’ Through into the vortex of ruin. On the tu-ral guardians - f » * givcxtftm'all into'their keeping ¿ven to na by our lathers, whatever scourging* we may pass farm and into the workshop, in the and those foi; whose existence (]ivy purchased by- the pfice ol their. as.a nation on account of this great political arena and‘ the courts of are measurably responsible. (Jhild- J blood,-ax’d maintained through the evil, however daily the night Justice, in church and in State, . ren have A just claim upon parents, ■‘‘¡‘years of peril' and sword, knowing through which we musts pass, “ For and even in the sacred desk, the . ami especially, the father, for sup tile light we should dare to main the night coincth and also the waves of death have gone. The? - ' ’ morning.'' Let us believe that the clouds are still dark and lowering. port, and upon both for .training, tain it. Many . a weakened ’inebriate morning will come, as it now already But “ the rainbow of promise hath • -both molal and intellectual._ Hus-? needs tIie~sTn>ng arm of thegjaw to dawneth in Maine, Kansas and bands should love th>-ir wives'and appeared with one foot upon Maine interpose in liis behalf ■ nraTiy a. Iowa, so its brightness shall rest be not bitter against them,, ami and one on’ Kansas, w ith a promise desolate home needs the shield of upon all this fair land, until the wives should render due fidelity to of hope to all between”. It is be its prdtection, many a defiant law demon that seems in so many places they- husbands. .Whatever militates coming more clearly outvied all breaker should be held in its strong to hold undisputed sway shall be against the varied duties arising along our moraf sky. Everywhere- embrace, until; the work of desola- ‘shorn of its. terrors and rubbed of "'from tlfese relationships is to be from Maine to Texas, and from the tion and fuin .which lie has done, , prey, and the sun shall shine deplored, and whatever promotes Atlantic to the Pacific,.the friends and is doing, shall cease forever. 1 where the dark clouds have mutual benefit in such relationships all men could be brought to : lowered, and homes once desolate of temperance, and of law and is to be cultivated. Nothing more see the gi- order, are taking fresh courage and ’“------ 1 capabilities -1 1 b1,b|| be fu[1 of rejoicing. rarideur cud . effectually blights and destroys in of their ow n being undefacod by --------- — redoubling their diligence, and the -My, friends, 1 have nc tales to all this realm, than. intemperance, i sin, the inherent powers of the soul camp of the enemy is struck. Wdtli nothing is more productive of .for usefulness , and enjoyments’; if tell of the falling and ■ vising again consternation. ' / of the drunkaid, in whiclr s61f is blessedness, peace and enjoyment i we coulu all come to comprehend most proininent The liquor dealer’s “.State Pio- I have no hear t than temperance, in all things. and regard t4io rights of our fello-wv tective Association ol Illinois, last rending stories of widow ’ s.tears ftnd Neighbors and friends bava"rights men by reason of the ’relation they orphans': ¿roans, w ith which to cn- November• issued a circular letter“ . with regard to the peace and good sustain to each other; if we could tertain you to-night, I have i no • to their patrons, warning them of ordei* of-ociety. wdiieh no one has all realize the. privileges and anecdotes to provoke ydur mirth dangcr-r ahead, and .calling upon a right to utterly disregard. 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