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Rev. ]. I. WARD, Assistant Editor.

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ed him, enabled him to render his mother
and sisters some little aid in their struggle
against adversely. ..ae.T


From his earliest childhood he had been,
sneered at, and ridculed as the son Of q
drunkard, and his proud spirit while he
seemed to pass unnoticed such exhibitions
Of mean spirited pride, resolved to claim no
more the designation, but to make an ef-
Tort for the redemption of his father from
the chains Of moral slavery which bound
him aai


He had been that day requested by a
young friend tojoin Junior Association of
United Brothers Of Temperance thenjust COM
menced, and had given his consent to be
proposed, when entering his home hastily,
he found his mother weeping bitterly.


accustomed. as he was to adversely, he
had never before Witnessed such scene,
for Mrs. Elmore, with that fortitude which
SO often distinguished the drunkard's wife,
whatever had been her trials, always bore
up under them in the presence Of her son,
that she might not occasion that distress,
which she knew he must feel at knowl-
edge of her affliclion, and he hastily en-.
quired the cause. ga.as a6iab


'Nothing, my dear John," said Mrs. e.,
81 was oyerpowered by the recollections
Of other days, long gone by, and wept in
voluntarily because they have past"


"Mother," said he, have given in my
name, to the United Brothers Of Temper
ance, and never will cease my exertiops
for the ransom Of my father, until the cause
of your tears are removed, and ] shall no
more be pointed at as the son Of drunk
ard. ,. t.4a4a 8a36 a a.a.a II
Comforted in the belief that his purpose
could be accomplished, he returned to
his business with lighter heart than lie
had often felt, and when he went to the
Association some evenings afterwards, and
took upon himself the obligation to do all
in his power to reform the inebriates, he
felt that that portion at least, was the reg
istry of a promise long since made, and to
the performance of which his whole en-
erges were to be devoted.


CConcluded in our rert.