ODD FELLOWSHIP & TEMPERANCE.
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ODD FELLOWSHIP g. TEMPERANCE.


The following is an extract from the elegant
Grafton Of P. G. VIM. Fell Giles, member Of
Congress from Maryland, delivered at the ded-
lcation of the Odd Fellows Hall, in this city
on the 25th ultimo. Let every member Of the
great Order keep it in mind, for it is worthy Of
constant remembrance. After. enumerating
many other noble traits Of the association, Mr..
g. said:


"There is another feature in the organiza-
tion Of this Order, which should attract to it
the affections Of every lover Of his race. al
lude to the efforts to reclaim the intemperate,
and to avert the progress of intemperance. BY
the rules of this Order, no one who is guilty
Of habitual intoxication is permitted to remain
member. Like the society Of Friends, here
then existed great Temperance Society, be-
fore the Temperance Societies Of the present
day were known. Every effort is first made
by private and public admonition, to save a
brother from this living death. He is warned
of all the ignominy that will surely await him
if he thus yields himself prey to the destroy
Grand he is exhorted by every consideration
that can be addressed to him, as man and a
Christian, to turn from that broad and beaten
track which leads through sorrow and shame
to the drunkard's grave. Those who know
and have witnessed the misery and ruin that
have sprung from that govelling vice-that vice
which robs man of his god-like reason, and
places himiup a level with the beasts Of The
6eld-should ever bear in grateful remem-
brance an institution which has done and is
doing much to stay its ravages, and to save
man from its soul-destroying and polluting
touch"


We would here remark, that the glorious
principles Of Temperance have been incorpo-
rated into the Constitutions Of ALL good as
sociations.