SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
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public meeting of this Order and of the Or
der of the United Brothers of Temperance, was
held on Thursday evening of last week, by invita-
tion of EauAT DIVISION, No. 6, at the Methodist
Church on Massachusetts Avenue. Harmony Di-
vision, Of Alexandria, and Potomac, of George
town, participated in the exercises of the evening
Brethren from the different Divisions of the Sons
and Associations Of Brothers of Temperance Of the
City, including the G. w. p, officers and mem
bers Of the GRAND DsIoN clothed in the regalia of
their respective Orders, met and formed at the
Hall of the Sons of Temperance, on c street,
whence, accompanied by an excellent hand of mu-
sic, they marched, in procession, to the church


The exercises were commenced by prayer by
Rev. s. Tuston, after which the w. P. of Equal
&C. Bishop,) introduced to the audience, brother
Davy, of Alexandra, who delivered very ami
mated and excellent address. He was followed by
Rev. Mr.. Miller of Texas, Rev. s. Tuston and
bro. Sneibly, W. P. Of Pledge Division, Hagers-
town, Md. Brother Tuston made feeling appeal
to the sympathies of the meeting in behalf of the
Female Orphans Asylum, many of the children
being present. Fifteen dollars were collected.


Brother Sneibly related several anecdotes in a
most felcitous STYLE His delineation Of the un-
happy sufferer, afflicted with that most horrible of
diseases-deiirium tremen,, was given with faith
funess wich could not fail to impress the minds of
his hearers with conviction Of the unutterable
wretchedness and wo which the habit of intemper-
ance IS sure to entail upon its victim.


Equal Division Ito which by the by the public
are indebted for the evenings ENTERTAINMENT was
instituted some three four months ago, with only
hiteen members. She now numbers over forty, and
nightly increasing in strength, and usefulness.


We embrace the present opportunity to express
our disapprobation of the course pursued by por-
non Of the audience (boys we presume) who, al
tnough requested to desist, persisted in annoying
tne speakers by their uproarous style of express
ing appreciation. They should have remembered
that they were in church and not in a theatre
although truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.


ruollc meetings Of this description, must, we
think, exert highly beneficial influence upon So
ciety, the more especially, when, as in the present
instance, the ladies (who are after all, most inter
ested in the promotion Of Temperance principles
because they are the greatest sufferers from ptem


pcrsncc) enhance by their presence, the interest
Of the scene. friend asks, "when doe. CRYSTAL
Foupt intend TO invite the brethren to a similar
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