TEMPERANCE MEETING.
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AT e- a long interval Of inactivity on the
part of the Temperance Society. meeting
was hell on Sunday evening last. in the
Presbyterian Church, at which. we are IN
formed. not having been able to be present,
uha. apr pirate addresses were deIivere
by J. II KLPArRlcK and J. w. CLAPP,
Esqrs. The audience was large and re-
specialize, but not as large as it ought to
have been; for the excellence ofthe speech
es deserved a crowded house. Oar infor>
mant says that the speech of MIR. Kilpat-
rick was every thing that his warmest
friends could have wished. He portrayed
the ruin and infamy caused by this besel>
ting sin, with a master haDd-showed


that it had been the cause of more public
and private distress than all other vices
that even Kingdoms and Empires had been
split into thousand fragments by the in
temperance and excess of those who he'd
the helm of government iu their hands. OF
the speech OF Mr.. Clapp, we are told il was
superior to any of his able efforts heretofore
made in this place, and was every way
worthy of lis talented author. He. in the
outset. showed the propriety of holding our
me ings on The sabbath, proving it 10 be
recognised in the command of our Saviour
10 'do coed on The Sabbath 1ays,' and
and after briefly setting for;h the evils of
intemperance, he took up the sub;ec: of re-
failing ardent spirits. The manner in
which he treated ofthis subject, we are


tod, was convincing and irresistible From
what we have heard OF Mr.. Clapp's speech,
we wish every ventler ofths poison of Sa.
tan. this mortal drug of perdition, fatal as il
is TO immortal souls. had been present and
heard it. Had they been permitted to
view 'he picture of woe ard misery of
which they are the cause. as then drawn by
a master hand. they would have abandoned
their rnholy traffic; for certainly their
gains are the wages of in;quity. We hope
tha: our temperance Society will be more
active in future. Several new names were
received at the last meeting. May God
speed the causel