such a cause die. Particular organizations may pass away, but the cause must live. With the blessing of Almighty God, it must go on, conquering, and to conquer, until it shall have obtained a complete and enduring triumph.

In the accomplishment of the grand result, so dear to every human heart, the Order of the Sons of Temperance has proved, and, we doubt not, is destined yet to prove, an interesting and efficient instrumentality. This institution harmonizes with the great principles of Christian charity and brother-hood, with which the cause of temperance is identified, and it is nobly adapted to produce the result towards which all truehearted temperance efforts have been directed. There is nothing sectional, or sectarian in its spirit. That spirit is broad, generous, comprehensive, national. It recognizes and brings into bold relief the grand truth, to which the great heart of mankind responds, that man is bound, solemnly, and for ever bound, to care for his brother man. It proclaims, in thrilling tones, the noble principle which, from the time when Christianity began her divine mission, has sought admission into all hearts, and which now finds many faithful exponents in all lands, that human welfare is to be advanced, and secured, not by the cold isolation of individualism, nor by the sharp antagonism of selfish competition; but, by cordial co-operation, and Christian union. It proclaims also, through its services, rich in scriptural language, and pervaded by a religious spirit,

the all-important principle, that the temperance cause must rest upon religion as its firm and enduring foundation, and always be sanctified by religion's pure spirit.

Great, inestimable, is the good which this organization has effected. A glorious work is yet before it. Long may it live. Faithful may its fiiends prove; and if, at last, having fulfilled its mission, and having proved faithful to its high ideal, and its noble opportunities of usefulness, it shall be numbered among the things that were, may its spirit live in some new organization, which shall prove even more efficient and successful in carrying on the great work to its final consummation. The triumph of temperance! This is the end which all her earnest friends propose to themselves. This is the end, dear alike to humanity and Christianity; and, if this end be accomplished, however and whenever it may be accomplished, provided only it be done openly and worthily, every Son and Daughter of Temperance will rejoice. For this end let us all labor, each in the way which, to him, seems wisest and best. In regard to means of action, the friends of Temperance may honestly differ; but, in one thing, let us all agree. Of one thing let us all make sure, that act we may, and act we will, in some way, earnestly, efficiently, constantly. We have enlisted, not for a summer campaign, but for the war; and we cannot expect to lay aside our arms, until death gives us our papers of discharge from all the duties and conflicts of life.

THE LICENSE LAW.

BY REV. JOHN MILLER, M. D.

Of Maysville, Kentucky.

IN less liberal governments, whatever concerns the general weal, becomes, by established precedent, as well as common consent, the business of the privileged orders; but, in a country like ours, where the people hold the reins of power, and the rights of all classes are duly respected, the popular voice in the primary assemblies, or uttered by their representatives, wisely chosen, determines the course of action.

And who, among us, in casting the eye over the far-spreading population of this mighty continent, does not feel a becoming pride, as he counts the number of our growing cities, the extent of our trade, the progress of manufactures, and the increase of our commerce. But a few years have rolled away since the struggle of the fathers; and, already, has the unparalleled prosperity of our heaven-favoured country, excited the admiration of the civilized world.

In the origin and formation of the civil government with which God has blest us, in the development of its fair proportions and finely balanced machinery, is seen, at once, the benevolence of a superintending Deity, and the wisdom of the greatest men, guided by the unerring Providence of Him who sitteth upon the circle of the heavens, in whose hands are the issues of life, and without whose knowledge not a sparrow shall fall to the ground. Nor should we forget, while we continue a free and happy people, the accumulating clouds of disaster and oppression, or the galling chain intended to be imposed upon us by a deluded potentate and his infatuated ministry. For many long and tedious years, the hope of reconciliation was fondly cherished; but the narrow circle of light gradually became more and more circumscribed, until a nation's presumptions reached the point of disaster, and conviction, almost at the same moment, flashed upon the minds of three millions of people, that the dilemma in which they were involved, was one of slavery or war.

There is, indeed, much in the circumstances of our final disenthrallment, to convince the reflecting mind, that it was the design of the All-wise Ruler to deliver the colonies from the oppressions of a foreign power, and make them instrumental in the political emancipation of the world. And, whether we contemplate the magnitude of power, against which our fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes,