nies in the installation of officers. We have a signal for entering a Division room, and a salutation on entering. In the Grand Division there is a yearly pass-word-and in each Subordinate Division a quarterly pass-word and explanation-by which a Son of Temperance can gain admission to any Division in the United States, to which these verbal keys belong. This pass-word answers, practically,, the same purpose as a key or bolt in the outside door of a man's house, which can be easily changed or turned so as to prevent the intrusion of unwelcome visitors: an innocent, though convenient little instrument.

The form of initiation is also, from prudential considerations, a private matter. It is not a mere useless mechanical ceremony. It has importance and influence-is in good taste, and harmonizes with the purest principles of morality and religion. The candidate has portrayed before him the evils that flow from the use of alcohol; and has weighty motives and considerations urged on his mind, in an impressive manner, to lead him to put forth his influence to benefit others,

"And warn his fellow man from error's path."

He pledges himself neither to make, buy, sell, nor use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider to observe the Constitution-to promote the harmony, and advance the interests of the Order. He is exhorted to pursue a life of moral purity and integrity-to be courteous, and ready to assist the afflicted.

And if a brother violate his pledge, and is censured or expelled, this is a private matter; and no member has a right to go and proclaim his faults before the world. And does not this coincide with the teachings of the Redeemer, where he says, "If · thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone." Matt. xviii. 15.

And if a brother is in distress, and we afford him relief, or extend to him the hand of charity, this is a private matter, which is not to be blazoned abroad.. And this, too, is in accordance with the instructions of the great Teacher, where he says, "But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." Matt. vi. 3.

Even prudence dictates that there are many things in every association which should not be retailed abroad in the street, or in public places.

A secret society, properly speaking, is a society, the existence of which is a secret to all but its members. Against such societies, and all others, whose designs are hostile to virtue and religion, all true Sons of Temperance will protest. Such societies are dangerous. Of this character was that formed by Brutus and his associates against Cæsar: of Guy Fawkes, for the secret destruction of King James I. and the English Parliament: of the banditti who infested the mountain passes in the South of Europe, whose members frequently mingled unsuspected among the peasants of the country, and the artizans, and even the nobles of the city. From such combinations may we ever be delivered.

In contradistinction from all such, the Sons of Temperance are an epistle that may be "known and read of all men"-fruitful in benevolent deeds. Our secrecy is adopted for the simple object of avoiding imposition; or that we may tell a brother who comes from abroad from an imposter.

Men who declaim so warmly against any privacy in the Order, are inconsistent, and condemn in others what they justify in themselves. The merchant has his secret marks; the senate its secret sessions; the ecclesiastical judicatory its private meetings; the jury its retired secret room for preparing its verdict ; the judge his secret interchange of opinions in banc. Washington's army had its outside sentinels, passwords, signs and countersigns, and other private

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In fact, look where you will, and you find secrecy. It is written upon the wonderful mechanism and laws of nature. There is secret mystery in the construction and organization of our bodies. Can you fathom the secret mysteries connected with the growth and development of a single spear of grass? Can you me how the air we breathe is put in motion, and made at one time to assume the form of the furious whirlwind, that prostrates towns and forests in its desolating progress, and then is hushed to the gentle zephyr, that scarcely ruffles the surface of the glassy lake?

Who but the Omniscient can read the human heart, and develop its hidden emotions? Would you rudely enter the private, social circle, and pro

claim before the public the wounded pride, disappointed hopes, misguided affection, and all the charities of wedded love?-Then place sentinels around everything-establish a universal espoinage -and declare an open war with nature.

OTHER AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS.

DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE.

In addition to the Order of the Sons of Temperance, there have been instituted various Unions of the Daughters of Temperance-based on substantially the same principles as the Order of the Sons of Temperance. These Unions are scattered throughout more than half of the United States, and their numbers are rapidly increasing: and it is evident that woman's hand, and woman's heart, are with us in our noble and glorious work of staying the desolating plague of Intemperance.

CADETS OF TEMPERANCE,

THE organization of the "Cadets of Temperance" is a movement designed to enlist the youth of the country in the cause of Temperance. Its aim is to spread the healing truths of Temperance before the minds of the boys of the nation-to form youthful

"missionaries, who, instructed in the section rooms under the above title, will go into the school rooms, the family circles, the play grounds, and the various walks of life, exhibiting by example the happy results of sobriety,-and by precept the great evils of intemperance.

It is proposed, also, in these nurseries, to have a young army properly trained, to take the places of the present actors in this cause, when they shall have retired from the scenes of this life; and to save the young from ever realizing in themselves the direful consequences of intemperance. The movement itself originated with Oliver Williams, an intelligent lad of thirteen years of age, residing in the village of Craneville, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. But nothing like a regular well defined system had been established, until December 6th, 1846, when Wyndham H. Stokes, of Germantown, Pa.,-one of the most earnest and philanthropic friends of temperance, and now the G. W. P. of the Grand Division of Pa., ― projected and gave form to an Order adapted to this purpose; and with great effort and labor arranged appropriate forms and ceremonies, and a constitution. Shortly after, he initiated a number of the youth of the place into its principles, and founded THE FIRST SECTION OF THE ORDER OF

CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.

To E. F. Bleck, Esq., of Bethlehem, Pa., a devoted friend of the cause, is also due a part of the historic honor of having assisted in moulding the juvenile attempt into shape and consistency.