| Churches of Christ - 1849 - 588 pages
...No. 37, of the Sons of Temperance, of the State of Virginia. "ART. 2. — PLEDGE — No brother shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider. "ART. 3. — OFFICERS" — These are only initialized, and we do not understand them ; and, therefore,... | |
| Connecticut - 1849 - 206 pages
...PLEDGK, I, without reserve, solemnly pledge my honor as a man, that I will neither make, buy, sell, nor use, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider. OFFICERS OF THE GRAND DIVISION. — FW Smith, New Haven, GW PATRIARCH ; EM Gorham, New Haven, GW ASSOCIATE... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...decides, by appeal. all controversies in or between the Divisions. A Son of Temperance is pledged not to "make, buy, sell, or use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or cider ;" a pledge takeu with such solemnities, accompanied by a ceremonial great and not unfruitful struggles... | |
| Marcus E. Cross - Temperance - 1851 - 248 pages
...which is agreed to when one is admitted a member of a Subordinate Division : — "No brother shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider." The National Division unanimously adopted the following resolution, explanatory of the pledge, at its... | |
| Oliver N. Bacon - Natick (Mass.) - 1856 - 304 pages
...the character of its members, as men. One of the first rules of the order is, that no member shall use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider. The notice of this association is a proper introduction to the history of the temperance reform itself... | |
| Simeon B. Chase - 1874 - 452 pages
...members of this Order shall be required to subscribe to the following pledge, viz: That they will not make, buy, sell or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liqnors, wine or cider, and will discountenance the manufacture -and sale thereof in all proper ways.... | |
| Temperance - 1877 - 1018 pages
...members of the National Division of the Order, is as follows: " I will neither make, buy, sell, nor use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or cider." It is hardly probable the originators of the Order foresaw the wide spread of the organization so auspiciously... | |
| William Haven Daniels - Alcohol - 1878 - 656 pages
...National Division of the Order. The pledge was as follows : — " I will neither make, buy, sell, nor use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or cider." Of this movement, Samuel W. Hodges, Most Worthy Scribe, says in his paper in the Centennial Volume... | |
| Samuel Orcutt - Connecticut - 1878 - 950 pages
...reformed drunkards. The pledge of Torringford society states that "we pledge ourselves that we will not use, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider." This pledge doubtless tried the faith of some and others went away backward to their own hurt, but... | |
| Johnson County (Iowa) - 1883 - 974 pages
...Battell, of Muscatine, acting as Deputy Grand Worth}- Patriarch. The pledge was: "No brother shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider." The meeting for organization was held in the old capitol building, now the main building of the State... | |
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