Moral Agencies.
WE HAVE invited attention to our climate, soils, minerals,
manufacturing opportunities, &c. These advantages
represent the strictly business features of life in
Albemarle. There is another feature, perhaps the most important
of all, to which the reader of this book of sketches is
pointed—our settled society, our excellent schools, and our
churches of every denomination, embracing all the faiths of
devout Jew or religious Gentile. These churches are large,
and to them and our Y. M. C. As. is due a large measure of
the correct morality which distinguishes our citizens. Besides,
there are five Masonic lodges, one chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
one commandery of Knights Templar, one Odd Fellows'
lodge, several lodges of Good Templars, Knights of Honor,
Legion of Honor, Royal Arcanum, and numerous other societies.
In short, the intending settler may be sure that when
he comes to Albemarle he will not find himself in a wilderness
or his lot cast among unrefined or irreligious people; nor will
he be compelled to wait for the country to grow up.
