Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-04-20
woMAN,s TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

/ wish l could set right the terms which some
Of your newspapers and pulpits employ in char
acteriziDg the woman's temperance movement.
1t has been called by the press the woman's
crusade. l think this is misnomer in terms,
and if used by ministers, and christians, and
admitted by the ladies as characteristic Of their
designs and work, must be injurious in its in
huence. Crusade is a term implying too much
roughness and violence to be applied TO the
woman's temperance movement, whose nature
is tender and whose work is characterized by
gentleness, sympathy, love, modesty and a
refined sensibility.
Crusade is a military term first employed by
christians powers TO represent work TO rescue the
crozier or the cross from the hands Of the Sar
aceues. The wars Of the crusaders, Peter the
Hermit preached they were attended with 81 ca
violence, fanaticism and severity, for two
hundred years they were connected with
religion, great feryor and persistency yet with
out continuous success, and the holy land still
remains in the hands of the Musselman and
wanes under the crescent of the false prophet.
object therefore to the woman's temperance
movement being called woman's crusade (im-
plying violence, passion and fanaticsm,) the
wOman's movement in the Temperance reform
is characterised by gentleness, reason and true
religion. IL is unjust therefore TO represent
their work as the roughness aud violence Of a
crusade. The woman 8 movement has God in
II and underlying it on the great principles Of
love, purity aud humanity, and accompanying
1t sweet talk, song and lifting up hands without
wrath and doubling, holy work employs them
They imbibe the spirit Of God and go forti
under its influence aud if there be violence i
Is the violence OF love.
If they say God shall smite thee thou whileC
wall-atfection requires it-knowing the terror
OF the Lord they persuade men. II there be
battle-this battle is with burning and fury
the fire OF Gods love and the love of thei
neighbor. If heather made Roman theatr,
ring with the saying, | am a man and nothing
human is foreign from my heart--how mucl
more may christian woman drop into some o
the liquor saloons, and with all the tenderness
Of womanhood address the rum seller who mea
sures.the mans wife's tears to him by the pin
and the quart, and beseech him to give up hi
nefarious traffic in misery and death. Oh, 70
this holy work let them pray nearer my God t
Thee, and then go forth and sing
In love that knows no waning, i'll the blessed
ness of peace,
The white wlng'd dove of mercy spreads he
pinions DER the seas,
And dauntless hope advancing throws her bal
ner to the breeze,
For God Is marching on
GLORY, glory, hallelujah dc.
Oh! by the widows groaning and the orphan
bitter tear,
And the tide of desolation that bighteth ever
where;
In tie name of God we stand as one-a migl
league Of pfayer
For God is marching on-Glory, glory, 4
We bring no hatred in our souls, no letters
our hands,
But in all-resstless power that only love COZ
mands
We lift our eyes and wait To see what faith
God demands.
For God is marching ou.-Gloly, glory, /
Important Cdse.-Coroner Winslow hs
quite an important case on Friday afternoon :,
A half ton of coal for the office OF collector
city tax was delivered on the pavement at II
Fourth street market house, and no one appea
log to put it in, Coroner Winslow rendered Ii
services on the offer of VIM Stilley to give I,
cents TO any one for the completion of the io
John b. johnson, builder and contractor, IL
mediately came to the aid of the Coroner, wher
upon Thomas Darlington agreed TO pay hi
ten cents for the manifestation of so mut
pluck, and the two armed with a coal scutt
apiece, went to work and in less than half ,
hour the coal heap had been transferred fro
the pavement, to the closet on the second flo,
OF the building above, when the stipulated 1,
was promptly handed over ard duly pockete
by the two who had so fully earned the same :
The unusual exercise by tie Coroner attractt
quite a crowd, there being among the numb,
Boss Pickels, Cashier Peoples, Banker Robi
son, Collector Chandler and Stilley, depu
Darlington, DR.. Solen, and Messrs. Postle.
Provost and others, who united In The opinio
that the work was faithfully done and the 81
pend Faid fully earned.
LONDON, April ia terrific gale has rage
In the English Channel during the whole of IL
last three days. Many ships, the names I
which are unknown, have been wrecked. an
al on board lost.