Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-02-05
For the Gallipolis Journal.
To the Women of
GALA

The Women's Temperance League of
Gallipolis, earnestly request every town
ship in Gallia county to send one or more
delegates to a meeting of the League, to
be held at the Methodist Church, in
Gallipolis, on Saturday, February
7tIl, at one P. n. And they cordially
invite you to attend the meetings of the
League, whenever you can conveniently
do so, that you may aid them by your
prayers and counsel.
Women of Gallia county! tonight,
whileI write these lines, there is presen-
ted upon our streets a scene never be-
fore witnessed in this county or city!
In and around three or four of our most
noted saloons, bands of ONE are hold
ing their prayer-meetings. Locked out
of one saloon, the people have erected a
tent to protect those noble women from
the raw wind; and there, upon the cold
bricks, they are alternately kneeling in
prayer to the righteous Judge of ali men,
then standing to sing some hymn Of sup
plication or praise.
Physically unable to be, with them,
how can 1 assist them i'm their work, bet
ter than by appealing to you, in their
behalf, to enter upon the same work in
the country. which We are doing in the
town!
Mothers. whose sons are being drawn,
inch by inch, into this snare which de-
stroys alike soul and body; wivesi whose
husbands are sinking slowly and surely
into that bleakest, coolest, most hope
less of all CULTS, the drunkard's grave;
daughtersl whose fathers are losing eve
ry holy emotion, every tender feeling.
in an unholy, maddening love of this
fiery poison; sisters! whose brothers
are taking, One by one, the fatal steps
which lead to drunkenness and disgrace;
maidensl whose lovers are acquiring a
taste for the accursed beverage which
stingeth like a serpent and biteth like an
adder;-we appeal to yOu; we beg, we
implore you, by everything you hold
dear in the world; for the sake of hui
.aEity; for the sake of truth and right;
for the sake of GOd-put your shoulder
to the wheel and strive, by whatever in
iuence you may possess, to roll on this
cause, the destruction, in our
and, of the demon of intemperance. +;
Nor do we appeal to those, only, who
know from bitterest experience the
evil that is stalking through our
We call upon you, whose
homes are u%nbroken, and hearts I'M
by this evil thing, to show your /
gratitude to the Good Father of us all, |
~ entering the field and assisting those l
Who have suffered to carry on this war F.;
the foulest blot on the nations t
Let the very fact that yOur s
owed ones are untouched, be an addi- {
ional incentive to you to aid, in this
warfare, those who are less happy than
yourselves.
Dare not, for a moment, to fiatter f,
that, because this great evil ,
Ices not touch your lives, it is not your :
.uty to assist by hand, heart, and voice, !
II carrying on this glorious strife. G
All over the State, the bravest and no. @
lest women are fiocking around the
tandard of Temperance; and shall we,
f Gallia county alone, sit down and :,
Did our hands in idleness, while others
re wrestling with the foe? a
Come, then, and help us by your u
lords, deeds. and, above all else, your !;
for they are our strongest yea 3
ons. Let this cry go up all over the
ntire county as from one heart: q
Lord, before thy holy altar,
Now thy blessing we implOre; !;
rant we NAV not faint or falter {,
Till our glorious work is DER; u
help us; we are trying l
Souls immortal to reclaim; a
through intemp'rance they are dying,
Snatch them from the burning flame.
Save the fallen; make them sober; {
May they feel their sins forgiven; g
When this transient life is over, '
Give them, Lord, a place in hea- I
ven." n
BY order of the League. q
E. X. SHALLCROSS,
Cor. Sec. of League.