Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-16

morning of the 10th-where and how we
cannot tell-but we think it must have
been dream. She is better now, and
wish you could see how fast she is i'm
proving"
This, my plain unvarnished tale.
do not pretend to explain or account for
its mysteries. simply relate facts. Let
unravel the labyrinthal
skein. [ am not superstitious, neither
do / believe in ghosts, wraiths or appa-
ritions but this thing | do know-that
although my wife was in England, in
body, on the morning of October 18th,
her spirit surely stood before me in New
York at the moment that deadly peril
inenaced me. 1t may be that, to the
subtitle instinct and strength of wo-
mans holy love, all things are possible,
but Alice surely saved my life.
THE NEW TEMPERANCE MOVE
MENT.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN
WEEKLY.
LICKING Co.. OHIO, Feb. "a, 1874.
There are those who see in this whole
affair nothing higher than the wonderful
power of woman exerted in new direc-
tion. But surely those who see no more
than this, see only the surface. Whence
comes this widespread receptiveness,
this susceptibility to the subject ? How
is it that women who have seen their
families desolated for years, and have
not stirred finger in their own defence,
now suddenly come forth with the en-
thusiasm, and energy, and perseverance
that characterized the days Of the war ?
Why are temperance meetings thronged,
and audiences sprinkled all through with
those never before seen in such places,
and listening unweariedly to suggestions
and advice, and encouragement? ?
There is only one answer possible-it
is of God Granted that in some places
injudicious things have been said and
done granted that it is yet too early to
form any full opinion as to the probable
lasting results there is unquestionably
a power at work which is not human. 1t
must never be forgotten that this move
ment was born and is nurtured in the
church. 1t is woman, but it is believing
woman-woman jomed to her divine
Lord
You 90 into one of their meetings. and
you hear-what ? Denunciations of the
Hquorseller ? harassing pictures of the
awful effects of intemperance all sort:
of plans for preventing the evil ? These
last, Of course, are discussed in the bust
ness meetings, but now you are in ;
place where Gods Spirit is present. Yol
hear prayers full of tenderness and love
going up, perhaps, from broken hearts
broken by this very curse but like th
dying prayer of the Saviour, pleading 70
the forgiveness of those who have ruined
the bodies and souls of husbands anC
sons and brothers. 1t is a spiritual re
vival, with the liquor-seller for its pres
ent, grand objective. A whole commu
nifty suddenly rising up in 1.-THE invinci
bic might of weakness to overthrow
one of the strongholds of sin, but to over
throw it by the weapons of love
Then you follow along with the devot
ed women who 60 from place to place
pleading with the men with the create:
tenderness, and when that fails, pleadin
for them with the greatest earnestne:
at the throne of grace. We're these me
) their dearest friends, the prayers coul
| hardly be more touching or sincere an
the common remark is, "What stuff mu
, a man be made of to stand it and refuse
The crowd is respectful. There is 1
boisterousness or stage effect on the pa
of the ladies, no rudeness or interrup
| ing on the part of the bystanders. III
/ mission is undertaken in Christ's streng
/ and for his glory.