The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-03-03

/ III WHOSE 0anQS arc inc nedrtS Ol uil
men, will cause every rumseller 10
trcmble before Him and abandon hi
wicked traffic, and that sober men may
/ have courage to use the weapons placed
in their hands TO drive this foe from our
midst.
A little aid was given to the Reform
Club in fitting up their room.
| Our present membership is iitty.
REPORT OF MRS. =. A. srURrEvANT, OF
MIDDLEBuRY.
am requested to say something for
The w. &. Y. T., not because am by
any means q representative woman oi'
that large body ofchristian workers, bui
my relation to the State Union is such
rs 10 give me more general knowledge
Of the work than perhaps some others
| p )ssess.
! The W. G. Il. L. movement, com
incnced with the crusade, since then has
organized into united and systematic
labor and it has become an inestimable
power for good. From the Atlantic to
the Pacific there is scarcely a county
but has a nucleus of a W. G. T. IT,, its
prayer meeting, reform club or juve-
|
vention twenty-three states were rep
resented. Even far off Oregon and
Nebraska sent their delegates to this
Convention. The work is not confined
to this country alone. There are vice
presidents in Calcutta and the Sandwich!
Islands and Unions in Japan and Aus
tralia and Great Britain.
l could not speak here Of the number
of Unions in the different states. ] will
speak only of what the comparatively
new state of Iowa is doing. Iowa has
over fifty auxiliary societies, twenty
organizations were added last year,
eight reading rooms, twenty reform
clubs, twenty juvenile societies and
takes 976 temperance papers and pay
the secretary 900 for travelling
through the state and organizing un-
ions.
The method Of worl; pursued by the
W. &. L. L. is, TO q great extent, thai
developed by the crusade, whose watch
word was prayer, and the remedy
Christ. One writer says ''there are
ten, of thousands Of women down be-
fore God in prayer every day in the
year. During the last year 10000 men
: have been rescued from the saloons and
converted to God in woman's prayer
, rooms. Hundreds Of these men have
been bound for years by fiery appetite,
have had their chains broken, and stand
redeemed from the power and love of
{ rum, while the reform clubs that have
f grown out Of their work and are might
lily helped by the faith and enthusiasm
of these women have already reached
membership of 100000" Our own
| state has twenty-one Unions, all ofthem
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