The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-28
Woman's Temperance Column.
The Lord Of Hosts IS acith as, The God
ofJdco6 is our refuge"
Miss Wizards Address.

Miss WIZARDS Address.
AT the recent Boston Temperance
Convention, Miss Frances +. Willard.
who has been assisting in the meetings
there very efficiently, related the fol-
lowing interesting incident, in which
Mrs. Leavitt, a Christian lady of Gin
cinnati, was chief actor:
"a poor woman, the wife of n shoe
maker, came one day aud told her she
was about to leave her husband, who
was drunkard, on account of his bru-
tai treatment of her. Mrs. Leaviti said
she would 90 at once to the house. The
woman demonstrated with her. saving
that she would receive nothing but
rough treatment. The lady, however,
went. The man knew she was coming,
and he knew that there was not Il thing
i'll the house to eat, and so he dclermin-
ed that he would not see her She
went and tapped upon the door. His
little girl came out to the door and
opened it, and she told the little one
that she wanted TO see her father. And
the father said, Tell her | will not see
her. And the little girl went back and
said, Father says he will not see you.'
Tell him, then, that | will stay here
until supper time and the little one
|
until supper time That struck him.
He knew that there would be no supper
in his house. He told her to come in.
She said, Il want to see you in all kind
ness and she showed him a temperance
pledge, and he pushed it away, and
said, DO you think ] am going to sign
away my liberty? No, not for any wo-
man.
"Well, then she took him in differ
ent way, and she said, MY friend, do
you get your liquor in that corner sa-
loon? Yes Now, it does seem
strange to Inc that you should love that
saloon-keeper better than you do Your
self Il don't why, yes you do.
When L came, Just there | saw him up
on the steps, and he is a portly, nice
looking man; and look at yourself.
His house is fine-looking house, and
yours is i'll arrears for rent lie looked
at the bare walls and did not answer.
You love that saloon-keeper's little
girl better than you do your own 'He
answered gruflly, Il don't "Why, his
little girl has nice new white dress
and Il blue sash and nice white shoes,
and look at yours-that little girl. His
girl is helped on by your money He
hung his head and said nothing. 'And
strangest of all, l think YOU like his
wife better than You do your own NO,
don't why, as | was coming by.
his wife was just going out to ride, and
she was dressed handsomely. She had
on nice silk dress and laces, and your
wife has only calico, and when she
goes out she walks Madam, you tell
the TRUTH he then said. Then She ask
: ed him to sign the pledge, and he said,
= Madam, will you just wait till / get
this hand steady? | cannot work till |
get glass of grog.' Then she said, Il
won't ask you to sign it; you cannot
keep it; you are bound hand and foot
And he said he thought so. But there
Will you kneel down with me and
pray?' He said, Il have not prayed
, since | was boy at home But he
knelt beside her in prayer, and she Of
fered PRAYER that reached the throne
of God, and that brought down strength
and hope and light into that darkened
soul. And then he prayed, % God.
break these chains; make me free
man. lie rose up newly created. lie
did not want drink then. That is
what can be done by women.
"Three weeks after that Mrs. Leavitt
was teaching her class in the Sabbath
school, and great tall man came down
the aisle leading little girl dressed in
a white dress and a blue sash and little
' white shoes. (Applause.) He had come
; to place his little girl in the school and
to join the Ribe-class. You say men
; do not stand. When they get their feet
upon the Rock of Ages they do stand.
And now Mrs. Leavitt writes me: You
ask me about that man. lie has not
tasted drop or desired it since my Wis
it, three and half years ago. In one
of our meetings the other night he got
up and gave II good Christian expert
ence, and he tells me that he has mot
only done without tobacco in every
3, form (applause) this winter, but three
of his children were converted and join
> ed the church. His wife looks ten years
younger since he became converted
. Isn't that pretty good for a few mo-
4, ments' work of lady? Sculpture is
fine, but isn't it grander to chisel in the
granite of a human creatures life, to
mould the clay of infancy? So / ask
you to remember this truth, that 20 do
good is the first business of life. Not
as your secondary work, but as your
very first work, the work that precedes
all other work. First evangelize your
) homes, and then go out into society.
, Do it in the name of Him who went
l about doing good."-[ChroniCle.