The daily Cairo bulletin., 1879-05-16

tens ever to the voice saying, "go down
and be neighbors to him who fell amono
thieves" Another trouble with the I. O. G.
7. was that it admitted too many side is.
sues-we were not sufficiently united on
the one great point. For instances we had
literary exercises to enliven the evenings;
and some Of the performances were not so
great as Paradise Lost, and criticisms
abounded. Then we had discussions on
whether the occupancy of Mexico by the
French was an infringement of the Monroe
doctrine, ETC., etc., and sharp things were
said, and heart-burnings and chickering's
became all too frequent; Miss Brown cried
because Miss Johnson made fun of her,
and she withdrew-and Mr.. Evans ceased
to attend because Mr.. Vaughn was such
horrid bore, and so on, Here, right here,
| want to stick in pm. This is Woman's
Christian Union-and every Christian
woman is bound with all temperance of
temper to cling to the Union. To make it
a success, every woman must say, ~ don't
care who stays away, l must 60. | don't
care who belongs to the Union that | don't
like, l am going. l don't mind If Mrs,
Thoughtless hurt my feelings last week,
and Mrs. No-Manners trod on my tender
foot week before, and Mrs Sarcastic ridi-
culed me q week before that | must 90
and l am going to stand by the Union, and
with all the force of my weak hands, | will
hold it up, God helping me, will" 1t is
Woman's Union, and that means energy
and persistence; it is Christian union, and
that means patience, trust and prayer; it is
temperance Union, and that means purity
and truth; and it is Union, and that
means one family, linked to one another by
close and tender ties, bound to bear with
one another's peculiaritics and disagreeable
ways, having one aim, one purpose, and
one Father. And that brings me to
the cause of failure ig the l. o. G. T. II
was not dstincuvely a Christian society.
1t is Gods work we are doing, when we
are rescuing perishing men; let us do it in
His way. But some one says, "The devo-
tional exercises with which we open are
dull Perhaps they are dull; they will be
less so, if you take part in them, however
small, You can not work for q thing, how
ever unlovely it may be, without coming to
love it after time because you have be-
slowed labor on il. Where the treasure OF
your work is, there will your heart be also.
Even here the grand words of our Savior
are applicable: "He that will lose his
life for Ny sake shall find it. If any man
will come after me let him deny himself
and take up His cross daily, and followme." "
And some else says, | don't think | shall 90,
if there were anything special should
feel more like it; but just to 90 and sit
through regular meeting. Dear sister
you don't realize the power you exert by
just going and sitting, the wonderful power
that lies in silent influence. You know
how rock is broken with an iron drill and
r,ollnt. and sOr,o+iy,,s .horo :, , ,,;.o. 80,
hard that il yields not to the heaviest blows
then smooth, very slender, small wedges
of wood are inserted and water is poured
over them; how strange a performance
Yet the little wedges do what iron failed to
accomplish. The wet wood swclls, and by
and by the great rock parts, it has yielded
to the influence of the little wooden wedges
Shall we not be firm little wedges, keeping
quietly at our work till the grca,
rock Of the liquor traffic is broken beyond
hope Of beng mended3
My paper has grown too long already.
But cannot close without some reference tC
the very best way Of carrying on the work
after it is begun. 1t is by the power of {
faithful life, by the careful training of oui
children from the very cradle, in ways o.
temperance, that they may more than fiji
our places, Our own advancement in the
temperance cause will be worth much tt
those who come after They can take tht
tools from our failing fingers and 90 OF
with the buildings so precious to us. "GoC
bures His workmcn; but His work goes
on"
Needs there the praise OF tic oyc-written record
The name and the eptapa ,raycd on the stone,
The thing. we have lived for, let them be our stor
We ourselves be remembered by what we hQv
done
lnced not be missed, if anothnr succeed me
Torcap down the fields that IA spring | have sowr
lie who ploughed and who sow1d is not missed b.
the reaper,
He is snlyremembcrcd bywhg he has done,
Not ourselves but the truth uat in life we hay
spoken,
Not ourselves, but the seed tht in life we hay
sown
Shall pass on to ages; all clsc be brso,tcn
Save the truth we have spoken, the things W
have done
So let our living be; 80 be our dying
So a. lip mn hin ynpnI u,tk