Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-02-27
TEMPERANcE coLUMN.
Contributed by Ladies of Washington Temper
ance Union.l
plan OF work of the Ohio VgOmen's
Christian Temperance Union
for ISS9s

l.,
perance Union, in session at Circleville,
June, 1873, recommended to all local aux
iliaries that the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Unions of each Congressional /
District unite in organizing a District |
Convention, for the purpose of arousing |
enthusiasm and increasing the knowledge |
of our work. Let the President of each |
District, assisted by the Presidents of
Local Unions, arrange a programme of
business, of topics, and speakers, and no.
tify the public thoroughly of the same
through the press and pulpit. Invite all
women interested in the temperance
movement to attend. Conduct the Con-
vention on the same general plan as a
State Convention, organizing a District
Women's Christian Temperance Union at
its close, and selecting officers.
2. No Union will be prosperous which
does not steadily work, as well as earnest
Iy pray. We specially recommend the
holding of Gospel Temperance Meeting
on Sabbath afternoon, to be conducted by
women, in the endeavor to secure sigma
lures to the pledge, and to lead men out
of the bondage of appetite into the liberty
; wherewith Christ maketh free. Let this
meeting be followed, whenever practica-
Bile, by a conversation or inquiry meeting.
: In summer it may, in many localities, be
well to go into the highways and hedges
and gather in the hungry, and break them
the bread He has given us. We cannot as
Christians sit at ease with folded hands,
even in our churches, to the neglect of
| &17S of
every month one of its members in each
denomination to present a report of the
Gospel and other work of the Women's
:. Christian Temperance Union to her own
= church.
8. We believe that the Church and
Sunday School should be, if they are not,
: temperance organizations, and that all
children should not only be pledged to
total abstinence, but carefully instructed
in the Bible principles of temperance.
Therefore we urge that special effort be
made to introduce and establish thorough
, temperance work in the Sunday Schools
!, of the State; also to form Juvenile Tenn
= perance Unions. The Presidents of the
" several Districts will be responsible for
the prosecution of this work, and will
10 | communicate with Mrs NJ. H. Wood
- bridge, who is the Superintendent of Ju-
. venile Temperance Work for the State
We recommend the Temperance Concer
70 Exercises prepared by Lucia Kimball
e viz: F'The Hebrew Captive - F'Test o.
the Rechabites, - and ''Vow ofthe Nazar
ites" These can be obtained by send
i ing to Miss Kimball's address, 644 MonrO'
: street, Chicago. Price so cents per hun
90 dred.
- 4. So far as possible, let us endeavor tt
have thorough instruction in the scien
tifie basis of total abstinence incorporated
in in the public school instruction. DR.
G Richardson IS ssText-Book ofTemperance'
at should be procured through the infuene
of of each Local Union, and placed in tn
n hands of all public school teachers, fo
he use in giving oral lessons or otherwise, a
as may be practicable. Also, Miss Juli
or Colman's Temperance Lessons 70
u younger pupils,
~ 5. Young Ladies' Unions should b
III foundedin every town and city, and tn
. young ladies should be urged to engag
= in temperance work, especially anon
= the children. Construction must gradr
,s ally replace reconstruction, and forms
nd tion reformation, in the thoughts an
,r- habits of the people, and this can best b
III done in early life,
- 6. Influential assemblies, such as Mir
- isterial, Sunday School, Educational, an
- Medical Societies, should be visited by tt
- Local Women's Christian Temperate
- Union in the town where they meet, an
~ asked their opinion of the temperant
-. reform. Those who prominently help
49, make public opinion must be put on r
- cord as to their views, especially membe
1i of those corporations founded upon tt
On avowed principle of self-denial for other
ooa sake, viz: The Churches of Christ.
e Z. The Press should be secured, as Fl
as possible, as our ally. Maintain CO
nh umn of temperance selections and new
eri- in every paper where it can be secured.
nts 8. We earnestly call upon all w
C. mems Christian Temperance Unions
srs. become auxiliary to the State. Six
rk. cents a year is our membership fee, thir
cents of which is for local work and thi
ty for district expenses, half of which
mt paid to State and National treasure
iect Adopt the mite-box system to secu
by money for your membership. Write
on your box, 'Please put in something f
If the W. G. T. U.'' Let it stand on vO
MIS- sitting room table through the mont
D., and take its contents to each month
-ew meeting. Do not let small ffnanci
consideration separate u.s. Isolation
weakness; union is strength. AS WI
,w- might each Christian woman say to t
des Local Union of her town, 81 can wo
The better alone," as for the Local Union
Fl. say to the strong and helpful State {
Ed ganizatiOn, 'FWe can work better by ou
are selves.'' The Crusade Army of the ps
lied moves on to-day in solid phalanx in thr
ion companies-Local Unions, State Unior
ira the National Union. Let us of Ohio
ub- loyal as well as earnest and brave.
the 8. So far as practicable, earnestly wa
re- those engaged in the liquor traffic of t
sin and danger of their course, either
letter or conversation. Also, appeal d
per- vately to the Incorporate, patiently e
end pecting his reform and salvation, looki
$50 to God for His promised help therei
S in Have committees for this purpose, whi
uld shall report at your regular meetings.
ere, 10. "Our Union," the organ of t
this Women's National Christian Temperan
Union for our workers, is published
the Mrs. G. G. Afford, Y. M. G. A. buildin
]. 1t Brooklyn, N. Y. At least fifty subscri
nd, ers for each Union should be secured
gist women appointed for that purpose. Prit
erp, GU cents per annum; clubs of ten, So Q
is OF twenty, So 90.
IL. Memorial Book-This beautif
book, completed and paid for, is NJ
out. i0"uy !0I "uuAEhOh"i nailes' ODJecI-