Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-13
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
lContributed by Ladies Of Washington Temper
anee Union.l
To the WOman's Christian Temper
ance Unions OF America.


MRS. NJ. Z. DOUD.
BELOVED SIsTERs-AnOther year has
rolled to its close with all its great posi-
bilities, and we are again face to face with
the snew year, freighted, as ever it
comes, with grave and solemn response
biIities. AS we look backward, albeit
far less has been accomplished than we
could wish, we can but say, t'the Lord
has been with us, and blessed our labOrs,
and given us many precious souls for our
hire, p but as we confront the future, the
aIl-impOrtant question that comes home
to every heart is the same that has been
asked again and again, in the years that
have swept with their solemn records into
eternity
I seWhat are we going to do, dear friends
In the year which is to come,
To bafie this fearful hend Of death,
Whose messen ger is rum?'
Five years of labor and experience in
the Gospel Temperance work but deePens
our convictions, that indeed God has call
ed the women of this land to his help,
t'chosen Them as one, at least, of the in
struments by which he would redeem
this people from the cursed bondage of
intemperance, and if success crown not
the work it will be because, like the Isra-
elites of old, we turn ourselves to other
gods, or listen to the seduction of other
counsels, instead of giving ourselves
wholly and continually to the Lord, and
fixing our eye alone upon the infinite
Jehovah, to follow wheresoever he may
lead.
Iwould it were possible to reach every
mothers heart within our borders, tC
quicken every sister to action, to still
every woman, whether she be high ol
low, to behold the terrible needs of the
! hour, and the weighty responsibilities
resting upon5her.
We may not tell how God will yet Civ
the victory. One thing seems evident fol
the year to come, He has called us, not tC
the political arena, but as educators, earn
est and true, of the political forces, in thu
deep underlying principles of all saf'
government, temperance, sobriety an'
; love.
Are we strong enough, pure enough
for this work? Have we drank sufficient
ly deep from the fountains of holiness ant
wisdom? Are our hearts so full of tina
infinite love which deemed no sacrific
too great that He might lift up the pei
ishing, that we can press forward un
d mindful of sneer and scoffing, swervin
L neither to the right nor to the left, unit
5, the great problem is wrought out, th
+ terrible haunts of intemperance an
Z; of vice closed forever, the tempted re
m deemed, and the fallen lifted up? Hav
Y is we so received of the fullness of the Hol
:, Spirit, that we can confidently say, "W
: are fitted for any portion of this wor
which God shall assign to our hands,"
Who can answer, yes?"
Then, my beloved sisters, if we canno
D. whatsoever else we do, ''in the year thi
BIT is TO come, p let us not forget the '.assen
al bling of ourselves together for earne
S' prayer and conservation, with steadfa
ng purpose to know no will but that of o,
Divine Leader, to receive no. commal
except as issued from the Captain of o.
Hosts. Let us not forget the inrincib
buckles of 'All-prayer." Let not one
us listen to the tempter's voice, sayin
''It is waste of time; we can pray
at. well at home" No, move need uni
* of prayers a union of hearts, going up
sd- one to our God for s'that wisdom tn
o, cometh from above" and for His CO
as tinued guidance, for aWho is sufficie
for these things,'' unless we know tt
GOOD be with u.s.
,e can only comprehend the vast mag
- tude of this terrible evil of fintemperpar
1 - Lot
that men and women do not rise as a u
life and demand its entire annihilation fr
sa- soe, our borders. -
sses We count not one, but thousands
ier- great slaughter-houses of souls, with tn
,Sse sse affairs of eternal ruin, into which
,ru. trusting, innocent youth-our boys
net being lured, the hourly victims, and h
an9 abd few have stretched out hand to sa
tive Year by year they have gone on, fill
de- almost every home with the seeds of s
mp row, thousand times more terrible Il
death, and still, though the fearful faC
glaring enough, it is silently ignored,
n the tremendous evil is allowed to incre
@LS Who is sufficient for the overthrow
these strongholds of Satan but the L
our God?
alter Beloved, we may fold our loved one
'Oln- our arms to-day in seeming security,
morrow we know not what shall be. G,
n then, we plead with you, every {
> mother and maiden, to the almighty pr
es in ises and power of our God, until we /
most be able to press forward, invinci
IheSH IfeS ''conquering and to conquer, !" to the u
7nd6- Is6 destruction of our common enemy,
1t Of temperance, and receiving as it "
anew this work from the Lord, let
ee. unite our work with our faith 'Fin
year which is to come, ''iwtth more es
tag8 tPgG estness and faithfulness, remember
ting that He, for whom we labor, will rect
, er- and greet us with t'Blessed are ye,''
glz; NE will in His own time redeem his prec
wer; promise, ''Whatsoever ye ask in my ma
'unc- 1 will do it,
amp Oh! thou infinite Jehovah, whose hand shall
81 but thine,
What armor grid our waiting hosts but par
divine,
And when to temperance shall the blessed vii
be.
the To whom shall our glad hearts give praise
ally, Father but unto Thee.
yhen -e"----
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