Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-29
THE TEMPERANCE WOMEN
OF Tennessee Meet I'm Convention nj
Nashville, and Afterwards Meet
Their Sisters of the whole
Union
Al Louisville In National Convention
n Movement that Means Some.
thing More Than Mere Sen.
timenfalfty.

To the Editors Of the Appeal
Now that Sunday has rolled around again
bringing with it veri;able rest from tbs
tremendous hustle and excitement of Jubilee
week with its races, It's psrades, lis pvro
technic displays, and lite balls, perhaps a fe u
Items concerning the movements of the temp
GRANGE workers will not be out of order, and
may gain hearing.
Last Sunday, in the lecture-room of the
Methodist church in Nashville, the various
temperance unions in Tenne ssee. or sucb as
! w. re represented by their del5gaIts, met ac-
| cordlnS 10 expectation 10 report progress.
reorganize the several LEGAL unions and TO
elect State officers for the ensuing yesr. To
the writer, novice in all such business the
occasion was one of exceeding and increas.
ing interest. And the general and kindly
attention and sympathy shown by the people
OF Nashville in the WON ans Convention is
gooo evidence that the cause i. gaining
strength. The women who have con -ecrated
their lives 10 the tremendous task of stamp.
ing out intemperance are of type morally
and mentally TO wiu their way by their own
intrinsic merit. They are well aware of the
TACT that the work they have engaged in is
not popular; that, despite the utmost discre-
cretlon and precauIiop, they are autagoniz ng
a very large and influential class Of men.
But they deem the play worth the candle.
aud ss majority of them are professed fol-
lowers of the lowly Cbrist, who accepted mis-
repr sentaiions and prosecutions as his own
ear y portion, are prepared to emulate the
wis IN of the serpent and the harmlessuess
OF dove in their deathless resolution to
gain their ends.
Nashville expressed her sympathy with
the work and the workers by Iull ana in
te ligent audiences, in services of song from
her choir, IN the Cooperation OF her minis |
ters, In tEe BEAUTIFUL decoration of the |
church (Bapti>i, for the Monday exercises) |
loaned for the occasion, and in kindly in. |
dorst ment as expressed by Col. Colysr, of |
the american, whore sympathy culninated |
in most enjoy able g thering around his
hospit BILE board, presided over by his ele-
CANT daughter, Mrs Reese
The Convention at Nashville was pro-
nounced dec DID success and most eucour
aging 10 all interested in the work in the
south. Its mental status may be inferred
from The attend snce of such wonen as Mrs
asnnah Whithali Smith, Mrs Mary A.
Nadswortb, Mrs. Chaplin, of South Carolina,
ind Mrs. Baitome, OF New York. When
uch women join forces it is 10 produce
irritable fess, of reason and flow of soul.
'ome OF those nsmes have 50 wide spread
equation that for an obscure scribbler 10 !
more than mention hem by name might
matk OF presumption. But we OF the
outh have moi kt PIT pace with this great
nd Irreprt ssible temps rance movement, nor
re the leAders in II household names as
ley are further north. Mrs Hannah
Vhithall Smith is a Quaker evangelist, I
hose written works, notsbly The Secret of a I
fdppy l. fe, and whose Bible readings have
wen her reputation that has extended q
eyond our Own shores, she being as we'll I
DOVE 10 England in this ,ounIrv The G
eace thst passsIb all underst ndins is writ T
n lndelihly in every iineamenJ of hersWeet n
&c, which tel without words that she has
ally Possessed herself Of the secret of
iPpy life. Her Bible Ieadirgs are really o
bile e1positions, as she will weave around ?