The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20

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we delegates from other auxiliaries or
interested temperance women We
well understand the cost, in toll and
WEAKNESS and self-sacrifice, of extend
ing such Inequalities, and we appre-
ciate accordingly the warmth and
sweetness of our reception here.
But l take it, the response you would
deem the fittest would be q clear dec
l~aration of our purposes in coming to
sit with you in council, or in social in
%tercourse. Sisters, simply for an in
terchange of thought aud experiences,
of hopes and fears; to get cheer and
courage, and if we may, to impart, TO
tell of successes or defeats and so stay
up each others hands and strengthen
each others hearts in this temperance
work. For We, each one, like your
selves, appear here today, a woman
already cOnsecrated to this great cause,
pledged to its furtherance both by
''example and effort" We have come
that together we nav seek Divine
wisdom and whether it be the mind of
the Spirit that we continue on in the
same line of work or i'm other direc-
tons. We have come to look into
each others faces for mutual encour-
agement, to tell the good news we may
chance to have, or to ask one another
why so many of the best laid plans of
our best workers are apparently un-
successful? Why, when we think W g
have the law in our very grasp, as a
help, we are foiled and the enemy
triumphs by a bubble? When such a
friend as Rev. Theodore Cuyler de-
clares it to be an ''unquestionable fact
that a smaller percentage of the Ameri-
can people are total a%bstainers today
than at the time when the original
Maine law was enacted III 1851" we
naturally shudder. This sorry fact
may be largely accounted for by the
rapidity of immigration and other
causes; yet we, proverbially impatient
women, will question:, why, how,
when2 Why is it thus? How shall
we direct our efforts that we may sue
coed? When shall we see satisfactory
results from our labors and prayers?
Surely we are OH the Lords side in
this matter, and SO must come to vic
tory sooner or later, by slow or more
] rapid advances. This is our sheet.an-
Choir, from which we NAV not be shaken,
= cannot, and endure. We may be dis
y couraged, bafiled. beaten back, but our
: plighted faith will cver be binding {;
5 we can never be released from this
R warfare. If we may not, today, sing
of signal triumphs, we can congratu.
late ourselves that we are, at least, a
constant thorn in the side of the foe,
feared and hated, and therein take
heart Our beloved national presi-
dent, with her noble suite of heroines,
is scattering broadcast good seed and
: making a glorious name for herself and
9 her society the country over might
almost say the world round. We are
proud of them and of their grand
developments as women. But we, lit
/ tie company, far down the ranks, what
are we doing; keeping pace or fainting?
Dear Mrs. Hunt is crying through the
f land, "Save the boys and girls. Edu-
cate them in home and school as to the
G nature of alcohol and its effects on body,
4 mind and soul; then will come on a
a generation purified and redeemed from
+ this curse" Heaven bless and speed
her well; hers is a bright, promising
It corner of the vineyard. But alas alas
will it be SO? Does knowledge con-
s corning the wrong, however full, deter
d from its following and insure the pur-
d suance of the right? How many OF
e our most intelligent, who know far
more than we can tell them, all about
it, 60 still on bound victims to the
O grave. And the vendor, does he not
know, and, knowing, does he hold his
him on? Says the Christian at Work,
ave always think morals into educa.
ton, but do morals always get in
Can we afford to forget that always
y we have the lower man, the fallen mar
with us?" 1t is the spirit part tina
o needs to be educated by the Holy
l. Spirits power to make it a willing Co
worker with the humane intelligen ;e
This spirit-portion of ourselves is right
le full leader, and should keep pace will
the intellectual, or to be In advance; i
rs is never sure to follow, but may shoe
l. far in another direction. Can it be
'e sisters, hat we have labored so earnest
ID ly, S o tenderly for the beautiful tempt,
ID with its glorious brain-crown, as tt
neglect the real mar within? In otheI
&c words, have we wrought and prayed
l. with sufficient directness for spiritua
II enlightenment, and then outward, unit
t, the very courts of the temple wer,
SIS cleansed? Have we trusted too mucl
S, in the very perfection of Il temper
n ance organizations? In the CRANE
rs work ALREADY done? Aye, in u owl
of "much speaking?" We all know tina
In so far as organization goes, we are il
fairly good working order. But W
ne also know that "wheels, and wheel
ty within wheels are of little good with
out the spirit of the living creatur
il within them" May we never depaI
ry from the simple, earnest faith of on
tx crusade mothers, and strive to brin
of the poor serpent-bitten ones to tn
n, Savior, aud hold them there until the
he see truth in His light. And finally,
IT. we feel that any part of our wor
on stands approved in His sight, let Il
RS seek to be energized anew by God
ell spirit, for its continuance. Or if theI
ed be any lack in IL motives or way
IL may we humNy yield to His guidanc
ny and seek His ways. Let no earne,