Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-25

WoAASs CRgsADR.
Teash Anniversary Celebrated b. ~
". c. r. q.
Last Sunday, at 4 p. m, Yeslse's Hal
wss nlled to its utmost capacity. Tn
occasion Of this great congregation va,
the celebration in this city of the wo
mans crusade. conducted BY the W. c
7. c. and the Y. W. G. T. q. A bsaati
full white satin banner swung over th,
speakers heads, bearing. besides tn,
names Of Miss willard. Mrs. r. B
Hayes and Mrs. Thompson, the motto
Of the union, "For God and Home and
Native Land" The preceding fifteen
minute praise was led by the Y. n. c.
A. choir. Then, after the hymn, "Th.
Crusade Psalm" was read IN q clear
distinct voice by Miss Nellie Powell
Rock Of Ages" the regular crusade
HYMN, was sung With good effect by thu
following quartette Mr.. @. II. John
son. Miss 1iilie Atwood, G. E. Bowman
and l.. ]. Colman. Mrs. e. G. johnson
then delivered in her characteristic
manner the
HISTORY OF TaH CRUSADE.
In the dimly traced pages Of history
We are told OF the noble men Who %
long ago periled life and limb in "holy
crusades." That wonderful work OF
wrestling from the cruel and atrocious
Seaj0ok Turks the place Of eur Ssviour's
burial, and all the land made sacred by
the foot prints of the weary Jesus a. he
trod tho hills and wales.
And as Peter, the Hermit" melted
those warriors in the then far West by
bis passionate utteFanoes TO protect, a.
their very hearts core, the reverenoed
Palestine from the devastation and
idoiatry Of Pa0anism. A men, bold
and brave, from palace and low rooted
habitati0n, went forth t. battle for this
loved land and sepulchre, for these TO
bleed and die, SO Just ton years ago TO-
DAY noble scomen, melted to action BY
another Peter, the Hermit, went 30 bat
tie in our own fair land, not against
earthly, physical enemies, but against
foes moro cruel and insidieos in their
work and effects than were ever the
Turks Of Hakem, Of the Orient. against
mems unholy passions and appetitee.
Near the antipodes Of the First Cru
sades, on the I'd of December, 1873, a
band Of praying women gathered and
after final impetus given BY that ear
nest Christian worker, DIR. Dio Lewis,
and rededication Of time and talent
and comfort and life itself to the ser
vice of our great Master, they went
forth and into the dens of Satan, into
the very camp Of the enemy. Here they
pleaded with men and prayed for them
even while oftentimes their whisky
craZed brother heaped cures on their
mild, inspired faces and hambly bowed
heads. They pleaded with men to for
sake forever a work which was 30 sor-
rowful, damning their own souls, send
ing every year thousands to q drunkard's
lowest hell. and bringing blight and
ruin on millions of unborn human be-
fnRs.
Was ever work more Christlike than
this !?
They bore the cross, not in broidered
silks upon tho outer vostment, bat writ
ing hearts, while they had been quietly
uS
ten thus by the hand of Him who said (:
vineyard" In the dim twilight of that
mid-wiDter morning, about fifty women
assembled in the First Presbyterian
Church of Hillsboro, Ohio. Hero the
Crusade Psalm was read to give them
strength, and in answer to their prayers
the verv spirit OF peace seemed with
them. Here Eliza Trimble Thompson
was unanimously chosen leader, and
marshaled into line by her they marched
from its portals into the gently falling
snow, that beautiful hymn,
"Give to the winds thy fears,
Hope and be undismayed,"
parting their lips, and continual prayer
and trust in their hearts. -
Thus they went from drug store to gin
shop, from Raily lighted saloon to cellar
RroRgery, praying and kindly speaking
always. Often in those days Of cease
less warefare, these women might be
seen kneeling on the damp sidewalks in
the rain and snow, whom rudely repulsed
by men who thought to crush this pray
ing band by i'll treatment, misrepreson-
tation, imprisonment and human power
pitted against God inspired power and
enthusiasm. In the strength Of our
loved Women's Christian Temperance
Union of today you may behold which
power is triumphant.
! wish that had the time and ability
to paint you a cleaning, minute and
truthful picture Of that flame kindled in
the State, from whence 90 many great
souled men and women have gone to
serve their country and humanity, a
picture of women white haired and
sanity, faces oftener furrowed BY sor-
row than@by age, Of hand trembling in
fear at the newborn responsibility, Of
women all self forgetful and earnest, in
the full Acknowledgement of self def
cienoy but oh, how istrong in the power
Of His might who has said: "Lo, am
with yoa Away, even unto the end"
In the history of the "Woman's Crus-
AIDE" in Hillsboro, We may see very
similarly penOi.ed q history of that
work in almost every town and village
where temperance women, during that
year, found vent for tho long smothered
manifestations OF their knowledge OF.
and sorrow in, the greatest curse of their
fatherland.
Soon through all the earth the FIRE of
woman's love and w0man's devotion
few, till from Calcutta TO the land be-
side the quietly flashing Pacific people
were reused, and mothers, wives and
sisters dared turn and ask Of man An
account of his custodianship of the AZ
fairs Of the world a. displayed in the
results OF bis appreciation Of the evils
Of incompetence.
To the question put BY husbands and
fathers. "What's all this tomfoolery
aboat?" the answer was ventursd that
''the men !. had been in the tomfooleyy
business long time, and that nov It
might be Goa's will that the women
should take their part"
You ask, "What legal right had We
man in meddlinQ? How we're her in
terests affected? What her reasons for
this mad, nov freAk3"
Listen! will ask youa question or
two.
A mothes's love, what 10 il when the
boy Of her fsndest hopes comes under
the spsll Of this terrible poison, aieohol7
ID Is dead oe aaleep vheu che 49, him .
crushed. helpless, loatheone thing By
reason Of ito powerful craze?