The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-06-20
w. c. T. U. of New Jersey.
EDITED BY MRS. 5. j. c. DOWNS, pREsIDEN
DRIP DIT .Tropu.

OUR PLATFORM:
"Total abstinence for the individual and constitu-
tional prohibition for the state"
The temperance work of the Salvation Army
has been most blessed in its results in Asbury
Park Some of the hardest drinkers in the
town have been converted and give good evil
dence of a better life.
Prison and Flower day Dune 9TH was OBJ
served in Monmouth county by a concentration
of the forces of the w. c. 7. U. of the county,
at Freehold the county seat in prayer service
at 1890 in the jail. There are at the present
time twenty-five inmates. Fourteen ladies were
admitted to the corridors and took part in the
service of song and prayer. Short addresses by
some of the state officers present were followed
by the distribution of bouquets of flowers with
appropriate texts of scripture attached. Per-
sonal conversation with the prisoners revealed
the fact that large proportion were there from
the effects of indulgence in strong drink and I'M
der its influence the crimes for which they are
being punished were committed. The flowers
were kindly received and fourteen signed the
pledge. We trust some good seed was sown.
| In the afternoon ladies' meeting was held in
the lecture room of Reformed Church (Rev. Mr..
| Brokaw's) at which we explained our plans of
work Mrs. Seabrook, of keyport, and Mrs.
1 Perry, of Ocean Grove made short talks urging
the ladies to enlist under the banners and take
up aggressive work against this household enc
my, strong drink, entrenched behind wealth and
political influence in that same town of Free
hold as strongly as in any town of the state.
In the evening large audience assembled in
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work along the line of gospel temperance,
Major j. s. Yard, presiding. Rev. Mr.. Brokaw
was present and added words of encouragement
and hearty endorsement of our work. Revs.
Messrs. Moffett and White were prevented from
being present at the evening meeting by official
business in their church. They encouraged us
by being present in the morning at our meeting
in the JAIL as was also DR.. Patterson, the gen
tlemanly clerk of the county.
Mr.. Clarence Little, deputy sheriff of the
county, gave us every facility for access to the
prisoners and aided us greatly by making our
call pleasant in every respect. We are under
obligation to him and his excellent wife for
many courtesies, also to Sheriff Thompson pri-
marly in granting US permission to hold the
meeting. May great good come to every one
who helped. To Major Yard ofthe Monmouth
Democrat, who followed us throughout the day
in the different meetings and who so cordially
welcomed us to his own house, we are greatly in
debted for many words of cheer, which as pres
ident of the evening meeting, he managed to
show in introducing the different speakers.
An interview with Rev. j. R. Mace, of Red
Bank brings US the cheering news that the work
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fearless, out-spoken bravery Of christian soldiers
this unfurling of the prohibition banner is to be
attributed. May God bless them with abundant
success.
Major and Mrs. Scott are resting at Westfeld
where has recently been organized a local Union
of the W. c. I. T., our youngest child in the
state think. Mrs. Scott reports the meeting
on the 9th as being large and deeply interesting
The pastors of the churches were there and con-
tributed much to the interest of the occasion by
their words of cheer and hearty cooperation in
the grand work of the w. G. T. U. The ladies
there have adopted a good plan for their tenn
perance and gospel work. 1t is by systematic
visitation from house to house. Good results
have followed.
Recent adyices from headquarters in New York
inform us of the coming to this country of one
of the elect ladies of the old world Mrs. Pear
son, of Nottingham, England. She comes as
representative and vice-president of the British
Temperance Association. We hope to hear her
in New Jersey during the summer. She comes
to us highly spoken of as a speaker of rare pow
er and of very sweet, womany manners.
Mrs. 7. w. Seabrook, by invitation of Rev.
Mr.. Manning, of the Baptist church, spoke in
Red Bank on Cbildren's day to a very large au-
dience. We shall be gratified if the Unions will
report the success attending the services of
Flower and Prison day.
Mrs. Penfeld our state superintendent of
periodicals, has sent out her new circular to the
Unions, urging them to give heed to the claims
of our state and national papers. With our con-
santly increasing numbers we ought to do our
full share as state toward placing our Union
Signal on firm financial basis, and help to
make it in monetary sense what it is to us as
an educator, second to no paper in the land.
Mrs. Penfield speaks, too, for the GAZETTE our
state organ These papers ought to have not
less than one thousand subscribers from the
Unions in our state. The stream cannot rise
higher than the fountain and we cannot teach
others unless qualified by reading and study
The Republican convention at Chicago did not
give our women's memorial three minutes of
their precious time 1t was not read but re-
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