The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-04
w. c. T. U. of New Jersey.
EDITED BY MRS. s. j. c. DOWNS, PRESIDENT.

OUR PLATFORM:
arotal abstinence for the individual and constitu-
tional prohibition for the state
We have appointed April 9th as day OF
special prayer for an outpouring OF the Holy
Spirit upon the temperance workers of the state,
and especially upon the societies under the name
of W. G. T. Unions. April 10th we meet at
Glassboro not only to retrospect the past half
year, but to plan for the future. We meet in a
town under the curse of rum
We have to-day Wednesday, sent out to all
the local unions, programmes and credental
cards We hope no Union will be unrepresented
if not by the presence of properly authorized
delegates, by a communication, giving the pres
ent status of the work We have added several
new names to our list of auxiliaries, which we
hope to see represented.
The work in Plainield is truly wonderful.
Messrs. Maybee and English have been there,
and hundreds have signed the pledge. In
Bloomfield too, the same results have followed
their labors. They commenced their labors in
Beverly on Friday evening, and we hope IN our
next to have the privilege of noting for your
readers like success. The three licensed dram
shops of that pretty little city are quietly but
surely doing their legitimate work. Hundreds
are received from licenses, but thousands are
expended for poor taxes and the cost of crime.
The rumocracy of a certain pretty little town
along the Delaware. rather overshot the mark
recently when they refused to furnish the
names of the signers to the applications Tor
license Judge -- is famous for his strict
ideas of the majesty of the law 1t was very
humiliating to have to pay fine of $50, but it
was lust Let us have more of it!
The temperance committee appointed by the
synod of West Jersey, speaks through its chair
man. Rev. j. DeHart Bruen, in emphatic
language. Hear him:
81 would respectfully urge upon the reverend
clergy of the Presbytery of West Jersey, the
duty of frequently presenting this great subject
both from the pulpit and in the Sabbath school.
and of securing the circulation of well selected
temperance literature. l would urge further
that YOU endeavor to arouse the sentiment of
the communities in which you live, by means OF
public meetings and lectures. In view OF the
action of the synod, denouncing liquor selling
as crime and approving its legal prohibition.
and in view of the facts of the great struggle,
would most earnestly recommend that you IN
struct the Uoters who listen to your teaching in
regard to their duty in this work. especially in
attending the political meetings of their party.
and opposing by honest means the election OF
men in sympathy with the liquor trade to
officers in the city, county, and state or as dele
gates to nominating conventions, and that they
seek to nominate and elect men who will fear
lessy and earnestly work for the abolition of
this liquor business as inimical to the interests
and rights of both church and state, fruitful
source of misery, crime, and death, temporal and
eternal. and as involving a cruel and tryanncal
trespass upon the rights and personal liberty of
vast number of citizens GOTTEN helpless women
and little children nearly related to its victims
Such language as this is not to be misunder-
stood, and 1 would that every member of the
ministry in every church were as outspoken as
this young ambassador of Christ. The present
status of the work in Clayton is largely owing,
under God to the fearless position assumed by
the ministry of the place toward this enemy of
the church and the home.
The new Union formed recently in Jersey
City, Mrs Marion " Wait, president, is doing
grandIy. Already their number is increased to
sixty. A little church has been rented for their
weekly meetings, which are well attended. The
good seed is being sown in that rum-cursed city
by women along our lines of work. Jennie
Smith has been there, aud spoke to large
audience, and many came forward for prayer
and sought Christ and found him.
Paterson is doing grandly in the line of chill
dren's work. Another Band of Hope organized,
making the fifth! Also, beer-readings every
Thursday, in their meetings from house to
house. Remonstrances are being circulated
against licensing new saloons, thus setting
boundaries to the curse if not destroying it.
Miss Coleman, of 70 Bible House, has, in adj
dition to her :" Beer Readings" issued 81 Read
ings on Cider" with directions for their use
Now, there are places where cider is the most
powerful enemy we have to encounter, and
where we are derided for our fanaticism in
making objection to so utterly harmless drink
In just such places we need these Cider Read
ings. Send for them to Miss Coleman.
| In the changes in the pastorates of many of
the churches in this state, there will be "prefit
and loss" Let our ladies look up the new
pastors and secure their cooperation in the
temperance work. A large majority of them
of all denominations in New Jersey are wide
awake and earnest, and the few laggards whom
we find now but rarely, are trying to catch on.
1t is admitted that we can limit, restrict,
hamper and tax the liquor traffic, but that we
cannot prohibit it.
Let us see. Suppose we compare the traf-
fic to an evil tree 2 The public has right to
trim the tree, cut its top off, dig around the
trunk and cut away the roots, but it cannot
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