The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-27

treating, with steadily increasing
numbers, is marching grandly for
ward to conquer the world
Who would have thought when,
twelve years ago, few trembling
women met in little church in an
obscure town in OHIO, and inaugur-
ated the temperance crusade"
singing as they marched out of the
church door
=. Give to the winds thy fears.
Hope and be undismayed:
Godhe thy sighs and sees thy tears,
He shall lift up thy head"
That the little spring thus opened
should so soon grow to be q stream,
q rivera flood--an ocean, which
shall cover the earth For, believe
me. dear friends, this is sure to be
the result of it.
1--WE may not live to see the day,
But earth shall gladden. with the ray,
OF this good time coming"
1t was q very small beginning.
We were but women. We had been
taught that it was unseemly for us
to take any public places, and where
our teachings led us, our hearts fol-
lowed. We did not want to leave
the retirements of our happy homes,
and enter the battle which we saw
we must fight. But, God pity us
Those dearer to US than our lives
were subject to danger tronl which
our weak hands could not rescue
them. We could pray for them,
and we did: but we felt that prayer
must be supplemented by work.
We could no longer stand by looking
to politicians, 10 the party in power,
to legislatures and congress to rid
us of this demon whose loathsome
form stretched at all our thresh-
holds, if his form had not already
an abode at our very firesides.
When we plead with the lawmakers,
their answer was, more or less
curtly: "We can do nothing for
you; it is not in our prov ince. +"
Or, at most, weak attempt to
CIRCULATE the traffic in liquors"
was all that we could secure.
Gradually and unwllingly to the
women of America came the con-
viction that to the part of the ma
ton to whom is given "half the
wisdom, more than half the purity,
and nearly all the gentleness," God
had assigned the duty, not only of
,,r,o yinn for thn puartbrnv, Of
liquor power, but of laboring to this
end, as He should give them wis
dom. Having no political power,
we had nothing to fear from politi-
cal parties; and more than that
being SO rarely subject to the temp
tation which enslaves the body and
soul. we could labor with clean
hands and strong faith. Have you
heard of the old lady, who, after
viewing brewery, distilery, and
atobacco factory, exclaimed-"Aint
thankful that the women folks
haven't got all that stuff to smoke
and chew and swallow down."
And so, after the crusader had
miraculously opened 10 the eyes of
American women their strength and
the source of their power, the Wo-
mans Christians Temperance Union
wa organized.
Ii we ask what is the element in
this organization which has given it
such an acceptance with all good
people--which has placed it by the
Young Mems Christian Association
as one of the two great moral powers
of the world, auxiliary to the Church
of Christ, the answer cannot he hard
to find. Without doubt as Miss
Willard has said, The decision
deliberately reached at their organ
ization to stand By the name as well
as the faith of Him to whom woman
owes all she has come to be-" and
the prayerfu Christian spirit which
characterizes all their efforts, is the
true secret of their power.
Within the twelve years of exist
ence this ''soher second thought of
the crusade" has crystalllzed INFO
permanent form in national
state and territorial, district, county
and local organization. All the
large cities and towns in the United
States are buzzinS with the busy
women who are tireless in this ork,
and almost every hamlet has its
band of quiet workers, who have
nevertheless found the fulcrum upon
which rests the lever which shall
move the world There are ten
thousand organized Unions, with a
membership of two hundred thou
sand women of all nalionalities,
races and conditions. According to
their creed, they are "Union of
Christian Women of all Churches
for the purpose of educating the
young, forming a better public