Sword and shield., 1885-10-31

plety OF our people. Some of oul
women say they feel as if they
"been to glorious camp meeting.
We were so delighted that we tried
to have the next session held here
but after discussion it was decided
that ''the city on the PEARL" where
"the best men of the State" so often
congregate in Legislature and con
vention had claims paramount to
ours.
Public addresses were delivered
during the convention by Mr.. r. ID.
Gambrell, of Clinton Mr.. L. D.
Marshall, Of Edwards; Mrs. Erwin,
Of Columbus, (the presldent), Mrs,
III. B. Kells, of Fayetta, and Mrs
Dairy Read Goodale, of Baton Rouge
La. The addresses of Messrs. Gam
brell and Marshall were good. 1t is
decidedly refreshing and encouraging
to, see our talented, educated young
men ioining in this holy crusade
against that vilest of all abomina-
tions-the liquor traffic. The presi-
dent presented, in a well written
report, an outline Of the history Of
the introduction of the Woman !
Christian Temperance Union into
Mississippi and Of its progress up to
the present time. The address 81
Mrs. HI. B. Kells, wish could have
been heard by all Of my sex WHO
talg lofty about ''woman's in-
feriorfty." Very few Of these boast
ing masculines can produce such an
address. Mrs. Kells was for a num-
Der Of years, principal of Fairmount
! Institute, near Sewanee, Tennessee.
/ Many mines "a tie noble ranks ST
I Mississippi and Tennessee woman
hood bear the imprint Of Mrs. Kells'
genius Mrs Mary Reade 68oaale
zaxe two addresses that ser perh.
They were learned without pedantrg,
/ logical without stiffness and ornate
without meretricious fnery ofspeech.
And Mrs. Goodale is withal very
pleasing speaker. A fine face, a
countenance that bespeaks candid,
honest soul within, a perfect ease
and self-possession of manner, a
voice soft and sweet and yet strong
enough to fill any ordinary audi
torium, a thorough mastery of the
principles of the elocutionist's art
an intense flaming zeal in that noble
cause which battles for "God and
home and native lane" these quail
fcation make Mrs. Goodale, woman
though she is, a foe to be dreaded by
the hosts Of BacchGs. She is the
Frances Willard of the South. She
has already dealt the rum traffic
terrible crushing blows in North
Louisiana. Through her instru-
mentality, unions have been formed
which have swept this hellish traffic
from whole parishes. AS look upon
such noble women, | have a more
exalted estimate of our fallen
humanity. To do the work which
she is doing requires in the first
place a vast amount OF arduous toll
to acquire a fitness for the work,
requires long absences from home.
requires the worry and manifold in
conveniences of constant travel, re-
quires hundred things that are not
pleasing to modest, refined, home
loving woman as Mrs. Goodale is.
Yet all this she is willing to endure
in order to save the sons of men from
drunkard's grave and a drunkard's
hell. All honor to such noble, self
denying, cross-bearing, God-fearing,
humanIty-loving women. They will
never be appreciated at their true
worth until God comes to ''gather
up his Jewels. IF ever my soul has
burned with holyindignatlon, it has
been when | have heard men
denounce and ridicule these heroic
women "of whom the world is not
worthy" | as much believe these
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union women are diyinely called to
do the work they are doing as that
am called to minister IN holy
things" And not alone 60 l honor
these leaders of the hosts of reform;
| honor the rank and file as well.
Not all can be leaders. Not all have
speaking and organizing talent.
Not all can be spared from the home
circle for distant journeys. Yet these
whose labors are more circumscri0ed
manifest the same spirit of consecra-
ton that charlcterizes their more
widely known co-laborers. For a
modest, refined, sensitive woman to
take an anti-rum petition and 90
tramping through the streets, into
stores, offices, depots, shops, every
where to do this in the face of op-
position, scorn and ridieule from
what the world sometimes calls its
best citizens; to do this while hostile
press hurls It's sneers and slurs upon
them; to do this day after day with
aching and wearied limbs, and then
to see all these labors come to naught
bymeans Of names fshed up from the
dregs Of society with the almighty
dollar for a bait; then to start out in
a new campaign Of the same sort and
with the same results; to go through |
a number Of campaigns like this
Do you tell me there is no heroism in
this? ? And this is only one depart