The Cecil Whig., 1885-11-14
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The Women at Work.

We women are going ahead very rap
idly, Mr.. WING, of late years, don't you
think so? If you have been reading re-
ports of the proceedings of the last ses-
sion of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union in Philadelphia this
week and last, you have evidently no.
ticed some of the work my noble sisters
have done. We found good field
for our advancement when We struck the
temperance work. We are the little
angels God has sent down here to keep
you men out of the eternal pit, and you
may laugh, but We are doing it right
straight along. | believe women make
the best temperance reformers that ever
lived. Why shouldn't we! Oar delicate
constitutions give us aptitude for dis
corning the suffering intemperate flesh is
heir to, and besides we are mothers
sometimes, and have husbands and sons
who are drunkards sometimes, too, and
so we know how to feel the evils of in
temperance. We are going to win our
rights OF suffrage in all these States be-
fore we die, and then you'll known who
to thank for reforms and improvements.
But started out to tell you that do
not like the texture of one plank Gas you
incoherent politicians term it) in the
platform established at the closing of the
session of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union by Mrs. Julia S. Wallace,
of Indiana. You will remember, she
stated that the use of alcoholic wine in
the Holy Communion furnishes moral
support to the liquor traffic, and is not Il
proper type of the blood of Christ. Oh.
| think this is horried to attack one of
the Oldest institutions in the Church
upon such broad and open grounds. l
do not believe that one of the millions of
men who make, sell and drink alcoholic
wine intemperately, know that it is used
as typical of the blood of Christ in the
Communion services. 1t is such an old
and sacred custom, sanctioned by Christ
Himself when He dwelt on earth, and I
really do not think it just the thing for
my noble sisters to dispute His wisdom.
do not think anybody is brutal enough
to partake of the Holy Communion for
the sake of the sip of wine they receive,
and | think it is casting rather an un-
kindly shadow of suspicion over the
character of our churchmen and prelates
to enter such an edict against it. We
women are going ahead, and doing a
noble work in the world of the nineteenth
century, that is beyond dispute, but
suppose We are oftentimes indiscreet,
just like yon men, in an over-ambitious
way; and l think the protest against the
wine in Communion is very indiscreet,
don't you, Mr.. WING? F.
We are sorry indeed that we cannot
agree with you this time, Miss F., so
fully as we did last week when you made
your first appearance in these columns.
Honored an old as the custom of using
vice, it is nevertheless conducive to the
degradation of morals, i'll certain sense,
and We think it would reflect great
deal of credit upon the dignitaries of the
churches if they would hearken and sub
nit to the wise decision of your noble
sisters. AS far as your statements in re-
gard to the accomplishments of your sex
are concerned, we are heartily in accord
with you. You are making forward
strides that will amaze the old fogies
who deny you hearing on tie suffrage
question some day when they awaken to
a realization of your condition. Tue
women of America are a typical repre-
sentation of the truly perfect and noble;
they are practical in their reforms, per-
feet in their theories, correct in the for
mutation of their doctrines, and an ever
lastingly persevering and persistent
crew, Miss F.-EDs. WING.