The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-01-15
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.

EDITED BY THE WOMEN IS CHRISTIAN TEN:
PERANCE UNION.
OUR MOTTO FOR GOD AND HOME AND
NATIVE LAND.
gentleman remarked that he had eight
arguments in favor of prohibition, and
when asked what they were, replied, ''My
eight children.'
Not less than ], 900 Of the $4,000 papers
published in the United States, had last
year some form of temperance department
conducted by the w. G. I. U. Indirectly.
as many more were supplied with temper
ance truth.
A little boy who was told the w. G.. T.
U. women all prayed every day at II
O'Clock that the saloons might be abolished,
said, Cant the children pray too? The
little hands on all the watches and clocks
lifts their pointers toward heaven at
twelve.
Drunkenness is devilish sin, distinct
from all others, upon which God sets his
particular mark. He writes it in the
bloodshot eye :; he writes it in the red nose ];
he writes it in the trembling hand; if you
are drunkard, God will surely hang out
your sign. You can be secret with other
sorts of crime, but you cannot with this.
And man is responsible for his self-su-
perinduced inability. If you find a man
who could not from the very beginning
resist a tendency to indulgence of appetite,
thenhe is not responsible. -ReU.R r. Mere
dith.
The National Educational Association
which convened at Madison, Wisconsin,
July II, heartily endorsed the efforts of the
w. G. T. U. to secure a compulsory Tenn
perance Education Bill in every State. and
pledged cooperation to that end. Sic
Thousand teachers of public schools inter
ested to have the children forewarned and
forearmed as to the dangers Of the use Of
alcohol Public school teachers and sab
bath school teacher of 100000 children
CnUake on this subject! What does not this
work Of the W. G. 7. Z promise to future
generations ?-Notional W. c. z. U. B,1le-
tin:
Thank God, the woman, the self-vOiced :,
the self-denying, are reused to cry out
against the cruel monster. We are salts
fed that the women have struck the right
remedy, which in time will cure the evil,
provided legislators, school boards, and
intelligent voters sustain and push forward
the movement. On might think and hope
that the philanthropic efforts OF the women
of our land alone will overcome and sub
due this, the most destructive and over
whelming evil the world ever knew. But
unless the Christian church awakes out of
sleep and comes to their rescue, the work
will not be accomplished English Jour
nal.
CHILDHOOD THE FORTRESS OF HUMANITY
Beyond all others, this is The Children's
Age, and every word written or act done
/ in their interest is force set in motion
for all mankind. For Childhood is the
fortress of Humanity posted away out on
the frontier Of Time, and if we furnish
weapons, ammunition, and military drill,
children will ''hold the fort when the vet
Grams grow weary. AS one of our gifted
w. G. T. U. workers has said 1.-The door
of millennial glory has chlld's hand on
the latch" BY as much as formation is
better than reformation, and prevention
than cure, by so much are we bound to
study the. child in our midst us the most
impressive object lesson of the ages
Fra,sSes E. Willard. 7
If all the mothers understood how much
depends upon their decision in this contest
of the home and the saloon, they would
speedily enroll themselves on the right
side. One must be q slave, q coward, OF a
hero, in the strife. If q slaye, we bear the
misery and disgrace. such slavery to appe-
tite brings il a coward, the meanness and
imbecility Of one who sneaks from duty
| if a hero, we not only climb to q high
place morally, but hold light of example
for others. Our slavery, our cowardice,
our heroism, bring others to the same
| depth, or level. or height. to which we fall,
OF stay, or climb. 1t is the mission of the
| w. G. I. U. to arouse, instruct. encourage,
and help mothers to be heroes. Esther T.
Housh