The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-25
of Christ. the answer cannot be hard

of Christ, the answer cannot be hard
to find. Without doubt as Miss
Willard has said, 1.-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 prayerful Christian spirit which
characterizes all their efforts, is the
true secret of their power.
Within the twelve years of exist
ence this "sober second thought of
the crusade" has crystallized into
permanent form in national
state and territorial, district, county
and local organization. All the
large cities and towns in the United
States are buzzing with the busy
women who are tireless in this work,
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 q
membership of two hundred thou
sand women of all nationalities,
races and conditions. According to
their creed, they are q "Union of
Christian Women of all Churches
for the purpose of educating the
young, forming better public
sentiment; reforming the drinking
classes; transforming by the power
of divine grace, those who are en-
shaved by alcohol; and removing
the dram-shop from our streets by
law"
The results of any such great
work as this, must be to great ex-
tent invisible to human eyes. To
sow beside all waters, is our work.
The great harvest we may not see.
But it must be evident that a
great effect is being produced upon
the women of the land, not only in
giving wise avenues for energies
heretofore downcast or ill-directed,
but in forming an intelligent senti-
ment upon this subject than which
none is more important in the house,
and in ''that larger house we call
society,"" Much time in every
meeting is devoted to discussing a
variety of topics relating to temper
ance and intemperance. Two hun
dred thousand wives and mothers
and sisters are daily preachers
and examples of temperance prin-
ciples in their own households.
They are learning that there is dan
ger lurking in every teaspoonful of
wine in the sauce, or the tablespoon
full Of brandy in the pie; that ten
denotes which may be most fatal
may be found in the earliest years
of childhood; that no appetite is
more sure to be Inherited than that
of taste for liquor. 1t cannot be
otherwise than that the children in
these families should imbibe ten.
perance sentiments from their in
fancy, and thus grow up, not only
intelligent and interested on these
subjects, but to great extent free
from the taste which so surely leads
into temptation. In addition tc
these home influences, thrown about
the children in so many families
scientific temperance education is
now made compulsory in all the
public schools in fourteen of the
States. Bands of hope and various
temperance societies among children
and young people are everywhere
organized; temperance papers ant
leaflets for children are circulated
quarterly temperance lessons in thu
Sabbath school are secured and il
so many ways instruction and in
tluence are brought to bear upol
the rising generation, that they
must grow up with a much cleare
estimate of this esprit of evil'' THAI
their fathers and mothers had.