The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-12-10
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Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, Secretary
of the Worlds Womans Christian TEN.
perance Union, made an interesting adj
dress an Sunday afternoon, in Third
street VI. 4. church. She said the " c.
T. [. began as very small affair; the
women who started it thought that they
could lie 10 more than bear testi-
mony." They had neither money, votes,
influence nor political power: but they
had God with them-God in the midst OF
| them. The result is great piece of ma
chinery whose work cannot be measured
by its resources. Every woman in the
Union, however humble a part She may
take, las behind ker a procession of 300
600 souls. We have recently stretched out
our hands to all the women of the world:
we are girdlins the earth. We have al
present Britisi, Union, a japanese Union.
an African Union, Mon in India. Unions
in China. Switzerland. Norway. Sweden
and France \ confederation OF the wo-
men Of all nations, Organized mother
love uelting the globe. While philan-
thropists are studying how to draw the ma
lions into an universal peace union, the wo-
men have gone right at it. The women
of the Union have got above paying calls
that nobody wants to receive: fritting
away time over ruffies and iiounces, OF
thinking OF nothing more wei.hty than
cookery. They are doing work that tells;
work for God and Home, and Native
Land. Mrs. Smith gave an exposition Of
the Unions work and methods, and APP
peaied tn the wives and sisters Of Camden
to help in the warfare Tor temperance.
After the meeting number of ladies
signed the roll of No. . Union, ". G.. f.
! 1t tDet'ea Pest
i Mrs. 5. j. c. Downs, President Of the
! New Jersey W. G. T. L. spent Thanks
giving Day in Nineland, and was the
/ guest of Leayitt and Sherburne Mrs.
| Downs says that her years of experience
| in the work have impressed her with the
value Of the Woman Temperance Union,
not only in bringing about prohibition, but
+ in advancing the cause of y practical
| Christianity in ,ther directions. Through
/ its Observation-Disclosures the bars of a stilted
sectaTianism are broken. and united
| Christian endeavor for the general good is
/ secured
Mrs. Downs is a thorough believer in
woman suffrage, and SHE gives a rather
! pointed illustration of her conversion to
that way of thinking. She says she was
at q floral establishment i'll her town one
day. when a man came in and urged the
florist to attend the school meeting that
night, saying the matter Of building new
school house was to be voted upon. Mrs.
Downs asked if she might attend, and was
| CURLY told no, that only voters were
wanted. She says that set her to think
ing. Here was this NAV uho was drum
ming UP voters; lac didn't pay Il dollar tax,
and didn' know anything about schools or
school houses Mrs. Downs says. then |
looked at myself: had been II teacher
over thirty years. and knew nothing but
schools, and the way school house
should be built, and besides | paid tax,
and yet | couldn't vote. simply because
was woman From that day she has
been awoman's suffragist.
Mrs. Downs is carefully looking after
the local Mons in New Jersey, and is GO
ing among them, giving them practical
talks, and Inspiring them to better work
and more of it.
The educational value OF the ". {. r.
|. certainly cannot be ovcr-estimated
They represent the mothers; they are
training the children. There are 200, 900
! If these mothers III the United States, rep
rcsen,ing many homes. When the next
generation, Taught by these mothers and
| sent ont from these homes GENES upon
the scene of &c i've life, revolution in
sentiment and liz practice regarding tenn
perance, and other matters Of practical mo-
rality may be expected. Athletic Pr0htbt-
! ZIONIST.