Smyrna times., 1886-10-13
A Temperance Sabbath and Day
Of Prayer, October 10th and
18th, 1886.

10 THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC The
Temperance Reform stands to-day
upon the heights of answered prayer"
The arrest of thought has come at last.
" The world is awake and its ear is set,
Its lips are apart and its eyelids wet"
No intelligent person now believes
that the liquor traffic will be much lon
ger legalized by Christian nations.
The watchwOrd of the hour is: Out
law the saloon-protect the home"
No influence has so largely cOntribu
ted to the present popular opinion as
the nurture afforded by the Christian
Church, the Sabbath School, and the
religious press. Next to these mighty
agencies ranks that sober second
thought of the Ohio Crusade-the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union,
local, State, national and now world
wide--fOr it is regularly organized in
every English-speaking nation, and
recently introduced into Japan, Scan
dinavia and Russia. This society,
wholly unsectarian in character but
made up of Christian women of all de-
nominations, is to-day the expression
of that love for the perishing and devo-
ton to the triumph of Christ's king
dom, which are the best fruits of the
church.
At its annual meeting held in Phila-
delphia, October, 1855 forty States and
Territories being represented by 300
duly accredited delegates, a request
came from twenty-One leading pastors
of the city, of nearly every denOmina-
ton, (amOng them Rev. DR.. Poor, sec
retary of the Presbyterian Board of Ed
ucation, Rev. DIR. Wayland. editor of
the National Baptist, Rev. Drs. Whee-
Ter and Swindells, of the Methodist
church,, that the convention desig-
nate certain Sabbath in each year, to
be known as Temperance Sunday
throughout the world and that the
w. c. T. U. exert its influence in allits
local unions to secure its observance in
all churches"
These honored pastors urged the fol-
lowing reasons, among others, for such
action:
Believing your work to be closely re-
! lated to the work of God as prosecuted by
| the Christian Churches, and that your or
ganizatiOn and the churches would be mu-
tually strengthened by a close afiliAtiOn,
we make this request. The cause of Tenn
| perance, thus presented simultaneously in
all pulpits and Sunday schools, could not
fail to awaken a thrill Of interest and emo
tion throughout the world. And may we
not believe that such a volume of prayer as
would go up from the altarS of the earth
would be acceptable to the Lord our God
and call down on our cause the efficient
energies of the Holy Ghost"
In compliance with this request and
for the reasons given, we earnestly and
most respectfully suggest so all pastors,
Sunday school superintendent and
temperance societies, that Oct. 18th,
the Sabbath preceding the twelfth an
nual meeting of the National w. G.
T. U. at Minneapolis, Minnesota, be
observed as Temperance Sabbath by
sermons in the morning, Sunday
school exercises in the afternoon, and q
union temperance meeting in the even
ing.
We also earnestly request our local
Unions to observe the preceding day
saturday, Oct. 16), as Day of Prayer
Let the hours be from 10 to o'clock,
with a leader appointed for each hour,
and the following subjects of Bible
study, hymn and prayer:
10OO-1lOO-Our National Sins-Intem.
perance and Impurity.
1LOO-12O0-1ndividual remedies fol
these--total abstinence, White Cross
Pledge, both by Gods help"
12OO-1.O0 con Hour of Prayer for the
Worlds w. c. T. u, the success of Oul
Great Petition for the overthrow of the
liquor traffic and opium trade; the contin
ued health and success of our officers anC
organizers in foreign lands; that the
Queen of England and all rulers and poten
tates may become total abstainers and ad
vocate our sacred cause.
lO0-2OO.-Our National Sins; Our Ma
tiOnal Remedies-TOtal Prohibition, Con
stitutional and Statutory Sabbath Laws
the Bible in the Public Schools Hygienit
Education for the Young
00-3.0O-Individual Remedies for Ma
tional Sins; the Christian Voters Relation
to the Securing and the Enforcement o
Righteous Law.
3.OO4O0--The National w. c. T. U
It's purpose, plans officers and members
its annual meeting, October 22-26.
"Seeing then that we have a grea
: High Priest that is passed into the
heavens let us come boldly unto the
throne of grace, that we may ObtaiI
mercy and find grace and help in time
of need"
Earnestly praying that Pastors GnC
People may be plenteOusJy repLenisheC
J lOith Heavenly grace, we are, on behal
/ eff the National w. G. T. u, you
Christian sisters,
FRANCES Z. WILLARD, Pres't.
Mrs. G. B. BUELL., Cor. Sec.
| Headquarters of National W. c. Z. U.
: ChicdUO, Sent. l, 1886.