The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-07-16

nave hcI Will Sald 2 wicked man with
an oath, q wicked man from Salem,
There is no use talking; We viii have to
have prohibition in Salem: for the women
have taken hold Of it. At Quinton the
old women took it up, and then the young
women, and rum had 60 go; and now they
are at work in WoodStown. and will sue
coed, and they have begun in Salem? No
use no use fighting Woman gets what
she wants -
Vain Is the hope, 10y any force or skill
10 stem the current of Il wnniau'- will,
Forif she viii, She viii, you may depend ont,
And if she won't, She wont, and there's an
end ont.
What genius Is to any achievement, so
is the heart of woman to any moral cause.
What puts wonderful. undying pictures on
the canvass Genius What cuts the
marble like SNOW. and makes il divine
with beauty ? Genius What gave us
the Had Of Homer, the -Eneid Of Virgil,
the plays of SHAKESPEARE and the Paradise
Lost Of Milton? Genius What gave
Alexander and Caesar and Napoleon and
Grant theii victories? Genias. What
gave Calico power to read the heavens ,
and Columbus the power to find out a new
world, and Franklin the power to bring
down lightning from the clouds? Genius I.
And what will give the cause of Prohibit
ton success The heart Of woman As
genius is to all achievements, SO is she to
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fine courage and unquenchable faith will
nerve rs unto the achieving of our pur-
pose in the face OF unsurmountable diff
culties. BY the tears and the prayers and
the ha!lowed influence of woman, we shall
win. BY her suffering through this awful
curse as mother and sister and wife, aye :
even as little child. She will put such a
heart Of nobleness and self-sacrificing
power into this question, is putting it, in
deed, A. that all that is noblest i'll man will
have to answer a tremendous yea to her
wish, an yea spoken by the pale, power
full lips of the ballot Yes, we are going
to win because the women are with us !,
She Will give all her fine love and noble
enthusiasm to the strong arm Of man; and
down beneath the blow Of q giant will 90
this monster evil
We will win because God is with us; and
He always wins. Because Christ with His
wonderful love OF brother is with as One
man i'll the right, and God, are always in
the long run a majority. How ] love to
say that; how | love to think it. For so
has orr Christian religion come; Sc has our
American liberty eomc; so has the freedom
of our brother in ebony" come; so has
come all that is nobiest i'll this worlds life.
Dreamers are we? Yes. but we dream
with God. God dreamed, and To- star
world after star world took being III the
sky. God dreamed, and our earth swung
through its glory Of season and change.
with wonderful purposes Of Fatherhood
working up towards their irsinitc blossom!
God dreamed, and a dreamer came out Of
the country of Mesopotamia, from the
house of his Fathers, became a Strangerand
pilgrim upon the earth, and all because of
the whisper Of a dream i'll his soul: and he
died and the dream had not yet awakened
into reality; but from that whisper ofdream
in a dreamer's soul came the nation of
Jews whose religious writings are Gods
word to MS, who gave us Jesus the wide
worlds wonderful Savior. God dreamed
and impractical Moses dared think that he
could make a nation of slaves into a nation
of freemenl And after eighty long years
his dream came trnel and we to-day are
slone upon by the splcndor of the day that
has dawned from out of it. God dreamed
and Elijah defieda whole wicked nation, and
brought the powerful priests of Baal To
their slaughter, God dreamed, and earth
heard a sweet faint music on a first Christ
mas morn, when that impractical dreamer
of Nazareth was born, and walked the
earth a few sad years finding his pathway
shut into a cross, because he would not
surrender his PARKWAY purpose Of saving
| the world for the sake of an immediate and
perishing success. God dreamed Jesus.
dream is coming true in the salvation of
the world God dreamed against tyrrany,
God dreamed forthe universal brotherhood,
and the men of se%venty-siX were imprac-
tical enough to defy the greatest military
power on the earth; and the dream came
true in the birth of our republic; the hot
of that dream was heard round the world.
The bullet of that dream is not spent yet; 1t
smote off the shackles of France; it is finding
the heart of Ireland's wrongs; it makes the
Gear trcmblc upon his throne; il will bring
all kings low; it will issue in a universal re-
public, built upon universal brotherhood
God dreamed. dreamed against the curse of
slavery. and Garrison and Phillips and
their brave associates gave voice to that
dream, and that dream came true in the
shock of battle and in the pen Of Lincoln
signing the emancipation proclamation
whereby Gods image in ebony became
the freemen of Gods republicl God has
dreamed again; dreamed against the curse
of rum, and in Ohio there is woman's tears
and pTayers-the very saloons seeing those
tears and hearing those prayers; and
throughout our land and every where
spreading Is the noble Woman's Christian
Temperance Union; throughout the LAND is