The Newtown bee., 1889-03-15

tuu iS bHc idISoSb dllu huoSI luuututidi organization ever composed and conduet- ed exclusively by women. The organi- zation is made up of nearly 10000 local unions, forming one great union of more than 200, ,000 women of all denominations, creeds and nationalities, for the purpose of educating the young in temperance principles, reforming the drinking class es and creating better public senti- ment. What has it done? Go, ask the thousands of happy children, who have been rescued from degradation, crime and misery! Go, ask the thousand of l joyful mothers, the home makers and home preservers of the land, whose homes beam to-day with the light of hope, where wretchedness and woe reigned before. Go, ask the great army of men who have been redeemed from the bonds of captivity worse than Egypt and from thraldom worse than Babylon.
 s'Have ye not known2 Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you? Can ye not under stand that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?"
 And, while 100000 hearts beat in uni son, 100000 hands work harmoniously together and AGO, ,000 feet run with glad ness to do the work of evangels, whose faith in God and whose prayers rise con stantly to Heaven for help, be not de- ceived. God is not mocked. He that sitteth in the Heavens will hear their cry and will answer their prayers. He will come speedily to avenge His elect and none shall hinder Him.
 "Even so, come Lord Jesus.'
 The mothers and sisters of our land appeal to us for sympathy and help. They have suffered all things at the hand of the destroyer and now they are will ling and ready to do all things, for the Masters sake, that they may save some. These mothers and daughters of the land are an aggressive force, which God has called into the service and armed with power divine and, like the living Gospel which they profess, they are encircling the world with the glad tidings of ref ormatiou which millions have longed for and died without the sight. The ". c. T. U. has encircled the Earth in it's march and joined the isles of the seas with the continents. These untiring, self-sacrificing, God-fearing, soul-loving women have gone forth armed with faith and holy zeal. Already the Orient sends back the refrain of their victorious song | to the Occfdent and the far off islands of the sea have joined the chorus. The year of jubilee draws nigh. Like the leaven in the measure of meal, this con- stantly increasing white-ribboned host are doing the work quietly, but effective 1 ly. In the aims houses and prisons, among the down trodden and out-cast,as we'll as among those of the better class es; in sick rooms, where want, vice, squalor dwell, as well as in the homes of plenty and culture; in attic and cellar l in the lanes and hedges of human suffer- | ing and human weakness; at home, among friends and in safety; abroad, as strangers in strange land; amid dan gers innumerable; "in weariness and painfulness; in watchings often; in hun ger and thirst and fastings; in perils by sea and by land;'' these God-inspired and Heaven-fired spirits are pressing on- ward toward the dawn of a day whose glorious rays already gild the horizon and whose fullness shall be as the light which broke over Bethlehem's plain and, for aught l know, will again enlist the music of angelic choirs in the hallowed | strains of old:
 | "Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, good will toward men,"
 They have not only spun golden cord of three fold strand, of unions over their own land, but have already stretched their arms of loving sympathy far be- | yond the seas, till from the frozen North to the sunny South, from the rising to the setting sun, the pure white banner of the W. c. T. U., with it's mystic sym bols, has been thrown to the breeze, amid tears, prayers and deep soul breath ings. Some
 | "Taik about Q womans sphere, | As though it had limit.
 l There's not place in earth or Heaven; There's not a task to mankind given; | There's not blessing woe; | There's not a whispered s'Yes," or sNo;'' There's not life, or death, or birth l That has feathers weight of worth, Without woman in it.''
 The work and experience of Dr Kate Bushnell, who fearlessly took up the work of reform inaugurated by the New
 York World, went boldly into the north woods of Wisconsin and gathered for herself facts and figures concerning the infamous traffic in souls and deep-dyed villainies, perpetrated on unsuspecting and unsophisticated womanhood and, by her energy and persistent zeal in the cause, for which she counted her life a
 small thing that she might rescue from worse than death the unfortunate vic
 tims of devils incarnate, is worthy of all
 commendation. When the light was first
 turned on the horrible scenes of those
 charnel houses of sin in the Wisconsin l pineries and ghastly revelations were I made known to the public, they were
 considered incredible by many, till a
 member of the Waman's Christian Tenn l perance Union, in the person of Dr Kate I Bushnell, went herself into those regions 4 of death, into those chambers of hell and I saw and heard things that have caused
 the world to shudder. Thus, wherever i the cry of suffering Humanity is heard, these disciples of the Lord Jesus haste,
 with ready hands and willing hearts.
 Like their Master, they have come to seek and save the lost.
 A little more than 16 years ago, there arose in the western horizon a little