Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30
". G.. 4. u. NOTES.
THE WORK OF THREE UNIONS.

Gyt3 hi 49, t0ld IN convention and
GEaAHHS through the public press
ANHzA that the political attitude
k of the W. C. U. has Grip
pied its energy. pervert-
its spirit, and changed its work until
it has ceased to he the evangel for
which it was created. Before me lie
the annual reports of three societies:
the central unions OF Philadelphia.
Washington and Boston. The w. {.
Il. U. of the City of Brotherly Love, OF
which Mrs. NJ. Fl. Jones is the efficient
president, has 307 active and thirty
three honorary members. with 200 reg
ular subscribers to the Union Signdt.
The society has held over 500 meetings
during the last year, closing February,
1889: twenry-four business meetings,
forty-five Monday devotional meetings,
with daily service during the week of
prayer; fourteen mass meetings; 49,
gospel temperance meetings; eighty
four meetings in Moyamarsing prison.;
420 prisoners have been interviewed in
them, a numter of conversions; lO9
meetings held in Philadelphia Hos pitai
and Almhouse; 762 cots visited; roll
ing chair provided for paralytic; week
j. visits to House of Correction, Rosine
Home and Midnight Mission; 400 pri-
vate families visited; twenty-nine
visits to police matrons; clothing and
comfort provided for women detained
there; forty-siX addresses on Health,
Heredity and White Shield; 500 pledg-
ed children in the Loyal Legion; 4oO,-
Si5 pages of literature bearing on diff
fer ent departments of work; 100 Testa-
NETS and Bibles distri buted, all this
with an outlay of $4,000. God OILY
knows what the outlay of strength
and self-sacrifice was. Yet this union
stands Loyalty by every position the
National has ielt compelled to take.
Can any other union in Pennsylvania
give better record?
1t would make this report too long to
give items of Washington and Boston
unions in detail, but their work has
been no less thorough and evangelis tic
than that Of Phi!adelphia's white-rib
boners. Washington w. G.. T. U. has
increased its membership, has length
ened its cords, and strengthened its
stakes" That union has Hope ana
Help Home" for women, where a mar
Vicious rescue work is going on. An
equally wonderful gospel work is IN
progress in the Soldiers Home, and in
the prisons and hospitals of our capital
city, while not an open door is left un
entered by that dauntless, tireless
leader, Sarah D. La Fetra. Has that
union ceastd to be an evangei?
Boston union (central whose presi-
dent is Mrs. A. J. Gordon, gentle and
lovely in spirit, always brave for the
truth, has had in the last year the
most unprecedented growth in all its
history, having now n membership Of
over 700: also the most unprecedented
recognition from the public. A score
of churches opened their doors and
gave this union the privilege of con-
Quoting the weekly meeting and pre-
senting the different phases of our
work that reaching hundreds who else
had never heard of it. A mammoth
tent meeting on Boston Common the
Fourth of July; 10000 Christian leaf
lets distributed; active work for IL
cense; all large Sunday schools visited
and addressed; extensive work for,and
meetings with railroad men; gospel
meeting every Sunday in Tombs and
other prisons; eighty-one gospel temp
erance meetings held for the great pub
lie, and fifteen compani, of the Loyal
Legion, two of which are colored chill
dren, conducted and cared for by this
one union which indorses, and most
strongly, too. the position of the Ma
tional. Has this union ceased to be an
evaugel? CLARA Z. HOFFMAN,,