Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-22

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bon" is badge known and felt
wherever seen.
Intemperance is the greatest foe to
missionary work, home and foreign
the greatest obstacle to all kinds of
reform, it enslaves and degrades fast
| er than christian effort can train and
elevate. Therefore it needs for its sup
preston and final extinction all avail
able forces combined.
First, the mother, who has the
first training of the child. How many
of us would ever have dared to be-
come mothers, had we fully compre-
hended all the word means? Moth
ers, you should be outspoken in your
principles, and fearless in your prac
tice of rigid temperance before your
children. Teach them by example
and precept that none but pure. clean
words are ever to be spoken in your
homes that the body is, and should
be always pure and clean-a fit tenn
pie for the indwelling of pure intel
lect and clean heart. Teach your
daughters that no associates but those
who are like-minded will be welcome
to your homes. 1t is not needful for
you to belong to any organization to
do this, but it would be helpful, and
if you religiously wear your "white
ribbon" it will be silent reminder
to your sons and daughters of your
principles whenever their loving eyes
rest upon you.
Secondly, our young ladies, you
hold an almost unlimited influence
over your brothers and the young
men of your set. Let your princi-
piles be known, and let your faces be
fixed in the line of pure, clean lives.
Make it a fixed point from which
there is to be no variation or shadow
of turning, that the home over which
you may be called to preside, shall
be christian, temperance home or
none at all.
Finally, our greatest Eope lies in
the children of the present genera
tion-''an ounce of prevention is bet
ter than pound of cure Teach
them early the need of good, pure
lives and practices, then they will
have no vices to counteract. Said
boy, a member of our Loyal Legion,
to his mother, "The world will be |
better than it is now, by and by
when all these temperance boys and
girls are grown up" May God bless
the temperance boys and girls and
multiply them a thousandfold.
I am not prepared yet to say or
feel, though L may not voice in this
the sentiment of this convention, that
/ think we need the ballot to accom-
plish most in the temperance cause.
Napoleon was once asked what France
most needed his reply was, "Moth-
ers." And 1 feel by wearing WORTH
ly the crown of motherhood, we
WELD greater power than by the
ballot. / sometimes fear if we press
this point too much, or make this
idea too prominent, we may really
defeat the end we are striving to at
tain. [ would like by my ballot, if
it can be done in no other way, to
place, and hold good, true, temper
ance men in office; those who would
be fearless in executing the stringent
temperance laws already on our
statute books. But l do not feel that
our cause can be advanced by women
aspiring to, or holding the places of
public trust now ably filled by men.
Then, my sisters, let us work and
pray, that we may be directed wisely
in all our work, so we may do most
for the Master, and best practice and
teach the principles of christianity,
to which we are so much indebted.
God grant that in the near future
we may be proud to dwell in land
where there is no legalized sale Of
any Intoxicating drug or drink; where
only righteousness and truth prevail.
Then shall we be ''fair as the noon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an
army with banners
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