News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-18
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tfTE MPERANCE.
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A new Young Women's union at
Middlebury.. These unions in many
places ilI>~3sr State have been much
helped in the last month by visits
from Miss Jessica Morgan, of Ober-
lin, Ohio. Ludlow, Weston, Water
bury, Proctorsville and Coventry all
give pIeaeant reports of her meeting
with them. In the 18th annual con-
vention of the National W. c. T. Z.
in Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 14-1S, YER
mont was notably mentioned, to-
gether with Ohio and Pennsylvania
as making most rapid progress in
this department of work. A gain of
1000 young men as honorary men,
bars the past year is reported
throughout the States, making the
number now 5000. The young wom-
en- have raised S34 1919 to carry on
their work.
The warm reception and hearty
welcome which the governor and wife,
mayor, ministers, T. NJ. C. A., and
indeed everybody in Atlanta gave
the 500 and more delegates to the
convention was an extremely pleas
ant feature, also their reception in
Washington and at the White House
on their way south Although the
largest church in the city was beau
tifully decorated with flowers and
opened freely for them, overflow
meetings were held in other places
for the accommodation of the crowd
S,,r,lav- bA11+ Civ% 10 1inc, in,
vited to speak in various churches,
missions and Sunday-schools, and all
services were we'll attended. 1t was
said by old residents that never had
so many Atlanta people attended
church in one day At the roll call of
State presidents, A States respond
ed, ? territories, and the District of
Columbia Vermont sent four dele
gates tn, national secretarv's re-
port. slrr-sssh44- r.lore than 5000 new
members dring the past year.
Thought cleaned from parts of a
few speeche now published:
| have 0metimes thought, as |
looked int, the faces of those about
US, Why isit that people do not give
NUT UIldl Ulltll Z
brains, thlt their intellects may be
cultivated And then | thought,
why don'tpeople give more by sacri-
flee, by prayer, by effort and by
money that people may have heart,
that in thm may be raised up living
monuments in society, honorable to
themselves, to their homes, to their
country, and to their Cod GOV.
Northen.
What is the greatest element in
Christian life and Christian charac-
ter? Answered by Gov. Northen as
"Love forhumanity"
Do not make the mistake that the
W. c. t. T. is devoted to the Woman
question:" it is the great human
question that concerns us Frances
Willard
The temperance question has now
narrowed down to Just the difference
between abstinence and indulgence
all halfway measures have proved
futile. As Tom Marshall said Of the
old movement which had not total
abstinence for its basis, at died OF
intemperance, with Il bottle of cham
payne in one hand and a pledge in
the other" The best in this
world, the best in all worlds can be
had without sin. Protective law as
well as protective love is needed. The
law of total abstinence a man can en-
force upon himself.-[Col Geo. Wood
ford, Illinois.
| had rather come in contact with
conservatstn than skepticism, which
has nothing forest upon. Conserva-
tism fuLaishes a good foundation
Mrs. M. G.. Woody, North Carolina.