The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-06-12

why should l belong to the We
mans Christian Temperance Union?
1t is question busy women ask each
other and ask themselves 1--WE have
all the duties there is time and /
strength to perform. Shall we neg
leot our home and children for the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Uniong' say some OF our best women,
when they are asked to become MEM
bers OF the union. There are two dis
tinct reasons why every intelligent,
Christian woman should, because OF
her relations to the home, belong to
the Woman's Christian Temerance
Union:
LIST. Home is the centre and source
OF life, and woman is the home.Reeper.
Whatever concerns the home, there
fore, is OF vital importance to her.
Cd. The enemies of home are her
enemies, and she is called upon to de-
iend both it and herself against them.
lntemperance is acknowledged to be
the greatest enemy OF the home, the
leader in whose wake many deadly
foes follow
"But why is woman called to COM
bat the evil? Why cannot men rrgu-
late the affairs OF the world and leave
us to the management of the home?
Have they done it? Why have they
not? Partly because they cannot and
partly because they will not. The
world is simply collection Of homes
Possibly for every ten happy and vel
e orlerdered households, where man is
+ industrious and temperate, there are
i five where man is improvident and in
temperate. The women OF these
Il homes are helpless, the children
/ grow up in tainted atmosphere and 81
o 60 out to curse the world by their owl
+ sinfulness, and by their influence de
It stroy much of the good otherwise ex
o listing. 1t is very plain. The mothe
love that shields her child must ais,
& shield her neighbours child She i
It prompted to do this for her own sell
l. preservation and that of her home
l. and by that love, Christ-like, which
a for the sake of the lost, seeks TO save
L. But intemperance has always bee
is combated by good men and womer
is Why is the Woman's Christian Ten
perance Union a better organizatio
p than others? Because it is organize
K mother love, and in union there
Id strength. Nearly two hundred shot
I'd sand Christian women in the Unite
:" States have banded together and sa!
IS. 1--WE are the home-keepers, the chi
e. dren are ours, the saloon is our enem.
~ and THE SALOON MUST CO."
The Crusade was the first persona
work of women for temperance. TIL
he Crusade women virtually said: "Th
st DRUNKARD MUST NOT BE MADE" W
m will pray the saloon-keeper not to Sc
st intoxicating drinks. We will save OF
- husbands, sons and brothers. I'll
~ spirit of the Lord was upon them an
De great good was accomplished. I'M
"a the temperance work a strong spiri
re nal element was introduced and W
ka men were shown the power OF orgal
- lied effort. The Woman's Christia
ns Temperance Union was the outgrowt
OF of the Crusade. The blessing oil t,
ell Lord has been constant, and the ear
n. estness and devotion of the womC
"a without parallel.
~ By means of these unions the hom
OF OF the women themselves are direct
- Influenced, children are better taugl
es, and are kept off the streets, publ
Mt opinion is educated, a large amount
temperance literature is circulate
NC and the power of the liquor traffic
1l' being undermined.
What the nOuse-Keepers OF Cne cou
ii. try decide MUST be done. WILL /
- DONE. They have said temperance
We aparto religion, and its blessed trutl
se- are being taught in Sunday schoo
ur They have said Temperance is pa
ms of education, and numerous Stat
have made its teachings compulsor
They have said temperance is Il
hu FOUNDATION OF THE TRUE HOME, al
ur health and the training of chi!dr,
fu. are emphasized as primal duties
true work for humanity is for Chri
/. The mothers of Judea brought The
nc children for His blessing, and it +
ICE upon them also. When the mothe
lily OF to-day bring the home to Christ L
blessing shall abide within it,
itv R. T. House.