The Press., 1891-12-17
w. C. IT. U. DEPARTMENT.
The W. c. T. U. Convention.

The city of Boston has not. witnessed for many years, except in the heat of an extraordinary political campaign, an ex- ample of the enthusiasm of numbers and ideas such as that of this. past week in the.dual convention of the Worlds and the National Woman's Christian Temper ance Union. From the first session to the last every door of Fremont Temple had been besieged, long before the hour ofeopenmg, by a dense crowd of people, which even the two overflow meetings at Park st. and Bromfeld-st. churches did not relieve. Every ill which af1icts hu- manity that is remediable by hun an eff fort, has been considered by these noble Christian women. -
 1t is manifest, except to the most in- different, that these women are in dead earnest about this matter; and, except to the most short-sighted, it is perfectly plain that before another fifty years have passed, they will have gained a victory over a large area where now the blight of intemperance and resultant evils corrodes and withers human life. The moral up- lift which this convention will certainly achieve, is not to be winked out of sight by sectarians and partisans of any order. These women, who are so near to us, our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, under Divine inspiration, are making very rapidly public sentiment which is to become1the universal and most success ful foe of the drink traffic and all kindred evils Zion's Herald is very grateful for the privilege of sharing in some degree in such noble work
 When Lady Somerset said at Faneuil Hall that 'sWhen America declared her independence, she did well, it was gra- cious compliment to that great event, this great country, and to her English womanhood.
 It was a startling statement when she said that, if the British subject gets an opium license, he is obliged to sell so much in order to hold it. @;s .i Lady Henry Somerset is the eldest daughteF of the Earl and Countess Son. CTS, of Eastpor Castle, Ledbury, in Here fordshire, Eng, and the wife of Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset, the second son of the Duke of Beaufort The simple nobility of her character is illus trated by the great work she has person. ally done for the poor girls, the miners, the colliers, and the miserable beings of the slums of Soho. She is of. medium height, plump, with healthful, strong, womanly face, and dark eyes and harlan 1 English matron, who ,one might we'll judge, would be interested in such a large reform as that of prohibition. She revealed the inspiration of her interest by the frequent 1 quotations of scripture which she made. And how simply she was attired-in a l gray striped silk, and black jetted bon net, with only a modest and becoming | display of jewelry. As speaker she has 1 a pleasant persuasive voice, and but few | gestures. Her smile, either when speak 1 ing gorrecognizing or a friend in the audience is exceedingly winning and attractive. N
 Mrs Katharine Lente Stevenson read
 llai tils tsfIzEE ui which was X. | They are coming, they are coming, | Marching to this music sweet; l What though long the road and weary; | What thought now of bleeding feet God is guiding, God is calling,
 'Tis His need, tho voiced thro' mans And each heart replies, Send me, Lord T | In this gathering of the clans" It was voted at Fanueil Hall to send out six salaried missionaries as soon as the money can be raised.
 Mrs. JuliaWard Howe recited her great ':Battle Hymn, of the Republic" and at the close of the noon session the audience sang:it. -.
 Lady Somerset, being requested to in scribe her name in an autograph album,
 wrote Isabella Somerset. I came not
 to be ministered unto, but to minister"
 Part of the monster petition for the pro.
 hibition of the liquor traffic, pasted togeth.
 CT, hung completely around Faneuil Hall
 Its edges were trimmed with red and blue
 braid, It contains about 1 900, ,000 names
 and is fn 40 different languages.
 The preamble to the constitution adopt
 ed denounced these things which in vary
 ing degrees injure the human family--in
 toxicating liquor as a beverage, opium, to
 bacco, gambling Sunday dissertation, war
 and the disfranchisement of woman.
 The lament of Miss Tel Sono, a nativ,
 Japanese lawyer, that dealers send bibles
 and rum on the same ship to Japan, was
 deep thrust at our American greed O the almighty dollar.
 The following notices were hung a
 Fremont Tenple:
 I "Love one another"
 ''The Lord gave the word. The wo
 men who publish the tidings are grea .I host t'-Psa. 6S: IL"
 l High license for. the state is high trea
 son against the decalogue." ,,t I 'We wage our peaceful war for Got
 and home and every land" @