The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-18
". C.. 4. u. COLUMN.

An earnest lecture on "Taking are OF
the Babies" was given by Mrs. Keefer j
Sioux City a Jew evenings ago which will
bear reproducing from the columns OF
the Journal. Among other things Mrs.
Keefer said: "The temperance move
ment is the key note OF all reform. 1t
touches every individual. reaches INTO
every home, fastens itself upon the
church, society and government, and
whether we regard it as a purely moral
question or Il political issue, it's import
ance must be recognized, its principles
regarded alike by all churches, by all
philanthropists by all statesmen. No
honest, thinking man or oma u to-
day look abroad over the nations with
out a Reconsideration thefuture. There
is a sound of revolution in the air. From
the uttermost parts of the earth it
reaches even unto our W shores. The
times are out OF JOINT Have they ever
been otherwise, think you, since that
first nan and woman stood beneath the
branches Of that forbidden tree whose
mortal taste brought death into our
world and all our woe? Alas, poorhuman-
ity! And like man the individual, man in
the aggregate, which we call the nation,
has mistaken for happiness, gratiiicat-
ion OF the senses and all OF us have
departed from following after the spirit
ual to worship the physical. This is the
secret for all the vices Of earth and all
it's intemperance,
Temperance has often seemed a
failure, because it is SO difficult to per-
suade men against their w physical
desires. w havelong tried m~oralsuaslon,
andfound ourselves outwitted again and
again. At last sentimental pleading has
given away to practical, earnestendeavor
though among many Christians the idea
exists that religion Is a beautiful, iutan-
gible something or other way up in the
air, to be prayed about and sung at
rather thansomething to be throughout
into practical life.
Ever since | can remenberit has been
rllng into my ears and crowded down i'll
to my BRAIN that a woman's place is
takingcare OF the babies. And the older |
grow the more l realize this truth, but
the more do l realize also that taking
are OF the babies means more than we
have ever dreamed; that it goes AVA
back into the smallest bits Of II life,
reaches II every thought and the pur-
poses OF our inmostsouls; that it means,
also, making cleanand straightthc paths
outside the home for the Maynard feet
to travel. AS in every well ordered horne
everything will be made s~ubservient to
the best interests OF the children OF the
home, so in the Christian nation must
everything be made sub%servient to the
best interests OF the children OF the
nation. The need OF humanity is great,
but beyond all else humanity needs moth
ering and the good OF the world
are beginning to consecrate them selves to
the children who are crouchlng and
shiverlng beneath the inherited curse Of
thirst for strong drink.
"And SO at last out OF all the sin and
suffering OF the nations, out OF the cry Of
the children, out OF the heartbreak OF
the woman, out OF the grooming OF the
strong man overthrow, in his strength,
has come this movement with the moth
hood the heart OF 1T, and the fathcrhood
its strong right arm, the temperance
movement as it exists today.
The Union OF this city has lost a val
liable member in the death OF Mrs. Sarah