The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-10-23

The New Jersey woIeen are working
graEdly. They are awake to every de-
partmeEt which tends TO lift humanity up
ward toward God, whether it be through
the avenue of Good Health, Social Purity,
Better Government, or Total Abstinence,
they ale at work all along the line, and
God is ira ing them out and developing
them to meet and push forward the meth
DDS whereby all humanity may be blessed
as He never has lone before. All, there
are the days that make us glad that we
are womenl These are the days in which,
had the illy-treated Empress Josephine
lived, she might have developed an individ-
uality which would have made even the
ambitious Napoleon proud of her, even as
the good men of New Jersey are proud Of
the w. CT. {. women of their state to-
day. And may the time rapidly come
when, through the women, if necessary,
the bonds that are binding the better, the
nobler impulses of those entrusted with
her laws may be broken, and New Jersey
take her rightful place beside the prohibi-
tion states in the nation; and only but a
few years and they will all be there, for
educated public sentiment III demand it.
On the evening Of the goth inst. the
first session of the eighteenth annual con-
vention of New Jersey finds US gathered
in the Broadway d. E. church, Salem,
and while we wait, with the soul up-lift-
ing sounds of music in our ears, teing con-
Quoted by Mrs. r. Kelso Garter, for the
hour of 7.30 to arrive, at which the exer-
cises begin, we will endeavor TO tell our
readers how these Salem sisters arranged
the home decorations for the three or four
days stay Of "our women"
Our own Queen" Frances and ''Moth-
er" Downs occupy very prominent places
upon platform, or at least their ~likenesses
do as represented through Photographic
art. Directly over them was an arehway
of eyergreens with the comfortable word
ssNelcome" thereon, aid from which was
suspended the banner Of the state, upon
which was painted IL realistic perfection
the New Jersey coat of arms, a figure of
the cross, and the dial With its hands
pointing at the magnetic hour of -, the
noontide hour when white ribboners for
get, for a moment, the cares with which
they may be surrounded and through the
grace of Jesus lift their hearts to God. The
national eolors were displayed across the
rear of the ehancel and enyeloped the
altar, on either side of which was two
growing palms and a large pyramid OF
cut flowers. The handsomely painted and
different colored county banners from Sus-
sex TO Gaze May, and from Morris to Mon
mouth were suspended from the chasde-
liers around about the room, and altogeth-
er we realized that we were again in con-
yention assembled.
Promptly at the appointed hour the
State President, Sarah J. q. Downs, called
the convention to order, the feature OF
the evening being the FIVE minute talks
from the county presidents, showing the
condition of the work ia the different
localities. We have t~wenty-one county
presidents, every county in the state be-
ing organized.
Mrs. DR.. TomliDson, of Union county,
reported not so many unions as some
Others, but one of the largest in the state,
and through its efforts II, 800 persons had
been sent out from Elizabeth and other
places 10 enjoy Gods blessed air and
sunshine.
Mrs. Emma Horner, Camden county:
ave have nearly doubled our member
ship during the past year. Though the
enemy is entrenched upon every hand yet
we will nayer falter until we have won the
victory"
Mrs. Mary w. Osborn, Monmouth CONN.,
ty, reported % unions with a membership
Of 796; that tue ST, 600 appropriated by
the state 20 the annual encampment at
Sea Grit was a blot to Monmouth county;
and said for her county "We believe in
the necessity Of educated workers"
At this j%uneture the choir sang send
the Light the different parts being
beautifully rendered.
Mrs. ]. CO Hamilton, Atlantic county:
Where are the Christians? Are they
asleep? In Atlantic City there is rum
everywhere. In going down the board
walk you have to pray for a drink of cold
water. On the Sabbath large gospel tenn
perance meetings are held in the rink, that
while the men help financially they stand
back, fearing if they come forward it will
hurt their business
Mrs. Emma Bourne, Essex: This county
has been noted as holding the largest num-
money. Only 900 saloons in Newark.
1S1 young men have been seen to enter a
single saloon within the space OF half an
hour"
Mrs. Won Greninger, Gloucester Co.,
a true loyal white ribboner, knows no dis
enlargement. At one OF the school cleo
tions there were a hundred women
present.
Mrs. Robbins, OF Mercer, Mrs. Boonton,
Morris, and Mrs. ThacheT, Burlington,
spoke for their counties, the latter saying
she thought Burlington one Of the most
conservative counties in the State. II hate
the word conservative for | believe it COW
ers a multitude of sins, and that which
most retards the work in her county is not
SO much the corruption Of the peopls as
their apathy"
The president Of Middlssex and Mrs.
Demarest, of Bergen, reported.
Announcements.
Dismissal.
WEDNESDAY { T 81.
MORNING SESSION s so O'Clock.
Grand March by Mrs. Kelso Carter dur