The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-23

White Ribbon Mission.

the glODe Tor humanity > Sdhe.
Dr.. Bushnell represents over SOL, 0oo
woman, and is sent out by the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
an organization which embraces not
only the National W. C. I. L. of
this country but similar union in thirty
four countries. Dir. bushnell goes as en-
evangelist, to organize, instruct and en-
courage. She carries with her. also, tie
great petition a paper that is intended
to be signed at least two million names,
representing a universal protest against
legaliziug sale of alcoholics and of opium,
aud is to be presented to every government
on both hemisp heres.
The missionary selected for this great
work is a representative of the best type OF
the American woman. Her family traces
It's ancestry to John Rogers. the Smith
field martyr. Born in central Illinois, she
received a public school education ia that
state and graduated from the Northwest
ern university of Evanston. Selecting the
medical profession, she became a private
pupil of Dr.. James S. Jewell, the noted
specialist. Later she flushed her medical
education in the Chicago Women's Medi-
cal college and became resident physician
in the Hospital for Women and Children
for a time. She then went to China, aud
for nearly three years remained in that
country as a medical missionary. Return
ing to America, she established herself as
a physician in Denver, Col.
In 1885, complying with earnest requests
from the leaders of the WoDan's Christian
Temperance union, DIR. Bushnell gave up
her practice and entered the field as az
evangelist in the social purity department
Of Lat association. 1t was DR.. Bushnell
that laid the foundation Of tie Anchorage
mission On 4th avenue, All institution
which has done great good for Tie aban-
doned women of that district, giving over
Ave thousand lodgings to women last year.
In 1888 DR.. Bushnell personally visited
the deus and stoekades in northern Wis
c%onsin, where women We're Eeld in debas-
ing slavery. This undertaking was heroic
in its nature, for she literally took her life
in her hanu when she dared the opposition
of those she encountered. Fearless and
u%udaunted, she finished her Investigations,
and lIer report made to the Woman's
Christian Temperance uniJu startled the
reading public by its revelations of the
utter deprayity she had witnessed.
All of these things has Dr.. Kate Bush
nell accomplished, and now, but 35 years
of age, she is about to enter upon a work
far greater than any she has ever before
attempted.
IS a public speaker DR.. Bushnell is
graceful, eloquent and earnest, and as a
writer she is well known in her special
field. This combination of the woman
and the physician, the orator and the
author, has mad her the choice of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
union for carrying the gospel of the white
ribbon to foreign lands.
DR.. Bushnell will first go to England,
there to study. social purity under Joseph
inc Butler, and from there to Switzerland,
where these studies will I've completed.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Andrew OF Chicago.
who is also an evangelist of this work, will
join her in Loudon and cooperate Nithher.
After leaving Switzerland they will visit
India, China. Japan, Australia and other
countries, returning to the United States
i'll about three years.
Besides the two mentioned the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance union has
two other evangelists in the work. Mrs.
Mary Clement Leavitt, who started seven
years ago and has been travelling ever
since, is now in Italy, and Miss Jennie
Aekerman, at present in New South
Wales, has been absent two years.
The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union, with its thirty-four differ,
cut nations in the organization, is laboring
for worldwide prohibition Of alcohol and
opium. 1t is also interested in all questions
relating to social purity, slavery. kinder
gartens, all laws relating TO Women, the
labor question, Siberian exiles, equality of
women with men in all things, lotteries,
the woman question (more especially the
condition of women i'll India aud China)
and in a score Of other great movements
for beltering humanity.
fremont Temple in Boston has already
been engaged for the convention CT the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
union hext November and a worlds wom-
aus congress will convene in Chicago
during the worlds fair, under the auspices
aud management of the society. Chicago
Neus.
General F. i. Spinner, writing a year
ago of his school days, said The rod was
never spared on me at home or 10 school,
and now, with grown.up grandchildren,
| can truthlully say | hayenever, in all my
long life, struck a child a single blow. |
was licked enough to last through the
whole four generations of self and my
posterity. | have foaHd it safe through
life to practice the reverse of what was