Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-15
W. c. T. u.
Mrs. VIM of Tyler Delivers the
Welcome Address,
WHICH WAS ELOQUENT AND
Instructive-The Programme Mapped
Dat was Followed Response to the
Address of Welcome and
Reports of Officials.


Special 10 the Gazette
TYLER. TEX. MAY 1.-THE Woman :
Christian temperance union convention It
assembled at $50 u. IN. and after devO-
tional exercises Mrs. VIM of this city was
introduced 10 make the address of welcome,
which is too long Ia publish in full. but be-
low is brief synopsis:
'MesdameS, president comrades and
friends of the WOman'S Christian temper
ance union: 1t has been said that a spoken
welcome is an unplayed sonata, its chief
beauty vet being in its execution: never
theleSS we would supplement the cordial
welcome and the earnest grasp of the maud
which we have already extended to YOU
with this expression of qualification AT
having you with US. /. therefore, III behalf
Of the Woman's Christian temperance
union of Tyler, on behalf of our boys and
girls. our Young ladies and young gentle
men, om fathers and mothers our widows
and orphans, bid you welcome to our hearts
and To our hOmeS-thcse sacred circles
about which cluster all the pure Joys known
TO the human heart. the sanctity of whose
precincts you are here to protect. Come.
and upon the altarS Of our domestic wor-
ship, upon the affairs of our public worship,
lay YOUR sacrifices with ours. aud may our
united prayers ascend TO Him whom we
serve as sweet incense, pure and holy and
acceptable unto Him. The Woman : Chris
tian temperance union Never before has
there been grouped into one name so many
strong terms which so interest the council
chamber of heaven That every act of man
was influenced by woman. Woman. thy
name is frailty. but it Is u miSnomer. 1t
should be. woman, thy name IS strength
Every woman sends out an influence for
good or evil. What are You doing. Are
You cndeavOring to check the great tide OF
evil influences flowing ABOUT YOU, or swell
ing the current Of evil. Has the card table
place in your heart II so il needs no
prophet to tell whittier your influence Is
tending. Christ, who holds the universe
in His right hand stands in the center Of
this organization
Temperance is strength The man who
is temperate IS strong. The family that is
temperate is strong, and 50 with nation.
Temperatures strength; union IS strength
This we have
Cyrus the Great, with his Persian hosts
carried his victories uurthward. then vest
ward, southwark and eastward. but he
found himself circumScribed by the Indus
On the east, the OXus on the north, the
HeQespOnt on the west and the Syrian on
the south.
Alexander the Great. with MS invincible
Grecian ami Macedonian phalaEx, swept on
eastward. and, though ne conquered AL the
then known world, he found himself cir
cuuscribed by almost the same boundaries
as those of Cyrus the Great.
julius Caesar. with mis- trained Roman le-
gions found his sphere OF action bounded
by the English channel, rhc North sea. the
Rhine, the Danube. the EuXine, the Afri-
can desert, the Atlantic ocean.
The great Napoleon. with his matchless
genera!ship aud his brave French veterans,
surrounded by Jealous, iinp.acab ole enemies.
found himself confined 10 almost the same
sphere Of action As that Of Caesar.
But this Noman's Christian temperance
union with ..its more than TWO thousand
brave women. knows no boundaries Thrice
has she turned the white ribbons around |
this globe of ours. The Woman's Christian |
temperance union stands as the head !
quarters OF the United States. and with |
skill marshals It's forces against /
IT'S enemies, the whisky ring. AL .he !
dumb animals fight for their young, and so /
it is with the mother who sees evil Curl its |
loathsome. lengths around her dear ones
This is the reason that the Women's |
Christian temperance union sprung into |
existence. Last year there were 5000, 900 !
barrels more beer made in the United |
States than the year before. How fast are |
we becoming nation OF drunkards,' !
To Mrs. Winns address. Mrs Lizzie |
Haughton, state evangelist, responded in |
an eloquent and appropriate address. re-
viewing the work done in tie state during
the last year
1.-THE programme published yesterday was
carried out to the letter
The states superintendent made their
reports, showing earnest work and hope
ful success in various parts of the fed.
The president, Mrs. Atchison. read her
annual address.
1t was an elegant review of the Woman'S
Christian temperance union, and full of
nona and snnnuraEsnant for the future