Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-06

81 the Worlds Fair. Mrs BENJAMIN
read = paper, Ia which she recon-
mended an attempt 20 secure Bible
reading IN the pubic schools- Miss
Cora Wheeler, superintendent OF the
kindergarten work IN the state, read =
most interesting paper. Rev. Mrs
Caroline Bsas spoke for some tine on
the Sundays work in the state.
Mrs. Lizzie Johnston, reporter for the
Union Signal, said: Il have been
asked 10 give some reports ] have
heard from q number of districts, who
send IN very naiterng reports
We are receiving help from the min
listers of the gospel, have received let
tiers approving our course from Dakets
10 Connecticut. | should like TO re-
ceIye two letters year from every
union IN the State. Mrs {. w. scrlps
gave u spirited address on the press, its
effect on the Nation at large and pri-
vate society. Some interesting facts
about the Flower Mission of the State
were gwen by Mrs. III. NJ. Newman.
Mrs. Margaret ID. Taylor informed the
delegates on the best way OF securing
prohibition at the county fairs.
Mrs. NJ. :. Van O'Llnda spoke some
tifiic Il
on the part Of foreign speaking and
coiored people IN the settlement OF the
temperance question" The meeting
then adjourned after the benedicuon.
The evening session was devoted
more 10 matters OF "A social nature than
10 business. Hon Edwin r. Uhl made
a snort address 10 the audience regard
ing the temperance question and mat
4 10 N I
After his address Mrs. l.. S. Rounds,
president OF the Illinois W. {. T. L..
spoke on "Social Purity" Mrs. Rounds
is fearless and determined speaker
for what she regards as right. She
said:
al come before you this evening To
speak, not alone on the theme OF tem-
perance, but my subject leans some
what toward that question, and would
like your sympathy and Thoughtful at
tention though ] know you must be
weary from your four days session. A
great writer has said: "Man's greatest
study IS man." and | add every man
has right 10 be well born. Ii has
been SAID that if you want 10 reform
man you must begin with hls grand
fathers. OF course this is beyond our
reach and the question arises, what
shall we do To reform man? The
grandparents of the future. are the
children of today, the little children,
whose pattering feet make sweet music
In our households. The w. {. I. l..
seeks TO start new thoughts concerning
the educating of lives. This Nation
has sunk into lust. | have had tlmId
women come up to me and ask me
what kind of q speech ! Was going to
make, and say: You know
this is mixed audience and
l am afraid you will say
something that will make us feel. well I
rather queer What is not lit for one
sex to hear is not fit for the
other, what lifts up one does
not degrade the other, and
am not afraid to speak the truth that
God has given me, and | will speak II
for His dear name. / think that, next
to God, a grand man is the highest
being; he has strong right arm for
woman's protection, when she needs IT.;
she can walk beside him through the
journey OF life in perfect confidence
and trust. God wants men TO be true
to their principles. Some people say,
'Oh that is very fine in theory, but
not in actual practice hold that, If
a man is true to God, he will be true to
woman. A man can always find some
woman, who is willing 10 share his fate,
as long as he remains true TO her; but
women are tired of beng tied to a
man, who is not true TO
them. Last night was the fret
night / spent in your beautiful
| city and about midnight / awoke from
my slumber. and heard grutf voice on
the sidewalk below say, Are you not
ashamed TO be out at O'Clock" And
then | heard a voice say. obi how pitt
fully, i am looking for my husband.
| could not help thinking how sad
it was that loving woman should bc
| looking for her husband al that hour of
the morning. and how a woman could
| cling to such a man IS a mystery to me.
There is no sunshine in such q woman &
life. She may the next day be able to
ride in her carriage, or do anything she
| chooses, but the thought of the night be-
fore, when she was looking for her
truant husband, when he should have
been at her side. must he maddening 10
her. No grand man uses proiane Ian
guage, lounges on the street corners. or
| speaks slurringly of a woman, no
matter how high she may be
in society, or how low il dens
of vice. He remembers that woman
bore him, rested him on her bosom
when he was weak aud tired and loved
him with fond mothers love. A
woman sitting IN her home, on whose
conduct not feathers weight of criti-
cIsm has ever rested. Will entertain men
| whose character, If transmitted to a
| woman. would exclude her from tho
gate. If a man seeks n womsn's hand
in marriage, she should say TO him
Come To me with a pure name, OF
come not at all Marriage is not the
main object IN life. Our women dc
not have AS kindly a feeling toward
the fallen sisters, as they ought; they
should remember that the fallen
women IN our large cities are mosti,
girls who came from Christian families
but the mothers let them go 10 parties
when they were little tots and when =
| little older they chose their own com
| pany, had beaus, sought the great
cities and became lost forever. The
work of the W. &. /. L. is not 10 go
/ into dens Of vice IN cities, bat 10 turr
/ the tide Of young eirlhood from the
/ snares of a great city, and teach then
the true kingdom of woman loved.
/ After this address the meeting OF th'
/ seventeenth convention OF the W. &. I
1 L. closed with the song, "God he witt
/ you Lll We meet again. and the bene
dicton by Rev. Smith.
/ SPORTING BREvTTIgs.
Detroit l5-mile road race takes plscl
/ today.