The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-10-30
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NEW JERSEY W. c. T. U. CONVENTION
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Ellis gave her very excellent report, she
remarked: 81 Lave noticed this, when the
Unions meet but once a month the mem
bers are fewer and the interest is less, and
said: now a word TO the dear ones who
think they are doing nothing, ard think
they had better disband. In the words OF
Frances Willard, don't you do it, DON'T
YOU DO IT; DON'T YOU DO IT; for the
w. c. t. L. represents a standing CON-
mittee in this great work upon which to
call in any and every emergency, If moth
ing more" Mrs. Ellis recommended that
We read the LIST chapter of Joshua over and
o7er and over, saying, dear women don't
you close POUR union if there is only one
of you. o, this sticktoitiveness of our
women is blessed. | say in the presence
of God and before you, surely, never was
there a more sisterly, truer baud of women
ever lived on the earth than are our New
Jersey white ribboners." Fund raised
during the past year for local work, Mrs.
Ellis reported was $34, 96S. SO.
Report of State Treasurer, Mrs. E. A.
Mickle, Millyille, which, OF course, was as
it should be, for she is considered to be the
best State treasurer of all the States.
By order of convention congratulatory
kilograms were sent to the annual State
conventions assembled in Maine, Massa-
chusetts and Virginia, together with those
sent to Mrs. Mary R. tMo.her) Denman
and Mrs. R. P. Penfeld.
At the Wednesday afternoon session
Mrs. Munroe, Millville, led the deyotions.
After the reading of the minutes the men,
orial services were held. The total num-
Der of deaths in the ranks for the year was
So. At this time Mrs. A. N. Bruen made
a most beautiful prayer.
| The of~11o all 81
reports of superintendent of departments,
all Of which were good and all showing
that the work is marching on. We may
speak Of some of these in following
punches of s.Gleanings." At this time we
must hurry along to the evening meeting,
held in the Presbyterian church, under the
auspices of the Young Woman's Christian
Tenn perance Union, and addressed by their
national superintendent, Mrs. Frances J.
Barnes, who in the beginning referred to
the beautiful words said to her by her
grandfather ON his deathbed: "My child,
live up TO all the light God gives thee"
Her subject for the evening was the word
Fidelity" urging the young women all
over the State to be true to the principles
which they represent. She gave several
instances illustrating this word. Among
the rest Of Ole Bull. the master violinist
OF the age, who possessed a very rare ard
valuable watch given him by American
friends. and who, near the close of his life.
selected again an American gentleman, a
very valued friend, to whom be bequeathed
the watch after he was through with it,
saying he could trust this friend to wind
it every night of his life and never allow
it to run down, SO faithful were his duties
performed, and that after he was through
with 1t, it should be given to his sons son,
and SO on down the years. She spoke Of
how, in England, though the husbands
and brothers would not attend the tenn
perance meetings, they were compelled to
attend some of the grandest tenn
perance meetings in the houses of Par
lament where temperance meas
ures are constantly being brought
up and which are being thoroughly dis.
oussed in these party s~srongholds. What
is done in Great Britain ought to be done
in America. I believe the mission of the
young women of to-day is to raise a stand.
ard of purity for purity, as SO often said
before.
She gave incidents of her travels abroad
through England, through Switzerland.
through France. How Lady S-respect-
ed her total abstinence principles by drink
ing her health in pure cold water, though
all the other guests at table partook OF
wine.
She had been told that when she travel
ed in Europe she would have to drink the
wines there, because the water was not
good, but testified to the purity and ex-
cellence of the water handed her by a
Swiss woman as she dipped it up in her
goblet and passed it to her. She urged here
that Americans abroad insist upon having
this beverage served them and then as the
years go by those brothers across the At
lantic will prepare better facilities for this
health giving drink.
She told of how Lady Henry Somerset,
Pres. of the British Woman's Temperance
Association (another name for the W. c.
T. ID denounced gambling with nc un-
certain sound, before a crowded audience
in New York City a week ago. This re-
markable woman in company with our
own Hannah Whital Smith of Bible Read
ing fame, arrived in New York little over
a week ago, and we are expecting grand
resslts from her visit among us.
More than ever we feel that God is in
this work, because of those who are
responding to the calls that are going out.
Speaking of the environments from which
Lady Henry Somerset had been called into
this work for God and Humanity, she COM
pared it as being really more wonderful
than that of Frances E. Willard, who from
her life on the farm on the prairies had
been trained for the work of arduous
duties.
And so brothers, in conclusion, We leave
it with your own co~nsciences, who must
remember when you east your ballots-you
cast them for the motherhood. the wife
hood, the girlhood, the childhood of this
nation"
THURSDAY.
Not stopping to tell of to-day's proceed
ings, except to say that our matchless
State President, Sarah j. C.. Downs. and
all the state officers were reelected imam
imously, amid greater enthusiasm, and
earnestness, and thankfulness, and love
than ever before, We must come to the
grand treat we have enjoyed this evening
in the presence Of our Southern sister, Mrs.
Sallie +. Chaplin, of South Carolina, and
of Anthony Comstock Esq, of New York.
After the opening devotions, Mrs. Downs
presiding, and conducted by the pastors
of Salem, Mrs. Chaplin, was introduced to
the large audience gathered. In the begin
ming of her intensely fascinating address
she illustrated a scene of the COS when
you went down beyond the Mlson's and
Dixon's line thinking to teach us with
YOUR cruel methods, but we were just as
good as you WERE etc.
Having but recently finished reading
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