The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1892-04-22

women OF Hancock'S Bridge bid you well
come. And we also extend a cordial well
come to all of our visitors.
Oar Union is but a small one, consisting
Of nineteen members. We gained two new
members last year. We are very busy in
our homes, but We try not to neglect tenn
perance work at home or abroad.
During the past year we nave had one
temperance lecture by Mrs. Weaver. When
we can, we always answer calls for aid.
Last year we answered three.
We have q Superintendent on Health and
Heredity; one on Sabbath observance; one on
Sanday-school work. We are prompt with
our correspondence, having received praise
several times for our p%romptness.
Five of our Union attended the conven-
ton at Elmer last spring. We were well
represented at the State convention last fall
in Salem.
Mr. 5. Z. Johnson, the young and popu-
lar pastor of the NJ. i. church, last year
kindly aided us in our work, having
preached one temperance sermon for us.
We held memorial services for Mother
Downs, when he also preached for us. This
year he has preached once for lis on "Sab-
bath observance"
In our village of two hundred and sixty
Inhabitants VI have no saloons, and we
are glad and thankful for it. There are
none nearer than Salem, which is five miles
away.
Our village has grown in size and beauty,
and as it continues to grow we do hope
that we shall be able to say, 1--WE have no
saloons" And we do hope and pray that
every man, woman and child will lend his
and her mightiest effort to keep our village
free from saloons.
The temperance convention las never
met here before. We hope it will be the
means of doing much good, that our
faith viii be built W, that We will press on
with greater enthusiasm tban ever before.
And We hope, too, that others will see
their duty plainly and clearly before them,
and will come and enlist in the temperance
ranks aud march on with the temperance
aost. Every man and woman who does
their whole duty is a temperance worker.
Although in our individual Union we have
lost members, Is body at large we have
gained them.
We have more white ribbon women to-
day 10 the State of New Jersey Than ever
before, having nearly eight thousand.
Fourteen new Unions.
We have accomplished a great deal, my
sister workers. But there is a great deal
more to do. There is a work for you and
a work for me and a work for everybody
to do.
A short time ago | read in a daily paper
that iii Philadelphia alone there were
twenty six thouiand drunkards under the
care of the police. That does not include
the drunkards in the higher walks of life
whose friends take care of them. And
statistics show that there are eighty taous-
and drunkards going down annually to dis
honored graves. This ought to make each
one of us feel that we have a work to do.
The drink habit Of the United States is
said to cost 81, 900, 900, 900, and the national
debt is $915, 969, 112.
So we sec there is a great deal of work
yet to be done and we waut more workers,
We want more faith, we want more cour.
age to press on. We have begun this
gigantic work-only just begun it-and we
need recruits. Who will join our band to-
day and thus say 81 am for God and
Homo and Native land" | want to do
what / can and all | can to help
on with the temperance work. | wan
to help take his great curse from our
land. | want to put it where the weak
cannot be tempted. | want to make homes
brighter and happier. l want to help
keep by brothers and sisters from panper
graves. | want to help keep them away
from the gallows. | want to help my
brother up, and help him on to God and
Heaven.
Let US then, my sister workers,
Be up and doing with u heart tor any fate,
still aching. stifi pursuing; learn to labor and
to wait.
And may we feel assured with the kind.
ness with which Jesus Christ met Martha
that our woman's work is seen and appre-
ciated by Him whose watchful eye never
rests. Let us .then do with our might what
our hands fluid to do, looking only to God
for strength for this gigantic work. We
have done more already than many wise
ones had deemed possible, and We can
do more than has ever yet been DONE. Let
us remember what Mother Downs told us
last April at Elmer: 'In five years from
now, said she, 1--WE shall have prohibition -
And repeating it she SAID, "Ladles, mark
my words, five years from to-day. the Cpd
of April, we shall have prohibition" Then
let us on, on. on, to the good time coming
when men drink run no more" Let US
dedicate hands, head and heart to the
selEappointed God given work. Let us
work while yet it is called day, "for the
night cometh wherein no man can work"
When the shades of night are falling and
our summons come to die, may it find us
as it found our dear Mother Downs with
our work aihdone and well done.
Again sister workers we bid you vel.
come. Not only We of the white ribbon,
but others. Others who do not wear the
white ribbon and give it their support, vel
who are temperance at heart. They have
expressed an interest in our convention
and they are here to bid you welcome
They and we bid you welcome in the name
of God and Home and Native land.
Accidents,
and how to deal with them, and other val
liable medical information, will be foun(
in DR.. Kaufmau's great Medical Work