The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-08-03
Temperance Meeting al Carlisle.
ADDRESS BY MISS RUSSELL.

BY request | write Of the meeting
held at Carlisle July 10th, in the inter
est Of temperance, and for the organi-
zation Of a Loyal Temperance Legion
for Burtonton. Despite the inclement
weather quite a number Of persons met,
mostly young people and children and
a most enjoyable and successful meet
ing was held, resulting in the organi-
zation with twenty members.
With few exceptions oil took, who
had not previously taken, the pledge.
Pledge cards were distributed and
beautiful sight was presented when SO
many signed the triple pledge, which
is, trusting in Gods help, | solemnly
promise to abstain from the use Of all
alcoholic drinks, including wine, beer
and cider; from the use Of tobacco in
any form, and from profanity"
AS there we're representatives from
q distance and different points, who
were very much impressed, prom
ising 10 introduce the work IN places
barren Of this important enterprise, we
trust much good to result.
Miss May Russell, the indefatiga-
bleand successful laborer in this branch
Of w. G. 4. U. work, delivered an ad-
dress replete with good things, some of
which | cannot refrain from mention
ing.
She said she could speak better amid
the beautiful flowers Of the decorations,
which breathed such fragrance about
her.
She desired that the meaning Of the
White Ribbon be known. As white is
the combination Of the seven primary
colors, so in the snowy emblems of our
faith we have represented the whole
range Of reform. The idea it stands |
for IS like some great strong-winged sea
bird that glOries in the sunshine when
the days are fair, but Is able 30 ride the
stormy wave Of the sea. Beautiful in
its works, faultless in its action, stead
fast IN its purpose.
In 1874 the temperance crusade
swept the saloon from 250 towns and
cities in 81 days, and the outgrowth Of
that whirlwind Of public sentiment Is
the noble army Of 100000 women,
pledged for God and home aud native
land.
She referred to the reception, nearly
twenty years, given band Of the best
women Of Chicago, who carried the pc
tition to the councilmen Of the city,ask-
ing TO have the saloons closed on the
when they barely escaped be
ing mobbed by the angry crowd that
swarmed up the steps Of the court room.
Fifteen years later the national conyen-
ton Of the w. g. Il. u. held its annual
there, and received many cour-
tesies from officials and prominent bus
mess men. Every morning for O week
they looked out over an audience Of six
people, enthusiastic, interest
ed and sitting under the great dome Of
Battery d., draped in flags and ban
ners and ensigns Of the faith.
She spoke Of the great work that is
being carried on, besides the missiona- ,
-ies sent TO Europe, Africa, Japan, Aus I
.ialia and South America.
When in Chicago last year studying /
'locution, she had a spell Of typhoid fe- I
fer Of two months duration, and was Z
iindly cared for and nursed in the ma /
ional temperance hospital Of that city, /
where she learned the entire i
working Of that institution, whilst num- )
'ers Of opportunities we're given to OBJ /
erve the application Of temperance y
to different patients suffering 1
nth various disorders; 50 she deems
his privilege disguised blessing which "
etter fits her for her loved employ. b
'he says, it is so helpful, so satisfy
lg to say, 1 ka0lr and the most ingen- +
)us argument can never shake the CON i
iction based on knowledge. The tenn il
erance hospital is proving daily, hour r,
7, that every disease treated with al tC
oholic medicine may be treated much Il
lore successfully without it. She be-
ewes with all her powers of faith in Il
he ultimate conviction of the world, Il
trough such institutions, that we can
ispense with alcohol even in medicine. 81
The death rate is lower, and the per
mt Of cures greater in this hospital
ian in any other Of Chicago:
The Clara Barton Training School
r Nurses has been most successfully
Irried on in connection with the hos
tai. W
Such prosperity attended this enter De-
Use that ON July 1lth there was a eii
rmal opening with imposing ceremo- W
es, of q larger building most favora- a. a.
y located, and fitted up with all the
oderu conveniences, and made attract
e and homelike by the w. G. L. US br
d Y's Of the state.
There is o like institution in London ~
aong whose practitioners are physi- 70
ms Of worldwide reputation and til
nose practice has been faithfully based
on non-alcoholic treatment for 80
ars. For those who desire the whole in
nth there are books and papers and cal
mphlets by the hundred teeming with i.
. facts. ="
The falrest hope Of all the labor and It's
iting lies in the work that is being ed
ne for the children. Through the to
unhring. sleepless activity y;
the w. G. Il. IT,, 81 states Of our =
lion have legislated ON the subject Of NC
eniitiG temperance instruction, and
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