The Press., 1892-12-15
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
Extracts from Miss wiIlard's Annual Az


 Extracts from Miss willard's Annual Ad-
 dress. We are to encourage our hearts by the remembrance that the Master said "A kttle leaven leaveneth the whole lump," and although our work seems small as compared with the great world work of the good, still, if it brings about the won- drous transformation from thoughtless- ness to thoughtfulness, everything else that we desire must surely follow.
 There are tens of thousands of women to-day who think themselves little too good to be white ribboners-a little too cultivated, perhaps little too critical; in short, ''they do not see their way" They prefer to trip along in their trim shoes on the sidewalk with the better cared-for procession of the average we'll to-do. But we, who have taken to the street and a1e marching along in the dust with the rank and file, sing many time as we go forward in the difficult way, song whose meaning is we'll described in the old Scotch rhyme:
 ''And yell take the byeway, -"
 And I'll take the highway,
 And I'll be in Scotland before ye."
 
 Life is full of compensations, and the white ribbon army in all nations knows already the compensation of love strong CT than death for our Divine Leader who has passed into the heavens, but sheds forth His power upon the earth as steadi- ly as falls His sunshine, for our divine cause, worthy of any sacrifice that we can make, even unto death and for each other, the sturdy veterans and the radiant young recruits of our great patient army wherein each loves the other, flor the dangers she has passed" The true reformer is the one who sits at the prov and sees only God. But ev- ermore God works by means.
 The brain has the hand as it's instru- ment The individual has an organized society as his most cogent weapon and most powerful ally. The hand can do but little without a tool through which it may employ and diversity it's power; he who holds the strongest instrument and han dies it most skilfully accomplishes the most. We women are more fortunate than we can at all comprehend in having at hand such an instrument as the w. C.. T. U., to which we can carry our best in- l ;Y,%o deeds, a warm home center of progressive ideas and achievements. I cannot ex- press to you my growing sense of the power that dwells in these groups of faith full and true women in every quarter of the world, animated by one spirit; atten- tive in mind, motherly in heart, helpful in hand and hospitahle in soul; ready to respond to every appeal that comes to them from the bugle notes of their great fireside camps where the conventions plan the work of the year that lies ahead.
 Looking out over the great world-pic. ture where humanity struggles against the dragon in Gods name,we see that a white banner, lifted in gentle hands, is at the very center of the onmoving force. "Our flag is there" Thank God.
 The will is the king bolt of the faculties the keystone in the arch of character the engine that trains after it the remain der of what we suppose ourselves to be.
 To hesitate is to be lost. We must make up ''what we are pleased to call oul minds," but we must set our wills as a switchman does his brake. The best and briefest formula was given us by our Eng. fish leader, and came to her as a heaven. ly voice at the parting of the ways seven years ago when she resolved to be 6 christian. "Act as if God were and you shall know he is." We must begin by do ing, that is the changeless law. Do his ) will and ye shall know of the doctrine. A river is not judged by it's shoals but by it's current, and in like manner a life is not judged by it's eddies of temptation bu, by it's tendency, it's direction, it's goal; i our life is headed toward God and immor tality people will know it; we shall know it, God will know it and we must not bt discouraged by any instance on our par of failure, if we fail we must just get uI and try again. We are not here to fioa the float of faith but to fight the fight o faith.
 "Nervous prostration is as much to b. dreaded as any disease which does no threaten speedy death. It is most treach erous, producing a condition more painful than pain, weakness weaker than ex treme fatigue, despondency more dejectet than the lowest of low spirits, an insta bility of self-coutrol destructive of conf dence; making work, mental and physic al, more distasteful to the once-energeti nature than to the constitutionally lazy : and yet the exterior aspect is one o . health, and the only consolation the poo victim has who has thus foolishly mort gagged his future, is this: 'Oh, he suffering from mere nervous prostration.' 7
 Noble Women.
 Denver is again the host of nationa convention. A few weeks ago the whit plumes of the Knight Templars waved i streets; to-day, the white ribbons of tn Woman's Christian Temperance Unio command our respect and greeting. , This great organization has become s | n