The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-06

the new seems hardly ready to be
born, there would still come the verdict
''she is a fatr opponent; she Is a kindly
comrade;' as Lincoln said. she has firm
ness in the right as God gives her to see
the right, and moves along her chosen path
with malice toward none and charity
for ALL" From that more august
and perhaps impartial jury, be-
yond the circle of reform, comes
the" verdict, prophetic of that which
history ishall one day record, 'She made
the word wider for woman. and happier
for humanity" We know that America
owes her greatness to the sterling worth of
those intrepid Puritan pioneers who were
the best gift of the old world to the new. So
Frances Willard who has in her veins that
pure New England blood. owes to her an
cestry much of the strength and courage
that must ever te the basis of
reformer's character. Away on a Wiscon-
sin farm, amid the cedars sweet and fra
grant and the whispering fields of Indian
corn, she caught the inspiration Of her life
from the mother whose strong and sunny
spirit made glad the solitary place, and who
brought into the prairie wilderness a most
intrepid intellect and a culture exceptions
ally rare. The brightness OF her
own great nature made that
"desolate" place blossom as the rose" for
her children. On that country farm,
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household friends. That enthusiasm for
humanity which characterizes Frances Will
lard's work was breathed into her active
mind by one born and bred in the great
free-soil state Of the IL )rth. whose delight
it was TO teach her little girl to read
from the "Slave's Friend" What wonder
that in after years one of the greatest
achievements of Frances Wizards life was
her mission of reconciliation to the women
of the south. while yet the scars Of war
throbbed in their breasts, and new made
graves stretched wide between sections that
had learned the misery Of hatred. IL was
the white ribbon taken by her tender
hands that bound those wounds, and
gently drew the noble-hearted women of
that sunny land into the hospitable home
circle OF the w omans Christian Temperance
Union. Sacrifice is the foundation Of all
real success. and !. was a crucial moment in
Miss Wizards life when she resigned the
brilliant position If dean of the first women's
college connected with a university in
America, and went OUT. penniless, alone
and unheralded, because her spirit
the women's footsteps as they
bridged the distance between the home and
the saloon in the peutecOstal days OF the
temperance crusade. she has relinauished
that which women hold the dearest, the
sacred, sheltered life OF home. Around
HSI uSHTbD no cDlluTbu WhlL 10 RFeeG ner.
But she has lost that life only 70 find it
again ten thousandfold. She has under
stood the mystery Of the wider circle OF
love and loyalty, and the world
is her home as truly as John Wesley said
it was his "parish." She has understood
the diviner motherhood that claims the or
phened hearts OF humanity as her heritage,
and a chorus of children's voices round the
world cherish and hail her name, for "or-
nanized ruotha lovsn Ia the beat de6nttion
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. Well may we say In the words of
our great poet:
Live and take comfort, thou wilt leave behind
Powers that shall work for thee
Earth. air and skies
There's not a breatHiny OF the common wind
That will forget thee; thou
Hast great alies;
Thy friends are Civilizations agonies and love.
And mans unconquerable mind
BABEL SOMERSET.
Feb. g. EaSt1Or CIStLe.