The Forrest City times., 1893-06-23
Temperance Notes.

Temperance Notes.
 i To drink deeply-to be drunk-is sin: this is not denied. At what point does the taking of strong drink become sin? We suppose a man perfectly sober: one glass rxcites him and. to some extent. disturbs the state of his sobrietv: another glass excites him still more: a third fires his eye. and looSens his tongne, inflames his passions; fourth increases all this: fifth makes him foolish and partially insane; d sixth makes him savage. and d seventh or eighth makes him stupid-a sense- less degraded mass. But when does the sin begin? At the first step to- ward complete intoxication, or at the sixth. seventh or eighth drink. Is not every step from the natural state of the system toward the state of stupid intexication is an advance in sin and yielding to the unwearied tempter of the soul.
 X new departure is being made in the prohibition movement. and politi- cal measures of a new character are to be adopted. A permanent Christian political organization IS to be formed One of the prominent men engaged in the movement says: What we want to command the attention of State Leg islatures is d Christian political party. In the ranks of the temperance work CTS there are many prominent politi- cians. With their aid we can com mand attention. We have discovered that politics is the direct key to legis- lative reform. With the influence gained by the strength of a large army of Christian political workers, WE can do much good. while as individuals we could do nothing" It will. probable, be good thing if the Prohibition movement can be rescued from the hands of some of the men who have been pulling the wires in this country for the past few years.
 1 There are at present five round the world w. C. T. U.. missionaries: Mary Clement Leavitt, for seven years in foreign lands, now in California; Jes- sic A. Ackermann, for nearly six years 1 in Japan. China. India and Austra Ina. now in San Francisco for few months rest; Elizabeth Wheeler An drew and Dr. Kate C. Rnshneli, over ! two years in Africa. India and Aus trali,. now in London, and Alice Pal mrr, who went to South Africa nearly year ago. Mary Allen West was the sixth missionary. Her field was Japan. and from the eastern land she went to Heaven. There is loud cry from that country for some one to take mp Miss Vests work. which is now ripe for the harvest. Who will be the reaper.
 l The Women's Christian Temperance | Union Of PietermaritZburg. Natal, have long felt that their work would be more effectuallv carried on if they had d home which could be utilized for the many good works it is in their hearts to do. as: Gospel temperance meetings, Loyal temperance legion drills, mothers meetings, social meet ings. and Bibles classes. It is also pro- posed to have bedrooms for women and girls who for various reasons may need the protection of Christian hOme-such home is a pressing need in the city. The members of the union have collected nearly one hundred pounds. but much more will be ne eded and donations will he thankfully re- ceived by Mrs. S. NJ. Varley, 20 Prince Street, Pietermaritzbnrg.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Dr. Kate Bushnell. our third and fourth round-the-wor)d missionaries. will re- turn to the United States in time to at tend the congresses and conventions connected with the Columbian EXpC- sition in Chicago. Mrs. Andrew is q well-known journalist having been con- nected with The Union Signal and the publications of the Woman's Temper ance Publishing Assn for many years.
 Dr. Kate Bushnell is d thoroughly well educated physician and successful worker in the cause of social purity. Both ladies are earnest and instruct
 i've speakers. On their embassy of the
 white ribbon they have been absent something over two years. in which time they have traveled eighty-seven thousand miles. making sixteen sea voyages on twenty-siX different bodies of water and crossing the equater four times. During this period they have given six hundred and seventy ad- dresses to forty thousand people. speak ing in England. Wales, Cape Colony. . Natal, Orange Free State. The Trans vaal, India. Ceylcn. Victoria, South Australia, Queenland. New south
 Wales. New Zealand, Tasmania, Egypt and Palestine.