The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-11-20
POWER IN maine.
w. C.. T. u. Had a Wholesome
Effect on Law Breakers.
Rapid Growth From Infancy Spoken
Of by One OF That Body.


CLEVELAND. Nov 90 AT the National
Woman's Christian Temperance union
convention yesterday reports OF affiliated
interests wore made. Then came the re-
ports Of organizers
Mrs II l. Bullock Of Elmira, N. Y, re-
ported ths. In Maine the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union is more feared
than the PinkertDn detectives. During
nearly three months stay in Maine, al
slough she visited pelice stations in diff
ferent cities, and spent somr time In look
ing through the worst 5treets in Portland
for drunkenness sho saw but one man In
toxicated, and he was at the police station
in Bangor.
Mrs. J. f. willing, who Issued the call
for the convention in Cleveland, In which
the Womans Christian Temperance union
WAS organized, and who presided over that
convention, delivered the anniversary ad-
dress as follows;
"Our Lord said TO Mary of Bethany:
She hath dsne what she could He may
say of many Of us: They have done what
they were sure they couldn't do. If asked
to tell anything of our partin the work OF
which God hes been pleased TO make so
much, we would have % say as Florence
Nightingale did when asked for a similar
report, What I could say would only
show how God has used n very ordinary
woman for little part in the worlds bet
terment.'
Fousd Time For Temperance Work.
'In these stirring days when our great
society came into being, found out that
God could make time where time was not.
When the crusade struck Bloomington,
Ills, whore was teaching, i was carrying
all the English Of a large college and was
very busy. ! found that when l obeyed
the inner voice and trusted the Lord for
the time could go TO q temperance prayer
meeting every day and my university
work was mono the worse for 10.
I'VE were n feeble folk, and we had the
sense 20 know it, but our hebitation was
the rocks. SO WE went on till we had
carried for No license Bloomington,
the largest town captured by the crusade
We organized the Illinois state union, one
of the very best When DR.. Vincent asked
me to give one Of the dedicatory addresses
mt Chautauqua, and 10 speak also on
woman and temperance, the innor voice
said: Go, and went, though / had to
hold tightly 70 the pulpit every moment
for fear OF falling headlong into my audi
ence.
TnspIred by Prayers.
"The only thing | remember very dis
tinctly that temperance day was the
opening prayer OF my husband. He
pushed the poer little woman at his side
who was scsres half out of her wits. out
to the Lord, saying: Take thine own
and do as thou wilt i remember also
the faces of tho glorious Ohio temperance
women in the audience and the spirited
talk of my brother, Bishop Fowler, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, describing
the arrest Of the Cincinnati crusaders
"Then followed number of side meet
ings, out Of which grew the call for the
Cleveland convention, which Emily H
Miller and drcw up on our honleward
train, deal of azzlng and worrying for
fear we in our ignorance or somebody
else, would spoil the little swan that was
toddling about among our bantlinRs. We
forgot that the work was not ours, but
Gods"
The evening session was celebration
in honor of the anniversary of the crusade
movement Mrs. Henrietta Il. Monroe,
president of the Ohio Woman's Christian
Temperance union, was in the chair. Adj
dresses OF fellcltation and reminiscence
were delivered.