The Press., 1894-02-22
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Society and Society Women-A New Defi-
 milton.
FRANCES E. WILLARD.

FRANCES K. WILLARD.
 Some yea1s ago when I was visiting Constantinople, Rev. Dr. Albert D. Long, now professor in Roberts College there, told me of the theological argument he |once had with bishop of the Greek church. After long controversy upon the articles of faith, the American introduced the argument Gd honai1aena, and as the bish- op was notoriously absolute, an allusion to the works by which faith is made per- feet, angered him greatly, aud he flung down a parchment on the table, saying with clenched fist, ''That, sir, is my creed. | You have to do with that alone. It has no flaw from first to last. With my life you have nothing to do whatever
 But the new age consistently insists on the proving of faith by works. Perhaps no other has compared with it in this re- spect. We are even beginning to see le- out. For instance, can remember when the temperance reform was counted secu- lar Ministers were debarred from it's platform and women had no share what ever. But now temperance has been bap- tized at our altars and admitted to our church. Once I thought that voting was altogether secular nowI perceive it to be an act of religion or irreligion, accord ing to the purpose of him who casts the ballot. Once I thought politics secular, but now perceive that the new theocracy must enter at it's portals, and Christ must dwell in politics or not, according to our political decisions. These lines of thought were perhaps impossible outside this age, which has shown us as no other could the correlations of force. We are practical students and our observation is full of the fact that water turns to steam, and heat to light, and electricity to sound. We know that force is but mode of motion, I anddt begins to dawn upon us that prog ress is but a mode of Christ. Only dull souls believe the world grows worse. The more we know of it the more we know that it is growing better at incalcu- fable speed Wherever Christianity goes and-its white wings have in our day flown even to the sources of the Nile and land of the midnight sun, to the Indians l ''teepee, land the Mormon's sharem-there go the truth and light and life of God. A missionary to China told me the Ameri- cans and English were so trusted by that lying nation that they could buy without purse in that Celestial Empire, their verbal promise to pay being enough, and I found the same in lying Italy, goods be- ing thrust upon us without money or price, only our visiting card with it's ad- dress being desired; indeed, we had to urge that, sometimes, the Italians saying the equivalent of "All right, lady, you'll come back and pay me-Pm not afraid"
 There is in all Christian countries an amount of confidence that predicts the coming day when all men shall be less afraid of being cheated than that they themselves might cheat The ''confidence games" of large cities but show the coun. terfeit that proves how current is the gold en coin of faith. As 1 fly along in the swift train and we plunge into the dark ness, every revolution of the wheels and 'throb of the engine's mighty heart seems to say, ''Good faith, good faith!" And we know that for every million persons carried, only forty-nine are in anywise harmed in this country of crossroads, ano in England with her greater care, only ten in every million. So that, notwith standing an occasional and frightful dis
 aster, it is positively safer to travel than