The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-02-28
SI.oo A YEAR.

Scripture reading.
Reading the call for The observance
Of the day.
Prayer
Praise for the Crusade.
A trumpet call from our Chieftain.
Poem by Mary T. Lathrop entitled
cater Twenty Years"
Who were Mother Thompson and
other Crusade ladles1 ''&
Hillsboro Crusade Sketches.
Poem--"Hillsboro."
John G. Woolsey's mother a mar.
tyr of the Crusade.
Prayer-"Coniession of Sins"
Prayer-"For the Overthrow Of
Intemperance."
Mrs. Merriwether's new poem
"Keep the Plow A-Going.
Organization of the w. c. r. u.
find in the Union Signal this trib-
ute from Joseph Cook: "Thelstraight-
forward aggressiveness which lights
the fires of the Woman's Temperance
Crusade score of years ago ought to
burn in all of the forty departments
of the Womans' Christian Temper
ance Union, national and inter
national. rejoice in all that these
departments are doing"
Our Loyal Temperance Legion has
been recognized. A class Of twelve
or fourteen has been formed to study
for a diploma. Studies for this l.. I.
L. year will be review of the years
studies. They will then pass exami-
nation for diploma. After rcceiy-
ing diplomas they will study for still
higher honors-the seal courses
which is a modified plan Of the Chau-
tauquan method.
Since the plan for graduating
from the Loyal Temperance Legion
was adopted, the number of gradu-
stes has mounted into the hundreds
and is rapidly increasing into the
thousands.
With such a force in operation.
these graduates can well say, 'Trem-
bic, King Alcohol, we shall grow pn"
Joseph Cook says: "Your scientific.
temperance instruction is great step
in advance, and good omen for the
temperance cause in the twentieth
century, for no American political
party can be permanently preserved
in whisky.
If we have been defeated in OBJ
tanning law for teaching this in our
public schools, we can have it taught
in our Loyal Temperance Legions,
Let the whole state push this work.
Our union has dropped the fran
chise department of its work and or
ganized an Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton. Every third meeting of the w.
C. T. U. is an equal suffrage meet.
ing.
! The departments of aims house and
prison work have been adopted this
year. Four ladies of the union Wis
tied the aims house on December
aoth, taking bread, canned fruit,
jellies, apples, oranges and candies in
sufficient quantities for two treats "a
the eighteen inmates, six of whom
are children.
The prayers, songs and religious
conversations we're the first that some
of the poor creatures had heard since
! being there and to some, probably,
the first of their lives.
The unisn purposes having a tenn
perance mass meeting as soon as the
other meetings, now in progress, ara
over.
Sabbath observance is one of our
departments of work.
Am sorry can report no Socia
, Purity work being done. Cannol
find woman quite consecrated
enough to take it up.
The press department has been
filling space in the local paper.
Union Signals taken, fourteen.
l will close with quotation from
Rev. DR.. Talmage: ''Do not dwell
so much on your hardships that yos
miss your chance for welding an in.
f1uence that shall look down upor
you from the towers of an endles.
, future"