The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-07
MRS, BARKER'S LECTURE.

MRS, BARKER'S LECTURE.
The people of Winnsboro are not
accustomed to hearing women speak
in the church, but whether for curl
osity or for the purpose of learning
something a large audience was present
at Mrs. Barker's lecture on the work
of the ". c. T. Z. at the Baptist
hurch on Monday night. Mrs. Barker
has a very strong and intellectual face,
and j, unquestionably a woman OF
considerable mental force. Her lee
ture was interesting, instructive, and
very argumentative, which latter fea-
ture we may say with all due difference
to the fair sex, is not characteristic
of woman. Mrs. Barker. we believe,
is the first and only woman who has
ever spoken in Wipnsboro, and she
has made very favorable impression
on the community, in spite of the
conservatism Of our people.
Mrs. Barker began her lecture by
saying that she was astonished Wnen
the National W. C. T. .. Instructed
her to come to South Carolina and see
what was the matter with the union in
this State, it having evidently lost
some of its enthusiasm within the last
year. She obeyed very reluctantly,
because she was apprehcnsive of how
she would be received in an old con-
servative State like South Carolina,
whose people, by prejudice or 'orie-
thing, didn't think it exactly the
proper sphere IF woman to deliver
public speeches: She appeared IN
Charleston the first place, and there
she was so welcome and se pleasantly
treated by the people and the ministers
that she felt encouraged as to what
her reception elsewhere in the State
would be. She has been so we'll re-
ceived in other parts of the State, that
she has written to her people that the
people of South Carolina have been
belied.
She gave brief, but exceedingly
interesting account of how the
W. G. r. q. was started; the insig-
nifcant number wish which it began,
and how it had now increased to about
three hundred thousand women-
earnest, praying Christian women
fully determined to exterminate the
whiskey traffic. This membership was
all the more potent because they were
women, with their hearts in the cause,
pure women that could not be bribed
or bullied. It was due to the w. G.
T. q. that scientific instruction was
given children in our public schools as
to the evil effects of alcohol. Thus
the W. c. T. U. was beginning with
the children, the future men and wo-
men of the country. She felt dis
couraged sometimes when men pledged
themselves to stop drinking and would
violate their pledges again and again,
until she thought with Madam Stael:
eThe more know of men the better
1 like dogs" but then. She thought of
her Christian duty to try them again.
Selling whiskey is wrong, she says,
and no act of the legislature can make
it right. If it is wrong, then it should
be prohibited. 1t is nonsense to talk
about regulatipgs s wrong. 1t Is just
as much wrong for the State to sellit
as for the individual. The W. c. T.C.
should not be discouraged, although
at times it might seem to be making
no progress. She illustrated this by
saying that she had occasion to travel
through the vast prairies Of the North
west, and so level was the land and
so barren of trees that her progress
was imperceptible, and the only way
she was conscious Of making much
progress was by fixing her eye on
some barn. A few years ago she
desired to find out what certain
community where she lived thought of
temperance seventy years ago, and
she got an old gentleman's diary,
which contained some very peculiar
things. Among them was an account
Of how on the completion Of the
church, jug of whiskey was taken to
the top of the steeple and let IA to
the ground. The jug was not broken
and the deacons and elders took this
as an omen that the Holy Spirit would
never leave that church. In that diary
it was also stated how the ministers,
deacons and elders drank. Look back
at these landmarks and the w. G. I. U.
can appreciate its progress.
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