Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-16
THE WHITE RIBBON.
Earnest Call For Next Womens Christian
Temperance Union Convention.

Temperance MON
CHICAGO Sept. 15.-The following call
for the next national convention OF the
Women's Christian Temperance union
has been issued by Miss Francis 4. VIII
Lard IFS president. and Mrs. Katherine
D.nte Stevenson, its corresponding sec-e-
,nrv After naming the date OF the con-
sention. Oct. IS TO % AMI ihe law govern
ing its personnel. the call says:
Last year at Cleveland we celebrated
our co,ning-of-age convention, and the
,,ere ,rouobt that we had attained our
,,aiorjtv was enough in itself TO inspire
the pen of her who wrote the call The
,oar, bring no such incentive to eloquence
and vet the rounding up of our majority
wear ought to be an event Of greater mo-
ment than its beginning. Our hopes and
nIans have been actualized into successes
or failures. From the harvest field we
look back to the seed sowing. and thank
God for sheaves garnered, even while we
rne,ret that their numbers are notincrcased
an hundred fold
The year Just closed has been not with
ort it's sorrows We have entered the
dark valley of death with many who have
long been identified with our cause, and
have seen heaven grow richer as earth has
grown poorer by their passing beyond.
II has also been year of deep gladness,
for we have stood upon more than one IL
Illuminated mountain peak and watched
growing brighter the prophetic CLEAN
which heralds the coming dawn. The
polygot meetings at Washington and the
great convention in the heart of the
worlds Aife just closed have marked
epochs in our history from which we can
but go forward in confidence to greater
things beyond.
That this, our 22d convention, may be in
every respect worthy to follow the great
London convention is our prayer. Many
Of its members will have come from the
great gathering with the uplitt of its Won
derful days still upon them. 1t cannot but
be that new impulse Of life, life more
abundant, must come to US through them.
The Baltimore meeting will be in many
respects not unlike its predecessors. There
will be on the first evening addresses of
welcome from representatives of Mary
lands life, and responses from those who
stand closely allied to our great work all
over the United States. The evening will
come with its usual interest, and there are
plans OF more than usual importance yet
to be worked out. The days will bring
their reports of work already accomplished
and plans for further enlargement.
Names honored the world over will be
upon the program, and no effort will be
spared to make this summing up of our
Majority year worthy its inception. 1t is
our wish that Sept p, as O day Of prayer.
as never before, may be observed.
More and more our work is taking upon
itself new features, and the magnitude of
its scope is becoming more apparent. We
are realizing that this warfare upon which
we have entered is the warfare of life
against death; light against darkness;
righteousness of God against the I'M
righteousness Of all that oppose him. We
are coming to see that we stand for the
Gay when throughout the whole earth his
will shall be done; when his kingdom
shall be set upon the hcarthstone of each
home, the altar OF each church, the mar
kct places and the busy ways Of all life 5
thronging activities.