The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-03
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142 ballots, Mrs. Greene 7. Mrs. Sanford 1,
Mrs. Everts /; for recording secretary
Mrs Dorcas j. Spencer (the incum bent) re-
ceived 80 votes, Mrs Pringle S. Mrs. Coug-
Ian 8. Mrs. French 4, Mrs. Brown 4, Mrs.
Allen and several other candidates
vote apiece.
For the office of corresponding secretary
Mrs. III. E. Brown received 152 votes, Mrs
Prindle 2 aid four others / each. For
treasurer Mrs. Hoppin received 14S votes,
Mrs. Williams 2, Mrs. Everts and others
l each. For auditor Mrs. Couglan received
76 votes, Mrs. Stoddard 6S, Mrs. Donahue
8, and Mrs. Purvis, Mrs. Carver, Mrs. San
ford and Mrs. Wheeler votes each.
Mrs. Peet began her fourth year as presi-
dent of the California branch of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Altogether she has devoted twenty-five
years of her life to the cause of temper
ance.
There were no caucuses nor pooling of
issues, nor trading on the candidates.
Each voter stood squarely for her own
woman" and won or went down with
the result.
The question of finances was opened by
Mrs. Kimball, who mentioned the urgent
need of money in the Golfers of the organ
ization. A large number of unions
throughout the State pledged various
sums of money to be collected during the
year.
DR.. G. B. Bentley of Trinity Church and
his wife entered the hall as the balloting
for officers was going on. Being immedi-
ately called upon for an address, he took
the opportunity to state that he wanted no
office, and advised the convention not to
vote for Mrs. Bentley either. He spoke OF
his school life with Miss Frances G. Will
lard, and of her noble fight against intern
perance at the head OF the union.
A number of papers were read upon the
need of more earnest effort in the work,
and an entire conservation to the objects
of the order. Nor was the topic of female
suffrage forgotten. Several speakers, led
by Miss Severance, hoored and verbally
walked over the masculine opponents of
the suffrage amendments till they were
tiguratively trampled out of recognition.
Mrs. j. l.. Everts, during her remarks
upon spiritual progress, quoted the
Prophet Ezekiel where he writes up the
"pillow sleeves of certain ladies to whom
he had taken a violent dislike" Mrs.
Everts said during her remarks: "The
body is the temple of God and when we
detile it we sin. Sin is a barrier between
us and God. Therefore we cannot make
spiritual progress. We can be sinful in
dress as well as in eating and drinking.
Ezekiel says in chapter Is, verse Is, that
there is woe pronounced upon women
who sew pillows to their armholes. am
very much afraid that either the dress 1
makers or the ones wearing the dresses
will soon come under this woe, for we can
hardly pass through common door with
out turning sidewise.
"When we have our hearts STAYED on
God it makes little difference to us whether
we are in the latest fashion or not We
can afford to be called cranks-peculiar
people,"
The address of the evening, 1.-THE Sober
Mind" by Daniel Starr Jordan of Stanford
University, pointed out tine necessity of
looking at things calmly and sensibly, and
dealt with the temperance question in an
interesting and scientific way.
1--WE find it sometimes difficult in our
daily life" said the speaker, ito dlstin-
guish between things that are and things
that are not. To be able to separate the
sanity.
"Of the three roots which bear up the
dominion of man-knowledg will and
obedience, the most important is obedi-
ence.
't'In nations the failure to do the right
thing at the right time is followed by
death. This applies to men as we'll. If
dlsobedience to rule of nature is pro-
longed through several generations the
penalty is the final extinction of that line
Formerly every man had to make his own
experience. Now, with the increase of
civilization we find our experience already
made. ALI truth that comes to MS is trans
ferable to action. The tendency every
where is for truth to go through the circuit
OF knowledge. Will obedience, sanity and
safety go together? We may look upon
ourselves as the guardians of life-we are
links in the long chain of heredity. All
our ancestors had truth, otherwise we
would not have been created. A de-
ficiency of truth begins a decline and
death.
't1he effect of stimulants on the brain is
to weaken its power Of acquiring truth and