The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-10-10
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Oncias Gall fer the Twenty Second
Annual CONVENTION

Annual Convention
In Difference to o time honoied
Gus. ON, the General Officers OF ii e
Nat,onai W. &. L. IT, herewith al
nonnce the TACT already 70 ", II
known, that the Twenty second
annual Convention of the organic L.
ton viii he held IN Music Hall,
Baltimore. Md October Is to 23.
1895 aid issue their cali o the clans
already gathering To Come up III
force to this Mecca OF years hopes
aud harvest lIome of years toll.
Last year at leveland, We cele-
brated our coming ofage Conven-
ton, and the mere thought that We
attained our majority was enough
OF it's 1t to inspire the pen of her who
wrote the call. This year brings no
such incentive to eloqueHce, and yet
the rounding up OF our maj IritN
year ought to toe an event OF greater
moment than was it's beginning.
Then, all was prophecy; today, it is
tultiliment. Our hopes and plans
have been ac:ualiZed into success. s
or failures. From the harvest field
we look back to the seed sowing, and
thank God for SheaVes- garnered
even while We regret that their num-
hers are not Increased an hundred
fold.
The year just closed has not been
without it's sorrows. We have en-
tered the dark valley of death with
many who have long been i,it utified
with our cause, and have seen
Han MI
grown poorer, by their E,assihg be-
You'd. lt has also been IL Year of
de. p gladness, for we have stood
! upon more than one Illuminated
mountniu peak ami watched grow
ing brighter and brighter the pro
phetic CLEAN which heralis the
coming dawn. The Polsglot meet
ings in Washington, and the Great
Convention in the heart of the
Worlds life but just closed, have
marked epochs in our history, from
which we can but go forward in
confidence to greater things beyond.
|
Let US come up in prayer, in faith,
in the strength which belongs to
those whose dwelling place is in the
secret presence of the Infinite. More
and more our work is taking upon
itself new features, and the magni
tude OF it's scope is becoming more
apparent. More and more we are
realizing that this warfare upOr
which We have entered is the warfar,
of life against death, light against
darkness; the righteousness of Goo
against the unrighteoudness of al
that opposes Him. We are coming
to see that We stand for the da,
when throughout the whole eartl
His will shall be done; when Hi
kingdom shall be set upon tn
hearthstone of each home, the alta
of each church, the market place
aud the busy ways OF lies throng
ing activities. That day whel
"upon the bells of the horses shall b
written Holiness unto the Lord
when life shall take on it's true mean
ing as "hid with Christ in God,
given up on the self side for the flu
embodiment of the Divine side, whic
is the allembracing Wilderness of
redeemed humanity.
In the strength of this thought, i
the courage OF this hope, in the fulle
cleaning of that eight which neve
shone on sea or land but whic
shine forth in the human face whic
has setn God, and been "change
into the same image from glory
glory" let us come together; an
He who first called us into being, wi
1 surely lead us on to greater and sti
greater victories in His name.
! Signed,
FRANCES E. WILLARD, Pres.
. | KATHARINE L. STEVENSON, Cor. Sec