Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-30
Call Tor the National Convention.


Call for the National Convention.
In Difference to time-honored custom
the general officers of the National W c.
L. U. herewith announce the fact already
so we'll known, that the twcnty-second
annual convention Of tho organization
will be held in Music hall Baltimore
Md, October 1923 1895, and issue their
call to the clans already gathering to
come up In force to this Mecca of year :
hopes and harvest home of years toll.
The year just closed has not been with
out 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.
1t has also been year of deep gladncss,
Tor we have stood upon more than one
illuminated mountain peak and watched
growing brighter and brighter the pro
phctlc glcan which hcralds the coming
dawn. The Polygot meetings in Wash
ington, and the great convention in the
heart OF the worlds life but just closed,
have marked cpocbs in our history, from
which we can but go forward in confidence
to greater things beyond.
The Baltimore meeting will be in many
respects not unlike its predecessors.
There will he on the first evening ad-
dresses of welcome from representatives,
of Maryland's best life and responses from
| those who stand closely allied TO our great
work all over the United Stat S. Y eve
ming will come with its usual interest,
and for the rest 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 foI
further enlargement. There will be the
| hush of the prayer hour, the blessed com
munion Of heart with heart, the touch of
soul to soul. Names honorCd the world
| over will be upon our programme, and ne
effort will be spared to make this sum
ming up of our majority year worthy its
| inception The fact that the convention
will this year be the guest of the State
| union and not Of Baltimore alone. is i'll
| itself significant as marking the warmth
| of our welcome
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 The call for a day of prayer
on October 3, will be found in this col
| umn. 1t is our wish that as never before
| that day may he observed. Surely we OF
| all others need that girding of strength
which can come alone through taking
hold upon God in prayer. More and more
our work Is taking upon itself new fca'
| lures, and the magnitude of its scope is
| becoming more apparent, More and more
we are realizing that this warfare upon
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| life against DEATH light against darkness
| the righteousness of God against the IN
righteousness of all that opposes Him
| We are coming to see that we stand for the
day 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
ket places and the busy ways of all life s
thronging activities. That day when
upon the bells of the horses shall b.
| written holiness unto the Lord" when
| life shall take on It's true meaning as hid
with Christ IN cod given up on tho self
side for the full embodiment of the Divine
side, which is the all-embracing whole
ness Of a redeemed humanity.
In the strength of this thought, in the
courage of this hope, in the fuller CLEAN
| ing Of that light which never shonc on
sea or land" but which shines forth in
the human face which has seen God, and
been changed into the same image from
Glory to glory let Us come together; and
He who first called us into being. will
surely lead us ON to greater and still
grcater victories in His name.
Signed,
Frances 4. willard,
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