Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-06-27

1our many lndependenCe-and lOSo II.
Your self.control-and lose it.
Your home comfort-and lose it.
Your wife's happiness-and lose it.
Your children's happiness and lose it.
Your own soul-and lose it.-[Sel.
A Partial Resume Of Our Work.
(By Mrs. W. II. JORDAN, Elma.)
The first that forcibly impresses me is
that this lisa broad subject. Too broad for
this meagre essay to contain the facts
though they be much condensed.
The second fact I must remind of is
that the resources that were at my hand
were too scarce for me to do justice to
this theme.
I can only exclaim in the language of
Sheba's Queen to Solomon: cit was
true report that heard in mine own land
of thy acts and thy wisdom. How be it
l believed not the words until came
and mine eyes have seen it, and behold,
the half was not told me-" This is just
the way 1 feel about this theme, that
when I have done that you'll have room
to say that the half not only but the hum
dredth part was not told me. However,
we can't afford to keep our mouths sealed
because of our scant knowledge.
1t is utterly impossible to give true
estimate Of the amount and character Of
the work that has been and is being done
because the seed sown by our sewers
grows both visibly and invisibly. He
who knows all things is the only one in
this wide universe that is capable of writ
ing resume OF the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. In some sweet day
to come we may understand in some de-
gree at least what has been accomplished
through the weak trembling efforts, the
tears, the prayers, the sacrifice of this
band of devoted Christian women; now
banded together and ciicumnavigating
the globe as an equatorial zone OF white
ribboners fighting for God, home and
every land. This vast concoulse of the
worlds most virtuous womanhood was
not the massing Of moment. 1t began
over twenty years ago when a little
prayer meeting in Presbyterian church
was its embryo. From that prayer meet
ing to the gathering in Washington,
D. c., seven thousand strong not many
weeks hence when the mighty Polyglot
petition. seven and one-half million
strong embelishing the largest hall in the
capital city, was long weary march.
Furthermore from the hour when the w
G T U had its first headquarters in Chi.
cago in small plain room in the topmost
story of the YMCA building to the
beautiful house which now bestuds the
opposite corner like diamond in a
bridal ring. was journey that no finite
mind can possibly delineate.
Nothing but devoted zeal and Heavenly
aspirations could ever have carried US 80
fast and so far says our chieftain. We
may add it becomes US not as mortals to
say did this; for no one but the AL
mighty Himself in the midst of such work
could do it.
1t becomes us then to ascribe the glory
unto God.
In the midst of their work all white
ribboners may say in the memorable ex-
clamation of Wesley "The best Of all is
God is with u.s." It was the zeal Of q
Matilda B. Cawse as set forth in this
verse,
Through cold and heat,
Through storm and frost,
follow not day is lost,
in the hearts OF all white-ribboners that
caused the w G T U to innundate every
land and country and to reach its present
attainments.
Truly God hath wrought marvels in
and through our organization whereof
our hearts beat with pardonable pride.
He hath proved by these wonderful
achievements chat He is able to do ex-
ceeding abundantly above all we ask or
think, according to the power that
worketh in u.s."
As to our literature, no department can
boast Of greater advancement than it.
From beginning hardly worth notice
(and yet the day Of small things should
not be despised) it has evolved into that
that is making the world tremble by it's
thunderings from Mt. Sinai against sa-
london. The chief of this department is
the Union Signal, production that no
land should disgrace by saying one jot or
title to disparage its unsullied character.
To do SO would be an objectionable sin.
The Union Signal is the outgrowth of
years of experience.
Its intrinsic value came from the time
brains, and labor put into it, by such
women like unto those noble leaders who
from time to time have been this taking
their exit from the scenes OF their labor
to the never ending sights of glory.
The maiden name of this grand paper
was Our Union.
From that to the time now when il
wears upon its brow as a garland it's
present title, marks a growing time dur
ing which it's top root and branching root
lets have struck themselves SO deeply
into the subsoil Americanism that it is
bound to be, by favor of God, one Of the
great dis ,eminators of that sort of educa.
t;op which will fhror,oh the vears tr