The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-18

Ell three missions Miss Alderman is
called the mother of the cause in Western
Australia With seif-donying zeal she has
elevated. refined and Won HE hearts of
the people ana Australia has great reason
tn thank GOD for the visits of Jessie Ack-
crman- Bat the visible links OF associa-
non had 10 hc broken and rrsrcuul fare
Wells said And so close I'm that last ben
ed.cuou drew heart unto kindred heart.
though their fee. cook opposite pathway,
lAcy knew mat ilcY should not part
Nils. NICHOLS, preside mt of the Australia
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
nlaie Miss Ackoman = present of tlOJ
FOR hrf 10 purchase home Miss
Alderman preferred not TO accept the
sili but hoped the donors would allow
tue KIT TO form a nucleus tor Austraia's
| national headquarters. Rut the Eitt was
the outcome OF loving personal gratitude,
ana her best friends wished her 20 keep IL,
knowing that she was an unfalar.et OF
nicer.
The members of the Woman's Christian
( Temperatures Union in AuStIaiia after Miss
Nchcrman's farewell rallied to the front
wlth their fa.th in God, resting on the
arm Of Omnpotence, and with Mrs r..
w Nichols have carried on The work
Miss Jessie Alderman states in her ad-
dress s!Ven at the Natioaal Woman 4
/ Christian Temperance uuion that Miss
WIZARD called at her homo and said IN
hor cal, We want You to come home
and attend the Worids convention and
We want YOU 20 begin an over again.
Ana after her return Sue summed up he
+; miles thai she had travelled ana IL was
| ohe hun9""d thousand. and she had tied
/ the white ribbon on niue thousand women
! IN ditcrVnt parts ot the wurld, written
SIX thousand letters 20 open her way
around The world and had been a CUES
in many hundreds OF homes. Standing
| on the deck or the steamer when shc letJ
7 nor native land she had IN her possess on
{ utly letters that mothers had given her
from this land 20 the.r boys in different
! parts of the world, and they h ti said.
Look for my hoy, Look FOR my hoy
. h.. hoo .t...
| the most dreadful, the most awful thing
, IN The world was strong drink. but after
travelling around the world She fclt that
mere was a worse ovil that rs hlirhtiug,
Curstug AMI destroying half the women
OF the world who, 4 not directly, are in
directly affected by the Opium traffic
thiNcse statesman. said TO her; Don I
taIN To me, an intelligent Chiuaman. about
Christianity. You have sent your Chris
naniy 70 this country, ana what has it
done why, H. has turned this greai en-
r!re into living. seeming hcll of opium.
! one million OF the people OF China die
/ 3moNmk 90 10 one OF our great opium
] dcns.' She went 20 an opium palace and
saw TWO thousand under ono roof smoking
/ at lme. Tie told her then how op um
! was thrust upon China at the point OF the
N9youet, The chinese scizci $500 chests
OF opium, bur1ed al scattered the ashes
/ on the Canton river That act plunged
/ me heather country INTO war, and shot
! and shell were poured heavy and fast upon
1 the empire which resulted IN victory for
! England, China had 10 take opium: they
/ had no choice Some of the WISE mon
| went To the emperor and said: We'll after
an, II perhaps will he a good thing: we
/ Will get great revenue" The hclthen
, emperor said; 81 would rather Sec this
empire perish than TO Know thit IL was
I Supported 10y revenue derived from he
I vices Of our kingdom What lesson 10
! Christian natiOusi our city and State Of
: ucials do not hesitate 10 take revenue
/ from the vices, vices Of every niro nm 4
! k.nd under the sun. Would 10 God fhat
| the heather sentiment could hc imuor'C !
/ INTO our legislative halls today MiuInus
/ OF women 10 China are reaching out thel-
/ arms 10 Us today crying Come over and
/ help Us'
| From there She went to india Sbo
! thought she would SOC what tho ouipi,
| uHihc was Ike She Wen, through tim
! doosian ami alonG ,he banks OF fhr (;,n-
| Ecsc river, and She was told ON host an
! thoriy that ls,oo acres OF The Ives. forfiIo
| land in India were under cultivation or
| the poppy And whom she spoke 10 mo
| people questions were askci Nor from
| the Noor Of the great han thnt rendered
! her speeChlcss. They toll hcr Tho oDh,,,
| WAS manufactured hr mo rov.r9n'.,,t
| and hc hS The British stAmn These arc
! government Pills for thr children hes
| arc government opium shops Oniun, is
! sold in India as freely as any i.in5 Of
iooa. In Ensland one can not get il with.
| out prescription from the physician ana