The record-union., 1896-04-17

bold and cheerful spirit in the happy
and glorious victory which He won
over sin and over death, and in the end
we shall find in Him that true commu-
Mon and fellowship which He only can
give.
II the Christian Sabbath is to be pre-
served to this country the Christian
woman must be faithful in the home,
in the church, in the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and in society.
We must wage war not only against
tobacco and spirituous liquors, but we
must battle against evil in every form
Sin is sin, no matter how well dressed
it may be. Vice is vice, irrespective OF
sex or social position.
When the fight thickens the Captain
says, Steady, boys" and it is their
steadiness which pulls the soldiers
through. Fitful soldiers are rarely use
ful ones. That is our great need to-
day, steady Christian temperance men
and women you can count on. Many
Christians are like intermittent springs.
They flow to-day, tomorrow you can
not get a thimbleful of religious activ-
ity out of the dried channel Of their
lives
We must remember that the root OF
all fidelity is in conservation to God.
Herrick Johnson says: Women OF
America, you can give and serve and
pray. You can give self-denyingly
you can serve lovingly; you can pray
conqueringly. The best example OF
self-denying liberality in the Bible is
recorded of woman. The best example
Of loving service in the Bible is re
corded of woman. The best example OF
conquering prayer in the Bible is re-
corded of woman. 1t was no great gift
no great service, no great prayer. The
gift was a widows mite. The service
was the amounting Of Jesus with box
of ointment. The prayer was mother
prayer for a daughter possessed with
devil. But the gift and service and
prayer were in self-denial and love and
faith. And so in the sight of God they
were of great price,
This was followed by paper read by
Mrs. Jennie Dixon Of the Elk Grove
Union, entitled THE New Woman"
She believed that the new woman had
been evolved from the old woman and
was an improvement. Her ideal new
woman was that she loves, honors anG
serves her God above all, and is not
afraid to lift up her voice in prayer Il
or in praise of him. Next comes 1er
spot she asks for the ballot. She has
seen so many death-traps opened on
every corner by men-made laws thai
she is rising in her might demanding
better ones.
If she has no children she is ready to
spend her strength for her neighbors
and their children. She does not want
the ballot for the sake of office, al
though if she is capable and thinks i:
Eer duty, she will fill one. She is inde-
pendent and thinks for herself. She is
neither the sturdy oak nor the clinging
vine, but can be either. as the case de-
nands. She reads good, wholesome
books, hut does not read all there is in
the daily papers, for most of the daily
papers are a disgrace to the State, and
part of her mission will be to reform
this and make them fit to be placed in
the hands Of our young people, and old
ones, too.
Her ideal new woman does not differ
from the old one essentially, but is a
crystalliZation Of the forces and feelings
that the needs of the time are calling
out. She is called on to be brave and
true in a new way, and is having more
responsibility. If the new woman is a
creature that scorns motherhood and
her natural sphere and strives for man
llness, then down with her, but the ideal
the speaker had was not one of that
kind
Mrs. Bella Rowe next recited a poem
entitled Der Oak und der Vine,' which
was followed by the Presidents annual
address, in which she commended
those who had worked during the year
to greater efforts in the future.
The benediction by Rev. Mr.. Sheldon
of Florin closed the afternoon session.