Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-09
W. c. 7. U. NOTES.
"No man is bori into thu world whose
work is not born with him. There is
always work, and toOls to work witbnl
for those who will. "-james Russell
Lowell.

for those who will. "-james. Russell
Lowell.
There is not time to boar from our
W. G. L. y, corresponding uecrefary, |
MrH. Elna Pyle, 30 Gpan tho unques |
toned authority Of tIa Rev. Vaughn |
s. Collins we Announce that the W. u. |
T. Y. Stntp convention will DO hold in |
Georgetown, tho 9th, 7th aud Sth OF |
October, instead of IN Wilmington, as |
previously Htatsi in this column. Thu
notice of tho change from tho Rev. |
Mr. Coilins appears in the Peninsula |
MethndiSt OF i5epiemlier lth, with tho |
further statement that tho invitation |
tn tho ". q. II. u. State executive
committee was unanimous one FROM
the Quarterly Conference Of his church,
in which tho convention will DO held.
As pastor of tho New Castle NJ. Il.
Church, Mr.. Collins was untiring in
his efforts for tho comfort of delegates
at the convention of last year, aud his
desire to again open the doors of his
church to US provoB that i ia a pleasure
to him to holp us in our work. And
indeed, there is encouragement in the
support OF our "hororary members"
of the aity, as will Rs the clergy, who
are over Rtaunch and true to the cause
We represent.
Tho near approach of tho convention
meuns 10 State and local superin
tendGuts "A looking backward over the
years work and the review, as ID the
past, will have both light ami shadows
The writing of a report of work may
seem an easy matter, but to some
superintendent. who have stood at the
heHd of tue same departments for yenrH
il is difficult to Ito refreshingly gram
NAUTICAL in tho avoiding of "repeti-
tons" There is not ono Of tho mum
Der. probably, to whom the doing Ot
the work ia not preferable to tho report
ing of it., hut the latter duty for OBJ
vious reasons ia also IN important one.
This remin1a me to send the request
to local superintendent all along the
W. q. Il. U. lines for prompt reports Of
their work and TO auggust that they
give wi b tho figures little incidents OF
interest connected with their work, SO
that State superintendents may weave
them ia their repurtH for tho conven-
ton.
The true measure Of man has been
said to be his work." whether or not
this ia always strictly Just estimate,
aftor all tue summing up OF the year's
is done the great regret will be not the
toll, but that VIC have not done more.
Unfortunately many of our number
do not take the Union Signal, SO We
pass on, the following declarations
from the official call for tho National
Convention The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has long since passed
the period when it needs explanation
or apology. The world knows that the
principles for which it stands arc the
production of the home. the abolition
of whatever menaces that homo, the
unlifting Of thu individual life to the
glorious plane of the measure of the
stature of the fulness of the Christ,
and the upbuilding upon earth, 10 per-
sUpality, in custom, in s0cIIty, and in
| government, of the Kingdom OF God.
| We believe that God 10 alive to day,
and aH much interested 10 His world as
when He spoke of old through prophet
aud priest; that evil is neither neces
| sity in this life mar in the life to cume ;
| partnership with Himself for the ro-
demption OF the world. and that he
ouly works for God who works for man.
|
or doubling our whitO-rihbnn banner
urou which is inscrihtd the insnired
motto, For Cod and Hume ana Native
Land.' Tint banner stands for total
| abstinence for prOhinitlnn, for purity,
for justice aud for peace. II has never
stood for loss than the sum total of in.
| diyidual and na.iona! righteousness.
! We intend that each year it shall stand
more and more for this divine ideal as
God gives to us clearer light.
The subioined notes by our beloved
loader, Miss Willard, claim the atten.
tiun due her words, given always from
broad outlook
Under the caption OF 'Women'a In
fluenGe in tho Temperance Movement,
Mrs. Cntharino A. Tiernry OF West
field, Mass. lately addressed the Father
Matthew Soc!ety at Springfield, Mas9.
upon the Occasion of its goth anniver
cary. Mrs. ricrney Gays SHE las snt
herself tho task OF converting the
Catholic women to tho doctrine of free
suffrage and total abstinence. Among
other things she sald, Given the best,
purest, happeat homes in tho world,
and We will have, must have, the hest,
purcst, happieat nation in the world ;
but you and | know that wo can usvcr
have good pure, hHppy homes 80 long
ne the curse of drink holds sway upon
thu hearts Of tho renple. For yoarB the
men Of the country have been graphing
with this problem, sometimes the men
bang uppernust in the struggle, ut
uther times the problem proving too
much for them. Ruskin tells ua that
it is the typo Of an eternal truth TINT
the SOULS armor 10 never well set TO the
heart unless woman's hand has hracnd
it, and it is only when sho hrucps il
loosely that the honor Of manhood
fails" From this Bhe argues for d
society for the express purpose of braG-
ing the armor of fathers and brothers
as they fight in the battle against in
temperance. Mrs. Tierney 10 an author
of both prusc and corse and has re
ceived high Communications for her
literary ability. .-..
1--WE arc hearing much in these dayt
about Rnalin Tenn, the colony in
which tho Golden Rule seems to have
brought the Golden Age ON Il small
scale. Tho people all work an equa
length of tins each day (wo think II If
three hoursl, and tho certificates Of
their labor procure them what they
need to make life comfortable to them
aud their lttln ones. In the paper
which 10 their organ tho following
paragraphs recently appeared They
constitute ono Of the finest statements
of the philosophy of total abstinencs
that we have had: Life is too short,
and tho struggle for liberty and bread
too awful for any man to waste his time,
money and energy in such wastefu