Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-23
W. Q. ], U. NOTES.

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1.-The principle il universal. Would
you be ricbY DO q giver! Mi-aory ia
mis- cry. Would you lie strnngY Put
out your strength p'--John q. Wooley.
"Alone we can do little. Separated
We are the units Of weakness; hut
aggregated wo become batteries OF
power. Agitato. ( educate, organize.
these are the deathlees watch words OF
success The fingers OF the hands can
do little alone, hut correlated into a
fist they become formidable. The plank
borne here and there by the sport OF
the wave IL an image of iubeciiity, but
frame Thousand panks Of heaEt OF
oak into hull. put In your engine
with its heart of fire, fit out your ship,
and ii shall cross at right angle those
same waves TO the port II has purpoaed
to attain. We want nll those like
minded with us, who would put down
the dramshop, exalt the hume, redeem
manhood and unfit wumanhood, to
JUN hands with us for organized work
according to plan. 1t took the allied
armies to win at Waterloo. and the
alcohol Napoleon will capitulate to a
40 less mighty army. Ii is the way
commerce has marched across the con-
tinents and captured them for civiliza.
tior--one by one; IL Ia the way an
army ia recruitod-one by one; it iH
the way Christ's church ia built up
into power, and heaven adds to it's
souls redeemed--ju ono by ono.
Women OF the church. the home, tine
school, will you not rally to the holy
call of individual responsibility and
Systematically united effort
For the cause that lacks assistance.
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that you can do
The human bipsd ia timid creature,
who loves to march in platoona rather
than to strike out swiftly and alone |;
but he carries a jewel behind the fore
head, anil is therefore the single, SEN
tent creature concerning whom thore
is hope. You can change his opinions
though thay are bone OF his bone, flesh
of his flesh, and dearer to him than his
own right eye. There are forces that
can disin,egrate FROM the igneous rocks
of his prejudice tho broader stratifica.
lions of kindlier custom and more
righteous law.
What with slime upon line. precept
upon precept, here little and there a
littln" OF persuasion founded unon
| Justice, the work ia dono. In the
morning OF its lifs every movement for
mau's elevation chimes out with light
like that of Rembrandfa pictures, mar
row but intense. AS the day deepens,
TIM light becomes like that in
Raphael's pictures, broal and all com
| nFahan1inn G., B ,,-sk 1 IL - .;
aud so White RibhunerH Htealfastly he.
lieve it will hs with that great tenn
ance reform which WINS burn of the
gospel, and hus been designated by that
intrepid leader, Lady Henry Somerset,
as an embodied prayer.
lie who climbs, sees. Poets tell us Of
The one far-off divine event.
Toward whish the whole creation moves
And in this mighty movement
towards the power that organization
only can bestow, what end have We in
view? ls it fame fortuna leadership
Not as ! road women'R hearts who have
known them long and well. 1t ia fol
loves sake-for the bringing in oil
''peace ON earth, good will to men. -
Tho two supreme attractions in nature
dEb HThFllhtiuu anu CODeblOD. inut oil
cohesion attracts atom to atom, that oil
gravitation attracts all atoms to n com.
mon center. We lind 10 this the most
conclusive figure of the supremacy oil
love to God ovsr any human love. the
true relation of human TO the love di.
wins. and the conclusive proof that in
organizing for the greatest number E
greatest good, We do hut think God 4
thoughts after Him.
White Ribbon women distinctly dis
avow any banding together Of women
Hs malcOntents or hostiles toward the
correlated other half of tho human race.
Brute force, to our nina, means Gus
tom as opposed to reason. prejudice as
the antagonist to fair play, and prece
dent as the Toe of common sense.
sit was beautiful saving of the
earlier Methodista when they avowed a
holy life, ] feel nothing contrary tc
love- But the widening march oil
Christianity has given a Wonderfully
practical sense to such words, and we
actually mean that Whatever in custom
or law 10 contrary to that love of one'f
neighbor which would give to him or
her all tho rights and privileges one 4
solf enjoys, 10 hut relic of brute force,
aud is to bo cast out as evil. "-Frances
h. Willard