Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-02-25
Three Reasons why all Christian
women should belong to the
w. C. II. u.

w. y. II. u.
1 because the w. G. T. U. is an
organized protest against the liquor
traffic."
Q. Because OF our influence over
others. Says Miss Ida G. Clothier:-
"No thought, word or deed is ever
lost. Some one has said that our evil
or our careless acts rebound through
all eternity. Think of it! our care
less acts, our indifference. Then are
we in our thoughtlessness stumbling
blocks2 When we do the things we
ought we unconsciously change the
opinions of others. Each life touches
anothers life, and that life anothers,
and so on. The only way to make the
world better is to do the little known
duty that lies nearest us. Dare we
take upon ourselves the responsible
ty of what may be the result OF our
neglecting to do that duty? Can you
think OF any way that you can do
more effective work for humanity
than TO, help strike a, blow at the
giant evil of to-day? The liquortraf-
fic does more to degrade and destroy
than all others evils combined. You
say at once, that is only Temperance
work. True; but is not this great
evil underneath everything2 Wheth-
er we work in the social, educational,
legislative, financial, moral or re-
ligious fields, we find it sapping out
the very life of all that is truest and
best. Have your eyes been opened
to this, or do you still consider tenn
perance work marrow and one
sided?' Here, then, is a vast field
for work. So much to be done, and
every little counts. Either for or
against is the question to-day. You
at once say against" but are you
proving it. Are you out in the bright
light OF the temperance reform show
ing your colors, letting the world
know that you are shaping your life
by mighty principle, and thus. help
ing to mould Others, or having
always been total abstainer, do you
think there is nothing for you to do,
and thus sit so quietly in the shadow
of indifference that you can easily be
mistaken for one in the darkness?
He that is not for Me is against Me,
and he that gather the not with Me
scattereth." If your father, brother
or friends were in danger from rail
way or steamer collision, unmanage-
able horses or any other accident,
what would you not give-what
would you not be willing to do-if
you could but shield them from the
danger, and yet you sit with folded
hands and let this greater danger
sweep around and about you, and
carry away on the outgoing tide
many a precious life, and you never
stay aside from your own pleasure or
enjoyment to help shield them from
this evil. Perhaps this special temp
tation does not seem to threaten your
loved ones. If SO, out of gratitude
for your own happy home, should
you not give more thought to this
work than to the daily routine of life
Do you say that already you have
more to do than can be properly pre-
formed2 In the list is there not some
one thing Of far less consequence
which it would do no harm to lay
aside and thus gain time for this
Will it not afford you more pleasure
10 look back upon work well done; Il
know that you have added bright
ness to many q life in passing; hav'
done what you could to make tn