The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-06
w. c. T. U.

Miss Willard's Call for Twenty-Fourth
 Annual Convention of National Union
 at Buffalo.
 Miss Frances F. Willard president of the National w. c. T. U, has sent out the following call for the coming annu- al convention:
 The twenty-fourth annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union will be held in Mu- sic hall, Buffalo N. Y, October 29 to November B 1897. It will immediately follow the fourth biennial convention of the Worlds w. c. T. U.-October 2S to 26-which in its turn will follow the annual convention of the W. c. T. U. of the Dominion of Canada; the last two to be held in the city of Toronto. Ontario. These will without doubt form the most remarkable trio of women's conventions ever, held in this or any other country.
 The basis of representation in the national union continues the same as in previous years, viz: One delegate at large for each auxiliary state and terri torial union and one additional dele gate for each five hundred of the active, l Ddid-up tutlllDtISulp- ilt Stutl dl Olll- | cers of the national union, the four | general officers of each state and terri l tory. the boards of national superin- l tendents. organizers and evangelists, the general secretaries of the Y. and l.. l T. l.. branches, the chairmen of stand | ing committees, the representatives of affiliated interests. the editors and pub | fishers of our official organ, and the editors of all state w. c. T. U. papers, are ex-officio members of the conven- l tion.
 In addition to the many women thus holding official relationship there will be a large number of visiting white rib boners as well as visiting and fraternal delegates from kindred organizatio tions Many of the distinguished guests at the worlds convention will remain over to the national The annual sermon on October 91 will be preached by Lady | Henry Somerset, and it is confidently expected that, both in the number in attendance and in the richness and va riety of the programme, this convention will excel any yet held by the w. c. T. U. of the United States.
 THE MOTTO OF THE UNION.
 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 are the protection of the home, the abolition of whatever menaces that home, the uplifting of the individual life to the glorious plane of the measure of the stature of the full ness of the Christ" and the upbuilding n,.tI Ei,, i,, in society and in government, of the kingdom of God"
 We believe that God is alive to-day, and as much interested in His world as when He spoke of old through prohpet and priest; that evil is neither neces- sity in this life nor in the life to come: that God calls His children to a CO., partnership with Himself for the re- demption of the world, and that he only works for God who works for man.
 We therefore hold up without fear or doubting our white ribbon banner, up- on which is inscribed the inspired mot to, For God and Home and Native Land" That banner stands for total abstinence, for prohibition, for purity for justice and for peace. It has never stood for less than the sum total of in- dividual and national righteousness: we intend that each year it shall stand more and more for this divine ideal as God gives to us clearer light. Let this be the motto of every white ribboner the world over: Hold the light up higher higher!' for this we know, that
 the God who led our crusade mothers forth is our God still, and that His pres
 ence will go with us until the day Of
 victory. until every native land" the world over shall become the true type : of that heavenly city which shall de- . scend from above.