The record-union., 1897-01-20


a paper on The Four Tions.'' In the
city of Toronto, she said, the four cor
ners of Simcoe and Wellington streets
have been called THE Four Tions."
These are Assembly building Uegisla-
tion, Upper Canada College building
(Education), st. Andrews Church (Sal-
vation), and a saloon Oamnation).
Every life is affected by each of these
"tions"
The W. c. T. U. has tried hard during
the past year to make legislation
strong ally in fighting for God and
home and native land" We felt that
if the right of suffrage had been given
to women very soon the horrible traffic.
which does indeed deal out damnation
to the youth of our land, would have
been swept away by the ballots of
Christian women.
Perhaps God intended to teach US
that We must depend more on educa-
ton than legislation, and particularly
on the education which leads young
men and women to regard salvation as
the highest good to which they can at
tain.
After quoting from an eloquent ad-
anniversary of the Lincoln Temperance
Society, the speaker concluded:
And so we should make use of the
third ton (salvation). In fact, we
must make use of all three--legislation
education and salvation-if we would
save men and women and boys and
girls from damnation-the saloon
HELPFULNESS TO MAN.
Mrs. NJ E. Kimball then read the
following paper:
Having been requested by our County
superintendent to give you a paper to-
day, if I introduce my subject with
text. 1 hope you will not anticipate a
sermon. Mrs. Lfvermore has told us
that "helpfulness to man is holiness to
Cod
The primitive thought of all philan
thropists has been helpfulness to man
kind, and weakness of any nature calls
loudly to the brave and strong for sue
cor.
1t is this principle which has brought
to a suffering humanity the worlds best
teachers; it has given us among host
of noble women, a Lucretia Mott,
Florence Nightingale and in our own
time our beloved Frances Willard, who
found it good not to have been born
earlier than the nineteenth century" to
quote her own words. Witnessing the
condition Of women in the East and in
the greater part of Europe she was led
to the problem, what he later life has
so ably solved What can be done to
make the world a wider place for wo-
men" From that time she has been
lover of women, and coveted for them
the best gifts
With the opening Of the crusade, wo-
man, in trying to help others, regain
the nobility of manhood, lifted herself
out of the true darkness to a pinnacle
from which none may displace her. The
cry For God, for home, for native
land" is the talisman which opens to
her to-day the door of opportunity for
blessed work The Women's Temper
ance Unions of this land are revealing
to hundreds Of women their gifts, and
hundreds more their possibilities.
The many as individuals feel a desire
TO do special work, yet still do con-
scientiously what lies before them to-
day, thus showing their love to Him by
serving in the sphere in which He has
placed them
We cannot all be Shining lights"
but we need not smother our little lesser
light under bushel.
We oftirnes become discouraged and
deem trifiing objects insurmountab BILE,
our work seems small in our path. We
are prone to forget that little acts make
UP in large part the worlds progress
Clustered round about every great deed
are innumerab BILE smaller ones that have
made possible the greater. Little bands
of Jealous women who forget not to
work as they pray, form a chain that
encircles the land.
The best things in life come at great
cost, they do not fall into our hands un-
paid for. The advance of our nrogress
to-day is due to the struggles and sacri-
fees of that noble band of crusaders.
timid, modest, and even womanly, they
have made our success possible. As
the color of our first ribbon was red, en-
blematic of love, of blood, of war, so we
carry each sentiment into the ranks of
our common enemy.
In this day We recognize the necessity
of education as a means to accomplish
our end The children Of to-day will
make the generation of tomorrow Our
land is filled with vast number of hl-
name institutions for the reclamation
of the wayward and erring
We have reformatory institutions,
prisons jails and houses of correction,
but all Of these are only repair shops.
In the youth of the country centers
our hopes for the future.
Let US gather with renewed courage
for the tasks still before US, adopting
anew the resolution offered by our lead
er at the organization of the National
w. G. T. [. twenty two years ago.
Realizing that our cause Is combat
ted by mighty and relentless forces, we
will go forward IN the strength of Him
who is the Prince of Peace, meeting ar
gument with argument, misjudgment
with patience and all our difficulties and
dangers with prayer"
Mrs. Maggie Willis read an excellent
paper on the Importance of always
wearing the white ribbon which was
followed by an earnest discussion in
which many of the members joined.
Revs. Banks and Hoskinson made
very interesting remarks and the con-