The Monitor-register., 1897-10-22

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Red Cross Of cioitisation, a treaty of man
kind. The soul that understands il
meaning cannot be nayrop or selfish, N,
hand that KNOBS its sign cannot be idle -
ESTHER T. HousH, VI.
Gathering Of the Clans.
Finding ourself at Broad Street Sta
ton at l 30 p. IN. on Tbird-day afternoon,
18th inst, we were not long 10 finding
others Of the Statehood Trenton bound
also. Among them were Mrs. Emma
Horner, President of Camden county
Miss Esther Ii. Elfreth, the States Re-
cording Secretary, and Mrs. Werner. oil
HaddOnfeld, the sweet s%oloist, whose
rendering Of "Viotory," from the White
Ribbon Hymnal, always stirs the souls OF
our hard working women with new zeal.
Mrs. s. N. johnson and sister, Mrs.
Hitohner, of Elmer, and Mrs. Mary l..
Gilbert, President of Cumberland
county, together with your scribe, made
a very pleasant party, which boarded
the 1 40 train for the State Capital. On
arriving at Library Hall, the headquart-
ers of Trenton Union, No. /, we found
upon ~roll-call thirty.ive members of the
State Executive Committee present.
Much OF interest claimed the attention
of this deliberate body. Not the lea st OF
which was the warning raised against
the use of root beer, and the many
matted extracts, including matted milk,
which, as our State President assured us,
do contain o per oentum of alcohol thai
| cannot be truthfully denied. Oftentimes
a dangerous per cent. too, which un-
aroused, now watchful mothers do not
| consider.
THIRD DAY EVENING.
This first public session of the twenty.
fourth annual convention of the W. G. T.
U. of New Jersey opened In Y. NJ. G. A
Hall at Z As O'clock, the State President,
Emma Bourne, presiding. Every sea,
was occupied and many could secure
only standing room, where they re.
manned the entire evening. The hall
was gaily decorated by the State of the
various county banners from Bergen t6
Cape May.
In one end of the hall was the living
words of "Mother" Downs: "The
liquor traffic will be outlawed, blessed is
he who helps" In the other, over the
stage, was the British Woman's Temper.
anoe Associations motto, which had
come across the Atlantic to US and
which will be used in the Worlds Con
vention at Toronto, Oot. 90 26, and at
the National at Buffalo. Oct. goth to
Nov. 81. 1t was this pathetic declara-
ton: 1--WE bind ourselves that other
may be free." Attached t o this motto
underneath were the United States and
the British flags. both bordered with
white, indicating that peace and arbi-
tration shall reign between these nations
forever.
After the welcomes we're extended by
Mrs. R. M Anderson, of the local
union, Mrs. Wells, of the comfy organi.
cation, and Rev. DR.. Studdiford, repre-
senting the clergy of Trenton, Mrs. Eva
Gebhardt, a young woman of Clinton,
Bunterdon county, responded thereto, in
part, as follows: sit is ours to fight, no
matter what are the disoouragements.
God has not commanded us to succeed.
We only need one State President, but
she needs a great plenty of workers.
Say if you dare that it makes no diff
ference if a worker, or n who would
make a worker, leaves a union or fails
TO join one."
Mrs. Bourne was very happy In her
presidings and never did better, more
fearless work than at this convention.
We think we ia safely say: "She was
the admired of all admirers"
JOHN g. WOoLLEY, a Chicago lawyer,
whose temperance work for several
years has given him a national fame, was
here introduced, and addressed the mag.
nifcent audience gathered, on "Christia n
Citizenship" Among loads of good
things he said: "Cleap hands are a
necessary precedent to effectual prayer.
Praying tremendously Nth hands that
are not clean carries no weight in the
right direction. 1t is nonsense to pray
for pure citizenship, while on election
day the saloon leads the van in politics
and the church brings up in the rear"
There is too much going on in theologi-
cal ''puts and calls" and there is too
little delivery of Christian merchandise.
He spoke of a dead drunkard's face
which was staring upward in a Northern
New Jersey town in the afternoon await
ing the Coroner, and said thai a measure
ment must be made from this face to the
church, to the home, to the off 80, to the
Mayors office, and until that measure
ment is made it is blasphemy to pray.
The power ofJesus' name will never be
greater than to day. The fields are TO-
ripe for the harvest. Gods plain ques-
ton to the people is: "Why stand We all
the day idleP" There are victories to be
had by the mere stopping and taking
them.
The man who speaks of the necessary
evils, of a dirty party to represent a clean
man, either forgets himself or lies. There
never was a necessary evil.
The work of driving out the saloon
will cost something. 1t must be done by
Christian heroism. He himself had been
stoned, Handbook had been shot and
Gamble had been murdered in the
work. Somebody was going t o get h urt,
He hoped the temperance cause would
continue to embarrass politics. The
church has not kept pace with the tenn
perance society in practical work. The
W. G. T. U. has been the best of all
temper ance societies, but it has been
unable to succeed with the government,
society. apathy, parties and revenue
against it.
The low proved, bl ear eyed, wicked,
wife beating drunkard of a husband to-
day is considered not so much a
freak as a part of a crop.
The question is, can voters be obtained
to vote to make the pledges of their
churches on the liquor question good
rather than in educating little children
in total abstinence?
Whatever cheats a wife or wrongs q
man is a Gospel theme fit for any ,ul