Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-14
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: "aod and Home and Native Land,
FRANCES WILLARD.


think, for universal sorrow is bought
only at the cost of noble service. To-
day, while a comparative few are
permitted to gather in in the Metro
politan Tabernacle of New York to
witness the last rites over the remains
of Frances Willard, can see a far
greater throng pouring down those
aisles. The rich and poor, the exalt-
ed and lowly, the strong and the
weak, the old with their totterlng
steps and the young with their pratt
thing voices, reformed drunkard and
restored wife and reclaimed daughter,
the son of evil with calloused fea-
lures, and the royalty of the East,
strangely donned foreigners from
Japan, China, India, Europe and the
Islands of the Pacific-all with heads
bowed place upon her coffin the tri
butte of their obligation and affection,
and they do it because Of what she
has done for them.
The purity of her soul was as the
snow capped SUBMITS of the Alps,
the strength of her purpose as their
rugged sides, the loftiness of her aims
as their cloud covered peaks, the
depth of her faith as their world CEN
tered foundations, the brightness oe
her life as the morning sunbeamsIthst
gilded their great forms.
AS with her character SO with her
work. Anyone can differ with her in
opinion, but no one can impugn her
motives. Anyone can criticize her
motives, but everyone must acknowl-
edge the splendid results of her work.
She was the exponent of woman's
dignity and freedom. Even those who
cannot believe as she did in regard to
woman suffrage are compelled to be-
lieve in her conscientiousness on that
great question. When her brother
was twenty one and voted she asked
her sister, Wouldn't you like to vote
as well as Oliver? Don't you think [
love the country just as well as he,
and doesn't the country need our
ballots?" She kept asking the world
that question to the day of her death.
But her great work was for tenn
perance reform. Her life was laid on
the altar of total abstinence and sa-
loon SUPPRESSION. She was the moving
power in the work of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. That
marvellous movement, beginning in
humble way, today, non sectional
and mons ctarian, high enough to
reach the throne of God and broad
enough to take in all who love truth
and righteousness, with a motto, s'For
God and home and native land"
stands as world force for the sup
preston of the liquor traffic, the pro-
lection of the young, the purity OF
the home, the duty of church and
State toward the weak and fallen,
the fatherhood of God and the eternal
oneness of the human race.
s'God buries his workmen, but car
ries on his work." The purpose of
this burial day should not be eulogy.
The worlds Improvement and Gods
smile are her eulogy. 1t is the neces-
sity of action. In one short year
Neal Dow, the elder brother of pro-
hibition, and Frances Willard, the
mother of the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union, have
been taken from the ranks. In that
same year the liquor problem has
come nearer it's crisis.
Thd voice of the day is trumpet
call to nobler service in the cause of
temperance. Men, defend the laws
with your life, if need be. Women,
protect your homes by prayer and
training. Young man and young
woman, the burden is yours; by
righteous life, unfinching courage,
unending activity abolish the wine
and cleanse the nation. Behind
Frances Willard was the power of
God Almighty. Her life was the
principle of self sacrifice incarnate.
May God forgive us our littleness,
and lift us to the nobility of life which
shall behold us in giving of our all in
sacrifice to him. Req. AndreaU Gillies.
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
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