Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13
W. @. 7. u. NOTES.


| ~ is for active service soldiers are
drilled mud trained, and fed and armed,
mat IS why you and are In the world
moi. to prepare to. go out OF it some
day, but to serve God in 1T now. -
| Henry Drummond.
|
| The Union Signal OF September 18th
gives the Following plans for the COM,
ing national convention:
The fact that IT VIII be the 10Th
from the very nature OF things make
TINS convention one or special interest,
and 1t is planned to have Crusade fea-
lures prominent throughout the entire
session. On welcome night, the Key
note OF the address VIII be the Cru-
SADIE, Saturday evening will, as usual,
be given up to the US, but the special
features OF their programme are not
will be State benefit night. Tuesday
evening there Will be three strong ad-
dresses on the basic principles OF our
work-total abstinence, prohibition and
purity. Inc f1rst half OF wednesday
evening viii be given to the children,
and programme OF very great interest
IS being prepared for them. The latter
half OF the evening will be a consecra-
ton service. The honor roll OF the
| States will be responded to by the
Scripture texts and quotations from
the writings OF Miss Willard. Miss
| Wizards fayorite hymns will be sung
at this service, and there will be a
closing. prayer OF conservation. Our
memorial convention surely could not
close with more ii tting service o., one
that would send us forth with "a
deeper, truer, preparation fol-. the next
year OF work. Tho memorial service
proper will be held on Friday morning
at the opening meeting Of the conven-
ltion.. The speakers for these various
meetings Will be announced in later
! issues. Everything indicates that this
saddest convention of our organization
will also be one full of the power of
| the Holy Spirit and rich in future
blessings for our work. "
!
| we give the following message to
young women, from Miss Clara Par
IRISH. Round the-World Missionary:
| My Dear Young Women: Few
things have influenced my life mere
than the last address which l heard
Miss Willard give, and want to pass
u thought from it along the line to
you, believing that 1T will touch and
tender your heart as it did mine, and
cause you to make deeper oonsecra-
ton. 1t was at the Woman's College,
baltimore. A thousand young women
composed her audience. You know
that the girls who attend this excellent
school are from the very best homes in
the land; | mean homes Of wealth as
well as refinement, and realizing as she
did that such girls are sometimes in
obliged till they become careless of
others comfort, our matchless leader
evidently planned to give them lesson
in unselfishness. She spoke first of
her own school days and then of their
superior advantages; of how lovely.
IT was to be permitted to come to that
charming place.: and study music and
painting, French. German, &c. Then
what l want to know about you. If I
were looking for young woman to be
associated with me, I shouldn't ask
whether she could read French or Ger,
man; | shouldn't ask how well she
| could play the piano, nor how exqui:
sitely she could paint. should not
even inquire whether she were polite
| to her classmates; what l. should want
TO know is how she treats the servants
in her home, the newsboy, the dog
exact words and they burned them
selves into my conscience mover to be
effaced.. Indeed If it had not been for
the new determination that came to me
then | doubt if | should have had the
courage few months later to DELHI
erately turn my face from all hold
dear, and try the unknown sea of faith
aud hope alone. What a wonderful
heart of love hers was Et
Love for even the brute creation.
And she always took time to express
that love, whether ii was what was in
her own. soul or whether it was Of the
faith of some friend. In ono OF her
very last letters to me, speaking of
the great distance that separated us,
and thinking to encourage me and
drive away all loneliness she said .
But you are really with us in
thought; only the waves divide, and
they are nothing; thought, affection
and purpose are the only things and
no wave ever touched them, not even
the wave of death. This to me is one
| of the most haantif,,1 th i,,oc she as-ar
| said Haavon bao,,na ,,,r,o ,n,is "a
once and now I feel that NOT even enc
waves divide, since sba ieft ~. land
Of her birth. ), ISIS N1''
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The Union Sipnal e;ves this orat;fv .
ing testiaminal ZONE Of orr Jsnanase
EXCHANGES comments ne foiiows mnon
the position Clara Parrish mas made