The record-union., 1898-02-28

time to her lfe's work and to business
details, even after disease had fastened
itself upon her, and when she should
have been resting and recuperating she
was laboring in the cause of humanity
AN AMERICAN QUEEN.
After a selection had been sung by
the audience, Rev. w. S. Hoskinson de-
livered a powerful and stirring address
"a fitting close to the ceremonies. He
spoke in full as follows:
1t seemed a good prediction and fore
| sight when the father who had walked
the floor for long while with his vo-
ciferous youngster. and could not keep
| the peace, remarked: Really, this child
must be going to amount to something,
! for she causes us an awful sight Of
trouble
Both independent and dependent
| clauses of this sentence have been fully
realized. She has, indeed. amounted
| to something, and she surely ever con-
| tinued to give trouble to the workers
of iniquity even more than she gave
her father in the quiet watches when he
wanted to sleep, and could not get 1t.
She was a troubler after the good kind
| of troubIers.
Here was genius at work, and such
of mortals generally make stir among
the ranks of common folk, like that
angel that came down at certain times
and troubled the pool. But you'll re-
member that with the coming of that
| angel and the troubling of the waters
always came the troubling of some
| body. So, when this one dropped down
upon the pool of corrupt society and
human slavery, and injustice, and OPP
preston, the waves fairly dashed into
| foam at times; but many burdens were
| lifted many sick hearts We're healed,
many bond-slayes We're set free.
Truth found in her brave defender,
and the way of such is not generally
plain way. Not peace does it bring
but a sword. Yes, a sword she brought
to drive out and away the enemy Of
man, and to turn every way in the &c
Tense of the approaches to our homes.
Hercules might have quailed before
the tasks she undertook. What could
one frail woman do? a little school
girl, an obscure editor of an obscure
paper Napoleon might throw his
army across the Alps into Itaiy-a
small matter. Wellington might defeat
this great Napoleon at Waterloo--a
small matter; but what could this lit
tie woman do to check the flood Of
King Alcohol?
| When the student of history goes
back q quarter of a century to study
the times, the currents of power then
sweeping the land for the evil of in
temperance, and then follows the years
| intervening, to see the bikes that nave
been thrown across these currents,
checking some, scattering and dimin~
| ishing the power of others, picking
up still others and hurting them back
on themselves even like unto the Jor
dan when held back by Jehovahs
power we come to feel that God does
still move upon earth His wonders to
perform.
1t has been a great work this of the
w. =. L. L. of the past twenty-four
years, and he who cannot see it 50 has
his eyes withholden that he may not
see. And the great moving spirit in
it all in America has been Frances +.
Willard. She has written her name
large in the annals of American his
tory in the closing quarter of this cen
fury. And she ever remained modest,
winning, queenly, womanly. No spot
Der of uncrowned queens as this land
of ours, and the leader among these
American queens is Frances F. Will
lard.
No wonder that other lands We're as
proud to honor her as we in America,
for she was worthy to stand among
the great ones of every land. And not
only had she the delicate traits of the
l.. L
less as Il giant. An incident illustrates
this.
Once asked why she was not still
working in the college with - she re-
piled: ,"When an indestructible force
comes in contact with an irresistible
force something has to give way" A
good many lawmakers and committee
men when appealed to by her We're made
TO think she was both the indestructible
and irresistible force, and that they
had better yield at once. She had the
petitions rolled in before Legislatures
and Congress and Senates and there the
bosieging warfare would begin.
Lawmakers might think at times that
the siege was raised, but the dropping
of some hot shot among them or a gen.
tie sword thrust from some quarter
would remind them that the siege was
still on. And in this way, by public
demonstration making sentiment, and
by private appeal making votes, the
warfare has been kept up and step after
step made in the onward march of tenn
perance.
This noble leader entered the service
not for three months, but as the old
veterans. she enlisted for during the
war. or while life lasted, and like the
hero, Nelson, she died fighting.
We. sometimes get a little streak of
pessimsm when we look upon the things
our e-es must see, but a life like this is
a good one for pessimism. A Christi
anity that will produce such a character
is not going to die out soon; a civiliza-
ton that viii yield as its product such
a life makes us feel that 1t is glorious to
live in such day; a country that has
the soil and environment TO grow such
a tree as this-so shapely, so useful, SO
lofty-is one to be proud of, worth liv-
ing and dgin- for.
Last Wednesday they laid her remains
away in Evanston Cemetery and gave
her the honors Of the dead. How many
not able TO get there would have been
pround to drop tear on that grave. She
went about doing good.
There was not n lamb amongst the flock.
She would disdain TO feed.
There was not foe before whose face.
Shed fear Christs cause to plead.
She lived for something. She did
good and left behind her monument
OF virtue which the storm OF time can
never destroy. She wrote her name IN
kindness. love. mercy on the hearts of