Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-01
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
THE TEMPERANCE TEMPLE

Rev. o. P. Clifford of Buffalo n. Y.
one of the most gifted preachers in
the Baptist denomination in America
and a staunch Prohibitionist mado
stirring address at Temple rally in
Buffalo, n. Y. during the meetings of
the late National W. @. T. q. con-
vention in that city.
He said:
LADIES: Tt is a delight to stand in
your presence and speak concerning
the Temple. When a citizen of Chi
cago l often visited the building, and
always with sense of pride. 1t is the
natural expression of woman's life,
combining as it does, beauty and
strength. Other Office buildings in
Chicago are huge cubes punctured
with openings for light and air enor-
nous aggregations of straight lines
and right angles. Most Office build
ings are limitations Of the city of the
visions, whose height and length and
breadth were equaled by the measure
ing rod of aaaq,. Your Temple com
bines beauty and use; lines of beauty
meet the eye and delight the artistic
sense; but beauty is couple with sew
vice; it is as sensibly planned and as
thoroughly equicped for work as
any building in Chicago. 1t is the one
woman's building in the world, and as
such expresses your life and belongs to
you.
The Temple is not only an express
sion your organized life, it is essential
to the perpetuity and permanence of
of your work For unnu.nbered years
the waters of Erie have been hurry
ing toward Ontario, generating mists,
organizing choruses, building rain
bows on the way. Not long ago
science pierced the side Of Niagara
and is Transforming force into power,
mist and music into light and organ
lied energy. First, men had to dig
deep, long, wide pit; in this they set
up turbine wheels, these they geared
to dynamos, the pit the plant; it
cost money, millions of dollars
everything costs that1is of worth in
this world, but pit and machinery and
water are defying darkness and re-
volutionizing manufacturing. Your
building is your plant, it is your pit
and turbine and dynamo, it will
change the power of -womanhood in
this country that has been throwing
itself in some ways that do not count,
into fire and force thatwill defy dark
ness and transform civilization.
Not far from the rivers side near
the pit, is great plant for changing
coke, salt, sand, and sawdust into
carbonate Or black diamonds. This
mass of raw material fused by electric
current, crystallizes into CONNER
cial commodity of use and value. The
great problem of the social order is to
save the wastage Of society, to crys-
tallize the coke and salt and sand and
sawdust into permanent forms for
service. This Temple is your plant;
keep it, use it, turn the mighty forces
of Christian 'womanhood into it, gen.
crate redeeming currents through it,
dispel the darkness Of the saloon,
furnish force for the Overburdened
chariot of our civilization.
IF it were for sale I doubtnot money
could be raised among liquor dealers
to purchase it; thus the,cradle would
become the grave of your movement,
and your enemies might get the job of
watching the cause they have slain.
TheTemple is an expression Of your
life, essential toyorr work; it must
not be surrendered. When the Glib
eonites hung the sons of Saul on the
hilltop, Rizpah took sackcloth and
spread it upon the top of the rock,
and from the beginning of barley har-
vest until water dropped out of
eaven she suffered neither the birds
of the air to rest upon them by day,
nor the beasts Of the field by might,
until David, shamed by her courage
buried the bodies with those of Saul
and Jonathan in the country of Ben
iamin. You cannot do less for the
protection of your Temple from birds
and beasts; spread your sackcloth,
organize your defence, and the kingly
men of the country will come to yoEr
relief.
-zD- ezu.
Piles! Piles. Itching Piles.
SUn MT