Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-28
A LIFE OF SACRIFICE.
This is Rev. F. D. PenneY's Characterize
ton of Frances E. Willard.

Rev F. D. Penney, pastor at the Lin
coin Square Baptist Church, preached a
Frances Willard memorial sermon Sun
day evening. The congregation at the
service was one of the largest for an
evening audience that have gathered at
the church for long time. Previous
to the sermon, two young ladies were
baptized into the church.
Rev. Mr.. Penney said in substances
Mothers, wives and sisters your sons,
your daughters, your husbands and
your brothers crown you queens. In
the realm of home, society and of
morals you sway the sceptre of easy
empire. AT your feet all these bring
the chaplets of love and respect. 1t
is possible in this human life Of ours,
that the men in home should be pro-
fame and inebriate, and yet that the
home should stand firm so long as wo-
man reigns pure, intelligent and heroic.
But when mother or sister falls prey
to the Intoxicating bowl, then the home
sinks.
1t is of this ennobling power of woman
in the redemption of the world of which
/ wish to speak. There are Joan
d'Arcs today as in the 18th century
They are found in the realms of morals
and education.
America was writhing in 1873 as it is
writing today, under the heel of the
relentless evil of strong drink. In one
Of our western states a few wo-
men, touched with the power of God,
decided that they would go forth, the
! result Of which was the well-known Wo-
mans Crusade movement.
/ Then it became known that there was,
| to all intents and purposes, a Joan
| dare in the temperance cause. Like the
Ina - old -I,1 4
/ thought she had seen visions and had
/ heard voices. She thought she had
learned the lesson in the flowers at her
! country home that life ought to be pure.
| So she early sought education and
| achieved it, Then graduating from
| school she became a teacher in one Of
the western colleges and subsequently
] its president. But soon she left her po-
sition to endure hardship; she relin-
! quished every thought of wealth for
! poverty; she laid aside the quiet repose
Of dwelling in enraptured thought and
of feasting her own large soul in a
| scholars retreat. At last in Cleveland
was organized the w. c. r. U.
Sacrifice is what is needed in the solu-
! tiOn of the great temperance question.
| ] wish we might have more agitation for
Temperance than we do. I wish I might
/ see in our city a vast mass meeting at
!
| girls in Mechanics Hall that we might
! place before them the most powerful
pleas for the cause of temperance, and
then. when 1t comes time for the people
who can have just what they want, tc
express themselves in a legal way, we
can close once for all the doors to death
Our country is held in suspense tonight
wondering what is to be the outcome OF
the loss of the battleship Maine. AS tc
that there is no opportunity to speak
but there is a little incident in that
which l wish to use as an illustration
When a strange chip comes into q
strange port it is escorted in and given
an anchorage.
Just in the same way young men and
women are ushered in to places oi
temptation and given anchorage
Whether in the case of the Maine there
was a torpedo placed under her, 1 dc
not know, and no one else seems tC
know But do know that beneath the
anchorage in the harbor oe temptation
is planted a deadly mine, and sometimes
down the life goes, and there is sac
sight,