The Anaconda standard., 1898-03-07
IN MEMORIAM.
A Special Service in Honor of the Memory
of the Late Frances L. willard Mt
the Presbyterian Church.

OF the Late Frances Il. wizard at
the Presbyterian Church.
A special memorial service in honor
of the late Frances f. Willard was
held last evening at the First Presby-
terian church. Hymns especially ap-
propriate to the occasion We're sung by
the choir and the Rev. Mr.. Groeneveid
preached sermon eulogizing the
memory of the great temperance work
er. The service was attended by a con-
Eregation that filled the church to its
capacity.
The Rev Mr. Groeneveld took his
text from Mark xiv. sth verse She
has done what she could" and said in
substance:
Another well-known worker in the
kingdom of righteousness has passed
away at the age of S. leaving to the
world the heritage of an heroic name.
She did not attain great age, and so her
fine mind remained unbroken and her
heart retained its tenderness and her
character its beauty TO the last. Her
last words were, How sweet it is to be
with God Frances E. Willard has
lived and wrought, and the mind and
heart of the race have inherited the
results of her efforts. She used her
gifts for the highest purposes. Thirty
years ago she dedicated her voice and
pen to the work of making the world
realize what an accursed thing Is
drink
advice of her mother-My daughter,
enter every open door, 1t required
much courage to do this, but moral
courage is as proper for a woman as
for a man, and SO she used it. The open
door was the temperance cause. She
realized the woes of a drunkard's home
and the fact that those woes fall with
especial force upon the patient wife
and children. She recruited and trained
an army of women to march against
the demon liquor. under the banner
inscribed For God. and home. and
native land She gave impetus to a
new wave of humanitarianism. In her
heart was born early in life an intense
inspiration, which soon brought out
through pen and voice the sentiments
that have helped habit-ensaved man
to freedom and has won for her name
the devotion of thousands of men and
women.
1T may be said of Miss Willard that
her lever was the wand of art, her full
crum was the human heart. Her work
and life have given new meaning to
the word woman Her intimate friends
have said that Wordsworth's lines to a
young lady to show us how divine
thing a woman may be made, is liter
ally true of Miss Willard. Never in the
past has woman occupied such a throne
of power and honor as now. She stands
at the open door, the opportunity has
come, and upon its use will depend the
future of humanity.
Miss Willard has brought it about
that Christ's teachings concerning wo-
mans dignity and power are more fully
recognized than in bygone years. The
day Is gone when it is true, according
to Blackstone, that woman's very being
and existenace are suspended during
marriage. Girls are educated as well
as boys and generous applause greets
woman's endeayors in the fields of lit
erature, art. science and religion. Miss
Willard has honored the name of
woman.
ITO her Gods love assigned
Amid the rush of human cares and
fears.
Nigh three score beautiful and hallowed
years,
To honor womankind'
'She visited and spoke in Butte some
years ago and, as ] remember. few re-
garded her as an orator. yet she was
clear and filled with a spirit that
charmed all whom she met. Her power
with men can only be explained upon
the supposition that she had religious
convictions which, according to Mat
thew Arnolds definition, mortality
touched with emotion She was ua-
doubtedly the foremost woman orator
of our day. As the president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
she was instrumental in lifting the
curse of drink from many community
and in giving to many men their man
hood again. With the exception of
England's queen, Miss Willard was the
best known woman among English
speaking people. Often called the un-
crowned queen of America she is
crowned at last.
"Oh, pure white life divine.
Translated into everlasting day.
Thou shalt pass never from our hearts
away,
| For Christ's own love was thine"