The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-06
Opening Session Of W. C. T. U. State
Convention.
ADDRESSES OF WELCOME
WARM GREETINGS OF THE
DELEGATES.
Rev. Mr.. Bailey and Mrs. Clarence 7.
Brown Welcomed the Visitors and
Mrs. Ransford Smith Responded
Mrs. r. ?. Hunter Delivered the
Address of the Evening.

meeting of the Utah Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union, which will be
continued today and tomorrow, was
held in the First congregational church
I last evening, Mrs. FRnces C.. Smith,
State president, presiding. Owing to
numerous other attractions, the at
tendance was not as large as had been
hoped for, but as the real work of the
sessions begins today, it is probable
that many outside delegations d4u not
come in yesterday
Last nights session was in the nature
of a greeting service. and was opened
by the singing of Onward. Christian
Soldiers Mrs. Shepard gavefa scrip
lure lesson, reading from the ffty-first
Psalm, and was followed in prayer by
Mrs. X. p. Hunter of Ogden.
Address of Greeting.
Rev. Mr.. Bailey made the first. adj
dress of greeting in behalf of the pas
tors and spoke very eloquently for ten
minutes. On behalf of the minister's
he was glad to bid all attending visitors
welcome to the city-not only the men,
but their ladies as we'll. The ladies
outnumbered the men in all congre-
cations, and the ladies' were entitled to
as much or more consideration than
the sterner sex. A mighty shout of
welcome was now going up all over this
broad land, and it was meet that the
mighty shout should be SweIled by
greeting extended here. He welcomed
the members as workers in the cause
of Christian reforms. Christianity
placed Christ in the heart of these re-
formers. and he was happy to welcome
the delegates as such Women, the
speaker said, owed a duty to women;
they owed duty to men; they pro-
tected the home in purity; they were
looked to in these worldly times to
train the minds and hearts of the little
children brought into the world. and
their sphere of usefulness was I'M
bounded. In the temperance field, he
said. their work would be open to criti-
cism, but everyone was open to criti-
cism. for the world was not perfect.
Perfection need not be expected, but all
could labor to attain it. Success could
not be attained without cost and sac
rifices would have to be made. He
hoped TO see the demon of drink final
ly driven back to the he'll from which
it originally emerged.
Address By Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, for the la
dies. extended a gracious welcome to
all visiting delegates and deplored the
LdCl tilS1l dill NOIiItl QlU iiOL QcC llItSlI
given power to help the cause of
temperance. They should all be Shout
der to shoulder in the work. She
urged the members of the union not to
be lukewarm; they could reap thsir re-
ward for earnest endeavor. The speak
er hoped that God would wake up the
300 members of this city who. were
who sought political preferment
through the aid of the saloon-keeper,
and urged the women of the city to
exert their influence in the coming cleo
ton. Over the home hung the star of
hope for the temperance cause, and
as all women here had a vote, they
should support only those for office who
were worthy of their suffrage, and do
all in their power to kill the liquor
traffic
Mrs. Ransford Smith of Ogden re-
sponded briefly to the addresses of
greeting and thanked the speakers on
behalf of visiting delegates for the
generous welcome accorded and she
hoped the work of the annual meeting
would be fruitful of great good.
Mrs. Hunters Address.
After the singing of the hymn,
stand UP for Jesus President Smith
announced that in the absence of Rev.
Joel F. Smith, of the Tiff church, who
was down for the address of the even
ing. Mrs. R. P. Hunter, a veteran
worker in the cause of temperance, had
consented to fill that part Of the pro-
gramme.
Mrs. Hunter gave a very interesting
address on temperance work, relating
many of her experiences during the
thirty years of active service which
she had seen. She described the Tenn
perance Union as an army which had
been in constant action since the close
of the civil war and spoke in glowing
terms of its accomplishments. 1t was
a mighty army, she said though only
small battalion was present. Much
good. she declared, had resulted from
the conservation meetings recently
held in Ogden. She had been in the
army over thirty years and every time
a. death occurred through liquor, she
was 'impelled to renew her efforts to
put an end to the traffice. AS long as
a person could stand, she said, the
banner of temperance should be up
held. She had come here hoping that
by the blessing of God, the members
of the union would be able to make
their efforts felt, not only at the meet
ings. but at all their homes. In Ogden
the lady had in three years shook the
hands of 5000 people in the jails, nine
of whom had been
there as the result of drink. She had
taken a hand in the eight years fight
for prohibition in Iowa, and if her
hearers wanted to know what that
meant, they should try it. While she
lived. she said, she wanted to see the
work carried out by Christian women
in the cause of God and right.
Today's Programme.
900 a. m.-Devotionals, led by Mrs.
G. w. Martin.
$3.50 a. m.-Roll call.
Appointment of committees.
400 a. m.-Open Parliament Leader,
Mrs. Shepard.
12:O0-Noontide Prayer-Mrs. Hall.
Afternoon-1:30, Deyotionals, led by
Mrs. Williams, Ogden.
2:00-State superintendent report.
4.00-Presidents address.
490-Executive committee meeting.
In the evening at 5 O'Clock a recep-
ton will be rendered 10 all visiting
members and their friends by the US
and the honorarys. who are. expected to
be on hand in force to make the visf-
tors welcome.
APPOINTED A NEW CALLER.