The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-20
TO MISS WILLARD MEMORY
SPEECHES AND SONGS FOR HER
CAUSE.
The Life Work Of the Great Tenn
perance Reformer Reviewed
BY Her Followers.

Yesterday afternoon was given over
to memorial services in honor of the
memory of Frances E. Willard at the
Congregational Church. The program
began at $3.50 D. M and was attentive
fy heard by a goodly audience until at
ter 5 o'clock. The following program
was rendered:
Orchestra music, hymn, How Firm
Foundation; reading Of the l46th
Psalm, by Rev. A. Banks; solo, by D.
J. Davis; address, Miss Willard $
Childhood and Home Training" by
Rev. w. E. Vaughn; solo, by Miss Fan
ME Campbell; THE Psalm of Life;
address, Miss Wizards Work and In
fluenee as the Organizer and Leader of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, by Rev. J. B. Silcox; solo, Miss
Emma Felter, 1.-The Holy City, (by re-
quest); orchestral music and collection;
song, Battle Cry of the WISE Mrs
Mcfarland, soloist; Miss Wizards In
f1uence as an Educator" by Rev.
Schadle; solo, by Miss Frances Nourse;
address. Lessons From the Character
and Lifework of Frances E. Willard, .
by Rev. r. j. Johnson; duet, Mrs. Moy-
nihan and Mrs. Howard, Lead, Kind
ly Light; recitation, by Miss Isabel
Stargel, How Beautiful to Be With
Cod; benediction, by Rev. S. ]. Car
roll
The address on Miss Wizards child
hood and home training showed the
good effects that had accrued to the
world by reason of her early training
in a moral and refining atmosphere.
Miss Willard herself, said the speaker,
had beautifully told the story of her
early life. The influences of that early
life determined the great reformer's ca
reer. The following extract from Miss
Wizards account shows the influences
that surrounded her:
About the year 1851, when I was u
years old, my father came home to
the old farm in Wisconsin one night,
bringing from GAINESVILLE the newspa-
pers, of which he was a devotee, and
said: Well, Neal Dow has had his
way. There is prohibition in the State
of Maine. No man can now sell in
toxicating liquor without making HIM
self a criminal As he was a legiSla-
tor and politician. too, my father took
very practical view of this subject,
and as he walked back and forth in
the old kitchen, he said to my mother:
When do you suppose our poor, rum
cursed Wisconsin will have a law like
that? My mother looked up from her
sewing, and quietly observed: When
women vote"
Rev. J. B. Silcox delivered an exhaus-
tive address on the life and work of
the great temperance refor1ner. He
said that other great workers in ad-
vance of her had outlined the lines of
battle. Lyman Beecher had shown tNo
duty of the church, John B. Cough had
shown the responsibility of the indi-
vidual, but it remained for Miss Willard
to show how ntemperance saps the
very foundation of the home
The speaker said he had often noticed
how closely Miss Willard touched the
masses and how dear her memory was
to the multitude. When her remains
were lying in the great Chicago temple
women from all ranks and conditions
in life paid the tribute of their love
and tears.
THAT reminds me- said the speaker,
that I ought to ask why the whist
playing, idling butterflies of Sacra-
mento are not here to-day. Where are
the women of fashion and wealth who
lead their silken, useless lives? and
why are they not here, heart and soul,
at this memorial service, and in the
temperance work. '
Revs. Schadle and Johnson delivered
brief addresses in which they showed
that the life and character of Miss
Willard We're such as to mark her an
epoch making force in history. They
held that she was an ideal of Christian
womanhood. endowed with great exec
utive and organizing ability, and bless
ed with unusual force, of character.