The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-07
EVENING SESSION.

The evening exercises were opened
with an organ voluntary, followed with
a selection by the male quartette of
Old South church Mrs. Harriette D.
Walker led in prayer, and then Mrs.
Stevenson told how glad the delegates
are to have been in Worcester, and
how sorry they are to leave, striking
rather hardly at the men who were not
present during the sessions. 1t was
moved to tender a special vote of
thanks TO the reporters, who had been
so faithful at all the sessions, and who
have reported the convention with SO
much accuracy. This was carried with
deafening applause.
Another selection was rendered by the
quartette, and Mrs. Stevenson intro
duced Mrs. j. K. Barney, round-thc-
world missionary of the w. c. T. u.
She said in part
Before l begin the story of my
round the-world trip, want to read the
travellers psalm" the 121st psalm, that
had been read to me before starting
out on my long voyage, and read to
me many times more. You know that
the motto of our work is, For God and
home and native land" but Miss Will
lard said she claimed ALI the world for
the work, and the worlds union was
made with the new motto, For God
and home and every land" Miss Will
lard planned to go on this trip, but
could not and asked me to make the
couldn't go. Finally, at New Years, in
1897 she asked me again, and this time
took time to pray, and finally gained
the consent of my friends, and / went
Taking my old Bible and all the pledge
cards l could get and with my little
bow of white ribbon, as my only Gre
dentials, began the trip, not knowing
where I was to go. Miss Willard said
was to go to Australia, and any
where else could, and If I could swing
around to Jerusalem 1t would be too
good for anything.
After seven days of delightful sailing,
l found myself in the harbor of Homo
lulu, and before the ship came into
port, l could see crowd of people
wearing white ribbons waiting for me
Nine days I stayed there, working with
my white ribbon sisters in the mis-.
sions and prison.
From there sailed for New Zealand,
stopping at Samoa, there getting an
opportunity of seeing something of the
treatment of women prisoners. Twelve
days from Honolulu we arrived in AUX
land, New Zealand, where l was met
by Wesleyan clergyman whose wife
had sent him to the pier. There Il
met sisters who surprised me by the
work they had done. They had the
ballot for women, and suggested send
ing missionaries to Rhode Island II
stayed there five weeks, and found the
work being carried on just as it is
here, with the same departments II
then sailed for Tasmania, where II
wished to go, because our work was es-
tablished there, and because it was the
dumping ground of Englands prisoners
There at Hobard, the town of which
l had read so much, were a band of
white ribboners waiting for me. There
was a good deal of trouble in getting
permission to speak in the prison. but
finally succeeded, and we had the
meeting, and the men were moved asI
they never had been there before.
AT last I was to sail from Tasmania
to Melbourne, Australia, the place Miss
Willard wanted me to visit AS soon
as I could see the port, could see the
/ had a royal welcome there, and had
to stay six months. l visited white
ribbon workers who had never seen any
members except the woman who organ
lied the unions. During all the time
I was there, | spent only one hour
sightseeing.
I sailed from Albany, West Australia,
fOr +Ceylon, ana mad cut away from
white ribbon work. Eleven days on
board the ship with meetings among
the sailors and Storage passengers,
and then we arrived. I knew no one
there, but in a few days after my ar
rival 1 made my first address. While
/ was there I went out into the country
to a little mission among the black
people There / found Miss Willard's
name was known, and when / made
my appearance before the audience
they gave me a regular home greet
ing with the Chautauqua salute. In
Ceylon / organized a union and later
on ! sailed for Port Said, There the
streets were thronged with men of
every nation and cline, and they were
drinking and fighting. 1t was the worse
place have ever been in. From there
1 went to Cairo, where the work has
been organized for six years. There
the young Moslems are beginning to
drink. One of the first addresses I
made in Cairo was to almost 300 Mos
lens. and as / was about to begin there
came walking up the aisle Ira D.
Sanlxey who had just arrived in Cairo
and heard of my meeting. On my in