Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-23

stinence." Neal Dow said. "We mus
secure total prohibition in order to OBJ
tain total abstinence. Richard Cob
den had said long before this, 9TH,
temperance reform lies at the bottom
Of all reforms. Miss Willard believed
this and said, "We will set to work Il
combine this mighty movement with
every other movement that seeks Il
lift up man. We will make an anal
gamation In which temperance shall
be the mercury, combining with every
other metal" la this great plan wa,
grouped fifty departments Of work
each thoroughly organized with a SUI
perintendent at the head All these
departments were not intended to be
taken up at once by local unions, but
were intended TO meet the needs OF
every class and condition everywhere
and are to be chosen from according
to the judgment of each union to meet
local needs. These departments are
classified as Preventive, Educational
Social, Legal and the Evangslistic
which is the foundation on which all
the others are based, its object being
to train and develop spiritually the in
dividual worker.
One Of the first great plans. to reach
all mankind, and we believe one which
has been most potent was conceived
by Miss Willard while visiting the IA
nous Chinatown" of San Francisco,
accompanied by the Rev. DR.. Gibson,
she said: "We there saw the opium
den in all its loathsome completeness
and next door stood the house Of
shame. Respectable Chinese women
were not allowed to accompany their
husbands to California, but here were
Chinese, girls, one ia each Of many
small cabins, with sliding doors and
windows on the street, constituting
the most fiagrantly Haunted tempta-
tion we have ever witnessed. In the
presence Of these two object lessons,
the result of occidental avarice and
oriental degradation, there was borne
in upon my spirit distinct illumina-
tion resulting in this vow; But for
the intrusion Of the sea the shores OF
China and the far east would be part
and parcel of our own. We are one
world of tempted humanity. The
mission of the White Ribbon women
is to organize the motherhood of the
world, TO: the peace and purity, the
protection and eXaltation of its homes.
We must send forth clear call to our
sisters yonder, and our brothers too.
We must no longer be hedged in by
the artificial boundaries of states and
nations; we must utter as women
what good and great men long ago de-
clared their watchword, The whole
world is my parish and to do good my
religion"
In her next annual address at De-
troit she brought the plan Of the
Round-the- World Missionaries before
the sisterhood and in spite of indif-
ference and lack Of enthusiasm on the
part OF the convention she accom-
plished her object, matured her plans
and shortly after-Mrs. May Count
Laevit set out on her errand of love
around the world. What wonder that
wherever these noble, self-sacrificing
women have carried the gospel of tenn
perance the name Of Francis Willard
is household theme. What wonder
that instead of the "uncrowned
queen" we looked upon her as the
queen of over half million of the
worlds largest, truest hearts; crowned
with the laurel wreath of the most
splendid achievements ever attained
by woman, thickly set with gems
of the strongest organized love this
world has ever been made to feel.
Spurgeon said, Men of decision
shape the world on their anvils."