Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-17
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DISTRICT CONVENTION.

DISTRICT CONVENTION.
The twelfth annual convention Of
the second w. @. T. u. District of s..
d. convened at Spearfish Saturday
evening August 4. The Congregation.
al church opened its doors to us and
the pastor, Rev. Becker, was on hand
and made himself generally useful
throughout the convention.
Mrs. 8. E. Pettigrew, local president
voiced the welcome Of the Union and
Brother Becker that Of the church,
saying "The strongest ally the church
had was the w. G. T. u; its workers
are the best workers In the church,
He wa early drawn into temperance
work, having, when a boy, stood for
two hours listening to Miss Willard.
The. first response was given by Miss
Benjamin of Lead, who said that our
workers too easily became discourag.
ed because they could not always see
greatIresults follow Immediately upon
all our efforts; but that we must re-
member that as In the PHYSICAL world
we do not find the harvest following
close upon the seed time, quite an
interval always intervening, 80 in all
reform work we must allow time for
the sprouting, growing and maturing
before We can expect to reap the
harvest.
The second response was given BY
Mrs. Norine Law Of Detroit, Mich,
the speaker aud chief attraction of the
convention. As the call for her to
respond was some what unexpected
she warned the audience that an ex-'
temporaneous speech has no end. She
gave . very interesting and instruct
tive account Of Crusade days, giving
the successful incidents, saying she did
not believe in holding up the trials
and defects; there are plenty Of them
but they are not very encouraging.
A Japanese young man who has
been here educating himself for Christ.
ian work In his own country, was pres
ent and by request gave some account
Of life in japan, especially his own OK
perience. The thing which mostgreat-
~ surprised him here is the fact that
this Christian country spends more for
whiskey than for anything else and
that she carries first Of all that curse
with her to foreign lands. Before
Christian nations invaded japan the
only intoxicant in use was q week wine
but now they T rapidly introducing
scivilized whiskey." He has been In
Manila and found It ten times worse
liquor than before American oc.
cupation.
The American liquor traffic is a
great crime, he said, but unaccount-
ably American Christians seem to
fail to see It in that light. It is the
sBoxers" massacreing our
boys and the allied forces of Christen-
dom should be marching rapidly to
the rescue.
Mrs. Law also favored the audience
q beautiful solo, Cast Thy Bread
Upon The Waters, accompanying her.
self with the autoharp' Lovers of
sweet music were delighted with her
Sunday morning Mrs. Law preached
from the text 1 Cor. xiii ID; empha-
the last clause "And the great
est of these is love-" She deeply i'm
pressed upon her hearers the impor-
lance and power of this most beauti-
full and greatest of Christian graces.
In the evening she gave a temperance
address prefaced by the remark that
there were $50 many phases of our
work that she was very sorry she had
but one evening in which to present
them to the people of that town.
Once there was but one phase-moral
suasion-now there were SO many that