Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-01-04

Or dark or bright.
' Walking with Him, thy path
~ y Leads tothe light.
A happy New ear to our readers
with these thoughts cleaned from the
last issue of the Union Signal:
sFIhe closing year, of this Nineteenth
Century finds the world in brighter
blaze OF spiritual light than it has
been since the shadows OF sin fell
athwart the heavens of the new earth.
Despite the Haunting smile on the
face of wrong, We mny greet the new
year with songs OF praise and thanks
giviDg.n
Right has made rapid strides forward.
THE brotherhood OF man and the
fatherhood of God ara world wide
beliefs. BY prayer, by song, by law,
by moral suasion, by preaching, by
teaching, by philosophy, and science,
by poetry and fiction, by tears and
blood, and silent wresllings of faithful
souls the throne of King Alcohol has
been shaken His abject slaves are
lifting up eyes of hope. His subjects
arc feeling the arrows of righteous
opposition in tho joints Of their armor.
His abiect slaves are lifting up eyes
of hope.
THANK God for the beginnings /!
Thank Him for tho beginning of the
crusade and thank Him that our
army, marching under the tri-color for
God and home and every land, secs
the sure coming of victory. AS the
day of 1900 dawns we clasp hands by
faith around the world and begin the
glad epoch with our old battle cry:
Give to the winds thy fears.
Hope and be undismayed.
The Union Signal, from which the
above editorial bits were selected, con-
tains the following announcements:
- 1t has been decided that the national
convention for 1900 will go to Washing
ton, D. O. This is the choice of a
large majority Of State presidents for
number of reasons. 1t is the con-
sensus Of opinion that having been to
the Middle West last year we should
go East next year. Washington is very
accessible, especially to the Southern
women which can not be said of many
other places.
1.-THE thought is to call the con-
executive meetings occupy the first two
days as usual, and the convention
proper be in session the first week
in December. This will enable most
Of the delegates to spend Thanksgiving
at home, and allow them to BIO present
at the opening of the United States
Congress, which bridges two centuries.
We can thus celebrate tho close of this
wonderful Nineteenth Century, and
make on impress upon the first year
Of the Twentieth Century, viz.
1901. Our 9th annual convention
should DO worthy of the notable time
in which it is to be held, tho notable
city where 1t will be entertained and
the notable work which the OF ganiza-
tion is called to do.
Already, the fine new opera house,
La Fayette, has been engaged for its
sessions and for headquarters. All
energies should be bent toward making
the progress of this year surpass that
Of any other in the history of our
organization. +"
Miss Clara Parish, general secretary
OF the young woman's branch of our
organization, has not yet returned to
the home land, and when last heard
from through the columns of the Union
Signal was in Rangoop, Burmah. Miss
Annie Rothwell Stewart of Chester
town, Md, has recently been appointed
acting secretary of the branch
Our national president, Mrs. Stevens,
and Miss Gordon are now East, the
former having spent Christmas at her
home in Portland, Me-, and the latter
with her mother and sister at Auburn
daIa Mass