Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-16

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"When men do anything for God, tho
very Toast thing, they never know where
| il will end, nor what amount of work
it will do for Him.
loves secret therefore is to be always
doing things for God, and not to mind
hecause they are very little ones. "-F.
". Faber.
The Union Signal editors are again at
their desks, in proof of which we have
the excellent issues of the paper of
August I'd and 9Th The issue OF the I'd
contains an editorial on Victory De-
ferred, " part of which We give, as
ut is said that at the Cleveland
Convention in 1874, which organized
the National W. 9. T. u, one en-
thusiastic woman Lrophesied the whole
work will be done in twelve years.
For more than twice II years the w.
G. I. U. has laborod on patiently,
trustfully, doegedly, and today, not one
among us would presume to rrophesy
years from now. The good sister sadly
miscalculated the strength Of the
enemy. Nor had she learned to doubt
| the vows Of men. She innocently be-
lieved their solemn affirmation that
in legislative halls, on the judges
bench, as mayor governors, presi
dents, wherever or whatever men might
he, they but waited to know our re-
quests to grant them, even to the half
of their kingdom. This mistake was
a human one, not peculiarly feminine
one.
1T is very common thing for
refoimer5 to enlist for three months,
thinking that they are marching to
speedy and glorious victory. And
oftimes it is best that we do not foresee
the years of encouragement and defeat
between us and ultimate victory, but,
faint hearted Eliiahs that we are, we
go out into the wilderness TO die. Yet
the history of reform movements prove
that this disappointment OF our hopes,
this victory deferred. is not cause for
Encouragement. but rather for inspira.
tion and hope. If the difficulties before
US are greater than we think, it is
because the work we ARE to accomplish
is vasrer than we dream.
THE strength of the enemy lies en-
trenched 10 evils more gigantic than
We realize Step by step under the
providence of God, through repeated
| tdiluib huu Nbibdty We i6htu tud T6ui
citadel Of his power and when that
falls, not the rife. pits which we first
attacked, but the fort itself is taken,
and the world has moved onward
through the stages of great revolution.
Twenty. six years since the CleYe-
land Convention which organized
American motherhood into an army for
the defence of the home against the
saloon! But the whole work is not
done yet. We have not yet achieved
total abstinence for the individual,
prohibition for the State. But we
have accomplished results which have
forced our foes to accord us the position
Of honor as their most-dreaded an
tagonist, and we have accomplished
other ends of which in the beginning
4 we had no thought. We have organized
the women of the world into one grand
sisterhood. We have arraJed it not
alone against the drink curse but
against many another evil which here
tofore the women of the world have
been unable to touch. Through our
organization women have been enabled
to extend their ministration outside the
narrow limits of the homo and have
made the wide world a safer place,
even now, for little children. We have
trained women, as otherwise they hardly
could have been trained, for the new
responsibilities which this new ciyiliza-
tion is providing upon them. What
work remains for us to do ere final vic
tory is accomplished and our peaceful
army disbands we do not attempt to
prophesy. The historian of some future
century must tell the tale. -
Mrs. Margaret ID. Ellis, in her fine ad
dress at Camden oampmeeting, August
4 I'd, eneouragingly called attention to
some of the victories won for temper
ance, and IN striking contrast-showing
that there remaineth much land to be
possessed, told of some existing evils
than which she considered none greater,
than the army oanteen. OF all the VIC
les now since the organization of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
ii seems to us that there is none for
which we have greater cause for thank
fulness than that the world has been
made safer place for little children,
and as the editorial above quoted has
stated between the lines, the future
holds for them, We hope, fewer dangers.
The attendance at Camden campmeet.
ing on Temperance Day was as large as
any previous year, and the meeting was
altogether a decided success The
music of the occasion was quite enjoy
able, Mrs. Miriam Davidson, Mrs. Mary
Waloott, W. 4. Smithers, Miss Mary
Wharton, aud l.. M. Price having each,
with one exoeEtion-a duet by Mrs.
Walcott and W., Z. Smithers--rendered
a solo. and there was in addition good
congregational singing led by the Rev.
Edwin Gardner.
Mrs, ,Steyens and Miss Gordon arrived
II in America Jtily 14lh and are now at
the home of the former in Maine and
expect to 90 to Rest Cottage, Evanston,
ILL.,. about the 21st of August
1--WE understand" says our in
formant, the Signal. THAT they are to
lend themselves to nine State Con-
ventions little later on. - ~"
A feature of the prohibition cam
paign this year will be special train
which will carry the Presidential can
didates. with Samuel Diokie, Volney
b. Cushing and Chairman Stewart on
tour of the country. The train will
leave Chicago September 10Th for tine
/ West and Northwest, to be gone week
or 10 days, after which it will start on
its long Eastern trip, passing through
Indiana, Ohio. Pennsylvania, New
York, New England, Marylan and pos
/ sibly one or two places in Delaware.
The train will be on the road till Satur-
day night, November 3D..
To Make Improvements.
James T. Mullin & Sons will make
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