The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-11-30

work, and since the organization OF
the Woman Christian Temperance
Union most Of the great philan-
thropies OF the age have been in
augurated by them. Our society
has over 40 different branches OF
rhilanthropic work. II has the free
reading rooms, circulating Libraries
on board our ships, in the lumber
and mining camps, coffee houses,
MONDAY PRAYER meetings and gos-
pei missions, newsboys' andIboot-
blacks mission, sailors rest, rescue
homes for erring women and girls,
free kindergartens, sewing schools,
college settlements and training
schools, day nurseries for the chill
dren of working women, a national
temperance hospital, and many
other good things too numerous TO
mention now. These are all doing
good, and there is great need OF
them, yet believe the educational
and preventive phase of the work Is
greater benefit to humanity, by
hindering the spread OF the gigantic
evils Of our day,-intemperance and
impurity.
Look at the great results OF the
curfew law, for which our women
are working all over the nation.
The universal testimony OF mayor
and police is that it is lessening
crime among children from 80 to 50
per cent. May God hasten the day
when the curfew law may ne heard
from ocean to ocean, in every town
and city. We can never overesti-
mate the benefit to be derived from
securing the law for scientific tenn
perance in the public schools. We
now have it in every state in the
union, except South Carolina and
Utah. it is only matter OF time
when these states will fall into line,
for our fai hful superintendent o1
that department, Mrs. Mary Hunt
OF Boston, will never know defeat,
Already sixteen million children II
our public schools are being taught
the effect Of alcohol and narcotics
upon the human system, and ar
/, thus fortified against the evils which
confront them on every side. w
! also have 800, 600 boys and girls II
: our Loyal Temperance Legion, wit
: pledges in hand, with reason II
head, and conviction in heart, 60
! ing forth singing their temperanc
songs and repeating with emphasis
their motto, .'Tremble, King Alec
! hol, we shall grow up" Our wo
men are carrying out the principle
tlof Miss Willard, who never dis
covered an evil but that she tried Z
remedy it through some department
of our organization.
a The greatest philanthropies 9
D the closing years Of the nineteent
!. century have been the open door fo
: women, (Which they are ever lead
I; and eminently fitted to enter) but
!, has been truly said that a natio
6 will never rise higher than its moth
h ers. As women have reached ou
=? after broader education and entere
/ the doors of oppo ftunity, they hav
+ naturally inaugurated many philar
y thropies for the bet,erment OF tn
II poor aud unfortunate. These ar
e comparatively just begun, but tn
Ir twentieth century will bring ther
!, to perfection, and thousands u net
e ledcted children will be conver,e
0 from street waits into useful citizen
n by the various philanthropies grow
Ring out Of the work of the Woman
i Christian Temperance Union. 70
>. NAV not realize the far reaching IL
y tluence OF this work. The sprea
of civilization and christianity haS
y Opened doors OF opportunity Il
Ie'women in every direction, and tho:
'e entered are fastening the coming I
7. Christ's kingdom, and will be tt
d foundation of the grandest philaI
! thropies Of the twentieth century
II all work for humanity is work Il
d Christ. and "a women have give
J? themselves to philanthropic worl
v they have grown intellectual
le well as spiritual. Their talen
,e have been multiplied just in pr
portion to their use.
st
,e Light Sentence.