Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-17

We all may do while heiNe;
For good deed every dayN
Makes blessed ell the yearh
-tjeorge Co oper.
Says the convention number Off the
Union Signal, December goth: Inc
stage setting of the Lafayette Opera
House of Washington, d. O., where otyi
national convention was held, was IN
pictured garden scene with fiower.s
decked terraces and marble balconies
seen through vista of magnificent
forest trees from the centre OF whose
archiug branches hung great cluster
OF American flags. Tall vases of yell
low chrysanthemums stood on each side
of the presidents stand. while between
them was large jardinier containing
miniature pine tree uprooted from the
SHOWS of a Maine forest by two White
Ribboners and sent by them to repre-
sent them ut the convention. Miss Will
lard's sanity pictured face beamed out
sweetly from lis setting of fragrant
flowers and twiniDg vines and her low
ing spirit seemed to pervade tho scene.
We gladly give a part of the address
OF our reelected president, Mrs l., M.
N. Stevens, as follows: October 10Th
Goth, 1881, our national convention met
in the Foundry M. Il. Church in this
city. At that convention we had 26
departments OF work, now we have 36,
all built upon our fundamental prin :,
oiples of purity, total abstinence and
prohibition. Then in no State was the
age CT protection for girls above 10
years, now largely through the efforts
of White Ribboners, it is raised to an
average Of Is years, and in some States
az high as is. and there is growing
sentiment in favor of legally protecting
womanhood at any age as we'll as girl.
hood in her minority. Then there was
only one police matron in the country
lat Portland, Me-, now this office is
well established and well filled in
many OF our cities. In Chicago there
is police matron at every station, and
not long ago, at a W. @. L. U. conven-
tion in Rhode Island, seven polico
matrons from seven Rhode Island cities
told of the work they do for unfortu-
nate women and little children who are
brought to the police stations, seven
eiRhths of whom are victims of the
alcohol habit, and the liquor traffic.
when we were here before there
were no compulsory temperance educa-
tional laws; now they exist in every
State save Georgia, and Utah also IN
the Territories and in the District of
Columbia. Then temperance was not
systematically taught in the Sunday
school; now there are quarterly tenn
perance lessons as a part Of the inter
national lesson system. Since 1881
eight round-the world missionaries have
gone out to carry the gospel of tempAr-
ance rs we understand it to all people
in all lands. Miss Willard was the
founder Of the Worlds Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, and at its or
ganizing convention held in Boston,
November 1891, delegates were crescent
from 81 countries. At the fifth biennial
convention of the Worlds W. O. 4. U.
held lie Edinburgh last June, 81 coun-
tries we're represented by delegates and
auxiliaryship, and yet the beloved,
honored, gracious president LADY
Henry Somerset) Of this great society
was unknown to us when we we're here
before.
"Sinoe 1881 marked progress has been
mads in that great movement looking
toward a real republic, the enffanchise-
ment of woman. Last May, al the
Methodist General Conference, church
constitution was adopted which removes
the traditional objection to women
delegates and makes them eligible for
election to the General Conference. So
at last woman is TO have her place in
the highest councils of that great
church to the work and success of
which women have so largely contribu-
ted @ d,, ever sincS the days of Susanna
Tha annual nonuant;nn. .are,an .,,nn
preached by Mrs. j.. r. Barney of
Rhode Island, who spent several weeks
in Delaware last fall and made ad-
dresses in number of our towns.
Those words from the address before
the convention of Madame Layyah
Barakat of Syria, who is said to be
quite an orator, merit thoughtful CON
sideration:
"We see the wonderful power of your
education, but your education is not
the thing Co inspire us, for we have
Egypt behind US, and all her education
aud all her art and. science. We see
your wonderful wealth, but we look
back to Babylon and to the towers OF
ancient Nineveh, and we say where
are they today? And we look where the
ruins give US wonderful knowledge Of
the ancient Phoeniciana and their
wealth and their wonderful power, and
there is nothing now left of what they
once were But the ruins tell the
story, and they send warning to your
great nation, this great republic, and
they say look out 1t is God who
ruleth; we rejected His law and He re-
iected Us, and we we're destroyed.
Let me tell you, you will find in
the Orient as noble women as you find
in America; you will find as handsome
women as you find in America; you
will find as bright women as you will
find in Ainerica--but oh. let me tell
you, my Christian friends, you will
find nowhere womEn who has love
for Christ and devotion to Christ who
will fold her hands and keep still.
Give the Bible and Christian home
and training and the Christian religion