The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-02-15
w. CT. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. N. L. HOBBS.
A Discouraged Sister.


a typical white-ribboner, typical in
loyalty, zeal, good work. faith, hope
and love. She is president Of a.
local union, superintendent OF
prison and Jail work, active in
mothers meetings and evangelistic
work. After years Of untiring SER
vice this is her testimony:
"The union of which ! am presi-
dent is large one and / love the
work, but believe the Lord wants
me to devote my time and strength
in some other portion OF his vine
yard"
l expressed my surprise and she
explained: "Well it is just this
the women will not or cannot, at
any rate do not attend the meetings
Of the union regularly enough to
make any OF the work consecutive
and satisi actory. Suppose We wish
to arrange for an important public
meeting. This week out Of large
membership there will be perhaps
ten women present. There is not
time to wait for larger attendance,
SO we formulate plans to be develop
ed more fully at the next meeting,
when to the destruction OF all our
hopes, the first weeks representa-
ton are nearly all Of them absent
and a group present who have to-
hear what has been done and, more
than likely, want to change the
action Of the week before. At
meeting number three, still . third
lot are present or possibly only two
or three-not enough to transact
any business satisfactorily or to give
representative expression to the
unions thought and desire. l
cannot afford to waste my time and
energy in q continuous effort to get
grown women to do their duty or
supplement their failures. The
Lords fields are white unto the har-
vest and l am going where l may
garner the wheat to better advan-
tage. The members Of the union
do not mean to do so, but they tie
my hands by their failure. | must
get loose and work."
The above article came to my
notice from a woIan in w. G. I.
U. circles who is excusing herself
for dropping the work-and it has
caused me to study it carefully and
between the lines-and | wish 9TH
ers to do the same.
The local constitution provides
for the main point In her complaint,
which she seems not to know any,
thing about. 1t is as follows:
"Such members as may be pres
ent at any regular meeting OF the
Union, or such members OF COM
mittees as shall attend committee
meetings, shall constitute quorums
for transaction of business.
An organization Of twenty five
years having accomplished the work
which has been wrought out by our
w. G. I. U. shows that woman's
union to have been an exception.
The woman evidently sees only
her own failures, and does not look
up and over the wide world, and
)ut at what has bee1 accomplished
by other Unions-and other w. G.
+. U. women.
Again, into which organization
will she place herself where regular
and full attendance may be counted
on? Not in any Of the church ac-
tivities or benevolences. Every
worker in such organizations will
bear me out in this.
God has not called US to garner
VII eat-but to SOW the seed-by all
waters, not knowing whether this Or
that shall prosper.
The devil is adroit, and he spikes
a gun in many ways-puts many
soldier in hospital, and leads others
to desert under the sophistry Of the
article above: that the Lord wants
them to use their splendid talents
10 some other field more fallow,
where they can gather larger
sheaves. While the saloon exists
Is it does today under the sanction
Of law-the laws, made by the bal
lots OF men-mothers must protest;
and the mission Of the W. G. T. U.
cannot be Questioned, The peace