Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07

| "This is the age that does not forever
keep talking about coming to Christ as
the Saviour, but talks about going
with Christ out to the suffering and
iorgotten and tempted. Frances E.
Willard
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has sent out an
appeal 70 the physicians of the United
States, which will, states The Union
Signal containing the appeal, be
| forwarded to physicians through local
unionH. tS %
We quote from the appeal az follows
ian eminent Russian phsyician In a
aper retd before the International
Medical Congress held at Moscow,
August, 1897, said: The struggle
against alcoholism merits as much
attention on the part of the medical
profession as that against the various
epidemics, and the SUCCESS of the
struggle ia impossible without the
actiys sympathies of the medical pro-
fession. fi{.Tfs
"ltwould seem to be the duty Of
those to whom the public looks for
4 guidance In nll things pertaining to
health,- to continue to make the most
careful Investigations Of the nature OF
alcohol and its effects upon the human
system, and TO see to il In their medical
practice mud teaching, as well as their
personal example, is upon the side Of
Il safety,n
| 40 English paper gives the follow
ing item: ,s.rne French Anti. Alcohol
Society In pursuance Of its campaign
against strong drink, is displaying on
walls and other suitable places in
Paris small bills, on which are printed
short sentences calculated to give pause
to bibulous persons, such as the follow
, ing;
I. Alcohol nowadays is responsible for
more rarages than pestilence, famine
or war. Gladstone.
"'Aloohol is'no more digestive than
an appetizer. In whatever shape it
presents itself it is poison. -
Fransisque Harcy.
Do you know what that man is
drinking from the glass which shakes
IN his trembling hands He is drinking
the tears and the blood and the life OF
his vile and children. t-Lamonpais.
[ Alcohol gives neither health nor
strength, nor warmth nor happiness.
1t dees nothing but harm. '-Tolstoi.
The Christian Endeavor World Of
February 2lst, contains an interesting
article entitled Portland the Storm
Centre Of the Temperance CamEaign,"
BY our national president, Mrs. Lillian
M. N. Stevens, and this is what she
says Of Lcngfellow and temperance.
Sin 1888 the Portland Young Men
temperance Society was organized !;
the pledge Included total abstinence
from ardent spirits. but did not in
olude the nllder drinks, although Neal
Dow and a few others endeavored to
have II thus strengthened. 90
HHenry w. Lonafellow and his
brother Stephen were school mates of
Neal Dow at the Portland Academy.
While the tastes of the great poet did
not lead him In the ways Of reforner.
1T is interesting to know that he was
member of the Portland Young Men "a
Temperance Society, and to recall,
that later In lite he wrote:
Drink, drink.
And thy soul shall sink, ms
Down into the dark abyss.
Into the infinite abyss s
From. which no plummet nor rope
n Ever drew up the silver sand of hope.
4 It's perfume is the breath
OF the angel of deabh,
| And the light that Within u lies,
Is the fash Of his evil eyes.
The same issue Of the excellent paper
named, snables US TO give the two
following extracts: tt"Power of any
kind Is fascinating, but only power
under control Is a blessing. The boys
thought power was fine thing as they
released the brakes on q stone laden
car, and felt it begin to move swiftly
down the siding. But when they found
later. that they had started something
they could not control, and saw il dash
into house ut tho end of the siding
they were horror struck.
There is wonderful fascination to a
young man, 10 startibg an appetite or
an impulse and playing with il. But
what begins as a harmless indulgence
or momentary excitement will end in
n sfnashup unless divine grace ia inter-
posed. The highly spioed food. the
wine pudding sauces, the frozen punch,
the cigarette, the wine and brandy
candy drops are all the beginnings of a
| steep down grade that calls for the
warming, HIVE yourself under con-
troll ~ Rev. John f. Oowan, ID. d.
can tell you one reason why the
temperance cause does not appeal to
youhg spen.1 When saman, foremost in
this county and across the ocean for
his brilliancy, his attachments and his
good fellowship. things thst young men
admire and strive 10 emulate, gives a
dinner to all the candidates for the
presidency that he can find outside of
the woods, and after dinner the party
adjourns to the library where cigars
and wine are passed. around it works
for evil. 1t would be we'll if men in
.. prominent positions would feel 1t their
duty like the clergy To set examples for
!, the world. "--Afthur Little, d. d.
I =
Soon after Miss WiIlard's earthly life
closed the National W. O. Il. u.
officers decided that the best memorial
to her would be the "extension'' OF
the work OF the woman's Christian
Temperance Union. So out Of this
thought wac evolved The Annual Thank
Offering Service and it's memorial fund
for w. O. T. U. missionary work.
February 18th, the anniversary of M iss
Willard's entrance into the heavenly
! life was the day chosen for the service
and 1t IN gensrally observed by unions
throughout the world. After the service
90 the amount asked by the national
Of each union is given to the memorial
fund.
! fl Two Knowing Parrots.
4 l can give you, writes "a. R., a