Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-08-14

the soul strong and fit for noble
career. ''--E. T. Tenney.
Miss Kara Grace Smart will go to
Japan, in September as the eighth W.
G. 7. U. round the world missionary.
The W. @. n U. president of her
State, Dakota, thus writes of Miss
Smart:
II believe wonderful growth in the
W. 9. T. U. of Japan, under the di-
rection of Miss Smart. We of South
Dakota find it hard to give her up to
foreign field, but there is no doubt
it is Gods call, therefore We would
not say stay here. Our love and prayers
go with her, and may the service given
to the far away land OF the sea bear
fruitage for the white ribbon army in
leading humanity heavenward. "
We give the following from Union
Signal editorial under the caption Of
1.-THE Place of the Loyal Temperance
perance Union:''
why dom you leave us and go for
the boysg'' asked man who had
fallen again and again, in one of the
early gospel meetings of the Boston's
Union Friendly Inn. 1t was a seed
thought which has produced a rich
harvest. We have never it is true, left
the drunkard, but we have turned more
and more, as the years have gone on
to preventive work. We have seen in
the unnarcotized brain the worlds
best hope, and sour greatest efforts
have been put forth to prevent, rather
than to cure, the evils against which
we are organized. If this be true of
all work for children, it must be es-
pecially true OF the child of the
Woman IS Christian Temperance Union
the Loyal Temperance Legion. We
have many branches of juvenile work,
but we have only one which bears us
the same relationship that the child
bears to the father and mother in his
own home, and that one is the Loyal
Temperance Legion. We must love all
children If we have the true heart of
parenthood, but what father or mother
would dare to affirm that the boy or
girl in their home had not closer
place in their hearts than have all
| children, forever dear to them in their
common humanity, however much we
are willing to toll and sacrifice for the
universal good. God give this special
| love as the tie which is to hold families
| together and to make home-life possi-
BILE and sacred; and an organization
is after all but a larger family. Is it
therefore to be wondered at that the
first love of the Woinan's Christian
Temperance Union, should be for the
Loyal Temperance Legion? 1t is our
own child, bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh. 1t is founded upon the
same principles upon which the
Woman q Christian Temperance Union
rests. 1t is the great recruiting corps
from which our future soldiers must
be drawn, the military academy in
which our officers are defiled, the uni.
versity from which our future leaders
must graduate, and the great source o.
supply, the source Of hope, faith anc
inspiration for our future. Self-preser.
walton speaks for the Loyal Temperance
recruits, whence are they to seel
their training? If we do not lool
after the perpetuation of our namt
and our own special lines of work, who
will look after it? If we believe tina
the Woinan's Christian Temperance
Union mas great work to perform
and that many years reach out before
its final accomplishment, is it not thu
part of common sense, and common
forethought,s side by side with the tenn
perance work we seek to do for al
children, to have in training bant
of specialists who shall catch thu
esprit de corps of our work and b,
ready in their turn to train others
A live progressive enthusiastic Loya
Temperance Legion is a blessing t,
any community and just such Legion
should have place under the fostering
care of every local union Throughout
the land. '''A'tf
Says the Union Singal: "The Wig
orous protest by Bishop Nicholson O
Milwaukee against the use of tobacc
, by the clergymen Of his diocese i
causing no small stir in Episcopa
J circles. The bishop refers to the re
! cent order of the North western Rail
road Co. forbidding tobacco to its EN-
} ployes while on duty, and says tina
some Of the clergy may learn from thi
action useful lesson in morals, an
in those manners which make men.
eve have never yet," he declare
+ "heard any argument in favor of tn
: persistent use Of tobacco except tina
. Of purely selfish indulgence. Me
: whose vocation calls them to dali
| CrucluAlOu OI inc lieSD, anu WHO Ut
Q supposed to be on duty day and night
, have no right to use such an argu
: ment. We have never yet met wit
Q one single trace Of moral good G
! spiritual help, or physical gain result
ing from the use of tobacco, but W
have seen untold evils and grave dc
cadence following in its train. "
We heartily endorse the followin
from The Signali 1T is not totf
= abstinence merely that the quarterl
q temperance lessons should emphasiz,
g The question of the liquor trait
/ itself cannot be eliminated from til
n Christian temperance teaching
7 today. What would Jesus dor {
y as we prefer to phrase it, What woul
70 Jesus have me dor is the standpoiI
from which the liquor problem, I
less than every other problem of lii
l. should be studied and taught in I'll
n Sunday-school. The Master in who'
$ steps we prefer to follow would, ever
u Sunday school teacher admits, wou
g have us abstain, for our own and oil
y brothers. sake from all that intox
u Gates What for our own and oil
"a brothers. sake would He have US {
or with respect to the buying and sellir
as of intoYicapt s Y,3