Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-02-20

"There is a prayer uttered or un-
expressed that brings us face to face,
and it is this: Help me to heal the
heart break of humanity. y
"Mother-lo love works magic for hui
manity, but organized mother-love
works miracles. Mother hearted women
are called to be saviors of the race,
| speak it reverently, as loyal
worshipper of Him who said Mother,
behold thy son. Frances T.. VIII
lard
February 18th is known to white
ribboners as Miss Wizards heavenly
birthday" and, according to the
National W. C. I. U. plan, meetings
will be held on or near the day in re-
mernhrance of her beautiful life and OF
her strong foundation work for the
Woman Christian Temperance Union.
The Union Signal of January I'D con
tanned an excellent programme for the
memorial meeting. 1t is designed to
have each union send a gift of 81
either from collection taken at the
meeting, or from its treasury for "thc
memorial fund to be used for the
extension of the work. p" Mrs Clara &.
Hoffman, recording secretary of the
National w. G. r. u, writes as fol
lows of the memorial fund; 1.-THE unit
of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is tho local union,
and any memorial by that great organi
cation must be memorial frcm the
LEGAL unions Someone may ask Nnr
should we contribute at all to the
memorial, what reason for a memorial?
| In all ages Of the world grateful ani
arprSciativc people have reared monu-
| mrnts and cnnsccrated memorials as
| tributes to the lives and works Of great
| men and women who have wrought for
humanity. Miss Willard possessed the
| prophetic vision of the seer. ana we
| find upon studying the history If the
! W. G. t. U. that she was largely the
| originator of the various lines o! work
| in that great society. In tho very first
! convention of the W. G.. T, u, in
1874, it was her pen which wrote the
plan Of work, including le heads.
under the second Of which v" End
these words: Teaching the children
in Sunday schools and public schools
the ethics, chemistry, physiology and
hygiene of total abstinence. She her
self was chairman Ot the committee for
this juvenile work for several years,
and SCI tracing the work from year to
wear we find TINT ag it, develops and
evolves It is Miss willard wha Seems
10 see il first Of ali We ind that o
little later she is urging the tracriun
Of scientific temperance uGth in the
public schools! il is the same with
| other departments from which have
evolved all the various lines of work
now known in the w. G. Il. Y. It was
Miss Willard's Voice and Miss Willard's
pen that first used the term scientific
temperance teaching All work was first
done by standing committees. and We
have no record of departments Of wora
until 1SSl The year before this Mis-,
Willard had recommended this TEN
perance teaching in the first annua
address she gave as president. Thi:
was before we had any departments o.
superintendents. She recognized tn,
truth which all see now, that public
sentiment is best reached through tn
children of the land. All the work.
reverencos Pestalo22i for the mag
nihcent work he planned for children
If he is worthy of such reverence, shal
we not give equal reverence TO her VIII
planned this magnificent foundation
for the greatest moral reform know
to humanity? And this tribute is s.
simple and easy. within the reach o
!, every union, no matter now isolated o
! how remote. No other monument tina
! could he reared to Miss Willard g nam
is comparable to that extension of tn
work which was her thought and aim
All schools everywhere, and all chill
dren everywhere should he reachct
! with these temperance truths, and wit
the influences of all the truth laugh
in our organization. Shall we not max
! this grand and worthy effort, not alon
: for her sake. but for the sake q
humanity as we'll, and will not ever
J union have part therein?
} We give this bit from an article b
our national president, Mrs. Lillian NJ
n. Stevens, entitled Miss Willard
View of Organization while tn
enthusiastic success of the Texas con
+ vention is fresh in our minds, it is in
+ teresting to note that it was in tn
r year 1882 that Miss Willard organize
+ the Texas State Union. Speaking c
it, she said Having spent the yea
| in d delightful tour Of combined con
t struction and inspection, am happ
. to report all the main lines in excellen
I working order, with State branc
5 opened in Texas, another in Missouri
: and third in Tennessee, territoria
W. C. I. U. in Utah, while severe
! hundred local stations have been e:
| tablished since last we met. y Wonder
D full indeed was the progress of our wor
n the next year, when she and Miss Col
S don visited every State and Territory
: the United States, every capital cit
{; save one, and completed an itinerar
that included every city in the Unite
States of 10, 600 or more inhabitants i
y the census of 1880. and wonderful, TOT
: are the gains which our society ha
been making since that day, in fax
since the blessed crusade days.
Our national president writes in
1t recent editorial letter to the Unio
Signal that the dates of the nations
n convention, which will be held in h,
). city. Portland, Me-, have been fixe
= as October 18th -22d. In this lett
4; Mrs. Stevens says 'At present Mi
d Gordon and are in my home, busy
our desk 10 or more hours each da
z writing and planning as best we CO
is for the promotion of our great caus
!. We have very little time for local worl
a but keep in close touch with Maine
N temperance doings, and help all =
rs can, even as | have been doing for
10 years. ="
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:, VIII of Sarah j. Clayton.
m In disposing of an estate valued
= SIO COO the will of Sarah j. ClaytI