The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08
X. E. Martin Drug Store

the work done for the children by the
organization.
| In other lines OF work, it has It's de-
partment of physical education, it's
Christian citizenship department., its
department OF health and heredlty,
its anti-gambling department., it's de-
partment of temperance and labor. 1t
has its medal contest department,
where young people create sentiment
! for the cause by giving temperance
recitations for silver, gold and dia-
mond medals, according to given rules.
Through its department. of parlia-
mentary usage the members are so
well trained In parliamentary law
that some of the finest parliamentary
ans in the world are found among w.
G. II, u, women
Through its departmental mothers
meetings thousands OF mothers have
received better ideas as TO how to
bring up their children. Through its
purity work the world is fast learning
that there is no double standard OF
morals; that what Is wrong for a wo-
man to do can by no possible juggling
Of words or morals become right and
proper for man to do. Through its
department OF rescue work many thou
sands of girls have been rescued from
lives Of shame and restored to useful
lives.
1t has departments of WORK among
foreigners, colored people, Indians. 1t
has departments OF mercy, OF non-al-
coholic medication, of Sabbath observ-
ance, press department. Its depart
ment OF antl.narcotics fights the use
Of tobacco and opium and other poison
habits Of mankind. Through its de-
partment Of unfermented wine more
than through any other agency has
the sentiment been created that has
driven the cup of alcoholic wine from
the Lords table In three-fourths of
our churches. Through its evangelis-
tic department the gospel is carried
to non-church-going people--rallroad
men, miners, lumbeTmen, soldiers and
sailors; and through 1t thousands have
been converted.
1t has its departments Of fairs and
open air meetings, of proportionate
and systematic giving, Of school saw
ings banks, OF social meetings and red
letter days; of kindergarten, OF litera-
ture. of peace and international arbi-
tration. Through its flower mission
department, not only are flowers and
delicacies carried to those sick or In
trouble, but it dispenses charity in Its
most beautiful form, carrying money
and food and clothing and fuel, with
texts Of scriptural comfort to those In
need. Through its prison work, hone
Is carried to the hopeless, and the lives
Df thousands In prison redeemed.
its legislative department
hundreds of good laws have been plac-
I'd on statue books, and many bad
laws defeated.
Sometimes ministers fully recogniz-
ng the good work done by the w. @.
1. y. yet object 20 its organization
n their midst, because they think
'he energy and money put into this
work will cause women TO do less
ihurch work. On the contrary, IL is
me OF the paradoxes OF any service
or the Lord that the more we give,
he more we have to give, and the
more willing we are 10 give 1t. The
NJ. q. L. U. women are almost invari-
Ibly good church workers. At one OF
'ur great national conventions, to test
he matter it was asked that every
Woman In the house who did church
nd Sunday school work would rise to
Ier feet, and the great audience arose
lmost in body. 1t Is the universal
Of ministers who have ac-
i've w. 9. T. u women among their
aembers that there are no better
hurch workers than they.
It's efforts have been abnndantly
lessed by the Lord. It's work Is do
ng much to raise humanity TO higher
svels. Ii wants and deserves the
earty goodwill and earnest co-opera-
ion Of all good people and surely
ught to have III.