The Republican journal., 1906-02-15
MISS WILLARD'S PORTRAIT.

Presented to the Bourne, Mass, High
School. Tho Presentation Address Made
by q Former Belfast Lady.
The Yarmouth, Mass, Register of Dec.
9. 1905, had the following in its Bourne,
correspondence:
1.-THE local members of the W. C. T. U.
met at the High school on Monday, and
presented it picture Of Miss Frances E.
Willard, the gift of their president, Mrs.
Frederick w. Harding. Mrs. Frank L.
Brooks, the vice president, made a beauti-
full and impressive presentation address
and unveiled the picture, which was drap-
ped with the American flag and decorated
with JacquemnOt roses from the hOthOuse
| of Mr. George A. Gardner" Speeches and
appropriate exercises followed. Mrs.
Brooks, who made the presentation, is the
wife of the Methodist pastor at Bourne,
and in note to the editor of The Journal
she says: "We have nearly rounded out
quarter of a century in the ministry since
leaving the dear old home in Belfast. My
stepfather, Andrew Mason Patterson, a ship
carpenter, was well known there" Mrs.
Brooks was Miss Lillian Clarke, and at
tended the Belfast High school. Following
! is an extract from Mrs. Brooks address:
! "No woman has ever been eulogized as
has Frances E. Willard; the great of this
world have laid their highest tributes of
| thought on the bier of her memory. Even
| Congress paused in its activities to pay
it's respect to this worthy woman, when
| her statue was placed beneath the great
capitol dome, the only statue of woman
! INV hn In strinn no OF nf
George Washington was moved back to
give room for hers. The initials of her
name are significant. Few, indeed, are there
who have accomplished for the betterment
Of the world as has Frances E. Willard.
There has been no woman like her. She
has been called the woman of the past
century; she would better be called THE
woman of all the centuries. Look at the
bright galaxy of the past, has any star ever
shOne with greater brilliancy than Frances
Willard? ,Sappho; Aspasia, at whose feet
no less than Socrates sat and learned
philosophy; Joan of Arc, whose success
dims the lustre of Napoleon's genius and
fame; Isabella of Spain, the beloved Queen
Victoria; George Eliot, and scores of
others, great among women; but none have
fame than Frances Willard. One day when
a little girl, standing in the doorway of her
fathers barn, she wondered if SHE would
ever be anybody; if she would ever GO any
where; if she would ever DO anything in
the world. Voices from the unseen world
were speaking to her, and she needed their
call, for Frances Willard was divinely call
ed to her work. When God wants leaders
| He has them ready, and centuries before
| circumstances are set in motion to bring
about the proper material for lives that
flash before a wondering world at exactly
the right moment in Gods calendar of
events. In modern times, Luther for the
! church, Washington for his country, Lin
coin for the emancipation of the slaves.
Frances Willard came as the greatest
emancipation of them ALL She was indeed
| host in herself. 1t was her ambition to be
not only college professor, but literary
woman. She was destined to be more than
all these. 1t was in 1874 when God began
in new way to reveal His arm by intro
ducing a new factor, womanhood. into the
| struggle against the mighty foe of nations.
| The crusade movement came like Whlrl-
wind from God. Intemperance had to
reckon with an enemy it had not counted
on, and Frances Willard was the general
who marshaed and drilled an army to
bring to bear spiritual power against this
monster. 1t was in 1874, in a hotel in Port
land, Maine, the night before she gave one
of her greatest addresses, that she made her
| final decision to become the leader of the
struggling Crusade band. This was an un-
salaried position and she had her aged
mother to support The difficulties of the
before her, when God led her attention to
this verse in the Bible, Trust in the Lord
and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land,
and verify thou shalt be fed This, follow
ing closely great spiritual illumination,
given to her before leaving her home,
clinched her faith and she turned deaf
ear TO many flattering offers and her eyes
| Westward to temperance reform work. The
world knows the result of her decision.
This stanza fttngly applies to her:
And thou an angels happiness shall know !;
Shalt bless the earth while in the world
above,
Shall like river run and broader flow
"Before leaving this world she was per-
mitted to behold some realization of her
! dreams. The small organization to which
she had allied herself had become a world
followers beside one quarter of million
children. There are in the United States
| alone, three hundred thousand white rib
boners. Millions of pages of literature
along all lines Of reform, have been circu-
lated. Thousands have been saved from a
saved lives and the children born with
their rightfu heritage instead of being
stamped with the demoniacal curse of alco-
| h0l? Who can measure her influence, that
shadowy, Intangible something that walks
the earth like cloud cf bright angels,
gathering power like the stone cut without
hands, and became great mountain and
filled the whole earth?"
Addressing Portrait: Great Chieftain |!
We ask what has caused thy little hand to
hold the rein of so much power over the
hearts of mankind? Was it because of
your great and well trained intellect; your
wonderful powers of organization; your
high standing as a professor and journalist ;
your ability as an orator, with fine reason
ing powers, flute like voice, and magnetic
presence? Was it because you helped
woman to discover herself, and her true
place in the world as her brothers equal ?
Yea, all of these and more. Your high
personality was energiZed and dominated
by that power, "the greatest thing in the
world, love-" You loved everybody and,
like your Master, gave yourself for the
cause of humanity. Well might the flag Of
every nation be wrapped around this sold
Glory" and your memorial.
"But no flag or country was like your
own. We remember when great recep-
tion was given in your honor in London !;
the noble and distinguished were present,
and the relations between the two countries
were strained. With fine patriotism when
speaking of your country you said, ~ am
first a Christian, then am a Saxon, then
am an American. Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills, in his memorial of you, said, "While
she lived, the American home seemed lit
tie safer for her being here" What greater
eulOgy IN so few words could be prOnounc
ed by any person? Our homes are safer,
and always will be safer, because of what
how urIEn sod kn