The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-08
W. C. T. U. COLUMN.

Hunt, our World and National Supt.
of Scientific Temperance Instruction
has called forth numerous reviews of
his special work and glowing tributes
to his personality.
Her pastor once said to her "Mrs.
Hunt you are fitted for larger place
in the world, wider service The
seed was dropped. the terminating
time was aserious illness that followed.
During that illness she said in sub
stance to God "lf | recover, will go
where you want me to go, Lord. [
will do what you want me to do"
The white ribbon world knows Of
the subsequent visit of Francis +.
Willard to Mrs. Hunts home. The
time was ripe; the work begun.
Monday noon during his Monday
lectures at Boston, Joseph Cook in
PRODUCED Mrs. Mary Hunt to deliver
a prelude, and characterized her as
lone who had accomplished the i'm.
possible. :" To this gracious prophet
ess God gave Heavenly vision. to
which she was Obedient. What God
disclosed was the need that the people
should not perish for lack OF knowl-
edge that Alcohol is narcotic poison:
that childhood is the best time and
school the best place to teach: and her
God.breathed faith sent her confident.
ly to the law makers in order that the
instruction might everywhere be made
compulsory.
1t was a task to brighten to death
any but soul with credentials from
Heaven. Mrs. Hunt told me once some
OF the difficulties and trials of the in.
itial days; But it was Gods task,
and of course He would open the way
for his messenger, she said. And at
last the way did open through all the
state legislatures, the United States
Congress, the parliament of Canada
and the law making bodies of the Haw-
allan Islands. Australia, Japan and
other countries. England and other
European states are about to do like
wise. The whole map of the United
States on this question of temperance
instruction, the terms and conditions
varying locally somewhat, has come
through great tribulatlOn. and has
been made white through her devoted
labors and splendid sacrifice. She
has accomplished the impossible.
Listen to her own words as she tells
of the important need and the wonder
full results:
Kepler said of the book which pro-
mulgated his discoveries concerning
the motion of the planets, 1T may
well wait a century for reader, for
God has waited six thousand years
for an observer"
For six thousand years God has
waited for observers who could look
into the face of great nature and ac-
Curately read and honestly report the
exact truth about the nature and con-
sequent inherent effects of alcoholic
drinks and other narcotics upon the
human system. Such observers have
arrived in the persons of great scien-
fists. and none too soon, for while
waiting for their coming. the shores
of life have been, and are yearly
strewn with human direicts who ell
barked on the sea of alcohol in mis-
taken confidence as to the salty of the
voyage.
The twentieth century seeks, as no
age before it has done, to prevent hu-
man misery: hence it cannot wait, as
kepler could, hundred years for the
mere accidental reading by the masses
of these reports of science concerning
the dangerous nature and evil effects
of alcohol upon human life and des-
tiny. Hence. we behold the provi-
Dental fact that this republic of eighty
million people during the last two de.
cades has legally required these scien-
tific facts to be progressively taught
the 100000 children of school age
in all its public schools as a part of
physiology and hygiene.
BY concentrating her great talents
upon one phase of the temperance
problem, Mrs. Hunt became an ack.
nowledged authority upon that ques-
ton.
The announcement of the death OF
Mrs. Mary H. Hunt came with the
shock of a sudden bereavement. 1t is
not long since we shared the hour
with her in the presentation of kindred
features of the same great cause, and
she seemed at that time full of the
vigor and power which have won her