Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-21

has the courage and the faith to under
take il, for omnipotence is pledged to
such an one. miss Mary II. Hunt.
The following selection from the
Union Signal concerning Mrs. Mary
IL. Hunt, who was recently called to
her heavenly home, may be Of interest
to some Of our readers:
Mrs. Hunt was one of a band of
earnest praying women. the comfort
and blessing of a PASTORS heart. Her
pastor, Rev. Perley Davis, said to her
at one time "Mrs. Hunt, you are
fitted for a larger place in the world,
a wider service.
The seed was dropped; the germinat-
ing time was very serious illness
that followed. During that illness the
call came-something in the nature of
a vow. "If l recover, she said in
substance to God, 81 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 Frances Il. Willard to Hyde
Park: the time was ripe, the work
began. Mrs. Hunts especial fitness for
the work has not been perhaps thor
ougly understood and appreciated. In
her student days she developed a de-
cided taste for science, especially
chemistry and physiology, and she
afterwards became q teacher of these
branches. A solid basis was thus ac-
auired forfurther educational work in
these lines and it was while assisting
her son in some chemical experiments
during his course at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology that Mrs.
Hunts attention was first called TO
the nature and consequent effects Of
alcohol as a beverage. Recognizing
the necessity of profound knowledge on
the subject, she began to study it with
systematic thoroughness. Her intro
duction to the national convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, held at indianapolis in 1879,
and her subsequent career as superin-
tendent of this important branch are
matters OF current W. G.. Il. u. his
tory. Nothing is more interesting
than the simple, almost insignificant
steps by which a mighty movement is
perpetuated. No phase Of work in the
Womanis Christian Temperance Union
has IN il such strong elements of self
perpetuation as this. 1t is the "Cry
of the Children, reduced from a
poetic TO a prose form. IL is the "Star
of Hope, " to point the way and keep
Young lives from the awful dark of
the LIQUOR traffic. Mrs. Hunt lived to
receive the recognition and apprecia-
tion her work deserved. Especially
was this true during the last year Of
her life when, a prisoner almost
through weary months, repeated tokens
Of success came to cheer her waiting
soul-the endorsement Of her care
fully prepared text book by medical
associations, as in Maine and else
whore, Germany's imperial decree that
they should be introduced into the
elementary schools of the Empire, the
petition of 10, 600 medical men Of
Great Britain for the enactment of
the law, above all, the recognition,
wide spread and far reaching, of men
Of scientific attainment of the scien-
tiiic accuracy of her latest books. Her
interview with the Empress of Ger
many is we'll known, but perhaps not
so we'll known Is the fact that the
Empress is total abstainer ana
ardently espouses the cause of saving
the people from alcoholics. She has
brought up her own sons as total alb
stainers.
The Boston Transcript, in an edi-
torial tribute to Mrs. Hunt, says:
She has imbedded Ia the statute
books Of Congress much Of her own
handiwork, and West Point Academy
and all the Territories and the Dis