The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-01-28
MRS. cARR's ADDRESS.
Relation Of Women's Christian Tenn.
perance Union to Mission Work.

II has been fcrcibly demonstrated
to us this evening that the greatest
obstacle to the progress OF missiono.
ry work today ih the liquor trafTic
The United states with each mis-
sionary sent averages 1900 barrels
Of whiskey and rum. A Boston brew
cry contracted to supply 100000 gal.
Ions a day to the trade on the Congo.
Bishop Jeffries declares, For one
converted Christian the drinking prac-
tices of England make a thousand
drunkards
As regards the statistics of the liz
uor traffic I'm the home land, they are
evident and at hand. If Sl,25O,000,0O0
that Is expended upon strong drink
In this nation every year. were ex.
| pended i'm the missionary work every
single vessel that crosses the ocean
would carry into foreign fields our
| Christian young people as messengers
Of Joy and peace, and nothing IN the
hold of the vessel would destroy the
soul and body Of those who sit in
| darkness.
Temperance must become as much
part of the church work as missions.
What are we In the Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union going to do
about it? For thirty years we have
been engaged in great educational
campaign. We have been trying to ed.
ucate the people to the fact that the
work must be done here at home
Stop the manufacture and sale of liq
uors here and the export must cease
and this result can be obtained by the
earnest, steadfast. united work OF th>
Christians of this land.
When the minister of the gospel
shall stand in his pulpit aud without
fear or trembling declare the word of
God concerning this legalized sin
the teacher shall stand behind the
desk and persisitently teach the truths
concerning the effect of alcohol upon
the human body; when the other
shall teach by example as We, as by
precept that the men of this nation
are to stand by the ballot box. as
well as in the home. always opposed
to the lcgalzed liquor traffic: when
the mother shall not only teach her
daughter, but shall practice the great
truth as well, that alcohol is not to
be used in any form whateyar-- they
this legal Napolean will have met his
Waterloo
1t is said that in certain insane
asylum the incoming patients were
tested by being set 20 bail out
trouh into which water was running
II they did rot use reason enough to
turn off the tap they were considered
incurablc Has not our action in mis-.
sionary worl: been largely like that
of these poor unreasoning ones? We
are trying to cleanse and purify the
great sea of heathenism and barba-
rism by few missionaries and teach.
ers here and there, and meanwhile
from thousands of sources are pouring
in the black streams of an infamy
| and degradation a thousand fold
worse. Is it not time that we endeav-
ored to turn off the tap and cut off the
supply?
Could we send or missionaries and
teachers as we do and at the same
th hn "a. T., a.
would not be long until the time when
the knowledge of the glory of the
Lord should cover the earth as the
waters cover the sea" Can we not,
ought we not, each one ask the ques.
tion: Lord, what wouldst thou have
ME to do towards the abolition of the
liquor traffic? John B. Cough said
that the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union was doing more to advance
the cause of temperance than all 9TH
er agencies combined. In addition to
its gospel and educational work at
home 1t has already sent out II mis-
sionaries. eight of whom have made
the complete world trip.
II the women interested In mission.
airy work would also give their mem
bership and work in this society. with
annual fee, the cause would so ad.
vance that heathen nations would
soon feel the benefit of it's own on
ward march, and this great obstacle
to the establishment of Christ's king
dom would be removed
JOSEPHINE CARR