The Mena weekly star., 1908-08-20
". C. T. U. COLUMN.
lcatherlne 2. Johnson. Press supt.l

for our mothers, our wives ana our sisters to come from the sanctity or home to beat back the worse than beasts of prey by night, and birds of prey by day, from devourlng the youth and beauty of this land.
 In other words, this band of noble women stands for principles that are as high as heaven and as well estab- lished as the everlasting hills.
 As 1 understand the work of the w. C. 1. U., it is a work of proven ton as well as work of healing. It is a grand and magnificent ad- ministration of love in the Masters name, a helping hand reached out to the stricken and unfortunate. To prevent the seed sowing of evil is to prevent a harvest of corruption.
 While you are careful as to what shall go through the mouth to burn up nerve and tissue, do not forget that through the eye and ear there are constantly carried into memory s storehouse that which is to remain to exert lasting and pernicious ln- fuence upon their future lives.
 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap" Hear the words of the Lord, Oh, ye woman, and let your ears receive the words of His mouth and teach your daugh- ters purity, for there is nothing so much to be dreaded in the home, in society, in church or in state, as the degrading influences that are thrown upon the imagination of our youth through the devils printing press. Evil thoughts are an introduction to every debasing practice, whether it be intemperance or the grosser crimes that follow in it's wake.
 The w. c. T. U. can do what no one else can do in this department of work. It can educate the moth CTS and impress upon them the ne- cessity of watchfulness over the minds of their children.
 Combine intemperance with evil reading and it is an influence more to be dreaded than any of the con- tagious diseases abroad in our. land. Miss Gilbert recommends that we try to secure suitable laws in each state, and then see to it that these laws are rigidly enforced, and in the name of the Master plead for the young men and maidens of the Ma ton.
 Women are responsible for the low standard of morals among men. If you would teach your young girls not to associate with young men of bad habits and it was understood that such men were tabooed from society, they would consider before they contracted the habits of smok- ing, chewing, drinking, etc.
 Raise the standard of morals for women, and what better way can be found than by good literature in the home for the young mind to feast upon from infancy. No better book can be found to educate the young mind than the bible.
 Much is being said at the present time about the literary study of the bible. What is exactly the meaning of this term? The word bible is Greek word meaning not a book but a library, and what is for us, bound up in single volume, is as a fact, a series of more than fifty books, by a number of different writers. One whole book and parts of other books are found to contain poems.
 We might cite many illustrations of concecrated mothers, but without the aid of the fathers and brothers much of their work fails to the ground. If only the fathers of those sons, by example and precept, had sdded their quota to the result what a vast difference there would have been in the young today.
 We have some men who live and believe that it requires two to bring up family properly, but the ma jority relagate this duty to the woman.
 What great demand there is for purity in the home, and this purity should extend to every member of the family.
 A Member of the w. c. T. U. of
 Mena, Ark.