Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-06-09

Prayer Meeting Topic For The Week
Beginning June IS, 1903.
BY REV. 5. n DOYLE.

BY REV. s. H. DOYLE.
y Topic.-The noble life OF Frances Will
Aard.-Prov xxi. 10; xvii, p, 26 1881
The temperance cause is making
great progress today. State prohibit
htion and local option have made great
nnroads upon the liquor traffic, anu IN
the providence of God it seems DOOM
ed. Public sentiment is fast being
lAroused against this cursed trafiic, ana
IN this country the people may have
what they want IL they only want 1t
had enough to arouse themselves from
their lethargy and demand 1t or those
helected by them to make and execute
laws for them This sentiment is rap
9dly growing against intemperance and
Ethe laws relation TO it, and more loud
Nv every day the people are saying to
the liquor traffic. Cor and when the
voice of the people becomes loud
enough it viii go.
At such a time 1t is pleasant and
profitable to recall the great pioneers
OF the movement against intemperance
and especially those who did so much
ito educate public opinion that is now
Beginning to manifest itself. One OF
fthese leaders the greatest at least or
all the women who have labored for
this cause. was Frances Z. Willard. for
years the president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union and ac-
knowledgei as the leader of the tenn
perance forces of the world, so far as
women were concerned.
Under the topic "A Heroic Woman"
Amos r. Wells has the following to
say concerning Miss Willard:
Frances Elizabeth Willard was born
in Churchville, n Y, Sept %, 1889.
In her childhood the family removed
'first to Oberlin and then to a pioneer
home near GAINESVILLE. Wis.
Her education was finished at the
Northwestern Female college Evan
lston, H., where she won host of
friends, displayed great intellectual
power and became valedictorian of
her class.
Taking up the teachers vocation aft
ler highly successful work in many in
stltutions, she became dean of the
Northwestern Female college and pro-,
fessor of aesthetics In the Northwest
ern university
Miss Willard was moved to take up
temperance work by the woman's cru
sade. that "whirlwiRd of the Lord
which in fifty days swept the liquor
traffic out of $50 towns and villages"
At great financial cost she became
president. in 1874. of the Chicago Wo-
mans Christian Temperance union. In
1879 she became president of the Ma
tional Womans Christian Temperance
union, until her death, Feb. II. $685.
being the acknowledged leader of the
temperance women of the United
States and the world.
Among the outstanding events of her
life are her pioneer work for temper
ance organization in the west, labors
for prohibition constitutional amend
ments In many states. the editorship
OF the Union Signal, the writing of an
autobiography and other books, heroic
work for the Woman's temple. the Ma
donal Temperance hospital and the
iWoman's Temperance Publishing as
eociation. The polyglot temperance pc
tadon addressed to the governments Of
the world and the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union were her
plans. She spoke everywhere, being
heard often ON Christian Endeavor
platforms, for she was a warm friend
OF our society. Rightly has she been
called "the uncrowned queen of Amer
lea"
BIBLE READINGS.
Gen. lii, 1925; Ruth ii, lip; Prov.
N. 1; xii, i; xiii, 29-31; Luke ii.
1856; <. 3S42; John xii, 10; Pet. i'll,
"a.