East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-02-27

around movement can only be car
ried forward by all-round advocates;
scientific age requires the study of
every subject in it's correlations. II
was once supposed that light, heat
and electricity were wholly separate
| entities; it is now believed, and prac-
tically proved, that they are but diff
ferent modes of motion. Standing in
! the valley we look up and think we
see an isolated mountain; climbing to
its top We see that it is but one mem
Der of range of mountains, many OF
them of well-night equal altitude.
| Let us not be disconnected, but
stand bravely by the blessed trinity
OF movements, prohibition, womans
liberation and labor's uplft.
! Everything is not in the temper
ance reform, but the temperance -
| form should be in everything.
Organized mother-love is the best
definition of the white ribbon move
ment, and it can have no better NOR
to than: Make a chain, for the land
is full of bloody crimes and the city
of violence"
Sympathetic tender, refined, edu-
Gated, one who loved her home and
enjoyed its protection, professor, Jour
nalist, author, she gave up , all of
these stepping stones to great
achievement in the world, for the ad-
vancement of cause that seemed o..
her pre-eminent; that other women
might enjoy the blessings of an un-
broken and virtuous home and the
protection and pure love of a husband
father or brother.
She had unusual executive and ad-
ministrative ability yet she could not
have accomplished her great work
had she not been divinely blessed with
those qualities of mind and heart that
reflect the spirit of Jesus. Our be-
J loved poet Whittier beautifully saio
of her:
J "She knew the power of banded ill,
But felt that love was stronger stnl.
And organized for doing good,
, The worlds united womanhood.
Statesmen, warriors and patriots
; may strive and build and achieve but
all in vain unless they regard the
eternal moral verities and conserve
the true. happiness and highest wei
fare of mankind. Miss Willard shap-
| ed every purpose, bent every energy
: and gave her whole life to bring about
this happiness and welfare. 1t was
her divinely inspired aim to
Cheer the weak ones who are bend
: ing
Meath this weary burden now;
: Lift the pallid faces upward.
} Smooth the careworn, furrowed
: brow;
Send a bright and hopeful message
To each tried and tempted heart
: That the thick and gloomy shadows
, At that sunshine may depart"
e In her last message TO her white
5 ribbon sisters around the world sre
, says:
l God has given the mother-heart
| for purposes of wider blessing to nu.
: manity than it has dreamed as yet
: Let US go gently forward until thai
loving, faithful heart shall be on.
throned in the places of power; un.
, til the queens of home are queen!
indeed.
r And best of all, the hands of Hin
whose gospel has lifted US up IN
. the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
, of Him who was a brother to tn,
, | Marys, and who, in the hour of hi
mortal agony, did not forget hi
mother-that pierced hand points tn
= way"
, We shall pay her the highest trlb
ute and do her the greatest homo
when we learn to love humanity a
', she loved and serve as she serveo.
> "She is at home among her kin
dred, and beckons us onward, upward
4 heavenward." Her last words wer
How beautiful it is to be with God
4 And this was true in life as we'll as II
o death.
= But 1 think if she were to speal
e to us today she would say:
=, Needs there the praise of the love
Il written record,
g The name and the epitaph grave,
~ on the stone?
= The things we have lived for-Ie
II them be our story,
% We ourselves but remembered b
. what We have done.
q Not myself, but the truth that IN III
n l have spoken.
. Not myself, but the seed that +
q life 1 have sown,
n Shall pass on to ages-all about m
,e forgotten,
\ Save the truth I have spoken tn
@ things 1 have done"
y The world is better because Fran
n els f. Willard lived. And though ou
a eyes do not behold her, yet she wi
/. live forever in the hearts Of the whit
# ribbon sisters all over our land.
J. Written for the Francis e. Willar
n. memorial service, Pendleton, Eel
m "a, 1911.