The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-08-02
MONTHLY MEETING OF THE w
c. T. u.

Mrs. Bridges entertained the w. c.
T. U. and Loyal Temperance Legion
at her home on Tuesday, July 23rd
and few social affairs have left a
sweeter memory than this gathering
for a noble cause. The following was
the program:
Devotional exercises.
Piano Solo-Floyd Coleman.
Song, Saved By Song"-Mrs. Sa
rah Winston.
Recitation, Follow the Flag''-Ava
Lee Edwards.
Letter from Miss Anna Gordon
Mrs. Feltham.
Readings.
| Temperance Truths.
After this interesting program
came a short business session.
From the success attending this
meeting, it WAS decided that parlol
meetings would be pleasant for the
summer Mrs. Feltham extended ar
| invitation for next month.
Mrs. Dodge's Paper
| Anna Adams Gordon, author anC
temperance worker, was born in BOs
ton, Mass, July 21st, 1853. She stud
led for some years at the Newton
High School and in Mount Holyokt
Seminary. In 1875 she went to Eu
rope and spent a year with her sis
ter, Miss Gulick, who was the found
er of the Girls College in San Sebas
tan, Spain.
In 1877 while she was studying the
organ in Boston she was introduced
to Miss Willard Miss Willard said
| ION going to conduct the women:
meeting for Mr.. d. L. Moody in 1877
there was no one to play the organ
An appeal was made, but no one re
| sponded, and then a slight figure
dressed in black, with a small roll O.
music in her hand. walked shyly dowI
the aisle, and said: AS no one volun
teers, | will do the best / can Hel
music showed that the deep springs
of her sweet nature had been broker
up by sorrow-a deeper current God
ward now flowed through her soul
This sorrow was the loss of a broth
err, whose life had been knit to hel
own by very tender ties"
From that time the paths of Fran
ces Willard and Anna Gordon never
diverged The music on this occa
sion flowed from a bruised heart, re
minding one that the perfume of the
modest violet is never so sweet as
when the little flower is crushed
Ole Bull was seen one day on a
point that ran far out into the sea
playing his violin 81 am listening to
the waves breaking SO that I may re-
produce the sounds on my violin.
Standing like the great violinist on
a point running into the sea of sor-
row and sin. Anna Gordon caught the
moan of suffering humanity, and
heard also the call to humanity's SER
vice. From that hour she sought to
make the harmonies in life richer, the
discords fewer
She was a member of the Congre-
gational church She acted as pri-
waite secretary for Miss Willard, SUI
perintendent of juvenile work for the
worlds w. c. T. T., and associate ma
tional superintendent of the same de-
partment. She is perhaps best known
as the friend of the children.
Miss Gordon's book of Questions
Answered" is complete manual of
juvenile temperance work. Her pro-
hibition program is much used in
evening entertainments, while her
collection of Speech" in rhyme has
been used a thousand times. She
has also published a White Ribbon
Birthday Book"
In 1883 she went with Miss Willard
to every state and territory, making 4
trip of 10000 miles, and assisting in
twenty state and territorial conven-
tions. But the most popular of her
writings is The Beautiful Life OF
Frances Willrad." How fitting that
Anna Gordon should write the life of
one with whom she talked and plan
ned daily their work, yea, even
thought together of lifting the world
out OF that sea of sin she had pic
tured them
In speaking of Anna Adams Gordon
we might quote J. F. W. Ware, who
SAYS: No man need hunt for his mis-
sion His mission comes to him. II
is not above, it is not below. II is
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