Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-14
W.c.1..u: Notes
Frances e. Willard

Frances e. Willard
Frances E. willard, the most famous
temperance reformer of the nineteen
tn century, was born at Churchville,
New York, September %, 1899.
/ 1.-The childhood of Miss Willard was
singularly beautiful. Free as the
birds of the air, yet guided gently and
wisely by loving parents, she came
into young womanhOod like a we'll
developed flower, ready to open it's
petals, reveal it's beauty, and shed its
fragrance upon a world"
Miss Willard was graduated at
Northwestern University, Evanston
Illinois. She became dean of the
womans department of her alma mat
er, and was professor of rhetoric in a
faculty otherwise composed of men,
many of whom have been educated
in European universities. The Ohio
Wesleyan University conferred upon
Miss Willard the honorary degree of
L. L. D.
Miss Willard studied abroad for two
years, and was the author of several
books including her autobiography,
"Glimp ses of Fifty Years"
For nineteen years Miss Willard
was president oa the National
Woman Christian Temperance Un-
ion, and for fifteen years president Of
the Worlds w. c. T. u, of which
she was the founder. "She crystal
lized the Golden Rule of Christ into
this greatest, most powerful Woman's
organization the world has ever seen.
She revealed to the world statesman
like brain, and general-ship unex
celled. undaunted courage. true phil
osophy and power of oratory which
swayed multitudes."
"A gift of surprising excellence was
her wonderful ability to create within
others faith in themselves; quick to
discover latent powers. she seemed
to fit, as. If by intuition, the work to
the worker. Scores of women North
and South, under her loving inspira-
ton AMI guiding hand, have become
tremendous forces for good. Writers,
public speakers, organizers, directors
of departments, rise up and call her
blessed. She believed in them and
they dared to believe in themselves.
Perhaps no man or woman In all MS
tory has inspired so many others to
noble endeavor. In Miss Willard we
find the combined elements of a
powerful leadership. She was fam
ing evangel Of truth which radlates at
every point"
"The years since her strong, mag
netic. yet winsome personality left US
have proved the greatness of her soul;
that her largeness Of vision and her
inspiriting power were perfectly ao'
iusted. The causes she espoused, the
spirit of the things for which she
stood survive-an enlarged, persuas'
i've, diffusive, conquering force"
Mis-. Wizards Resolution
Resolved, That, recognizing that our
cause is and will be combated oy
mighty. determined and relentless
foes we will trusting in Him VINO is
the Prince of Peace 10 meet argu-
ment, misjudging with patience. ae'
nunciation with kindness. and all our
difficulties and dangers with prayer.
Word. Of Frances e. willard.
EVERYTHING is not in the temper
ance reform, but the temperance re-
form should be in everything.
The world is full of good impulses,
but they need harvesting; enthusiasm
goes to waste because there Is no
engine through whose wheels and lev
ers it's force can be applied.
II occurred to me that l ought to
work for the good cause just where l
was-that everybody ought. mus
first received the arrest OF thought
which, in thousand dll-
ferent towns. I have since then trleo
to speak. and believe that in TINS
simple change of personal attitude,
from passive to aggressive. lies the
only force that can free this land
from the drink habit and the liquor
traffic.
There is a power. not Of ourselves,
which makes for Righteousness, nay.
there are a million powers harnessed
today to the chariot wheels OF tenn !
perance, helping to drive 1t onward
along it's splendid pathway, indepen'
dent CT us and with no intention to
cooperate in our movement. but COM
PEELED to do 50 by the resistless al
finities of Gods laws written in ma
ture, in society, and upon human
hearts.
The teaching of hygiene in the pub.
ic schools will steadily become
means of grace, and the fight for a
lear brain which the temperance re-
orm is making will help to usher in
more religious age than the world
las ever seen, for only when the cob
webs are all swept away from the
oul's skylight can man really think
scd's thoughts after him.
1t would be like dynamite under
he saloon if, just where he is, the
minister would begin active work
gainst it; if. just where he is, the
eacher would instruct his pupils; II
ust where he is, the voter would
edicate his ballot to this movement;
nd en- m through tho shining ranks