The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-01-21
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6Mrs. Maud B. Little)

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is a fact, an undeniabIe fact,
and thus il has been ever since the
days of the great woman's temperance
crusade of forty years ago, and ever
since the first convention. when its
founder our own dear Frances E. Will
lard offered the famous resolution:
Resolved, That. recognizing the
fact that our cause is, and will be
combatted by mighty, determined and
relentless forces. we will, trusting in
Him, who is the Prince of Peace, meet
argument with argument, misjudg-
ment with patience, denunciation with
kindness, and all our difficulties and
dangers with prayer"
What is the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union?
\ band of women-womanly wom-
en-, of fifty nations and one-half mili-
ion strong. banded together for the
protection of the home. the abolition
of the liquor traffic and the triumph
Of the Golden Rule in custom and in
law. Who have for their purpose the
education of the young, the forming
of a better public sentiment, and the
reforming Of those weaker ones who
which follow in it's wake
What is the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union?
1t is Furthermore a band of Christian
women who believe in the coming of
His kingdom whose service is perfect
freedom. who believe in the gospel of
the Golden Rule, that God created
both man and woman in His own
image. Who believe in a living wage,
in Justice in peace and good viii to
all. Who seek the transforming power
Of divine grace for themselves and
others, that none may willfully trans
cend no law of pure and wholesome
living. Who pray earnestly that their
principles founded upon the gospel of
Christ may be worked out into the
customs of society and the laws of
the land
What is the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union?
A band of Christian women who
heed the divine command. who add "to
knowledge temperance" and who tes-
tify by their daily lives that he who
"striveth for the mastery is temperate
in all things"
What is the woman's Christian
Temperance Union?
A band of Christian temperance wo-
men united. Reverse the term and it
means the same. United temperance
Christian women. United "to keep the
unity of the spirit in the bond of
peace" United for strength, and that
b1essedness which follows the dwell
ing together in unity
Think you that a greater organiza-
tiOn exists than the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union? A noble band
who labor for peace and arbitra ton,
for the children in every community,
for the betterment of our schools, for
the organization of young women for
philanthropic life, for reaching non
churchgoers and those in prison and
want. For reforming IN every branch
of evange1istic work, authorized in the
Book of Books, and led by the Divine
Master who went about doing good
For what does the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union stand? For
everything that is noble in woman
kind, and for everything that is en-
nobling to the world as is implied in
| their motto, For God and Home and
Native Land and the little badge of
white ribbon, symbolic not only of
purity and peace, but including all the
correlated reforms that center in the
protection of the home. What greater
Christian patriotism than is embodied
in the national hymn
| For God and Home and Native Land
Our motto here we write it;
There is no foe we'll not withstand,
No battle but we'n fight it,
For God the Father over all
For native land out trumpet call:
For native land our trumpet call,
Take heed of notes beguiling.
Thrilling words, written by Rev. J.
E. Rankin, D. D., to whom Miss Will
lard wrote, Let US hav stirring
tune to your choice words and we will
send them rolling across the eontin-
ent." In the good day to which we are
fastening, our women realize that
they must aid if we would accomplish
| it speedily, hence the pledge introduc-
ed into practice Of every day life.
Il hereby promise, God helping me,
| to abstain from all distilled, ferment-
ed and malt liquors, including wine,
| beer and cider and to employ all
means to discourage the use of and
| traffic in the same"
The Woman's Christian Temperance
| Union has for its lines of work: /.
| Organization. ?. Preventive. 3. Ed
ucationaL 4. Eyanselist'c. ) Social.
| 6. Legal Under the chief heads are
grouped various depal tments with a
national superintendent in charge.
/ The total number of departments is
forty-fve, the most important ones be-
| ing the Young Peoples Branch, Loyal
| Temperance Legion, Fair and Open Air
Meetings. Mothers Meetings and White
| Ribbon Recruits, Medical Temperance,
Medal Contests. Purity in Literature
and Art, Sunday School. Soldiers and
| Sailors, Flower Mission, Temperance
and Labor, Health and Heredity, Scien-
| tifc Temperance Instruction, Christian
| Citizenship, the Press, Railroad En-
/ ployeeS, Anti-Narcotics, Prison Work
Social Meetings and Red Letter Days
| and many others, particularly a late
movement in Moving Pictures as Edu-
Gators, in which Mr.. Edison will spend
vast sum of money and devote sew
| eraI years Of his life TO the work Of
| perfecting repertory Of educational
films that will meet the requirements
/ he has set TO make the moving pictures
useful in the school room. This will
/ be a great invention for furthering
| the temperance work and every White
| Ribboner should use their greatest in