Evening journal., 1913-08-06
Christian Endeavsr
REV. THOMAS P. HOLLOWAY.
TOPIC FOR AUGUST 10.
Heroes and Hcroines of the Temperance
e Cause. Daniel 1, SIT.

ptuce cOnQueals VIII increasingly Chilli |
popular attention Because an imma-
ture civilization has been more deeply
impressed by lcaden bullets than moral
benefactions more enamored with the
horrible fruits of war than the holy
fruits of peace, the pets of fame have
been men like Nebuchadnezzar, Alex
ander the Great, Tamerlane, julius
Caesar and Napoleon, and women like
Cleopatra and Agrippina, the mother of
Nero. But the world is advancing.
Westminster Abbey now has its monu
ments to preachers. physicians, poets
and philanthropists And in the United
States. Brooklyn has its monument to
Henry Ward Beecher, the great human
ist preacher; Chicago its monument TO
Abraham Lincoln, the martyred master
among giant Statesmen, and Washington
its monument to Frances Elizabeth Will
lard. the woman who has the immortal
distinction of doing more for temper
ance than any other person in our day.
This topic calls on us to do honor to
the heroes and herones of temperance.
the able, consecrated and courageous op-
ponents of the cup in the ruddy depths
Of which lie lurking the whole legion of
the devils of dissipation. We, in this
article glance at a few of these shining
souls of whom the world was not wor-
thy. c. +. leaders and all who partici-
pate in the meeting for August 10 can
find many Others who have men listed
under the banner of clean lips unpoison.
ed brains and pure hearts.
Daniel is an ancient hero of the
temperance cause. So great was he
that Jehovah became his biographer.
The Chinese claim to have organized
the worlds first temperance organi-
zation, but il is doubtful if it ante
dates the total abstinence society
that Daniel organized in the royal
palace at Babylon. Daniel and his
three equally heroic companions were
its charter members And no tenn
perance advocates we're ever subject
ed to a severer test than they, and
none ever more completely vindicated
the sane conservatism of their rGdi-
cal position. Daniel, who was too
smart to compromise his principles
to gain the favor of the proud captor
of his people and himself proved be-
yond a doubt that il is better for
health to be altogether sober than
even slightly drunk BY nobly carry
ing out his temperance principles
Daniel first attracted the attention
and the favorable regard of the King
of the great Babylonian Empire. and
from that time on he became more
and more the master in that land that
claimed him its captive. Power and
popularity did not weaken Daniels
devotion to his God, and the saving
laws of self-control. Through all
these eventuful years, amid the fall of
kings and the crash of tumbling en-
pires. how nobly he lives, and how
wondrously God saves him in crisis
after crisis. Apart from Jesus Christ
Himself what more heroic figure in
all history than Daniel with calm
dignity interpreting the terrifying
handwriting on the wall at that aw-
full feast, whose first course was
blasphemy. and whose last course
was death the death to both king
and kingdom.
General Neal Dow, who was born in
Portland Me-, in 1904, and passed to
his reward at the lpe age of % years,
is truly hero in the temperance move
ment of these later days He was born
OF Quaker parentage His life was one
of great usefulness. He was twice mayor
of Portland. a member of the Maine
Legislature, and a general of the Union
Army in the Civil War. His military
record is brilliant for its courage and
skill He was wounded, captured and
confined for eight months in Libby
prison. But the chief work of his life.
ond that by which he will be most re-
membered and reverel. was as tenn
perance reformer. In the days when
sporadic Temperance efforts were devel-
oping into unified and nation wide
movements. Neal Dow was a master
leader. whose oratorical and statesman
ship powers aroused tremendous intelli-
gent enthusiasm, and shaped temperance
sentiment into temperance legislation
"He was the author of the famous pro-
hibition law enacted by the Maine Leg
islature in 1851. and Travelled widely in
the United States. Canada and Great
Britain, speaking on temperance ques-
tions and helping in the organization of
societies for the furtherance of the re-
form" He was the prohibition candi-
date for president in 1880. Though
4 dead he yet speaketh.
One of the most able, cultured and
& broad-minded in the galaxy of 'nota-
4 BILE temperance champions is the
4 "elect woman" to whom reference
4 has already been made, Frances
4 Elizabeth Willard (1S39-1S9S).
n Churchville, n. Y. was her birth
+ place. In 1859 she graduated at the
3 Northwestern Female College in
s Evansville, Ill. After teaching in
4 various towns in the West she was
for a brief period principal of the
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima,
N. Y. Following a tour through
E Europe and the East she became pro-
II fessor of aesthetics at the Northwest
Z ern University, and dean of the
B Womens College there. From 1879
& until her death Miss Willard was
& president of the Womens Christian
Temperance Union. Through her
applied talent for broadly construc~
tive work the sphere of this truly
q great organization was greatly en-
II larged In 1888 she organized the
& Worlds Christian Temperance Union,
and was made its president in 1888.
X In her able literary works are en-
shrined the high and white christian
B thoughts that have accomplished i'm
measurable results for clean, Christly
4 living.
II Notes
We had quite a large number at
e our union meeting and picnic last
Monday evening.
The Second Baptist Society has
81 taken charge of the evening service
e during August. They have up-to-date
q leaders and fine singing. An invita-
& tion is extended to all to attend.
"a Meeting starts at 7 O'Clock sharp.
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