The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-23
STORY OF PURITY CONGRESS


lining up for the greatest battle this
world has ever seen. The scrimmage
lines are all ready out, and soon the
great battle that is demanding the
highest type of manhood and woman
hood will close; the conflict will be
terrific but the victory is sure, if we
are true to God and sane in our
methods.
1--WE may not live to see, the final
victory but we feel that this nation
and other nations of the earth, will
not much longer stand and look on
with Indifference while this monster
evil is sending $4,000 of our sweetest
and purest girls every year to the
Cross of Hell's worst crucifxion. The
day is at hand when the nations will
rise up in the strength and majesty
of their redeemed manhood, and crush
out this rampire.
eve feel intensely the awful horror
of this iniquity and want to say if
this national and international curse,
the white slave traffic of the world:
pierced to the heart by the sharp
sword eff publicity, which is daily
laying bare its dark ways and deeds,
lay dieing at my feet to-day, and
was to plead with me for just one
more year of life; l would say: No!
DieH you foul fiend of perdiction and
go back ito the deepest darkest depths
of that He'll out of which you were
born, and give our jewel-souled daugh-
tiers and diamond-minded sons
chance to realize the principly man
hood and queenly womanhood which
is their birth right
''The entire nation is threatened
with this monster evil, even in the
schools the bible has been removed
and the dance has taken its place"
AS China Sees Us
The Chinese editor and reformer
said, "You Americans do some very
illogical things, you refuse to allow
your children to read the bible in
your schools but after he gets in the
penitentary you COMPEL him to read
it. In China we are not afraid of
the word of God in our schools. You
exclude God from your schools and
say on your money, In God we trust,
does this mean in This god we
trust?"
The speaker said America had
helped China to drive out the opium,
but he thought, they could help Amer
lea to drive out the liquor traffic. The
Hindu says Great Britain has ten
times as many barrons as India.
Convention Big and Busy
The first day of the session was
demonstration of the fact that
cold and it rained most of the day.
In the evening the large church was
conf ortably filled and every evening
after many people were turned away.
Monday evening when Mrs. Booth
Clibbon made her address more than
seven hundred people were turned
away-not even standing room avail
able.
| The Congress was remarkable
sacred, too debate ard too private for
subjects usually thought of as too
general open consideration, were dis
cussed in all their phases, without
offending the best taste of the most
refined and cultured people.
On the program were members of
Congress, eminent medical men; min
listers, governors, mayors, college
presidents, government officials, lead
ing lawyers, and women of inter-
national reputation who spoke with
authority, as well as with purity of
language and purpose.
The Congress was a busy conven-
tion-no intermissions except for
dinner and luncheon. There were two
luncheons served at the bennington
Hotel at the noon hour of the first
and last days of the convention for
the members of the Congress and all
delegates. Several prominent speakers
addressed the crowds at these lunch
cons.
Influence of Congress
The far reaching influence for good
of this congress will never be known.
The great variety of subjects of the
most vital Importance, the discussion
of persons engaged in different de-
partments of Christian work relative