Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-08

and self-denying ministry for the tri-
umph of the great aims of the w. c.
z. l., have won the admiration and
respect of friend and foe. She was
fearless soldier in a good war. There
is divine extravaganza in the serv-
ice of some men and women for their
country. We mourn the loss of a great
leader.
Rev. Clifford Snowden.
To know Mrs. Stevens was to adj
mire her moral earnestness, her high
courage and her noble enthusiasm. She
belonged to that pioneer group of
temperance advocates who believed in
the cause when the world was either
hostile or cynical or blatantly deris-
i've. She lived long enough to see the
principles for which she stood the
commonplace of economics and civics.
In her passing the State of Maine has
lost a citizen who brought honor to
the commonwealth, our Country has
lost true patriot of the highest or
der and the world true lover of hu-
mainly.
Rev. Arba John Marsh.
Mrs. Stevens has placed the whole
Nation in debt to her for her self
sacrificing and heroic efforts in the
line of temperance and other reforms,
and is dying just before the fruition
of many of her efforts. The promise
of success along these lines of en-
deavor is brighter on the day Of her
death than at any other time during
her life
Rev. Wilhelm Petersen.
BY the death of Mrs. Lillian NJ. n.
Stevens the people of the United
States have lost the head and leader
of one of the greatest movements for
good that the world has ever seen
launched. Next to the Cross of Jesus |
Christ, no emblem stands for SO much
that is pure and ennobling, uplifting /
and truly progressive as does the lit T
tie white ribbon. The leader Is dead, /
but the work will go on until society I
is purged of the most degrading vice |
from which humanity has ever suf- |
fered.
Mrs. Edward M. Lawrence.
l consider that her death has |
marked the passing of one of Aneri |
cas- greatest stateswomen. 1t will be
impossible to fill her place.
Charles M. Woodman.
Mrs. L. NJ. N. Stevens will be deeply |
mourned not only by the citizenship /
of the City which was her home and |
not only by the members of the W. c. /
I. u, of which she was the presi- |
dent, but also by those everywhere |
who are in sympathy with the effort /
to eliminate the saloon and cultivate !
in life the principles of temperance. /
So broad as we'll as far reaching is I
the work of the w. C. T. T., with its T
40 distinct departments, that men and I
women in all quarters of the globe |
who are fighting the forces that drag
humanity down will realize that one |
has dropped from the firing line wao |
was valiant fighter for righteous
ness, an interchangeable worker and a
splendid organizer. She had that WIS.,
ion of the success of the cause which I
was Fer life in1such large measure |
that she dared to, sprophesy its steps /
of progress. Her prophecy of Nation |
al prohibition was scoffed at by the |
liquor interests, doubted by sober |
thinkers and smiled at by the indul- /
gent. but today it has become a very |
real factor on the horizon of the Ma
tional life. Portland may profess |
just pride in having had in its midst /
one VINO carmen position ana u rep |
utation which were based on a char |
acter and an efficient service that will !
make her name monument of those |
things that are everywhere lifting |
the levels of society.
Biddeford Journal.
Through the death of Mrs Lillian |
NJ. n. Stevens, the temperance cause |
in State and nation has lost one of |
it's most tireless workers. When the |
history of prohibition in Maine is
written, Mrs. Seyens' name will |
stand next to that of Neal Dow for |
devotion to and sacrifice for the |
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