The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-16
N {. |. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. e. Van Hood. Editor
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP


I The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union thru its Christian citizen
|Iship department is endeaYoring TO
show that the greatest need of the
hour is Christian Citizenship"
We are in sore need OF citizens that
will vote for righteousness sake
Because Gods laws as We find them
in the Bible are the foundation on
which our whole social organization
is built. They stand for right against
wrong, for honesty and morality, for
health and happiness. The best rem
/, edy to correct our sins is to study
Il them. DR.. kellogg, the editor of
Good Health, said, Our race is sick;
unnatural habits and unwtiolesome
indulgences are the causes. Man
has lost his way on the great high
way Of existence, and is wandering
in the by and forbidden ways He
has forsaken the old paths and is
travelling down the Jericho road
H Thieves beset him on every side. He
is robbed and beaten at every step.
II Now the women have undertaken
to be the Good Samaritans and are
trying to restore the right paths to
dwell in.
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| pendenee from another nation is
celebrated. Il is left to the voter to
make US Independent of the great
est enemy the world has ever had
the liquor traffic.
Dr. Martin Luther said whoever
first brewed beer, prepared a pest
for mankind He prayed God to de-
/ stroy the brewery industry, so that
barley could be furnished a blessing
instead Of a curse.
i This curse is not new calamity.
an emperor of China decreed that all
the .grapevines should be pulled up
by the roots and burned, because Of
| the alcohol produced by them.
/ We read in ancient history that
when the young Athenians assumed
the responsibility Of citizenship, they
had to take an oath that they would
not bring disgrace upon their coun-
try. We need such measures now to
help bring about normal condition
in our lives.
All thru history we find an objec-
ton made to the use of alcohol for
/ the inside Of the human body, and
when it was abolished by law the
people became healthy. great and vir-
]! tuous.
/ John G. WoolIey says, in Christian
Citizenship, "A resolution shows
how the reso1ver feels, and ballot
Ishows where he stands
The American Christian is in need
of salvation from sin Of consenting to
the legalized saloon. We need
ievery public educator in our country
to help lay a foundation in our boys
and girls while young, by reading
from the Bible some helpful verse
regarding intemperance.
;. The Good Book abounds with di-
J, rections how We should live. Train
ing OF that kind sows seeds for future
welfare. It might depend upon the
future voter to win the battle against
so many wrongs. We ask the voter
| TO consider the mothers and wives at
the ballot box, because they have a
burden to bear. It is expected Of the
women to increase the population, to
tight for a physical and moral well
fare for her offspring, to have to
teach her children that their father
votes for the coils that surrounds US.
and to pray that the voters will con-
slider God. home and native land at
the ballot box. She may have 10 go
TO the polls against her inclination TO
bring about the balance of power
against the INSCRIPTIONS politician
1 because the liquor traffic, is entrench-
ed in politics and the only way to
; get rid of it is to vote il out. It is
, said the hope OF our country Is
found in the rebellion of the women.
j 1t was the fathers of our country
who brought about our independence
long ago, and it is the mothers to-
day contending for clean and heal
thy bodies, minds and souls. 1t was
so of old when man could not be