Connecticut western news., 1916-05-18
THURSDAY, MAY IS, 1916.
To give pleasure to a single heart by single kind act is better than fhousand head.bowings ill prayer Saadi.
CONVERT J. Fl ZEN RY.

En the opinion of Mrs. A. s. G. Fay ICKs as expressed at the suffrage meet ing last Thursday, the Canaan suffra. gigfs have, "a task peculiarly their own -that of converting J. Henry Rora- Bsek.'' '' Mrs. Taylor is not disposed to rssiMimize the possible difficulty of the task, but manifestly thinks it's worth under taking. "Yours is a mighty tsssz,' she says, "buG think of. the magnificent rewardr r'
 True. With J. Henry "converted, the sun of the suffrage cause would shoot up to the zenith like Fourth of July sky. rocket with bells on. The re ward would be of incalculable value. And while We hold no brief for J. Henry, we have no hesitancy in expressing con- fidence that he would receive, with open and receptive mind, the overtures of any suffrage evangelist commissioned to perform the operation, and could be convinced and converted by any equal franchise missionary, either petticoated or trousered, who might be fortified to
 
 And while we are not disposed to butt in or assume to direct the process of evangelization. we cannot refrain frDm volunteering the suggestion that there is no exhorter within the local Tanks so admirably qualified to ap- proach the task of converting J. Henry" as the foundress and present efficient president of the Canaan Equal Franchise League, Mrs. Hitchcock, herself. Five years ago that competent and indefatigable lady, in the face of ridicule and dismal prophecies of fail. are, set out to perform a task that seemed hardly less formidable than making sutfragist of J. Henry, when she did the unheard of thing of calling a esrowd of Canaan women together for tine ayowed purpose of organizing a woman suffrage branch in Canaan, where there was no perceptible interest Fla woman suffrage, and still less de- rmand for it. Yet the great majority 9s those who attended, either from -pGtives of curiosity, or to scOtf, or to see what the others had on, were in- auapced to enroll under the suffrage banner, with the result that today fi,ere are something less than hundred asames on the rolls of the Canaan League, and proportionate number of woman voters actually on the town voting list.
 That achievement of five years ago marks the lady as the one person quail fled to undertake J. Henry's conversion. With her loins girt about with Truth, and having on the breastplate of Right she facts, the figures, and the argument. Ske can "jolly'' and she can stand ~'5ellying. But we feel to admonish aler to enter upon the task with faith tiI1nly grounded, and impelled by a firm and steadfast resolution to stand by her guns under J. Henry's return fTey lest he take the conversion job off EIer hands and send her home a con- Smmed Anti. Such an anti-climax would rival the achievement of the VlCK6Q if)6TrOU III the LdHlllaT OlO story:
 A piSus old maid had a pet parrot which she had brought up in the feal e1f tire Lord and taught to pray. A wicked neighbor had a parrot which he had educated to rip out torrents of pic saEresque profanity that mortified the pious ears of the old maid. Struck witt tine brilliant idea of evangelizing th' wicked parrot, she persuaded. thu wicked neighbor to permit her to place her parrot in the cage with his parrot fu the hope that her parrot would con vert his. The association was success ful, though not exactly what the goo( 1ady had figured on; for, on visiting tine cage, a few days later, she founC r1aat instead of having converted tn wicked bird, her own parrot haC lGarned to swear like a trooper.
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