Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-02-23
w. C. T. U. Notes

w. T.. L. u. Notes
Each year the w. C. T. u. honor
(Feb. 17th) the natal day of Frances
| E. Willard, with an appropriate
| memorial.
The following sketch is cleaned
from the pen of Elizabeth P. Gordon:
Miss Willard was one of the great
est women of the 10th century. She
Possessed a r>re marvellous person.
| atty and because of this her life
worN was extrao binary.
She loved folks; the people of all
lands were her neighbors, the world
was as one great home. She was gen.
timely human and yet a spiritual dy-
namo, with refreshing spontaneity
and delightful wit she charmed her
hearers of all ages and conditions.
Frances Willard possessed world
| vision, there were no sky or ocean
boundaries to her ever-broadening
| thought
By extensive travel and sympathet-
ic observation she witnessed the deg
| graduation and burdensome life Of
thousands of women in foreign lands
and with aching heart desired to help
| them when voices, as it were, would
whisper to her mot to these, but to
the dear girls of your home shall you
be sent and some day the broader
channels of their lives shall send
streams of healing even to these far
off shores"
Thoughts of these streams of
healing," pent up in Miss Wizards
compassionate soul, found expression
when as president of the National w.
Z. L. U. she founded, in 1893, the
Worlds w. G. T. u; and now half.
million women are factors in fulfilling
her long cherished desire to make,
1.-THE world wider for women and
more homelike for humanity"
During the visit of Pundita Ram
abai to this country, she and Miss
Willard, attending a convention in
fremont Temple, Boston, clasped
hands over the open Bible while
Joseph Cook impressively declared,
"This is prophetic CT the time when
the women of the destruction of the
liquor traffic, the most dangerous enc
my of the home, the church the state
and the world"
AS dean of women and a professor
in Northwestern University it was
inevitable that this national and in
ternational leader as a teacher should
cause the fragrant blossom of love to
grow-the love "that worketh no ill,
to his neighbor," and as a student
said, "she made garden of the class
room.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union today owes largely to
Frances Willard the organization
and plans that are carried on in every
state and territory in our country
in over forty nations federated in the
Worlds w. c. T.
Gifted with a rare imagination,
"that search light of the SOUP Miss
Willard had also a genius for con-
struction detail seldom equalled. 1t
was not the possession of one fine
quality along but the fusion of many
strong characteristics that makes the
completely significant life.
Frances Willard was the pioneer in
promoting the principles of total alb
stinence for the individual and pro-
hibition for the state and nation;
plans for membership and "dry''
campaign; petition work; legislative
and congressional hearings and bills.
1t was she who first asked for scien-
tific temperance instruction in the
public schools and for quarterly tenn
perance lessons in the Sunday schools,
she emphasized the Importance of
the Loyal Temperance Legion among
the children. She said Everything
has it's temperance aspect and with
that we are to DEAL" so inaugurated
the department plan of work.
Into thousands of families and
churches she carried the thought that
"only the Golden Rule of Christ can
bring the Golden age of man."
Many times she would illustrate
her remarks with her own right hand,
"The fingers alone are almost USE
less, but correlated into fist they
are formidable. We must meet the
organized liquor traffic with organized
mother-love" Then in her most per-
suative tones she would say, "wont
you join us? 1t is so much easier
taking hold of hands,"
In Miss Wizards brain was stored
the best thought of the ages, she was
at home with poets and authors as
we'll as with the leaders of reforms.
Thousands of women owe to her a
larger outlook on life, she saw their
latent abilities and encouraged them
to unlock their hidden powers.
Brave and altogether winning and
womanly she stood before her andienc-
es and asked them to unite in the
peaceful war for God and home and
native land, and, later, every land.
She caused her companions to realize
the exceeding beauty of the land un-
seen the land not far away; and the
divine gift of unending life. She de-
clared her motto to be. "My life a
VOW"
She kindled a conscience in the
hearts of her hearers and placed the
woman's Christian Temperance
Union on the map of the world.
Mrs. E. R. Graham Clark voices
the sentiment of all our hearts when