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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1883)
CHRISTIAN ference will meet there on the third necessary, and the mother church Friday in May, 1884. being appealed to, money was at once subscribed for the building of Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Metho a chapel, not only for purposes of dist church South, aged eighty-two, Sunday-school work, but for- regu- and hit* brother, aged eighty years,- tarpreaC^^ were in a pulpit together in Ken broken for a large frame edifice at tucky, on a recent Sunday. The the cornor .of. Ralph avenue and Bishop preached in the morning, Chauncey street, sufficient for the and the Doctor at night, accommodation of 800 people, and Even in Italy efforts are now this is expected to be corilpleted HERALD. or. Among them were -mothers and maidens, and by profession housekeepers, dressmakers, millin ers, teachers, ministers’ wives, and the work of the latter I consider a profession IF fightty exemplified, and a doctor. Amen, amen, my heart said all through that conven tion. The Lord be praised that 1 have lived long enough to see women able to think, act and do .snui vUi ing.... .iDSkusndand next. The cost of the building, .Ex worthy of themselves and their the Sabbath. Many places of busi clusive of the ground, is estimated great iuterest in humanity. And ness are closed on the Lord’s day, with the notice posted, “ Closed all at 815,000. The field is a good one, the cause of my rejoicing was Sunday on account of adhesion to and the new enterprize meets with recognized and applauded by the the humanitarian principle of Sun a hearty reception fronrthe neigh*' hnTmrablcand thinking men uf thr borhood which it is located community. One gentleman said day repose.” • ' *’ he had attended many conventions, Temperance Convention at political and others, but was never The Presbyterian General Assem Cheney, W. T. m one before where so much cour bly, which was held recently at Bro. Floyd : tesy and deference were shown by London, was in every way a most Mrs. L. A. Switzer, President of parties of opposite opinions, to successful meeting. All depart ments of work, Home Missions, the Local W. C. T. Union of Chern y. each other, nor where everything Foreign Missions, Ministerial Edu W. T., requested me to write an ac was done in a more orderly busi cation, etc., seems to be in a most count of the Temperance Conven- ness-like manner. Parliamentary hopeful state. The colleges of the t-ion recently held there, for the rules were carried out to the letter; ...... .... ... n Toronto, 1 U iJRiST tra H er ALC. Ac cordi n gly? "every ”?SEssibn ™WttS” opened' and’ denomination at Montreal, Kingston, and Winnipeg all report as follows: A contrast. Once upon closed with religious exercises, and progress. Large additions have a time, I passed a court-house and the presiding officer, Miss F. E. been made to the funds and the yard, where a convention was to be Willard, Pres, of the N. W. C. T. facilities of the institutions, and held. Men were standing around U. was never at a loss to know measures are being taken to enlarge in groups concusing, using loud when or where to say the light the work in Manitoba. Dr. King and profane language, sending forth thing. ' The Convention lasted over two was appointed Principal of the Col mixed fumes of tobacco and whisky lege. A very pleasing interchange with which to poison the atmos days. There were many strangers of courtesies occured during the phere for tbepassers by. Tuis all present and about twenty delegates meeting, of the Assembly.... The indicated their superior God-given in attendance, representing Union Episcopal Synod of the Huron Dio qualification for wise, deliberate at Walla Walla, Dayton, Colfax, Spokane Falls, &c. The call for cese was in session in London at the legislation and execution: Quite early on the morning of this mass convention had for its same time as the Assembly, and Dr- Hellmuth, Bishop of Huron, address July 20th I approached the Bap prime object the organization of ed the latter body, a fraternal mes tist church of C jeney, where the. the W. C. T. U. for Eastern Wash sage being also sent to the Presby Convention for the W. C. T. U. ington Territory. A full corps of terian body. The Presbyteiians was appointed to meet. A slight officers requisite for-this country reciprocated the kindness of their pause and my ears were greeted by were elected ; and the minutes of Anglican brethren by forwarding a low tones of prayer and religious such proceedings will soon be pub A strange coincidence lished by Mr. L. E. Kellogg, editoi return fraternal message at the song. hands of Dr. King and Senator Vi thought I. A prayer-meeting be of the North Went Tribune, of dal. Rev. Principal Grant also fore a business Convention ! And Cheney. The plan of work, methods and gave an address at the Anglican one to be held by a body of per Missionary Meeting. Such frater sons, who maintain in the majority, principles in the main of the N. W- nal interchanges of Christian cour as an underlying principle, their C. T. U. were adopted ■ / and recorded tesy and love are extremely refresh right to the ballot for women! A as significant of the intention of the ing. —■ ------ -----— weapon, they claim it, with which women of Eastern Washington, to to transform existing laws, made work in harmony with that body The mission work established by by their husbands, fathers and for temperance, sobriety, law and the members of Dr. Scudder’s church brothers, empowering the demons order. At the close of the Convention a on the lower side of the Twenty of earth to deal out liquid fire to voto was (tesiied and taken giving fifth Ward of Brooklyn, has develop their children. I went in, and what think you expression to the meeting in regard ed into a strong and vigorous church organization. About two years ago greeted my eyes ? A set of Am to woman’s right to suffrage. There a Sunday-school was established in azons, Hobgobblins, or large-eyed, were 43 approving and but 2 op a building on Ralph avenue, near large-mouthed infidel women ? Ah posing it. On the whole the Convention Fulton, with George A. Boll, the no! the infidel women stayed at well-known Sunday-school worker, borne—there was too much player was pronounced a grand success as its head. Tre mission has since for them—but a convention of and will long be lemembered in grown to such proportion that more modest, prayerful, intelligent per Cheney as not only an enjoyable ample accomodations have become sons, wi h quiet womanly demean occasion, but as one recording a 9 leaf of true moral import in its his tory. A great many subscriptions were taken for the Union Signal) a paper edited in the interest of temperance and as the organ of the W. C. T. Union. Atso many teur- perance tracts and pamphlets were distributed. At the close of the public lectures over one hundred townsmen signed the temperance pledge. Some of them were men of infamous, dissipated habits. The next day following the completion of this work, saloon keepers were heard to say, My trade has been $50 less to-day than usual. But there is responsibility about all this. Many^nobie women went to their home's'"realizing more fully than ever before, the great amount of work to be done in this country. They went also determined to con secrate their hearts and lives more completely, tn God and humanity, for the dissemination of truth, both by precept and example. And I’m sure with such an army of noble- women, from- 75,000 to 100,000 strong, all praying and working in unison, and with such a platform on which to work, “ Love to all and malice to none,” and with such a grand banner in their hands, “ For God and home and native land,” the W. C. T. U. must accomplish something in the next ten years towards undermin ing the liquor traffic, already super seding every other kind of business in lucrativeness. Miss Willard’s and Miss Gordon’s noble bearing and influence will long serve as a stimulus to the women of this country for per sistent, untrammeled work, not withstanding the sneers and tanta lizing remarks of those who think they,were only made for parasitic vines, and without the calm strength requisite to deliberate thought, action and organizing. Miss Willard’s lectures were simply grand. They were full of thought, clothed with quiet but harmonious colors, yet glowing with the warmth of tender love, born as they were out of a burning enthusiasm for humanity. To Mrs. L. A. Switzer belongs the credit for all that has been done in this good work in this portion of the country. Sne has sacrificed energy, time, money, and 1 had al most said reputation, for the past three years, for no woman can work faithfully, though modestly, for temperance, as she Las, yet with out arousing the jealousies and consequent sneers of the less efficient and opposers of temper ance. May God bless her, as he will, and every other true w’orker for God and humanity. " • M rs . J. A. C. M erriman .