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Niate W. C. T. IT.— Mrs. W-C.Sibley, Pres.;
Mrs. Walter B. Hill, Viee-Pres.; Miss M. H.
Stokes, Cor. Sec.; Miss Emmie S. Stewart, Bee.
Sec.; Miss Minnie Smith, Ast. Rec. Sec.; Mrs.
Claibom Snead, Treas.
Allautn Month Hide W. C. T. IT.—Mrs. M.
L. McLendon, Pres.; Mrs. B. F. Abbott, Vice-
Pres.; Mrs. O. E. Mitchell, Rec. Secretary; Mrs.
F. P. Parks, Cor. Sec.; Mrs. M. P. Brown, Treas
urer. Regular ineetjng every Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock at Trinity church.
Allnnm W. C. T. U. (Old Union.)—Mrs. E.
C. Witter, Pres.; Miss M. H. Stokes and Mrs. W.
T. Calloway, Associate Sect.; Mrs. Ed. M. Evans,
Treas. Regular meeting every Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock in First Baptist church.
“Jeanie Natith” W. <!. T. IT. -Mrs. Hallie
Saul, Pres.; Mrs. M. Tumlin, Vice Pres.; Mrs.
Emma Hutchins, Rec. Sec’ty.; Mrs. J. 1. DeCk
ner, Cor. Sec.; Mrs. McKibbin, Treas.
West Hide W. C. T. IT.—Miss L. Clarke,
Pres.; Mrs. Booth, Vice Pres.; Mrs. Sutton, Cor.
Sec’ty.; Mrs. Sexton, Rec. Sect’y.; Mrs. Vaughn,
Treasurer.
West Hide V. W. €’. T. IT.—Miss Susie Win.
ter, Pres.; Miss Estelle Bridges, Vice Pres.;
Miss Flora Crim. Cor. Sec’ty.; Miss Ella John
son, Rec. Sec’ty.; Miss Maud Crim, Treas.
Y. W. <;. T. IT.—Miss Daisy Northen, Pres.;
Miss Lillie Reynolds, Vice Pres.; Miss Nellie
Kimble, Sec’ty.; Miss Clara Boynton, Cor. Secty.
The Pledge.
1 hereby solemnly promise, God helping me,
to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt
liquors, including wine, beer ami cider, and to
employ all proper means to discourage the use
of, and traffic in, the same.
A REPLY.
The W. C. T. U. Defended.
Jflrs. W. <!. Nibley, Pres, of the Nlnte W.
C. T. IT., Replies to the Rev. Or.
itlcl>onnld , s I'riticisutM.
Tin* following loiter was sent to Rev.
Dr. McDonald for publication in the
Christian Index, as it was in that
paper the criticisms appeared, but he
and his associate editors declined to
publish it. A synopsis of both articles
appeared in last Sunday’s Constitution,
but we give below the letter in full:
Dear Brothkh in Christ; —Look-
ing back into the years that are gone
to the time of the organization of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Un
ion, at its first Convention in Atlanta,
in 1883, it has always been a pleasure
to remember you as a friend and help
er in that time of need, when friends
were few, and helpers were less.
Do you remember the little band of
timid women that gathered there in
the basement of the First Methodist
Church, in that bitter cold, gloomy,'
and freezing weather, when the snow
ami sleet lay one foot deep on the
ground, as we trudged through its
slush to meet there and pray toget her
for God to help, and direct, and bless
us in our work, ami redeem our people
from the liquor curse? Do you re
member extending the hand of Chris
tian fellowship to Miss Willard as you
stood upon the same platform, and
knelt together in prayer.
If not, dear brother, we do, and look
ing back now—from the time of oui*
present exaltat ion and rejoicing—when
we come as a National Convention
numbering our hundreds from Canada,
invited by state officials and legislators,
entertained in the best homes, received
in the churches, in Legislative Halls,
and in the Governor’s Mansion—to
that time of our small beginning in
that basement, hidden away as it were
in the caves of the earth”—we can
thank you brother, for helping us on
ward. and grieve over your disaffection
and your attack upon us now, and your
denunciation of our beloved National
President, Miss Willard, than whom
no more womanly, faithful and con
secrated Christian worker can be
found upon earth!
We regret for your sake, brother,
more than for our own, that you allow
ed your prejudice to keep you away
from one of the most interesting and
enthusiastic gatherings that has ever
been held in the interests of humanity,
morality, and religion; a convention
that was enjoyed, endorsed, and en
couraged by hundreds and thousands
of the best people in Atlanta and all
the state, and that was held by an or
ganization that has been recognized
and endorsed by nearly all the religious
bodies of the world! Surely with such
an array of friends and witnesses “for
us”, may we not ask how it is that you,
in your confessed “ignorance” of us.
can speak so slightingly "against us.”
Verily it was thy loss, brother, when
thou deniedst thyself the privilege of
hearing the “good and effective public
speaking” of these good and grand
women, in their eloquent appeals for
God and home and humanity, and their
earnest soulful prayers ascending to
Heaven for help. If thou hadst been
there, thy prejudice would have been
removed and thy soul strengthened in
its own work of resecuring the perish
ing and saving of souls.
How little do you know of our grand
and noble president, to think she could
or would betray us into error, and
direct opposition to God’s revealed
will! And what must be your es
timate of the large’and intelligent body
of the Christian womanhood she is
leading, to suppose they could be easily
led astray. Verily is your ignorance
of us that is leading you astray in de
nouncing us.
Your accusation, that we are “at
tempting to revolutionize the social
system, and contemplating the most
thorough and radical change of ancient
or modern times” is true. God knows,
and you know, there is terrible need of
change. If it came through the work
of the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, it will be for the pulling down
of the strong holds of evil, and the up
lifting and rescuring of humanity
from its abounding degradation and
din and ruin. If there is anything to
“condemn” us in that, let God and His
Word be the judge between us! We
believe in the purity of the social sys
tem, as bearing alike upon all individ
uals. We believe in the recognition of
Christ in the Government, and in all
moral, social, industrial and political
reforms, as well as in religions re
forms. We believe in the “Fatherhood
of God”, the “ Brotherhood of man”,
“Sisterhood of woman”, and principles
of the “Golden Rule,” as manifested in
the spirit, teachings and life of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And we hope and
pray that the time will come some day,
if not in our day, whan “ all man’s
weal will be each man’s care”; and
every one will help his neighbor, and
say to his brother, be of good courage.”
And we believe the time will come
slowly and surely as Christianity
leavens the lump of poor old human na
ture.
And, dear brother, we call upon you
as a fellow of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and a minister of the chorch of his dis
ciples, to show us wherein we are
“wrong” in this, and to ask you if a
time like that is not better than the
present, when every man’s hand seems
to be against his brother,” and all are
“birds of prey” a time of discord, un
rest, strife, drunkenness, murders, suf
fering, poetry, strikes, stagnation in
business, trouble and darkness every
where, and the whole land threatened
wit h financial ruin, through the “bulls
and bears” and sharpers” and “sharks
and “ravening wolves” of the money
market. Read the fifth and sixth
chapters of Jeremiah, and know that,
now, as then, through the wrath of the
Lord is the land darkened; and for all
this. llis anger is not turned away,
but his hand is streched out still.
You charge Miss Willard with “sub
version of the relations of woman and
marriage, as based upon God’s word
and the convictions of society in her
Chicago address.” With the address
before me, and a careful perusal of it,
I find not one sentence in it to justify
your accusation. True she marks an
outcry against some of the so-called
“convictions of society,” and unright
eous and iniquitous legal enactments,
that are hindrances to true marriage
and festering evils upon society, and a
blot upon civilized and Christian gov
ernment. But her whole plea is for
the purity and stability of the mar
riage relation, and the divine and civil
rights of parentage and childhood.
And instead of “rejecting” this address
we would if we could place it in the
hands of every man and woman in the
world.
As to her “pressing women into the
gospel ministry as leaders and preach
ers.” She would refer you to Acts of
the Apostles—(chapters first, second,
eighteenth, and twenty-first:) I’hillip
pians, (chapter fourth;) Judges, (chap
ters fourth and fifth;) 2nd Kings,
(chapter twenty-second, verses 14—20.)
Please read carefully, with the one
command against it —Saint Paul’s to
the ignorant Corinthian women; and
the same command in the same chap
ter, to “men” who speak not to “edify
ing.” The claims that to woman was
given the divine commission (from
Jesus himself) of proclaiming “a risen
savior.” and of “telling it to the dis
ciples.” And that though “their
words seemed to them as idle tales,”
and “they believed them not” till they
had seen him for themselves, yet they
found it even so as the women had
said.”
Dear brother, you cannot contradict
things, neither can 1. But as to her
authority for woman's ordaiument in
to the regular ministry, for the
holy ordinance of baptism and admin
ministration of the Lord’s supper. 1
am at a loss to understand. For after
years of familiar acquaintance with
the Bible, and reading it through
many times, I can recall nothing upon
which to substantiate such authority.
Consequent ly I do not follow her lead
ing in this; and I believe the majority
of the W. C. T. U. are with me, certain
ly those of the south. But we do not
quarrel with her, nor refuse her lead
ership in temperance work, any more
than we would with you because of
your being a Baptist The Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union is not
sectarian; but many women, of many
minds, united in the two fold purpose
of rescuing humanity from the drink
curse, and for the saving of sonls.
Miss Willard is profound in Biblical
research, yet simple in her faith. She
is an earnest Christian and a Methodist,
and is conscientious in her beliefs and
efforts, as based upon God’s word in
her interpretation of it. And if she
and her pulpit co-laborers are trespass
ing upon forbidden ground, God is
certainly permitting most wonderful
results in awakening the hearts and
consciences of thousands of men and
women, and turning them from error
and leading them to Christ and active
work is His service. Strange con
trast this is to some of the stereotyped,
dry-as-dust, soul-famishing preach
ing in many pulpits that is barren of
results, and Hindering to the progress
of the church, and is driving people
away from the church and keeping
them away. “By their fruits ye shall
know them.”
There is need of revolutionizing
somewhere, when religion is at such an
ebb that the church is a state of constant
pauperism and “ beggary ” and depend
ing largely upon women to keep it
alive and going; and when its progress
is hindered by an evil, that is encourag
ed and abetted by those within its
walls, and that stands by its very doors,
beating back and dragging down the
the souls that might otherwise find re
fuge and safety within. Is it any won
der that Christian and ministerial
effort seems paralyzed; and that the
“light of the candlestick” seems “tak
en away ” from a church that sits down
under a curse like that, and that re
fuses to go out to the help of the Lord
against its own destroyer ? God grant
that the reproach of mercy be not
written against it!
For centuries women remained in
their “ sphere,” inactive against the
liquor curse, enduring in voiceless
agony it wrongs and woes; witnessing
its horrors to humanity, and its enmity
to God and the church. And it was
not till they had heard God’s voice
calling to them to be up and doing,
that they went forth to make warfare
against the common enemy and des
troyer. The time had come when the
iniquities and horrors of the traffic had
reached such a crisis that if these had
held their peace, the very stones must
have cried out against it!
When God called women from their
houses and prostrated them on their
knees in the dust before the liquor
traffic. He meant to call the world’s
attention to that fearful crime.
What a tableau fora Christian world
to look upon! What a tablean for a
heathen world to look upon!—Chris
tian women, in a Christian country,
bowing before the liqour Juggernaut
in piteous appeals for mercy, and a
‘Christian” government looking on
and abetting the destroyer!
“Society looked on horrified and dis
gusted, and, drawing its skirts aside,
“passed by on the other side.
The church looked on amazed,
mortified, and pitying; but, shaking
its head, said, “I can do nothing for
you but preach and pray for you,” and
it, too, “passed by on the other side.”
The governmen came up shaking its
money-bags in the faces of the pros
trate ones, and .‘aid to them, ’’Enough
of this! I’m in partnership with
the blood money and must have it.
Get up from your knees, and shut your
mouths, and go home and raise your
children to become drunkards and
murderers, and to support my saloons
and fill my jails and penitentiaries”
and, going into the saloon,and hanging
up its license, it called for drinks for
the cowd
At last there came an invisible
One, who stooping down lifted these
prostrate ones and said to them
“Daughters, be of good cheer, I have
looked upon thy afflictions, I have
heard the prayer, I will
the petitions.and give thee deliver
ance. But thy faith must be tested
and my strength made manifest
through thy weakness. But I will be
thy leader and helper, and will go be
fore thee to prepare the way:” and.
placing a pure white banner in their
hands, he bade them go forward in
their work for God and home and hu
manity. And from that day to this
they have gone on their way rejoicing,
through the darkness as well as the
sunshine; for, witli faiths, discerning
eye, they have seen -the triumph from
afar." »
WE ARE IN IT.”
We mean in the fight against the saloon, and we mean to
stay “in it” until there is not a barroom in Atlanta.
“YOU AIN’T IN IT!”
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To those less consecrated and full
of faith, the hindrauas delays and
discouragements might have caused an
abandonment of the struggle. But not
so with the W. C. T. U. They have
taken their stand between the curse
and its victim, till “deliverance shall
come.” After all that they have suf
fered, all the sacrifices they have
made, and the years of patient effort
and waiting and hoping, it is not like
ly they will be frightened away by any
cry of “buggaboo” that comes from
narrow prejudice and opposition.
Their plans may not always coincide
with popular favor, but they act as
God gives them the light to see. And
they are willing to wade through deep r
er depths than any 'through which
they have passed, to accomplish the
great end. Some maintrin that it can
never be accomplished without the en
franchisement of women and their work
at the ballot box. Gods knows they don’t
wish to be driven there, but the per
sistent refusal of their petitions for
home protection against the saloon,
may force the terrible necessity upon
them as the only alternative. If such
a time comes to them, they will do
their duty without iinching.
How is it with you brother, into
whose hands God has placed this power
for good or evil to the home, to your
church, and to humanity ? May we
not believe that you will take your
stand for the right ? Surely as a man
of God you cannot do otherwise!
Cease then your warfare against
those that have bravely taken their
stand between the curse and in spite
of the fearful odds against them. Their
efforts and aims are of the noblest,
however much you may differ with
them as to their plans. Rise, brother,
to a higher plane in your Christian
warfare, and aiming over the heads of
these innocent ones, fire into the ranks
of the enemy!
Yours in Christian warfare for
human souls.
W. E. JOHNSON,
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