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W. C. T. U. Department All departments of the W.C. T.lT.are cordially invited to contribute to to this column. 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!” Nor you will not be until you become a subscriber to X ADVANCE. A Newspaper Published in the Interest of the Home against the Saloon, and for the Purification of Politics. Official Organ of the 1890 Club. We offer no cash prizes or premiums with our paper. We put the entire cost into the editing and workmanship, and place it before you on its merits. e Subscription; SI.OO Per Ailnum. ED. M. EVANS’ SONS, Proprietors, 1890 Club Rooms. E. Alabama St., Atlarlta, Ga. 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, I DEALER IN Fresh & Smoked Meats. Telephone 491. 126 Whitehall St. gjgP’Come to see us. 16-ts Elkin-Watson Drug Co., Cok. Peachtree, Decatur & Edge wood Avenues. Prescriptions promptly and accurately filled at all hours, day or night. 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