FRANCES WILLARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 22 February 1912, Page 5

FRANCES WILLARD.

. A short service was held in th eWesley 'Church on Sunday afternoon in memory of Miss Frances Willard, Founder of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Mrs T. White, President of .the W.C.T.U. gave a brief outline of her life she said:—“No, women has done so much as Frances Willard to make the world a wider place for women. Every women has lost a friend by her death. She inspired those who worked with her with confidence and faith, while she possessed in unequalled degree the power of overcoming difficulties and turning them into successes. He? magnetism has indescribable and to this charm were added genius literary skill and eloquence, all in the highest degree of development. Yet the light of her character was move than anything she ever said. The mother of reform, the brave champion oppressed, the great leader and q- Vi of womankind, hers was indeed a Ouristian personality, Whittier, the poet well summed up her life work when he wrote:— She knew the power of banded ill. But felt that life was stronger still, And organized for doing go oil. The World’s United Womanhood. And though she has gone to the Worlds larger home, her influence will still live on and stand always for all . that is best and noblest in womanhood. Merdamcs Harrison, .Mnckay, Lilley anl Captain Nierken and the Lieutenant of the Salvation Army also assisted at the service.