In a recent issue of the Union Signal, Miss Ackerman pleads for the establishment of a mission to fallen men, and instances the success that has followed the efforts of an officer of rnnk in Holland. “Nitfht after in fulldrtss uniform, he confronts the soldiers before they enter these pitfalls, and entreats them to turn from the haunts of shame. So well has he succeeded, that many houses of ill repute have been closed.” A college of Scientific Temperance is to f>e founded as soon as the necessary funds are ramed, in connection with the American Unive» eity at Washington. “ The college will not be founded as a propaganda, but as a scientific school, whose solo object will be to tin! and inculc&to whatever may be the truth touching the subject of investigation.
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White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 June 1896, Page 8
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