ECHOES.

White Ribbon, Volume 6, Issue 65, 1 October 1900, Page 4

ECHOES.

From the World s W.C.T.U. Convention.

When I first joined the W’.C.T.l* I did not think much about working by method, but I was converted bv something that happened at a meeting I was at. A long discussion took place upon a certain subject, and then the President j - I on to the next 1 tion. “ Hut, ’ said I, “ Aren’t you going to take a vote on that question ? ” “Oh, no,” she replied, “ W’e never take a vote on anything. We settle everything by love ! ” Mrs Pearsall Smith. She (Miss Willard) was not a spirit set at liberty in certain directions. She was born free. Lady Henry Somerset. '* Lovest thou Me more than ’ anything else ? When that question gets settled we are easy to work with; our elbows don’t stick out as they used to do. W’e don’t want our own way.

Mrs Banuy I have lived twelve years in Topeka, and I could not to-day take a young man to a place where he could get liquor. There are such places, but I don't knew them ; they are upstairs, down cellar, up an alley, \c. The Prohibition law in Kansas is as well enforced as any other law. The drinkseller is a criminal. It is worth everything m the world to a man to know

his children grow up and do not know what a drunkard is because they have never seen one. I’ve seen I’m sorry to say it —more drunkards in three weeks in London than in twelve years in Kansas.

When my father commenced his ministry at every house at which he called he was otlered drink. It would have been considered a breach ol hospitality not to offer it, or for him not to take it.

To-day if 1 were to take a glass of wine it would bias my reputation. Jesus Christ is becoming more and more the ruler of this world of ours He will be the most honoured personality of the coming century, and therein lies our hope. Rev. Clus. Sheldon, author of “ In His Steps.

It has been said, “ If you save a boy you save a man, but it you save a girl, you save a family.” Mr G Wallace Ros'

It is not the cry (says a Chinese writer) but the rising of the wild duck which impels the dock to follow him. (lara Parrish

I feel like saying, “ Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in \ eace,’ but 1 would rather be a Y to-day than Simeon.

Marrianne Faming ham (upon being presented to the Convention). I have been to the prison (Edinburgh) this morning and held a service. Out of the eighty women inmates, seventy-nine were brought there through drink. Mrt Barmy. When 1 first went to India a Hindoo lawyer said to me, “ You Christians pray, ‘ Lead us not into temptation.’ 1 wish you would not lead us into temptation when you come to our country.” Mrs Brockicay (India). It is the opinion of the Europeans that the Moslems do not drink. 11 they do, they are certainly “ drunken in the night,” for if they should be seen drunk people would say they were “followers of Jesus.” Mrs Barney. I have received circulars by post from brewery companies stating that, in case I took up shares, my name should not appear in the printed list. An Edinbu>gh Minister

From the “Worlds Temperance Congress. Dr. Norman Ker’sestimatethat 40,000 persons drink themselves to death each

year in the United Kingdom, and that 80,000 more die through the alcoholic indulgence of others, is probably under the mark. Rev jf. W. Horsley , M.A. (Late chaplain H.M. Frisons.) (In Denmark) the Municipality has the pow f er to limit the number of publichouses, and in some localities good laws have been passed for their regulation, e.g., there can be no women waiters; it is unlawful to throw a drunken man into the street; he must be housed or driven home. l)r. R. I hurnu ald. A man, asked if he were a pessimist, replied, “ No, I am a workman.” He said more than he meant. Workers are rarely pessimists. Ret. Geo. Gladstone. For life shall on and upward > ; The eternal step of progiegs U>atu To that great anthem, calm and alow, Which God repeats. There is one Corpora* in which I have a deep interest, wtiico has often been most unfairly judged ; it is called the Ecclesiastical Commission. Yes, but when a short time ago, a certain well-known vast grocery business applied for licenses in all directions, when they Hooded the country with a new avalanche of this dangerous drug, not one single grocer’s license was permitted upon one inch of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner’s land. Canon Wilber force. No one denies the humiliating confession of the liquor traders themselves, that “ a gigantic evil exists” which has grown to “national degradation Rev. Geo. Gladstone. L Contributed by M. S. Powell.