OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 6, Issue 70, 1 March 1901, Page 9

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

o We have received the following letter ftom Miss Gordon, Miss Willard’s companion and helper for so many years. Miss Gordon still continues her work as one of the Hon. Secretaries I of the World* W. C. T. U.,andwi are glad to publish her loving message to our White Ribboners : Rest Cottage, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. nth Jan., 1901. My dear Comrades,—My heart goes out to all White Ribboners at this holiday time in gratitude and good-will, and from the home of the beloved

Founder of the W orld’s W. C. T. U. I send you a message of affectionate greeting, not only for the New Year, but for the new century, bright with its blessed possibilities for the advancement of the principles and plans of our world-wide organisation. Mrs Stevens, Vice President-at Large of the Worlds W. C. T. U., and President of our own Society in the U.S.A , is my guest for a few weeks at Rest Cottage. We have just come from Washington, D. C., our capital city where the National W . C. L U. has held a most successful Annual Convention, with the largest number of delegates and reporting the largest increase in paid membership in any year in the history of our organisation. There is a vitality in the work everywhere, a coming in of young women to positions of trust and responsibility, a growing unity and -sprit de corpg, for all of which we thank God and take courage.

The presence of such a host of White Ribboners in Washington while our National Congress was in Stssion, was strongly felt, and we were greatly pleased that during the week of our Convention the House of Representatives passed with a splendid majority an Amendment to the Army Bill prohibiting the sale of liquor to soldiers in the Army Canteen We are now making every endeavour to convince the Senators that the people desire this provision to pass the Senate, and should the Bilk pass both branches of our Congress we know that the Extcutive will enforce its provisions.

The outlook for the woik of the W C. T. U., in this country in its organisation, and in the Preventive, Educational, Social, Evangelistic and Legal 1 ~e-, is wonderfully promising. We are planning to send . ut more than twenty National Organisers, and with Miss Clara Parrish at home again to inspire the young women, we hope thty will be able to double their membership in many States.

1 Hope soon to write you again more at length concerning several subjects of vital interest to the World’s W. C. T U. Let us make this New Year tell grandly in the progress of our blessed Wi rk, remembering ever lovingly and • gratefully the sainted Founder of our Organisation, and rallying closely around our beloved President, Lady Henry Somerset. Mrs Stevens joins me in affectionate New Year greetings.—Yours in sacred bonds, Anna A. Gordon.