HINTS TO NEW UNIONS.

White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 203, 18 May 1912, Page 1

HINTS TO NEW UNIONS.

I’ray ’ Study • Work ! Remember the* noontide hour of prayer, observed the world over. Lift the heart to (lod at this time each day, if only for a moment.

Pray as if all depended on God, work as if all depended on you. Make a constant study of our literature. A halfhour a day invested in research and study will inspire and give courage to any woman. Hold regular meetings not less than twice a month Kvery week is better if conditions will permit. Begin on time, close on time. Make every meeting so full of interest that no member will feel she can miss it. Prepare the meeting programmes some months ahead. Let no one have the excuse, “ I was not notified in time. Let one item in every meeting he a jo *stion box, where one may bring any problem. One woman may not be able to answt r all. hut the general discu <sior will he helpful.

A successful Lnion is a working one. People will he attracted when the

l nion is doing something. Set some stake and aim therefor m spite c.f obstacles. Do not feel that if you do not close the saloon the first year you have been a failure. Saloon sentiment has probably grown for years in

your midst, avl it will take time and grace and] patience to overcorni* it. Wear your white ribbon wherever you go. You may need to explain its significance to some church people, hut every saloonist every

gambler, every prostitute knows what it stands for, and fears it. Would you add to your members? Nothing is better than personal work. Public meetings are good, bat personal invitation is better. Teach the public that the W.C.T U.

exists '-not merely to outlaw the saloon and to educate men and women against drink, but to do violence to sin of all kinds and in all places, and is an ally of every agency i hat will build a sound body to he the citadel of a clear brain

and a temple of the Holy Spirit. The W.C.T.U, was horn in prayer, and prayer is still its vitalising force. Get the woman of strongest spirituality in the midst for your evangelistic superintendent and then follow her inti) the realms of power. Give every member something to do. There is no such a stimulating force, after prayer, as is work. Make a choice of departments adapted to your community. It is better to have a few lines well marked than many indifferently developed. If a woman has a call to a certain line of work give her all co-operation God calls men and women to humbler callings as truly as He does to the ministry ; hut, alas ! we will not hoed 11 is call. — E.vrhmujv,

3 k -1 A* lONF 1ONF - \vc can do little. Separated, W A IX we are the units o( weakness; but yl power. Agitate, educate, organise —these are T; yz the deathless watchwords of success. The in hngers ol the hands can do little alone, but Ob correlated into a fist they become formidable, k I he plank borne here and there by the sport tr a thousand planks of heart of oak into a hull, m *A put in your engine with its heart of fire, (it out kt your ship, and it shall cross at a right angle tl those same waves to the port it has purposed T: y$ to attain. We want all those like-nnnded r7| ym w ith us, who would put down the dram-shop, Jy exalt the home, redeem manhood, and uplift Kj ij womanhood, to join hands w ith us for organised work according to a plan. H ■■ Frances F. \\ i/hml.