A PAGE FOR Y's.

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 224, 18 February 1914, Page 11

A PAGE FOR Y's.

My Dear \ s. On the front page of Jus issue there is an illustration of Mrs Moody, Dominion Superintendent for Y Work. The following article is from her pen to the \ s of New Zealand. We want you to help us this year in our great fight for National Prohibition. A very happy, busy, and successful year to all our Y. I nions, and may the Y’s and the mother unions at its ( lose clasp hands and return thanks for a glorious national victory .it the Licensing Poll. Kd. “\Y.K.”J RULES ADOPTED BY THE ENGLISH “Y’s.” Age from 14. Time limit 0 years, when the “Y” should pass into the W.C.T.U., to give there the benefit of her “Y” training. No married woman tan belong, except she be President or General “Y” Secretary. All officers mus. be Christians. The President must be a working member of the W.C.T.U. it is suggested that 30 years be age limit. WHAT GIRLS CAN DO EOK TEMPERANCE. (Extracts from letter received from Australia by various writers.) 1. Band themselves with other people of like sentiment with themselves, and so help to increase the army of workers who are striving by organised efforts to stem the tide of intemperance.

2. To educate .hemselves both on the effects of alcohol on the human body, mind, and soul, and on the effects of No-License or the Prohibitory Laws in the countries where they have been tried. Then when opportunity occurs speak about these facts.

3. To carry help and comfort to the sick and sorrowful, and so make Temperance principles well thought of as aids to character. Let people say, “If Temperance means such helpful characters as this, we must be Temperance people too.” 4. Be home-making girls, so that .hose over whom we have influence will never need to leave their home to find comfort or pleasure. 5. Train the children. It is only a few years, and they will be the men and women, and every child

trained and educated means a Christian citizen and another vote for righ:. 0. Keep on keeping on. When you begin to waver, remember it is a sign that your work is really beginning to tell and good being done, and Satan knowing this, tries to weaken you by discouragement but God 15 wOl king, and will ultimately cause righteousness to triumph. Therefore, dear girls, never lose heart. 7. Belong, and show you arc proud to do so. Write if speech is impossible. Visit homes shadowed by drink with tender compassion lor the tern, ted, and pa.ient effort to save. Live holy. Pray always. 8. Girls can help by being convinced of the need for Temperance work, because they know the physical, economic and social damage caused by intemperance. By studying the methods of experienced workers and adopting those most suitable for their own .alents and opportunities. c> By realising that as Christian workers they are bound to fight the enemies of the Home, the Country, and the Church.

10. (tills can help by making halls beautiful for meetings with temperance baners and mottoes; prepare dainty refreshments, and serve them gracefully; set apart at least 15 minutes each day for systematic Temperance study; sing temperance songs, and teach the children to sing them; help the LT.L.’s; hold medal contests in aid of W.C.T.U. funds; keep a pledge book on hand, and sec ure signatures. 11. Watch their Sunday School libraries, and introduce Temperance books. Use unfermented wines in jellies for sick people. Pay surprise visits to local Union business meetings. 12. Then, again, girls can help bycarrying flowers. How many lives are brightened by these silent, sweetsmelling gifts. It is impossible to exaggerate the value of the flower mission, wri.es Miss E. Ormiston Chant, so tender, so softening, so purifying is the silent influence of the flowers. May the following lines, by Cora E. Tebery, be the prayer of all “Y” members: — “Y” HYMN. Air: “Watch on the Rhine.” Oh, God, our Father, in whose care Are Thy loved children everywhere,

Accept the grateful praise we bring, And gran: us blessings while we sing, Eor “God and Home and every land. We stand a pledged White Ribbon Band, Sworn to uphold the right, what e’er befall, Trusting our cause to 1 hec, our strength, our all. We consecrate to 1 hec our youth, For Rac e and Purity and Tru.h. Oh, help us set the “bruised” fiee, Oh, help us make the “blind” to see, To heal the broken hearts that mourn, To see sin’s slaves from bondage torn— These be the mighty aims each heart to fire, Grant us, Oh Mighty (iod, each heart’s desire. Yours for Service, S. A. MOODY. WORLD’S “Y” SUPERINTENDENT. 440, Central Park West, New York City, U.S.A. My Dear Mrs Moody,—

At the “Y” Conference of the recent World’s Convention at Brooklyn, 1 was instructed to send to you, and .0 the “Y’s” of New Zealand, through you, the heartiest greetings and kindest wishes of the representatives of the “Vs” of the world there assembled. Will you kindly convey this message, with .he added expression of my affectionate goodwill and keen personal interest, as 1 continue for another term in the office of General Secretary, re-elected thereto by the World’s W.C.T.U.?

1 will send you a copy of the World’s “Y” report, which 1 hope to have ready in the course of a few weeks, and 1 know you will do your utmost in the future as I believe you have in the past, .0 keep alive and growing ever stronger a warm interest in the “Y” Branch of the W.C.T.U. among the “Y’s” of New Zealand. W ith my love to yourself, and hop ing to hear from you. —I am always, your sincere comrade, AMY A. SWANKIE CAMERON.