THE CLARION CALL OF THE W.C.T.U.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 15

THE CLARION CALL OF THE W.C.T.U.

Wanted, every man and woman to join our prayer campaign. Pray for Drink’s removal to conserve the Nation’s food, Shipping Space, Physical Efficiency, Moral Strength, and Spiritual Power. Send your name, address, and subscription to nearest local Union, or direct to Mrs Lee-Cowie, Amethyst Hall, Invercargill. We want every woman of every creed and class to jo.n us now. Sign our pledge, pay 2s 7d a year, wear our white bow, and pray with all your heart and soul and strength until we get prohibition. The boys are calling to the lonely mothers on the distant hill. The patient watcher by the silent mill, The weeping maid who watched her lover go, The l stricken widow bowed with weight of woe, The call come,'* r and tense and clear— Oh, women, save your boys, destroy the Beer. By shattered nerves and missing 1 mbs we cry, Our blind eyes lifted up to God on high ; Oh, gentle women, work and pray and think, To save us from the fell destroyerDrink. The bullets whiz, the bombs are hurtling round. For us on foreign soil no lull is found; But deadlier far in power to wound and kill, The product of the serpent liquor •till. Men of our Nation, women join to pray, And sweep the cruel traffic right away. ‘Ht’s no use waving a neutral flag in front of a shark.’’ —Lloyd George. What about the liquor traffic? “The sins ye do by two and two ve fchall pay for one by one.” —Kipling. “Follow not a multitude to do evil.” “\Y« treat this evil as though it were a. tame cat, whereas it is a wild tiger.”—Rev. Ross.

“We know the power of banded ill, But feel that love is mightier still, And organise for doing good New Zealand’s loyal womanhood.” —Whittier. Banish the Beer, save our sons. Friends and funds wanted for the Women’s Great Prohibition Campaign. Join us now. “Cease to do evil, learn to do well.” BESSIE LEE-COWIE.