STRENGTH OF THE NATION MOVEMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 264, 18 June 1917, Page 6

STRENGTH OF THE NATION MOVEMENT.

Dear Comrades, — We require £IOO a month lor our Prohibition Campaign to carry it into every important newspaper, and reach every churih. So for two months I have received: —Sale of lace, etc., £$ 2s; Matakuna, £2 ; Otahuhu, £\ 11s; Au kland. 255; Mrs Napier, /T ; Mrs Jones, 10s ; Mrs Garroway, £5 2s 6d; Mrs Macalister, j£io; Invercargill meeting, £4 12s; Gore, ,£4 14s; Mosgiel, £\ ; Dunedin, £<) 10s; Mrs Houlder, 10s; Mrs Gilmore, ss: a total of is (>d. Our expenditure has been 18s to June 2nd. 1 am not asking our Executive to find one penny, but if our 90 Branches could give or collect £2 each we could go on splendidly. Is our cause worth that extra effort, dear ones? Our Manifestos have received warmest approval from all parts of our Dominion. If any have not yet received supplies of either Nos. 1 or 2, please write me at once, (are Mrs Houlder, 108, Wallace Street, Wellington. I have had 2000 copies of that magnificent book, “Defeat," printed, to supply at 6d per copy, postage extra. Now, I shall want 200 c orders through Mrs lloulder, Literature Superintendent, please. No member should be without a copy of this thrilling book. Post it to every M.P., Minister, Society Guild, and Organisation in New Zealand. Send it to every friend and foe. Sell dozens wherever meetings are held. Try to get it into every home, for “Defeat" arousing every true patriot, will mean “Victory" over every evil. My books f >r children, “Auntie Faith’s Travels," price is each, are also dedicated to our funds. Could you order for Sunday Schools, Bands of Hope, and the home circles? Good iced sowing, good harvesting by-and-bv. I rejoice to report splendid meetings in c\ery centre 1 have been able to visit, and such an accession of new members as we have never had since our inception. Over 370 up to date. May 1 plead that all these new members may be welcomed into such an atmosphere of love and prayer and holy self-sacrifice as shall lift them God ward at on<e? Are you all praying fervently, my sisters, tor drink destruction? Effectual fervent prayers of the righteous availeth

much. Wherever you can get a neighbour to join you, read bits out of our “White Ribbon," or “Defeat,” or the “Vanguard," and then pray with all your heart and mind and will in your pra>ers, and God will answer. “There are more things wrought by prayer than this world dreams oi * 1 his mighty prevailing power can be just as effective if used by a widow, an invalid, an old age pensioner, .1 lonely back-blocks woman, a tired toiler, as by the King of England or the greatest preacher the world has ever known. No one is too poor or old or weak; no one is too far away; no one too humble or unknown. So, beloved, whoever you are, w herever you are, girdle our land with prayer, and help us save an Empire. Lovingly yours, in Christ’s prevailing power, BESSIE LEE-COW lE, Organiser “Strength of Nation Movement. ”