KEEP YOUR FLAG FLYING.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 376, 18 October 1926, Page 12

KEEP YOUR FLAG FLYING.

The other evening, I attended a meeting of a Sunday School Teachers Association, and listened with great interest to the report of the Sunday School Visitor. On one occasion, he visited a Sunday School on a very wet, stormy afternoon, when the attendance was small. He said to the children: “Don't go home and say: ‘Oh, mother, there wore only 10 or 15 children at School to-day.’ Hut say: ‘Oh, mother, there were thousands and thousands of children at Sunday School to-day.’ For, remember, you are only a very small part of a great and glorious company who. throughout this Dominion, and throughout the whole world, are meeting, Sabbath by Sabbath, in the Sunday Schools.“ I felt that this applied also to our Union meetings, for. as, “It is always noon-tide somewhere,” so it is always afternoon and evening somewhere, and throughout the whole world there an 1 , meeting continually under our banner, groups of earnest, prayerful women, sometimes very small in number, sometimes large, but each one absolutely necessary to C.od, and Home and Humanity. Don’t say: “Our meetings are so small, is it worth while carrying on?" Of course, it is worth w’hile! The Dominion W.C.T.U. needs you; the World s W.C.T.U. needs you; the little feet coming along the road need you; Ood needs you. When meetings are small, turn them into prayer-circles, and the whole atmosphere of that day will be changed for you. One of the oldest members of our Union, told of how the branch of which she was President dwindled down until there were only two members left, herself and another. These two met together each meeting day for prayer. Once, the other

member suggested to the President that they drop it. The President replied: “1 will never haul down the Standard.” The prayer meetings continued, and the membership of that Union stands to-day at over 30. “1 am only one, Hut still I am one; I cannot do everything, Hut I can do something; What 1 can do I ought to do, And what I ought to do, God helping me, I will do.’’