HEADQUARTERS.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 387, 18 October 1927, Page 1

HEADQUARTERS.

Our Dominion Union is homeless; so are nearly all our District Unions, aril few local branches have their own home. The urgency of our need is being recognised, and we have a Headquarters Fund for our Dominion Union. Some local and district Unions are also longing for a home. Our Dominion work in all its branches is growing so rapidly that it needs a home where all its records, its literature, its official organ, could he housed, and where information could always be obtained.. Dr. Mary Armour has told us how her own JStatv of Georgia needed a home, and how Go \ supplied their need when they put their trust in Him. Dr. Armour has sought the aid of Divine Power, she has sought in faith, and she is working together with God to gain wiiat she desires. What is the reason tin* women of our own W.C.T.U. do not take God at His word. Our work fur God. Home and Huinanit) is being crippled by need of a home and a central station; w'h\ not trust Him to supply our need. Pray devoutly—-work away stoutly. NEWS FROM DR. MARY ARMOUR. LETTER TO MRS DON. “1 must tell you of a wonderful f answer to prayer 1 had not long ago. We have been paying rent on Headquarters. and 1 have been begging most of the money tx> keep the Headquarters going. Well, some time ago I had a severe attack of flue, and it seemed as if 1 might pass out. During the time* 1 was so ill, 1 kept thinking of the Ga. W.C.T.U.,

ami how they would be orphaned, so far as a money raiser was concerned, if 1 died then for Mio Florence Atkins anil 1 are the only iwo people in Ga. who will ask for money, so 1 prayed very earnestly for health and promised the Lord if He would spare me, that I would raise the money, if the women would authorize me to do so, and use the sum ( 3(!.000dols.) as an endowment fund the interest to be used for expenses of Headquarters. I was then raised up, and went before tlie State Convention and requested the privilege of raising the 30,000d015. for that purpose. It was smilingly granted. Then the burden settled clowm on buy shoulders. 1 began to pray for that money (30,000dol3) on the first day of March, 1 92 7. Without my ever having asked him, or any one else, for I had not begun to solicit, a big-hearted man of Atlanta came to see me, and told me that he wanted to give us this p;operty, ami it was valued at 30,000 dels. It is true that he made conditions, that it must always be used for W.C.T.U. Headquarters, or sold, ar.d the money must be re-invested for that purpose iu the City of Atlanta, and that we must raise 15.000d015. maintenance fund both wise provisions ana easily fulfilled. But I think it is a most wonderfully direct answer to prayer. I am now praying for the 15,000d015., hut expect to have to work for it too. I know you will rejoice with me, that is why I w r anted you to know. Of course, 1 know the people are disgusted with the things they read about Prohibition in the United States, but it has already done more for us than all the rest of the laws

we ever wrote. The world cannot be fooled always. Some day the} will be compelled to see that Prohibition nas literally worked miracles in the U.S.A. Mr McAdoo was invited to deliver the literary address at Mercer Commencement in Macon this year. The new Municipal Auditorium seats 1,000, and it was tilled. He spoke largely on Prohibition, ami it was glorious to hear that strong, brainy man, who lives on the Pacific Coast, and has covered (almost! every foot of America over and over—a man who is recognised as one of the biggest men in thic country— defend and laud the 18th Amendment. I w r ill not bore you with Prohibition arguments. I have just completed a six months' lecturing tour, including Cuba, Florida, Georgia, (Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, then stopped in Grenville South to see my bo/. 1 am going to have two months’ rest from speaking, but will have to go to North Carolina to attend the Summer Assembly, where our Board of Temperance and Social Service of the M.E. Church .South meets. For one week, help with the Y.P.B. encampment at Toccoa Falls, then go to Atlanta to speak at the Banquet, which the State W.C.T.U. is giving to our Senators and representatives (see enclosed eircuh r, we are sending engraved invitations to all the representatives and their wives.! They are got up in fine style, just like wedding invitations. This will be a big thing. Mrs Marvin Williams is making a perfectly splendid President. In August I mean to go ♦,o Uinona »o the World League

Conference Against Alcoholism. Will be there only three days, as engagements prevent my being there through the whole Convention. Had to cancel some dates to do that, but felt 1 could not afiord to miss the entire Conference, it is to be a great occasion. From there 1 go to Miuneap nis t'» the National Convention, and then hack to Pennsylvania to fill three weeks’ lecture engagements, and 1 begin a round of State Conventions, which will bring ine up to the last of November.” A letter to Mrs Cooke, Auckland President, gives further particulars. ‘‘Then I had to raise the 15,000 dollars for maintenance, and I have half that subscribed. Not long since I was going to speak at a District Hally in Canton. I have been going to Canton and speaki» i 3 for thi* cause for 15 years, but the rich man of the town I had not met. He is quite old, and I think does not go out at night often. But at this meeting 1 was to speak in the day. 1 woke up the night before thinking of the maintenance fund, and got up and knelt and asked God to send this man to my meeting the next day, and when I walked into the hall he was there. I asked for an introduction, and then told him about our gift and the money I had to raise, and asked him for 1,000 dollars which he willingly gave me. Yet, some people do not believe that God htars and answers prayer. I hope to get the whole 15,000 dollars subscribed during my vacation. I read the White Ribbon with tli*• greatest interest. ?.nd pleasure. It is a fine pa>er, and 1 .*ust love it. So sorry to in one istue of the death of my beloveu friend, Mr Bro«,d. and also of Miss Kutti Atkinson; both were so very lovely to me. Give my love to all the blessed White Ribbon sisterhood.”