FROM THE DOMINION PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume VI, Issue 6, 18 December 1934, Page 2

FROM THE DOMINION PRESIDENT.

CH HIST MAS ANI > NKW YEAR GREETINGS. I h*ur Sisters, Once more it is my privilege to semi you the mason's heartiest t, r rectin«s, a Joyous Christmas uwd a Wry Happy New Year 1 to all of you May peace and goodwill abide with each of us. Oii my own behalf and on that ol your I dominion officers, I send good wishes to all District and lo< al officers, to all Superintendents, and to all mein hers of every local Union. May the holiday musoii n ore of refreshment and new vision, inspiration, and a will to l>e up and dow'.„ for the Master. As this old year passes into eternity, a new year of hope and opportunity will dawn. Wt us look to the future and the light that shines on the path ahead of us, forgetting the sorrows and disappointments of it, and rememliering only the good. us not he afraid of !ile. hut glory in it. Take it in faith, and make a noble adventure of it, and go on with joy and purpose singing in our souls. As a body of women, let us aim to make our existence felt. I,#*t us ever stand foursquare to all that mars Clod’s image in man. Out of the infinite possibilities of our great Union, let Us each one evolve 1 1 ** r share in bringing to man’s acceptance the love and redemption of that first Christmas Pny so iong ago. Whatever the world may say of the possibility of our reforms coming to pass. Jet us need not its voice. If aught is a stumbling block in the good of flod’s purpose through Christ, then

we must strive to remove It; yea, though 1* take generations to do so. The nations of the world, through the Lei. Mie, are facing the coloesa 1 task of controlling and abolishing the “Drug Traffic, I'he Tiaffic in Women,’’ and the "Traffic in Aims’’ Why not the “Traffic m Strong Drink"? the greatest • vil of them all. It is the women, as keepers of the lace and the tiansinitters of life, who must lead the way, and demand that ihe children of the genera;ions tr come shah have a chance to Is* turn with a Itody and brain free from tin* poison of alcohol and social disease. Therefore, in the year to come It * no thought <d' difficulty, expediency, or lack of faith dim our vision of the heights to which man, made in God’s may attain, not in future days only, but now, “Standeth God within the shadow ;, keeping watch above His own.’’ "A glorious song of rejoicing In an innermost spit it I hear, And it sounds like heavenly voices In a chorus divine and clear. With God in the great forever With the children of earth I stand, And His light flowing out like a river. Shall bless and redeem the land.”