OUR NEW PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 40, Issue 475, 18 April 1935, Page 8

OUR NEW PRESIDENT.

Mrs Hiett, our new Dominion President, needs no introduction to While Ribboner*. For several years she has been Dominion Vice-President, and has well and ably tilled the i>osition. During the Invercargill Convention, owing to Mrs Taylor's illness, she was acting - l’resident, end curried through the business in a manner pleasing to delegates and reflecting the greatest credit upon herself. Mrs Hiett has stepped into a very strenuous battle, but we have no doubt that wisely and well she will lead White Rihhoners in this trying year. We believe that, upneld by the prayers of our members and aided I*> their loyal support, she will lead our forces to victory

My dear White Ribbon Sisters, ~ I wish to thank you one and all for the very high honour which you have conferred on me. No one regrets more than myself the reason for the change in the presidency. Out beloved Mrs. T K. Taylor was a peerless leader and we will miss her tremendously in every way. We are very thankful that she is still in our ranks as Dominion Superintendent of Peace and Arbitration, and that most important department could not l>e in more capable hands. Very humbly and reverently I take up this high office. I thank Cod for the officers who are associated with me, and for Mrs. Taylor with whom 1 will often confer when in perplexity. And I rely on you, my comrades, to pray constantly for me that grace, wisdom and courage may be given me from day to day and especially as we are confronting a poll this year. We have come from our Convention with determination in our hearts and firm faith in our Lord to plan for the overthrow of the dread evil —the liquor traffic. Is

it the. time for the abolition of this evil? Some folk say no. It is always the time to uproot noxious weeds. It Is always the time to drain swamps to stive disease from spreadiiv’ It is always the time to eliminate that which hurts and destroys our fellow beings. God’s time is now, and God's time is our time. It is high time to awake, to get into swing to undermine strong drink. Cocktails are a menace. The brewers desire to capture youth. Surely we who stand for righteousness should be desirous of rupturing youth, not to drag them down but to set before them high ideals and tight with them and for them to break the power of a traffic that fattens on the degradation of youth. May God richly bless you in every endeavour for God, Home and Humanity whether in small or large Cnions. We are in till death or victory. Yours for Christ and His cause, JESSIE HIETT.