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l-'roin an address on “The way we look at things” by Mrs. Pryor, at Sydenham Union. May 6: “A great deal of our unhappiness is caused by our tailurc to obtain the correct point ot view. Both our mental and physical ills could often be cured if we would only control our thoughts, and adopt an optimistic attitude towards life.” Remuera Union, March 22 Mrs. Drury of Canada, speaking of the difficulties of temperance work in her own land, said: “There are three menaces at work —war. drink and immorality, and they are highly commercialised by the power of the purse.” During a \isit to Japan Mrs. Drury -aw the work being done there by Christian women, through the W.C.T.U., to help others. “We should,” ''he said, “learn to lose our enemies, forget the atrocities of \sar, and work together.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 5, 1 June 1948, Page 9
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