Mrs. FORRESTER-PATON

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 8, 1 September 1949, Page 1

Mrs. FORRESTER-PATON

President of a World-wide Sisterhood

In our happy anticipation of Mrs. Korrester-Paton’s visit to New Zealand, one great factor is that in her we shall *ee the actual personification of the “ tie that binds ” so many women, of so many lands, in one united army, organised to make war upon the Root Evil of our time. Each country in the World W.C.T.U. has its own problems, its own methods and its own organisation. In our land we have certain aspects to consider which do not enter into the working of the Union elsewhere. But, these differences are merely skin deep. At heart there is one glowing core of intense belief in the rightness of our cause—that of educating and agitating until we have secured “Total abstinence for the individual and Prohibition if' tlie Nation.'' Here east joins west, and north, south. And, when we sec a woman, chosen by her comrades from all parts of the world, as their leader and President in this holy war, we shall welcome her, not only for her own sake, however warmly and whole-heartedly we shall do that, but because she represents the women of we shall never see; and because she has brought from them something of courage in danger and disaster, of heroic battling for God, Home and Humanity, which she will pass on to us. in her contact, brief as it must be, /with us in our far-off islands. Her personal dedication of her life to the work of Temperance will inspire and nerve

many timid souls, and strengthen those whose years of service may have wearied somcw’hat. We pray for the richest blessing of Cod upon her and her husband during their stay here; and for a safe and happy return to their own beloved Scotland.