L.T.L. DEPARTMENT

White Ribbon, Volume 27, Issue 4, 1 August 1955, Page 3

L.T.L. DEPARTMENT

Dear Sisters, At the last Convention I was again appointed Supt. of the "Loyal Temperance Legion" Department. I still think the work of our Youth Departments to be of very great importance. I realize the importance of the training for good citizt .ship and the need'for temperance education, especially those subjects which form the bans for the junior programme.

I am very sad to learn we have lost some Legions throughout the Dominion It is difficult to get leader*, but if only three or four children are willing to come they should be met, and leaders could be trained. It is also said that some of our wonderful women of the W.CT.U. are passing on, and there seem so few younger women coming forward to fill their places. Dc not forget, comrades, that the L.T.L.s are our garden, for by promoting the L.T.L. we sow seeds •f Christian Temperance. Let us look to the Lord to give us wisdom and courage to train the little ones in the pathway of temperance and Christian citizenship. How true is this poem 1 found one day: "I found a bit of plastic day And idly fashioned it one day; And as my fingers pressed it, still It moved and yielded to my will. 1 came again when day had passed— The bit of clay was hard at last; The form I Rave it, still it bore, But I could change that form no more." I took a piece of living clay, And gently formed it day by day. And moulded with my power and art A young child's soft and yielding heart. I came again when years had gone. It was a man I looked upon; He still that early impress wore, AnH 1 cculd change him nevermore." Yours lovingly, For the Children. Amy Kasper.