The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...in the gift of the temperance women of America, and by a unanimous vote. It is a pleasant sight to see our friend, in her cheery Philadelphia home, with her efficient secretaries, Miss Fisher and Miss Merchant, and her exemplary son, Charlie, around her, all of them blithe and busy as so many bees. In addition to the care of her two papers and the duties of her office as our President, this indefatigable worker is writing a ' History of the Woman's Temperance Crusade.' Mrs. Wittenmyer is devoted to the advancement of her sex in usefulness and opportunity. First, last, and always she is ' a woman's woman.' Her editorials ' cry and spare not' against the tyranny of prejudice and custom. She tilts a free lance, and deals blows worthy of a more stalwart arm. ' The See Trial' (' None so blind as those who wont') was the occasion of several cogent arguments from her pen, to prove that women ' have a right to preach or speak in the pulpit, ' and she has recently added to the larger of the two editions of her paper a department headed, ' Pulpit of The Christian Woman, ' in which a 'sermon' appears monthly from the pen of some one of the rapidly growing sisterhood of evangelists. The Crusade spirit abides with Mrs. Wittenmyer; the Gospel work is her delight, and her hymn of ' Victory, ' written for our convention at Newark, embodies her declaration of faith as a temperance reformer. The first verse of this hymn forms a fitting close to this imperfect sketch: -- The Lord is our refuge and strength; His promises never can fail; We've learned the sweet lesson at length, His grace over sin can prevail. In the sweet by and by We will conquer the demon of rum; In the sweet by and by The kingdom of heaven will come. OUR HOPE AND OUR REASONS FOR IT. At the...