In a lecture for young women, Frances E. Willard, the temperance worker, tells us that the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union has thirty-eight auxiliary State and nine Territorial Unions, besides that of the District of Columbia, conducted entirely by women, and she calls upon benevolent women all over the land to come into the service of these Unions, both to assist and be assisted. Her own enthusiasm kindles the slumbering interest of everybody who comes in contact with her. "Here, at last," she says, "the world is all before you, where to choose. There is a welcome from the best, for women, on the moral battlefields of this busy age. Soldiers are needed, new recruits eagerly sought. Growth of brain, heart, and conscience is nowhere more certainly assured."
The poor are ever with us as problems for solution.
No one unacquainted with the marvellous results in temperance reform and moral improvement accomplished by the quiet Scientists in their daily ministrations, could believe it possible that what those philanthropic laborers (the regularly organized army of temperance workers) take months and years to effect, could be made almost instantaneous reformations if attempted in the understanding of true science. With all such reforms the Scientists are in deep sympathy, and regret only the one fact, that these busy workers will not stop for a moment to listen to wise words of counsel from their own brave leader and world reformer. In her counsel is the key to all achievement,— the irresistible power of Love scientifically applied for moral and physical uplifting.
