APPEAL OF WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3094, 26 May 1917, Page 5

APPEAL OF WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

"Wo shall lose a million pounds by Prohibition," cry the Browers, .. : ' "Wo,shall save a million boys by Prohibition," cry the Mothers.

Wo women plead for Prohibition which really means "Home Protection." Tho Brewers say, "Let us mnko money," but we, -with God, say, "Let us mnko Men." What about the ltoveuue? "If thy revenue cause thee to sin, cut it off. It were better for thee to enter Heaven with, a deficit than having a surplus bo cast into Hell." Remember, it is righteousness and not revenue that cxall'eth a nation. ".Rise up ye women that sit at ease, give ear to my word, ye careless daughters. Tragedy, pain, and death aro in our land from a proventiblo cause, and tho weeping women, the shy girls, the nervous mothers, the' shrinking daughters, aro called to take up tho cross \o save the Sons of Britain. 'Call for tho women.that they may come.' . . .1 for Death is come, to cut off tho children, and the young men."—Jeremiah ix, 17-21. .' "We aro all now fighting the terriblo red plague." Drink leads to tho sin that causes tho loathsomo venereal disease, intensifies tho suffering, suid lessens tho victims' hope of recovery."—Hon. Russell. Dr. Platts Mills says: "Women are the unhappy victims of sins not their own, and children are born—blind, diseased, «nd crippled through tho fathers' early sins." Wo are losing tho ono great absolute need of our country to-dav. ITS MAN-POWEK, through Drink and Drink's attendant vices. . "It is not tho will of your Father that one should perish," but by tho will of the Brewer, thousands perish. Which will YOU stand for? Boys or Beer? Men or Money? Wives or Whisky? Girls or Gold? Mothers or Misery? God or Greed? Men and women of every church and creed join us in a great prayer campaign to rid our land of Drink's cruel tyranny. Pray in your homes, your churches, your -meetings, gather your neighbours lo pray, then go out 100,000 strong, to pray in the bars and public thoroughfares, until the overwhelming power or God, working through- hearts that love intensely, shall sweep the Liquor Traffic into oblivion. "This evil goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."—Mark ix, 28. Tsaiah; Iviii: "We have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin." But w:e are ready to do so now. Tf our Bovs are dying becauso of this evil, wo will die to save them from it. JJo hatchets, no axes, no destruction of property, for "the. weapons of our warfare are not casual, but' mightv through God to the nulling down of'the strongholds of evil." As meek as the gentle Master we will do and dare to save our Nation from the destruction that -. is threatening it. "God shall answer by terriblo things .righteousness," and we by passionate pleading prayer shall "lift up the gates and open the'doors and let the King of Glory in." Women wanting to join our W.T.C.U., 'to- work in any way, send names to nearest local union or direct to Mrs. Lee-Cowie, organiser, Strength and of Nation Movement, Invercargill. Every woman, como and help our nation in its need. 1

Sunday, 7 p.m., Central Mission, Mrs. Harrison Lee-Cowio will, speak— (Published by Arrangement.)'