1920.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 295, 19 January 1920, Page 1

1920.

i ■'. u oil ilu* lull" ol the mommy I In* 11miii <>f lln* New Near arise, lie stood hke « statue adorning I lie world with .1 background of skies ; 1 lieu weie coinage and glace in his beautiful face, And hope in his glorious e>es bully you more blosings than terrors, I hi my vou more sunliylit than gloom; I i n out youi page ot old errois, \nd hide them awax in Time’s tomb. I !e,K !i vou .Iran hands, and lead on to lands Where the lilies of peace art* in bloom. Ft»K(iKTTIN<‘» I lIK TIIINCS THAT \KI: MKIIIND. FOgct. St a nd my just within tin polling portals nl a. not he 1 \ear, we *.!"♦. one backwird look, ere we pass >n to the new. 1 <) 1 <j was a ve.n ol luyh endeavour, ml shall I -ax o» faihue? Nay, not ' ! are, only deferred hopes, for “tTicx ' • vrr fail who dare to try again." I lie \ear was 1 record one, in that we I txxo Piohibition polls in it. Out hopes soared high, but Ih»th times v ton xxas snatched from our grasp, d <• fust time by the compensation 1 "yex ; the second time by State (’on ti d as a third issue. \re we down hearted? No, xx<* thank Clod for what has been gained: we learn les ns from out defeat, and xvr tak«* <"tiraye for *he future. We forget the things that ought to be left be

hind, the tears, the doubts, the tail men of the past, and press foi w. id to the greater tilings that are to he won. “Throw overbuild toil misdirected, I blow oveiboaid ill-advised hope. With aims which Jour soul .has de ’ected, Have self as their centre and scope. Throw overboard useless regretting I or deeds, which you cannot undo, \nd learn the great art of forgetting (i!d things which embitter the new.-’’ Press Forward. Reaching forw id to tii* things xxhi< h are before, I I a*" forward. (lur motto fin the year, ‘‘l’iess Forward. M We have p> time to c.d) a halt. I he iair gat Jen of oui Dominion must be cleansed from the toul weed of the licensed liquor bar. Foi many years we cultivated tins weed, iicen sing bars, and encouraged tic* n ila . I list a few people, then «oi in< re-*siny number, awoke to the fad that the land was a!in<’>t overgroxvn hx this foul, poisonous xxecd, and voluntees** were called to help clear it away. The clearing process has core on more or less vigorously foi ovei a quarter of a centuiy. We might have* succeeded hist year, but alas! many of our strong, vigorous young men left their homes to light in theii de fence. W e made n«» effort to prote< t the'm from the profiteers who sowed the seeds of this vile plant in then hearts and lives. They returned r " its in manx instance?*, sl.ixrs of the 1 (lisonous xvred, and fighting against its uprooting Now we have* to f;u e tinothe'r three year period, and xxe must get busv at once, and make sun*

work this time. * ii.txe we learned any lesson-, tioin the past year.' Ncs, xxe have lea nil tie 1 utility ot oig.misiiig only ioi me immediate future. It is good to 01 ganise Young Women’s (iuilds and Kthciency Leagues to lu lp foi ra< h poll; it is better to link up all oui women workers in our great Whin Ribbon organis <tion, which works foi all time; it is best of all to unite every temperance* organisation into one (>reat Federation, and present a unit ed and an irresistible fiont to the enemy. 1. (in in for a great membership campaign. Visit every woman in yoin district, get them to join the I’nion; if they refuse, trx' and induce* them to take the “White Ribbon” to study the movement and lr;nn about oui ot gamsation, so that you may xxin them event u illy as members. 2. T.verx member must he a woiket i heie is xxork for each to do, and it xxe wish for success xxt* must pray fu» ii and w<*ik for it I’ray definitely every day foi the elownfdl <>* 1 1 « liepior trade, wait quietly upon C'«»d (you are a <o worker togethe** woh him) until Ih* t «*11 xou xxhat you ;.*'• to do, and then do it “(let into the light foi (iod and the light. The fight that i" on to elax - . For church increased, in a land H leased From rum’s satanic sxxax. (let into the fight with hea't and might. For the sake of the wearx tho ng (>| waifs utulad and women sad, \nd brother men g<»nc xxrong.

fic“. into the ught. Time wings n* flight, (jet into the light to-day J here is work to do, and the call means >vou: (jet into the tight to stay.’ 5 3. l*iess for Scientific Temperance teaching to be compulsory in out schools and training colleges. Our children must he taught not fancies and isms, out tacts The medh.il profession know the facts, ami are teaching them, anyone* reading the account of the Christ* hurch meeting in this issue can see. What <.ur doc tors icll us atiout alcohol must he taught to every child in this Dotnin ion, and thiemgli om schools is the only way to reach practicalK rverv child. We must stait our New Year with definite plans of work. I.et those* he* faithfully carried out, praying earnest Iv, working steadily, never omitting one oD'iortunity to win anothci me:n her. The new \c.ll is I etore us. I.et us write upon its pages a !**<•» of loyally and devotion to C»od arid the Right. “Sing who will of dead ye*. ns departed, I shroud them and hid them adieu, \nd the song that 1 sing, Lapp heal ted, Is a song of the glorious new