Church Review/Vol. 2/No. 47

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THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> W. C. T. U. News <br> NOTES BY THE WAY. <br> MRS. W. H. TIBBALS. <br><br> Dear sisters, please do not forget the regular meeting of the Union on Saturday at 3 p. m. at the Presbyterian church. There is considerable business to attend to and we desire a large attendance. We feel sure you have this work at heart and would be so glad if you could find time to attend the meetings more often. <br><br> The national convention of the W. C. T. U. occurs in Cleveland Ohio, November 16-21 and promises to be of more than usual interest. Miss Willard will preside. These annual meetings of the W. C. T. U. have come to be the most important events in the temperance calendar, bringing together as they do a host o£ earnest, aggressive and enthusiastic workers. The cause receives a new and distinct impetus every year from these meetings. Oh that it were possible for some of our white ribboners to attend that they might bring back to us fresh inspiration for our work. Utah is so far away from all these helpful things, that we seem to be struggling all alone with the evils of intemperance. There will be many sad hearts at this convention over the absence of the beloved secretary, Mrs. Mary Woodbridg, whose sudden death caused a wave of sadness to roll over the great army of white ribboners. We could ill afford to spare one so beloved and so efficient a worker. She was called Mrs. Willard's "right arm;" but God knows best and she has gone to her reward. <br><br> I wish every member of the Union would visit the "Sunbeam Sunday School." It will do you good I am sure to look into the bright appreciative faces of those poor children and hear them sing. It is a work we may feel proud of. Our heart-felt thanks are due to Mr. Lister for his kind and efficient help in carrying on this work. <br><br> The finance question is troubling the president of this Union just at present. I believe our treasury is nearly empty, and we have quite a debt hanging over us, and work that cannot be done without money. What are we going to do about it? <br><br> It gives us great cause for rejoicing when we see the heads of the Catholic church taking such interest in the cause of temperance. Archbishop Ireland, in an address delivered before the Total Abstinence Union of Philadelphia, thus express himself: "Temperance is a question of vital importance from whatever standpoint you may consider it. Let us take the material benefits that accrue from it; put it as a question of simple political economy. Much is said today of the material welfare of the people. It is an aim in which we strive to give the greatest number the best share of material happiness which it is possible to have, and this attention to the welfare of the people is an evidence of the high civilization and Christianity of our times. In whatever state we turn we listen to discussions on labor, for the rights and betterment of labor, but at the very start of all these questions of social and political economy we must put the question of temperance. <br> "The use of intoxicating liquors brings no benefit whatever to him that uses it but how much money is constantly spent for it by the workingman. I know the need he has for these dollars, and yet in the country at large the amount spent yearly is simply appalling. How many would be in comfortable circumstances but for this money spent in drink? Far better indeed did they burn the sums. The saloon keeper is the hardest taskmaster. The moment people take the pledge they learn the value of money and afterwards learn to work for themselves and not the saloonkeepers. I read with interest the account of one of our bishops giving forth the decree that no saloon keepers should be at the head of any Catholic society and I thanked God from the bottom of my heart when the words came forth from the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Satolli confirming the decree of the Bishop. I say emphatically that the church should not look with favor upon any saloon keeper, for the man who deals out the soul destroying liquor is far beneath him who imbibes it. <br> "I have, walked through the streets of our city and looked over the doors of business and banking houses for Catholic names but I am sorry to say I found very few. But, O Great God! what sorrow and bitterness came to my heart when I looked over the doors of our saloons and found on nearly all of them Catholic names." <br><br> "The Young Women's Christian Association of Michigan includes nineteen associations with a membership of 2,000." <br><br> Over 400 delegates were present at the annual state convention of the Young Men's Christian Association at Ann Arbor, Mich., recently. They represented about 6,000 members. <br><br> "We are fearing God when we fear to do wrong." <br> "Faith in God changes the coffin into a chariot." <br> "Love never bestows a burden that is heavy."