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WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 



and brain, and the unfoldings of science on this 

 theme are given in a series of leaflets, while 

 more and more it is claiming the attention of 

 our lecturers. 



For the further education' of the people, es- 

 pecially those who do not attend temperance 

 meetings held in their own towns, but who will 

 gladly go to listen for want of something else to 

 employ the mind and help to while away the time 

 when away for the summer, at mountain or sea- 

 side, mass temperance meetings are held at nearly 

 all summer resorts. For those workers who dur- 

 ing other months are busy with the various lines 

 of work in their own towns, who for this reason 

 have little time to study ways and mean, Schools 

 of Methods are held at Chautauqua Assembly 

 grounds, camp meetings, etc., where the best 

 methods are taught, that trained workers may 

 take the places of those now unskilled. 



The foundation underlying the whole super- 

 structure of this society is its Evangelistic Depart- 

 ment. It aims to inspire its members to diligent 

 effort in carrying to the drinking classes the Gos- 

 pel cure for intemperance. Its methods are to 

 hold meetings among non-church-goers, to go 

 out into the by-ways and open the door of oppor- 

 tunity to those who are seemingly otherwise shut 

 out, and proclaim to them a more excellent way. 

 It has a Department of Bible Study in charge of 

 the Rev. A. A. Wright, D. D., of Cambridge, 

 Mass., Dean of the University of Chautauqua. 

 This is designed for those who desire to be evan 

 gelists. A course has been prepared embracing 

 four years of study, including in each year se- 

 lected portions of the historical, practical-evan- 

 gelistic, and epistolary portions of Scripture, and 

 recommending the best helps and introducing the 

 student to an acquaintance with the elementary 

 Greek text. This course of study is carried on 

 by recitation questions issued by the dean, and 

 full examinations are required in the presence 

 of committees. 



The Department of Work in Prisons, Jails, and 

 Police Stations aims to carry the gospel to the 

 inmates of these places, to co-operate with pris- 

 oners' aid associations, and assist in establishing 

 women's reformatory prisons and industrial 

 homes for the criminal classes; to secure the ap- 

 pointment of women on State boards of char- 

 ities, and matrons in prisons and police stations 

 where women are imprisoned or under arrest. 

 The Gospel and police-matron work is directly 

 under the auspices of the Union, while the other 

 branches are co-operative with outside organiza- 

 tions. 



Work in almshouses and asylums seeks to 

 brighten the lives of the unfortunates found 

 in each ; to secure the establishment of orphans' 

 homes, and the transfer of children found in 

 almshouses to these homes; the holding of gos- 

 pel and temperance meetings in these same insti- 

 tutions, and bringing good influences from out- 

 side to bear upon the inmates. 



The Flower Mission is intimately related to 

 the two foregoing departments, inasmuch as it 

 strives, by the aid of flowers and kindly min- 

 istrations, to win hsarts otherwise hopelessly 

 alienated from All that is good and pure. By bo- 

 quets tied with white ribbon with a Scripture 

 verse or temperance selection attached, and the 

 total-abstinence pledge offered at appropriate 



times, this department aims to graft the Gospel 

 upon a beautiful form of philanthropy. 



The Railroad Department includes railroad 

 men, telegraph operators, etc., express and hack- 

 men, and news agents, and seeks to organize 

 among them Gospel and temperance clubs or rail- 

 road unions, and to present the pledge at shop 

 and round-house meetings and distribute among 

 them temperance literature. 



The Department of Soldiers and Sailors aims 

 to reach the army and navy with Gospel tem- 

 perance work; to secure the prohibition of sa- 

 loons in soldiers' homes, forts, camps, etc ; also 

 to enlist in this peaceful war all veterans, both 

 North and South ; to inculcate in the young 

 the spirit of true patriotism, and to secure their 

 aid in placing a flag on every schoolhouse in the 

 land. 



Work among lumbermen aims to carry the 

 gospel of temperance to the armies of men in the 

 logging camps who are generally destitute of re- 

 ligious or moral teaching and of all temperance 

 or Christian influences. The same methods are 

 used in the work among miners, and the same 

 results are sought for. 



The relation known to exist between the drink 

 habit and the nameless habits, outrages, and 

 crimes that disgrace modern civilization has led 

 the Union to adopt a Department for the Promo- 

 tion of Social Purity, to point out and emphasize 

 the brutalizing influence of intoxicating liquors 

 upon the social nature, to educate and thus fore- 

 warn and forearm the young, to establish a sin- 

 gle code of morals and maintain the law of 

 purity as equally binding upon men and women, 

 and to impress upon the minds of all the ab- 

 solute demand of religion and physiology for 

 purity in word, thought, and deed. lit en- 

 deavors to secure legislation calculated to pro- 

 tect honor and virtue in the young, and to 

 defend women and girls from brutal men. 



The Union asks a better observance of Sunday, 

 and tries to secure a day of rest for all the em- 

 ployed. It aims to interest the more conserva- 

 tive social classes of society by its Department 

 of Parlor Meetings, held in homes where the 

 audience is gathered by special invitation and 

 refreshments are served. 



The Department of State and County Fairs 

 protests against the sale of intoxicants on holi- 

 day occasions, at State and county fairs, and at 

 all places where the people congregate in a public 

 capacity. 



The aim of the Department of Legislation 

 and Petitions is to secure the prohibition of the 

 traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage by 

 constitutional amendment and statutory law in 

 every State and Territory and by an amendment 

 to the National Constitution. 



The Department of Franchise seeks to aid the 

 women in utilizing the school ballot for temper- 

 ance, in those States where such laws are in 

 force, and to secure it where not ; and to assist 

 hi securing the full ballot where that is a line of 

 work. 



The Department of Peace and International 

 Arbitration aims to secure such teaching for the 

 children in home, Sunday-schools, and public 

 schools, and juvenile temperance societies, as 

 will make them opposed to physical combat. It 

 urges that arbitration shall take the place of 



