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WHY AND HOW:

A HAND-BOOK FOR THE USE OF

THE W. C. T. UNIONS IN CANADA.

By MRS. ADDIE CHISHOLM,

PRESIDENT ONTARIO W. C. T. U.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

SUFFERING

CHAPTER II.

AWAKENING

CHAPTER III.

ORGANIZATION AND WORK

CHAPTER IV.

OUR CANADIAN W. C. T. U.

CHAPTER V.

WHY WOMEN SHOULD WORK

CHAPTER VI.

HOW WOMEN MAY WORK

CHAPTER VII.

HOW TO FORM A W. C. T. U.

CHAPTER VIII.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CHAPTER IX.

YOUNG WOMEN'S WORK

CHAPTER X.

A DREAM

CHAPTER XI.

CONCLUSION

CONSTITUTION

BY-LAWS

ORDER OF BUSINESS

THE TEMPERANCE HAND-BOOK

FOR THE USE OF

THE W. C. T. UNIONS

OF CANADA.

CHAPTER I.

SUFFERING.

It has been said "Woman has a capacity for suffering," and duringall the years of the past, in all countries and among all nations,woman has been proving this true. Since the dark day when "therestood by the cross of Jesus, his mother," and there came to thatmother's heart the agony of bereavement, the human disappointment andpangs, whose torture only the Father God could understand,—from thatday till the present, disappointment, trial and sorrow have enteredlargely into the life and experience of women. But of all clouds thathave darkened their lives and among all sharp swords that havepierced their hearts, the cloud of the liquor traffic has been thedarkest, and its blade the keenest. Myriads of women have looked withanguish on sacrifices offered and loved ones slain, not to savehumanity or to draw men nearer to God, but destroyed at the hands ofa tyrant as relentless as death, and as pitiless.

In heathen countries, children have been left to float out ofexistence, an offering to the gods, while the mother has turned sadlyand sorrowfully away; in Christian countries, children have driftedwith the tide of social customs, or inherited appetites for strongdrink, out of the boundless sea of evil and wretchedness, while womenhave wept and wondered, have pondered and prayed.

Mothers have seen their sons, strong and brave in their youngmanhood, venture on this stream of rapid currents, have watched themwith sad eyes, and called to them in pleading and terrified tones, asthey were carried on and on by the rushing waters. At last, it wastoo late even for mother's love to save, and they were drawn intothat terrible vortex, from which there is so seldom escape,despairing hands have reached out for help, the cry of the soul hasbeen an appeal for mercy, and another loved one has gone down avictim to the nation's greed and a sacrifice to the nation's sin.

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