NBWTA Report 1903-070
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135 134 the £11 10s. was taken at the literature stall. All this way outside are what ham, Birming of Women White Ribbon B.W.T A. work. you doing inside your own branches ? Mrs. Penrose urges Branch Secretaries to inform their members She says that, in speaking about the Purity Library at Headquarters. . members know B.W.T.A the that finds she outside the D. and N.U., nothing about it. Several ladies who are not B.W. members but ; abstainers decided to join our Association for the sake of the library others said they already belonged to us, but had never heard of it. I wish again to emphasize the point, that all subscribers of five to shillings or over to the Purity Work of the N.B.W.T.A. have a right not. or Women Ribbon White use the library whether With regard to this library, Miss Hunt reports that during the last twelye months 350 books were sent out and travelled as far South as Cornwall, and North as Perth and Fife. Several have passed to and It seems a little difficult to get the members to from Stockholm, Some ladies ask for four or five understand the nature of the library. Some of the is the rule. only one once; at them sent be to books them and to sent be to boxes supply branches think we ought to Their right course is to found a changed every three months only. A very good beginning can be made for £2, library of their own. and if they were to hold a cake and apron sale or pound sale, the In many cases we have money for the purpose could soon be raised, had to supply three copies of a favourite book, but our funds will not allow of such purchases ad lbetum. If our work is to increase And now on the subject of funds. There is a disposition to liberal. more be must friends as it should, get all possible help out of this work and giye nothing in return. Christ’s law is: “Give and it shall be given to you.” Until we make some real sacrifice for any good thing, we are apt to fail to grasp its reality, and when we have grasped for ourselves this Gospel of a Pure Heart and a Pure Body, we cannot rest until we have passed it on to Who will help to do this? others. Letters and literature In many aspects our work is world-wide. As I write a card lies on my desk begging for are sent to every land. We are constantly receiving this sort of appeal. help for Jamaica, Mrs. James (Baptist Missionary Society, Calcutta), National Purity Superintendent for India, and also Divisional Superintendent for Bengal W.W.C.T.U., writes concerning specimens of the Gospel Purity Series sent her :— “J was delighted to find such useful little books for mothers had been Just now I have published, and feel sure they have met a great need. sent them to the Brahmo President of the Metropolitan Purity Association, which has been formed among the students and Baboos of Calcutta. . You probably know that the work in India is conducted in six divisions I am in correspondence with all my divisional superintendents, and have sent some of them packets of such suitable literature as I had at my Sensuality and vice are the curse of India, and are to this command. country what drunkenness is to the old country.” Mrs, James sent me £8, to go as far as it would in the purchase of J our literature. We despatched her g a box price, and she was very grateful indeed. From China, a Medical Woman at about Missionary half aie (Wesleyan) writes :— “ By last mail I received a package of little b ooks from you, and I i Mee you for them. I have passed them on to one i a English ae s, and I know that to one at least ‘Bible Principles for Married Life’ tas Deeb Veny helpful. ii As a doctor among women one has so often to oe ie are not ie and I am very grateful for that same I Sa help in my work. Yesterday I spent a long ti i aay, a friend of mine, translating that and EE ts boys eee it feliern apes isa caine nurse, and has a little boy of her own. I felt that capacity ber. Paglonise Se of aN nurse Ao and that Hae of mother, the little books : would give i i From Paris a young lady who had come across : eli of “ Bob’s Mother,” wrote of the terrible need of edie “She offered to translate the booklet into French if I would print it, Our warm thanks are due to her for having done so, and the result has been that “Lottie’s Question” has also been translated, and the companion books are now beginning their work in French-speakin countries, Miss Hunt has some on sale at Headquarters. Will hose spat = = n $ tine 7 slowly Ble friends in regard to the general France, widening. Eepaeien ational ee Hederation I Belgium will peek and situation, make a Switzerland them the first streaks of dawn few at the British quotations from Miss Committee of the Inter- for the Abolition r of State ate Regulation Regulati of Vice i on “It is most interesting to see how very stror turning against the idea that any young man bicata oe Be i make sort of good or advantage to him. Prof. iin Fournier, one ee of ite dee of the Regulation System, has formed a Prophylactic Association in eaae and the first thing the Association did, under the Presidency of L. Fournier, was to ask him to draw up a notice to be given to all lads oe 17 in public schools, warning them of the frightful dangers that ae immorality, and putting before them the duty they owe to them- selves, to their families, and to their country to keep absolutely straight. This fr nares. a Paris is doctor ctor of M. Fournier's ‘ournier’ type is 1 a very new thing c i Mrs. Sheldon S ae At the s ame meeting Mrs, overnment, said :-— “The as keen pie proof that our Amos, S i speaking Government, as a Governm I about the morality of its ‘men as it has a of women, is to be seen in the fact that eo areatanh without being asked, and in the midst of our own i saerganree more than once this of the war, told us oe 250,000 men who were isolated from their homes, and full of the rage aaa ween behaving with absolute propriety, kindness and respect 1 ar s the women of a conquered race. That a Government should feel 1€ conscience of a nation so stringently required such self-control from aa under such circumstances, and required it so absolutely that without eee the Government must respond and satisfy the national ae La Yee a a most encouraging thing in connection with |