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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The church bells pealed in the
steeples and the sound of jubilant thanksgiving rose
from the street, as the crusading ladies were be-
sought by the penitent publican to stave in casks
of liquor and empty the contents into the gutter.
No wonder that men say there was a spirit in the
air such as they never knew before ; a sense of God
and of human brotherhood, which was not to pass
away without bearing fruit.

THE DIVINE CALL.

Of course there was a reaction. The women could
not camp en permanence at the doors of the saloons.
The mere attempt to enforce Sunday closing in Chi-
cago led to the immediate repeal amid a violent out-
burst of mob savagery of the Sunday closing law.
This, however, was the best thing that happened to
the tempperance cause, for it was this temporary
triumph of the liquor sellers thatbraugt Miss Wil-
lard and her White Ribbon Army on the field.
From that time she has been an Apostle of Temper-
ance. She had addressed missionary meetings and
had spoken on educational subjects, and she was
asked to speak at a midday " crusader's meeting" in
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MISS WILLARD. (A NEW PORTRAIT.)

Chicago. She consented, and soon found herself in
the heat of the fray. When she resigned her position
at the university, she went East and began to devote
herself to the work of Gospel Temperance. She went
to Maine and saw Neal Dow ; to Boston, and saw Dr.
Dio Lewis. Her life lay before her. A New York
ladies school offered her the principalship with a
large salary. She had no means of subsistence save
her profession. But her soul longed to be in the
field of temperance evangelization. An invitation
came from Chicago to take the presidency of the
Woman's Temperance Society there, but it was un-
accompanied by any offer of salary. How was she
to live? Then she remembered the text, Trust in
the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Her mind was

438 THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

made up. She declined the New York appointment,
and became president of the Chicago Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.

IN APOSTOLIC POVERTY.
Miss Willard, when asked if she wanted money,

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