Strzalkowski Steinhauer
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gambling among them. Immediately on arriving he organized a Y.M.C.A.
among them, and held meetings Sunday afternoons and two evenings during
the week through the summer, all well attended. At some of these
meetings he spoke of the White Cross movement, and was successful in
gaining the approbation of most of the members of the Association. The
nature of the pledge and of the talks got out among the women servants,
and ere long at their invitation he assembled from seventy-five to one
hundred of them and gave them a very earnest talk on the value and duty
of virtuous lives. Many were affected to tears, and all were seriously
impressed. After that they seemed to look to him as their protector, and
often said they were so glad they had a head man who would endeavor to
shield them from temptation and wrong. And the remarkable thing about it
is, that these women servants are white! The proprietor of the hotel, on
closing the season, told our student that if he had been told that such
a work as he had accomplished among his help could be done he would have
declared it impossible. What is to be the outcome of this little
movement so auspiciously begun? It seems to me that if wisely carried on
the possibilities for good are very great. * * * * * BEREA AND
TEMPERANCE. For nearly twelve years there has been a temperance
organization centering at Berea. By personal canvass it has secured
signers to the total abstinence pledge, until the aggregate number is
between two thousand and three thousand. The length of the district from
north to south is not less than ten miles, and the greatest breadth
seven or eight miles. The number of votes polled at a general election
is about six hundred. For nearly ten years the sale of intoxicating
liquors within the district has been illegal, it having been voted out
by the people by a large majority soon after the great Murphy movement.
Just on the border of the district were two or three men, distillers in
a small way and venders of the fiery liquid, who thought the enthusiasm
of the Murphy movement was past, and took the necessary steps to have a
poll opened on the liquor question, at the Aug
among them, and held meetings Sunday afternoons and two evenings during
the week through the summer, all well attended. At some of these
meetings he spoke of the White Cross movement, and was successful in
gaining the approbation of most of the members of the Association. The
nature of the pledge and of the talks got out among the women servants,
and ere long at their invitation he assembled from seventy-five to one
hundred of them and gave them a very earnest talk on the value and duty
of virtuous lives. Many were affected to tears, and all were seriously
impressed. After that they seemed to look to him as their protector, and
often said they were so glad they had a head man who would endeavor to
shield them from temptation and wrong. And the remarkable thing about it
is, that these women servants are white! The proprietor of the hotel, on
closing the season, told our student that if he had been told that such
a work as he had accomplished among his help could be done he would have
declared it impossible. What is to be the outcome of this little
movement so auspiciously begun? It seems to me that if wisely carried on
the possibilities for good are very great. * * * * * BEREA AND
TEMPERANCE. For nearly twelve years there has been a temperance
organization centering at Berea. By personal canvass it has secured
signers to the total abstinence pledge, until the aggregate number is
between two thousand and three thousand. The length of the district from
north to south is not less than ten miles, and the greatest breadth
seven or eight miles. The number of votes polled at a general election
is about six hundred. For nearly ten years the sale of intoxicating
liquors within the district has been illegal, it having been voted out
by the people by a large majority soon after the great Murphy movement.
Just on the border of the district were two or three men, distillers in
a small way and venders of the fiery liquid, who thought the enthusiasm
of the Murphy movement was past, and took the necessary steps to have a
poll opened on the liquor question, at the Aug