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Cdart a. Ge Fom Vr. FPraeisent.
vor riuwos. bur nen.
160 Mor185 1033 35 Auxilaris
or rtt wontos cotonviau expostriov.
vor narren. 60r n100.
rtit wonaws enavett of rtt auxitiahy
nas. porren patneh, Patsioeur.
Preliminary Address of the Nomanis Committee on a Norias
temperance Congress ot Women in Connection with
the Norias Columbian Exposition of 1893.
rnavers E. wittano, cuamnax.
Po the women of the World:
ult is a pity, sor l had somethins here; cried Andrea Chenier,
striking his broad, white sorehead with his hand. Lamartine calls him, 'at
irst the hope, and afterward the everlastins regret of French poesy; and
tells us that on his way to the guillotine Chenier uttered these pathetie words.
The poets attitude and language are a figure of Humanity, with its beautisul
brain clouded by centuries of the alcoholic hallucination morked by the intri-
cate vagaries of opium and nicoune, and tevered by passion's strange delirium.
The Pharos of human Reason burning with its clear and steadfast ray, lighted
trom the mind of God, sends its beams tar out over the waves of time: but the
Fraadr d. Guor.granin. Secey.
uaS. ct1aS. tit unoriw, viee-Patsioeur.
Humanity has called a halt at last in its Bacchannal procession. The
great revolt is growins last. Science with her pure torch pilots the way out
of the wilderness, and Faith marches beside her tearless sister, with calm eyes
turned toward Heaven. It was fitting that wise men of the West should 5ay:
While we welcome the world to witness the splendid panorama of what
man's busy hand has wrought, let us also invitz all men to study with us
whaté er his thinking soul has thought, and in all that thinkins nothing
shall outrank the Science and the Art of a clear brain, a Steady beating heart,
a hand that does not tremble. For the white light of truth shines always
through the stained glass window of the brain. Witty and wondersul as mans
inventions are, they have been wrought at grievous disadvantage, and the
temperance reform has a pupose no less rational than to cleanse and polish
the sky-light of the brain, that Gods white light, undimmed and unresracted
may shine doun upon a developed, an illuminated, and a redeemed humanity.
1. in the interest of the race, we strive to gather up mankinds best
thoughts, embodied and emblaroned, that the best may be brought to the
knowledge of the most, how much higher is the hope that would at the same
time convene the noble thinkers themselves; and what thinkers could assemble
tor purposes more praiseworthy than those whose lite-work it is to help set
tree from thraldom that sacred instrument of thought the human braind-
Thus has it come about that with the official recognition and approval of the
United States Congress, and by authority srom the Worlds Fair Directory
the Worlds Congress Auxiliary has been organired to arrange tor and
conduct a series of Worlds Congresses, amons which will be a Worlds
Temperance Congress ot Women, to cooperate with a similar Congress
of Men, to be held under the charge of a committee of which His Grace
Archbishop John Treland is Chairman, as well as to hold its oun separate ses-
sions. These conventions will be convened in Chicago early in June, 1893. t0
consider all branches of this greatest amons resorms, under the general heads
of Preventive, Educational, Evangelistie, Social, and Legal measures, sor
putting away the individual use of alchoholic and narcotie stimulants, and
separatins governments trom all responsibility tor the feartul evils of
intemperance, pauperism, insanity, and crime arisins srom their manufacture,
transportation, and sale sor such use. The exact date of the Congress will be
announced hereatter.
pity of it is that this guiding light has been obscured by poisons that mar the
brains integrity.