traffic like all other illegal things, would be driven into darkness and obscure places. Their glory would depart, and they would take their places alongside of all other outlaws, with no party or people for their defenders or advo

cates.

On the other hand, if you fail to adopt this amendment, if you let the liquor dealers understand their traffic is approved, nothing can hold them within bounds. They will demand and secure their "personal liberty," and no power will be sufficient to prevent it; for they will declare it to be the expressed will of the people at the focus of power-the ballot box.

A refusal to adopt by a state like Pennsylvania will discourage temperance people elsewhere and will be derogatory to every effort made for prohibition. On the eighteenth day of June may the men of Pennsylvania stand for God and home and humanity, meeting the duty of the hour to their honor, and save this great Commonwealth from the ravages of the liquor traffic!

In the year 1889, in addition to her other cares and responsibilities, Mrs. Woodbridge was made by the National union their lecturer to higher educational institutions and colleges. This called her before many of the most learned assemblies of the land. And just such audiences her charming address and calm, thoughtful, logical speeches were calculated to delight. We find a very able address delivered before a college which we would gladly give to the readers; but the superabundance of material and the lack of space prevent.

CHAPTER XVII.

MRS. WOODBRIDGE'S TRIP ABROAD HER RECEPTION IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND-LADY HENRY SOM

ERSET AND HER ESTIMATE OF MRS.

WOODBRIDGE.

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made a fraternal delegate to the British Women's Temperance Association to meet at London, May 25-27, 1891. She was also a delegate to the London Yearly Meeting of Friends; to the Right Worthy Grand Lodge at Edinburg; to the Social Purity Conference at Geneva; to the Peace and Arbitration Congress at Rome, and to the Congregational Council at London. She playfully wrote to the author: "It is much to put in the hands of one poor woman."

We would be glad to give a more complete and detailed report of her work abroad, her wonderfully successful little speeches at the innumerable receptions given her when she was so happy, and one or more of her more formal public addresses which made such a deep impression. But we are unable to do it. Mrs. Woodbridge lived and acted, utterly unmindful of her reputation and enduring fame. She was not making a biography, much less an autobiography; she was simply living for Jesus day by day, making her life sublime in most efficient service for her Lord. She sent home no newspaper reports, and wrote not a line of what she ever said before the public. With her characteristic hiding of herself in her work, she scarcely referred to her constant addresses even in her letters to her most inti

mate friends or to her own family. Were it not for a few scattered and very brief references to her receptions and speeches in letters to her husband and to the author, and also the kindness of that noble woman, Lady Henry Somerset, it would be impossible to give any conception of her work abroad.

She wrote almost daily to her husband; her bright and often amusing descriptions of scenes and places of interest we omit as aside from our purpose. This is not a book of travels; were it such we could fill a large volume from her foreign letters alone. We glean the following, which throw light upon her life:

LONDON, May 29, 1891.

I went with Dr. Thomas and his sister to present my message at the London Yearly Meeting, on Friday, and on Saturday was obliged to go to Edinburg, as the Grand Lodge which had not expected to hold its meeting until Tuesday found it could close on Monday. We had a most enthusiastic time. I returned to London. Lady Henry is here at present among her London tenantry. She is the finest speaker among women that I have heard, possessing in a marvelous degree qualifications for a leader, and her co-laborers almost worship at her feet. Hannah Whitall Smith made a delightful lunch party for me the day after convention, at which we were all together. All conspired to show me everything that time would permit.

Edinburg, beautiful for situation, is wonderful, charming; and you feel yourself at home at once. I certainly do at Mr. Barclay's where I am entertained—a marvelous man with a marvelous wife who is engaged in innumerable philanthropies.

EDINBURG, SCOTLAND, June 4, 1891.

I am to speak at a popular mission founded by Mr. Moody when he was here, at which the attendance is about fifteen hundred. On Sunday evening I speak at Assembly Hall, belonging to the Free Church of Scotland, where the General Assembly has just closed; the largest and finest hall in the city. I have much enjoyed meeting the great ecclesiastical lights, Dr. Norman McLeod, Andrew Bonar and daughter, Mrs. Oatts, the son and daughter of the late Dr. Guthrie, etc., who are all friends of Mr. and Mrs. Barclay.

To-morrow we go to the home of the Earl of Devonshire, where we expect to have a pleasant visit.