WRITTEN BY ORDER OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. INTRODUCTION BY HANNAH WHITALL SMITH. "Nothing makes life dreary but lack of motive." CHICAGO, PUBLISHED BY THE Woman's Temperance Publication Association. H. J. SMITH & CO. PHILADELPHIA, KANSAS CITY, OAKLAND, CAL. General Agents for United States, Canada, Australia, Sandwich Islands, HV A3 COPYRIGHTED BY THE WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE PUBLICATION ASSOCIATION. 1889. EXPLANATORY. We wish it distinctly understood that Miss Willard's responsibility for this book ended She repeatedly requested that but one picture of herself be given. This, however, would It should also be stated that Miss Willard wrote twelve hundred pages that had to be cut Chicago, Feb. 22, 1889. Dedicatory. THERE IS ONE "Face that duly as the sun, Rose up for me since life begun;" ONE ROYAL HEART THAT NEVER FAILED ME YET. TO MOTHER, AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT, ON JANUARY 3, 1889, THE EIGHTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HER UNDAUNTED LIFE, I DEDICATE HER ELDEST DAUGHTER'S SELF-TOLD STORY. CHOU, under Satan's fierce control, That might have fall'n as darkly low. "I judge thee not, what depths of ill As weak, but for the help of God. "Shalt thou with full day-lab'rers stand, With an infirmity like thine. "Shalt thou, who hadst with scoffers part, I know not, but I know a heart As flinty, but for tears and prayers. "Have mercy, O thou Crucified! For even while I name Thy name, I know a tongue that might have lied, Like Peter's, and am filled with shame." |