the will of the General Assembly. Contracts concerning the manufacture and sale of liquors to be used as a beverage would be illegal, and could not be enforced in the courts of the state. Capital invested in the business would, even without legislation, withdraw from it. But the amendment makes it the absolute duty of the General Assembly to enact an enforcing law, with sufficient penalties, as may be necessary. The members of the General Assembly before entering upon their duties are required to take an oath "to support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, and faithfully discharge the duties of their office." They cannot disregard this mandate to legislate to carry this provision into effect without absolute and willful perjury. The General Assembly, whether favoring or not favoring this provision, would hardly presume to violate so plain a direction as well as their oaths of office.

This is, also, the only effective means to take this vexed question out of party politics. No party does or will combat constitutional law. They all alike conform their platform of principles to its mandates. The resistance to constitutions is individual, not party.

There will be no danger, should this be adopted, that legislation will not follow for its enforcement, no matter what party may succeed to power. The will of the people, who only are constitution makers, when declared by constitutional enactment, will always be respected. The General Assembly, like constitutions, is elected by the people. It could not, if it would, disregard this will. When it shall have been adopted, each political party will try to be foremost in their adhesion to it, and most outspoken in favor of it. Political parties are wonderful in their devotion to constitutions, and are always first to denounce infractions in other parties.

This amendment will be practically enforced if adopted. The drink traffic, being wholly illegal, its enforcement will not be surrounded with the difficulties that have always attended and ever will attend the enforcement of regulatory laws. The saloons, the great source of crime and wrong, can easily be driven from public gaze. The magnificence and elegance with which they are now built and furnished; the allurements and sports they exhibit to entice the young men, would be a thing of the past. The drink

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.

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