Show A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES E wll LARD senator beveridge lias had distributed copies of his tribute to frances E wallard Wll lard when that noble comans womans statue was unveiled in the united states capitol it is indeed as faithful and well brwn a picture oc the woman as it Is a tribute after justifying her work by the facts of nature and comparing her unification fi of the family favorably with spencers unification of the individual senator deveridge differentiates be tapen francea willards Wll lards creed and the cred of a philosopher only she got her inspiration he says from a higher source than human thinking lu hor lifes work we see restored to earth eliat faith which whenever man lias let it work its has wrought victory here and immortality hereafter such was the faith of joan the inspired maid of france such that of columbus sailing westward through he dark such the exalted belief of those good missionaries who first in evaded our amerlean Amerl can to light with their own lives on civilizations altar the sacred alre that never dies the story of frances willards Wll lards faith in the conquest ot evil by the good seems incredible to us who demand a map of all our future before we take a step for frances E willard knew no questioning tho masters message was at once her guaranty and her command the bablo was to her in very truth divine what immeasurable and increasing influence that one book has wielded over the roads of men and tho destiny of the world jf it be the word of god as we profoundly believe surely it comes to human cars with all the dignity and peace and power that his word should command if it be the word of man then even the doubter must admit that the ancient hebrews had miraculous to cast a spell across which strengthening with the years spreads wider today than ever and embraces the future as tar aa even the eye of imagination can behold not all invention or all statesmanship or all of literature have so touched and bettered human life as this one book and it was the bible that gave frances E willard her mission her strength her hope her argument and her inspiration thus prepared and hus equipped she went out into tho world and to heb work no method can measure what she did the halt million of women whom she brought into organized cooperation in the christian temperance union is but a suggestion of the real results of her activities indeed the highest benefits her life bestowed were as intangible as air and as full of life she made purer the moral atmosphere of a continent almost of a world she rendered the life of a nation cleaner the mind of a people saner millions of homes today are happier for her millions of wives and mothers bless her and countless children have grown into strong upright and beautiful maturity who but for the work of frances E willard might have been forever soiled and weakened mother of all mothers sister of all wives to every child the lover frances E willard sacrificed her own life to the happiness of her sisters for after all she knew that with all her gifts and all the halo of her god sent mission nevertheless the humblest mother was yet greater far than aishe but it was needful that she should so consecrate her strength and length of years for how shall the service of utter unselfishness be achieved save in he utter sacrifice of self so francea E willard gave up her life and all the rights and glories of it that all of her sisters might lead fuller richer happier sweeter elivd themselves |