gambling among them.  Immediately on arriving he organized a Y.M.C.A. among them, and held meetings Sunday afternoons and two evenings during the week through the summer, all well attended.  At some of these meetings he spoke of the White Cross movement, and was successful in gaining the approbation of most of the members of the Association.  The nature of the pledge and of the talks got out among the women servants, and ere long at their invitation he assembled from seventy-five to one hundred of them and gave them a very earnest talk on the value and duty of virtuous lives.  Many were affected to tears, and all were seriously impressed.  After that they seemed to look to him as their protector, and often said they were so glad they had a head man who would endeavor to shield them from temptation and wrong.  And the remarkable thing about it is, that these women servants are white!

The proprietor of the hotel, on closing the season, told our student that if he had been told that such a work as he had accomplished among his help could be done he would have declared it impossible.  What is to be the outcome of this little movement so auspiciously begun?  It seems to me that if wisely carried on the possibilities for good are very great.

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BEREA AND TEMPERANCE.

For nearly twelve years there has been a temperance organization centering at Berea.  By personal canvass it has secured signers to the total abstinence pledge, until the aggregate number is between two thousand and three thousand.

The length of the district from north to south is not less than ten miles, and the greatest breadth seven or eight miles.  The number of votes polled at a general election is about six hundred.  For nearly ten years the sale of intoxicating liquors within the district has been illegal, it having been voted out by the people by a large majority soon after the great Murphy movement.  Just on the border of the district were two or three men, distillers in a small way and venders of the fiery liquid, who thought the enthusiasm of the Murphy movement was past, and took the necessary steps to have a poll opened on the liquor question, at the August election of 1888.  But they had underrated the effect of these years of temperance education.  Nearly all our students become signers of the pledge and workers in whatever field they may visit; and the people of the country immediately around us have been profiting by the teachings of these meetings.  When the question was clearly presented, “Shall we again have the legalized liquor traffic among us?” the activity of the friends of sobriety and order was as great as that of the selfish advocates of license.  Meetings were held in every neighborhood.  On election day, seventy-five ladies, of the noblest in the district, were at the voting place.  Refreshments were furnished in abundance and free of charge.  Doubtful voters were met with argument and persuasion.  All was as orderly as if it were a religious meeting.  The result showed 435 for temperance to 131 for liquor—­more than three to one.  The victory was complete, and the district stands as the banner temperance district of the State.