. Some successful Americans . be our president. She declined the salaried positionwith its many attractions and accepted the other. Thiswas the turning point of her life. Of her action at this time she says : No words can adequately characterize the change wrought in mylife by this decision. Instead of peace I was to participate in war ;instead of the sweetness of home, never more dearly loved than I hadloved it, I was to become a wanderer on the face of the earth ; insteadof libraries, I was to frequent public halls and railway cars ; instead 94 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS of scholarly and cult
. Some successful Americans . be our president. She declined the salaried positionwith its many attractions and accepted the other. Thiswas the turning point of her life. Of her action at this time she says : No words can adequately characterize the change wrought in mylife by this decision. Instead of peace I was to participate in war ;instead of the sweetness of home, never more dearly loved than I hadloved it, I was to become a wanderer on the face of the earth ; insteadof libraries, I was to frequent public halls and railway cars ; instead 94 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS of scholarly and cultured men, I was to see the dregs of saloon,gambling house, and haunt of shame. But women who were amongthe fittest gospel survivals were to be my comrades ; little childrenwere to be gathered from near and far in the Loyal TemperanceLegion; and whoever keeps such company should sing a psalm of joy,solemn as it is sweet. Hence I have felt that great promotion cameto me when I was counted worthy to be a worker in the organized. House in which Miss Willard first taught School crusade for God and home and native land. Temporary differ-ences may seem to separate some of us for a while, but I believe withall my heart that farther on we shall be found walking once moreside by side. Miss Willard entered upon her work with the utmost first she would not consider the matter of compensation,but she had little means and she soon found herself walkingmiles because she had not five cents for car fare, and goingto meetings hungry because she had not the price of a this became known she was paid a moderate salary. FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD 95 In 1874 she was made corresponding secretary of the IIU-nois Womans Christian Temperance Union, and in Novem-ber of the same year, at a meeting held at Cleveland, Ohio,for the purpose of forming a permanent national organization,she was elected to the same office in that association. Atthis meeting Miss Willard offered the following res
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