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A Temperance Worker Fallen

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 18.

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A Temperance Worker Fallen

By Editor

ALL our readers who have met or have ever heard Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens will read with sorrow the news of her death. In the passing of this noble woman from the field of this world's activities, the temperance cause in America—and in the world—loses one of its most ardent supporters and most able advocates. Not many weeks ago we had the privilege and the pleasure of listening to a short but stirring address from the lips of Mrs. Stevens on the steps of the national Capitol in behalf of an amendment to the national Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
It was on the occasion of the presentation of bills in both houses of Congress looking to the accomplishment of that amendment. The presentation to Congress on that day of a living petition of several thousand earnest Christian men and women could not fail to impress the national legislators with the importance of the request then being made and the intense earnestness of those who were making it. It was a sight such as no Congress had ever before witnessed. It was an indication of the deeper zeal and intensity that have taken hold of the American people in the matter of temperance reform. It might not be too much to say that it was a prophecy of a time soon to be when the national government will make liquor an outlaw, as some of the States have already done.
It is cause for deep regret that such noble, self-sacrificing souls as Miss Willard and Mrs. Stevens could not live to see the nation, as a nation, espouse the cause to which they had given their lives.
Mrs. Stevens was born in Dover, Maine, March 1, 1844, and died in Portland, Maine, April 6, 1914.
The cause to which she had consecrated her life is a branch of the work to which we have dedicated ours, and we assure her coworkers of our undying interest in and devotion to the cause which meant so much to her and means so much to them.