Immediately upon her return she was offered the position. of preceptress of the Ladies' College at Evanston, a work to which she gave herself with characteristic heartiness and great success; at the same time, by her genius and eloquence, rendering great service to the cause of missions, as represented by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. After some years the hitherto separate College for Women was added to the North-western University, Miss Willard still retaining the position of Dean.

But the desire to live for Christ, and assist in carrying forward his work, which had long been the animating purpose of her life, now led her to decide upon devoting herself to exclusively religious efforts. She therefore resigned her posi tion at Evanston, and identified herself with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Chicago, an organization which originated in a meeting of the ladies of that city, called March 16, 1874, for the purpose of presenting to the Mayor and Common Council a protest against the sale of liquor on the Sabbath. This request was refused, but the society thus formed continued its meetings, circulating pledges, visiting saloons, and holding mass-meetings. In October of the same year a decided impetus was given to its workings by the election of Miss Willard to the office of president, which she still holds.

At once a daily prayer-meeting was started in lower Farwell Hall, which has ever since been regularly and successfully maintained; numerous auxiliary societies have been formed throughout the United State; Miss Willard, who has probably no superior among her own sex as a public speaker, made stirring appeals from platform and pulpit; and to her zeal and ability may be traced much of the growth in power and influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union When Mr. Moody came to Chicago in the fall of 1876 he met Miss Willard for the first time. Her thrilling addresses, tender and powerful prayers, and ardent devotion to the cause of Christ, made a deep impression upon him, and he at once endeavored to draw her into the ranks of his helpers

Sending for the lady, whom he had never spoken with before, he began the conversation thus:

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"Miss Willard, will you go to Boston with me, and take charge of the Women's Meetings?"

"I cannot tell; I need to think and pray over it."

"Well, now is as good a time as any to pray;" and, accordingly, down on his knees he went to ask divine guidance for the lady in her decision.

Miss Willard, however, preferred to take a little more time to consider so important a question; but at the end of a few days consented to join the revivalist there.

Her work in Boston has been highly appreciated by many of the best Christian ladies of New England. Her Bible talks at the Women's Meeting in the Berkeley-street Church, her three hours of daily personal instruction of inquirers, and her public addresses before various Christian temperance societies, have placed her in the front rank of those women who in these days are eminent as helpers in the work of the Lord.

GEORGE C. STEBBINS.

THIS gentleman, who has recently joined Mr. Moody's evangelistic corps as a soloist and director of music, is a native of Orleans County, New York; is about thirty-one years of age, and has already distinguished himself as a leader of devotional music in the First Baptist Church, Chicago, and in the Clarendon-street Baptist Church and Tremont Temple, Boston. In the summer of 1876 Mr. Stebbins was invited by his friend, Major Whittle, to assist him at some revival meetings in Mr. Moody's old home at Northfield, and while there his talent and power as a gospel singer led to an engagement with Mr. Moody. His work in organizing the great chorus at the outset of the Chicago revival gave full proof of his spirit and capacity. Since then he has been the comrade of Mr. Needham, one of the English evangelists, in revivals East and West, where his singing has been greatly enjoyed

CHARLES W. SAWYER.

CHARLES WILLIAM SAWYER, the Gospel Temperance worker, whose meetings have attracted such attention, and been so greatly blessed in connection with the revivals in New York, Chicago, and Boston, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1835. His father was a seafaring man, in the West India trade, who died when Charles was but a lad, leaving him to the care of his mother, a godly woman, whose heart he nearly broke by his early fall into habits of drunkenness and dissipation. He was for some years a clerk in the Boston house of Jordan, Marsh, & Co., from which he went to the employ of Claflin & Co., of New York. During these years he proved his ability as a salesman when not under the power of strong drink; but this enemy at length became completely his master. Lower and lower he sank until he even broke off communication with his mother, who mourned over him for years, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Her grief was not altogether hopeless, for she was able to cast her burden on the Lord; meanwhile giving herself to the most active efforts in the temperance cause; working to save the sons of others, in the hope that God would some time send some one to save her son, if, indeed, he were still alive.

He says of himself, "I had every thing behind me calculated to make my life a success, but at sixteen years of age I began to like the taste of blackberry brandy, and the appetite grew upon me year by year-you know how it is, down, down, down, all the time. You have heard of that man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho: he fell among thieves before he got to the city, but I had got right into the midst of Jericho. I was so completely lost that I had no power I could call my own. I drank myself out of house and home, and into absolute destitution. I had eyes, but I could see nothing; ears, but I could hear nothing; a heart that knew nothing."

Through the kind Christian counsel of a lawyer in Poughkeepsie, into whose office he stumbled while up from New York on a drunken debauch, he was led to seek Christ as the

only hope in his desperate case, and by grace he was saved through faith.

Of his appetite for liquor he says, "I do not know as it is dead, but God has covered it up so that I have not seen any thing of it since he gave me a new heart."

He was utterly destitute, but like a man thoroughly converted he began to look about the city for some honest way of living, and at last was employed by an old tanner, at four dollars a week. His next place was in a brick-yard, where he made himself useful among the men employed, preaching Christ to them, and leading them to the Gospel Temperance meetings, which had been commenced in Poughkeepsie.

At length he was able to secure an engagement in New York in his old employment; but the firm was broken up by the sudden death of one of the partners, and he was thrown back into the thorny path of privation, which was also the path of usefulness, for he continued to be more and more helpful as a temperance worker; and when Mr. Moody began his meetings in New York he found Mr. Sawyer preaching Christ among the saloons, and also publishing a temperance paper called "The Living Issue," which at one time reached a circulation of fifty thousand copies. He at once engaged his co-operation, and the result fully justified the action; large numbers of so-called hopeless cases being reached by the Gospel and brought into the light of the Lord.

The success of Mr. Sawyer's work in Chicago was so great that his support was pledged by an eminent Christian merchant if he would consent to remain permanently in that city; while of the hundreds of "reconstructed men," as these regenerated drunkards called themselves, a flourishing society has been formed for mutual encouragement, and for carrying forward the Gospel Temperance Revival.

Mr. Sawyer was well received in Boston, where he has been preaching Christ to the drunkards with good success; quietly though efficiently aided by his wife, who has been his good angel ever since the days when he first turned from the old way into the new

PART V.

THE GOSPEL TEMPERANCE REVIVAL.

A NEW DEPARTURE.

HE work of saving men from drunkenness by means of the grace of Jesus Christ is nothing new in the Church, though somehow it seems to have received but little attention. It is one of the most striking features of the system of revival work under the leadership of Mr. Moody, that the Gospel is preached to drunkards and opium eaters, as a means of saving them from their appetites as well as from their sins.

The society known as the "Woman's Christian Temperance Union," which was organized in Chicago in March, 1874, had been holding temperance prayer-meetings every day in Farwell Hall, at which some remarkable cases of reformation and regeneration occurred; and when Moody and Sankey arrived to resume their Gospel work in that city, every thing was in readiness for the Temperance Revival also. A band of devoted Christian women, with Miss Frances E. Willard at their head, joined hands at once with Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and on the third week of the Chicago revival the series of Friday noon temperance meetings was commenced, the record of which has thrilled the Christian world.

In Philadelphia and New York the work of reconstructing drunkards was among the wonders-perhaps we might say the miracles-of the Moody and Sankey revivals. But in