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"CHAPTER XLV1IOTHER MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL BETTERMENTI. WOMAN S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF CHINAMrs. Chauncey GoodrichTlie World s Woman s ChristianOrganizationTemperance Union has for its President the Countessof Carlisle, the Honorary Secretaries being Miss Anna A.Gordon, National President in the United States, andMiss E. Slack in Agues^ England. The object of thissociety is "to unify throughout the world the work ofwomen in temperance and social reform, and to work forthe complete overthrow of the alcohol and opium trades.The President of China s Union is Dr. Mary Stone ofKiukiang, a woman heart and soul interested in temperanceand in all reforms for the betterment of her country, butwhose absence from China the greater part of the year liasprevented her aiding our work, save as she has created aprofounder interest in America in its advancement.During the,year 1915, the Woman s^Christian Temperance Union hardly causedW rfca ripple in the life of this great nation, stillit has been quietly and increasingly enlisting the hearts ofwomen in many parts of China. As the evils of alcohol andopium and the fascinating cigarette become known, we lindwomen ready to escape from enthr aliment, and ready alsoto work and pray to help others.The writer has seen the day of small beginnings in themissionary work. Her eyes have also seen the power ofChrist s gospel not only gaining a grip of Christians but ofnon-Christians also, affecting their life and thought in manyways, so is encouraged to believe that sometime the Woman sChristian Temperance Union is to become a powerful forcein social reform, in home protection, and in self-discipline,which makes for free manhood and free womanhood.