The Manchester W.C.T. Association is also doing a good work among
the young, and in rescuing women from the thraldom of drink.

The large and crowded cities of Great Britain present opportunities
and demands for work of this nature, with which our younger country
is not so familiar, but the motto of the B.W.T. Association bears a
message to us equally strong "The Master is come and calleth for thee."




CHAPTER IV.

OUR CANADIAN W.C.T.U.


_History and Present Condition._

ONTARIO.


The first union in Canada, of which we have any record, was formed
in Owen Sound, Ont. In the spring of 1874, shortly after the first
note of the crusade had been sounded, a few earnest Christian ladies
of that place, stirred by the report of what God was doing through
their sisters in the Western States, meet to devise some plan, by
which they could do something if not to prevent, at least to lessen
the evils of intemperance in their town. At this meeting, held on the
20th of May, a W.C.T.U. was organized under the presidency of Mrs.