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Frances Willard, "Social Purity Work for 1887," Jan 1887
THE SILVER CROWN
Take Silver and make Crowns. Zech. 6:11.
I will refine them as silver. Zech. 13:9.
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PROMISE BY THE HELP OF GOD
1.- To treat all women with courtesy and respect, and to be
especially kind to all persons who are poorer or weaker or younger
than myself.
2.-To be modest in word and deed, and to discourage profane and
impure language; never doing or saying anything I should be unwilling
to have known by my father or mother.
3.- To avoid all conversation, reading, pictures and amusements
which may put impure thoughts into my mind.
4.- To guard the purity of others, especially of companions and
friends, and avoid speaking or thinking evil.
5.- To keep my body in temperance, soberness and chastity.
This is for boys, and like the White Cross is not a secret society.
THE WHITE SHIELD
is the name chosen for the women's pledge, which is as follows, and
was unanimously adopted by the Minneapolis Convention:
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PROMISE BY THE HELP OF GOD
1.- To uphold the law of purity as equally binding upon men and
women.
2.- To be modest in language, behavior and dress.
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