-dismayed in thinking that I ought to educate my
audience all over from beginning to end. But this would require
so much time that no one convention would ever get through with
it; so I content myself with saying, as simply and as strongly as
I can, what happens to be in my mind. That particular thought
which is now uppermost is the great pleasure of our meeting
to-day. We come together here, trusting to see in your kind faces
the reflection of our great hope; and to find in your ears the
echo of that great promise which some of us expected to hear a
long while ago, and which all of us now see growing and
strengthening until its harmony seems to us to fill the world.

We don't come together here to ignore oppositions, but to
reconcile them. Oppositions are divinely appointed. I do believe
that their distance can not be increased with safety to the
economy of the world. But love is the tropical equator. His fiery
currents are able to quicken and vivify the whole globe. They
circulate equally at the arctic and antarctic extremities. The
work that we are doing in common is not unfavorably affected by
oppositions. The poles are God's anointed and stand firm; but
opposition has quickened the currents of love until it has melted
the social ice at the extremities for us, and even the snows
which very prematurely, I do assure you, begin to fall upon the
heads of some of us. I have been speaking and writing on this
subject for a year and a half, and I find the subject always
getting outside of my efforts much more rapidly than my efforts
are able to get outside of it. At every new meeting I find the
speech of the last meeting much too small. Whether the question
grows or the speech shrinks I do not know, but I am inclined to
think the former. I never knew any member of my nursery to
require so much letting out, expanding, as this question. From
all of this I am inclined to think that we have set our hands to
a great work, to a long and hard labor, to a reform of human
society; to a reduplication of human power and well-being.....

MRS. SARA J. LIPPINCOTT, more widely known as "Grace Greenwood,"
stated that she had believed in woman suffrage since she was old
enough to believe in anything that was right and to denounce
anything that was wrong. She was