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about doing good--every such woman deserves the wreath of
immortal amaranths which angel hands are weaving for her
brow--but more than all, she who crowns her home work and her
religious endeavors with a service to the State, which of
necessity touches the great questions of reform, and aids in the
settling of vast problems wherein the weal or woe of a nation is
concerned--that woman, from the centre of her individual
responsibility, reaches out to the circumference of her
individual influence, and desires to receive from the lips of the
dear Lord himself, the "Well done, thou good and faithful
servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord"--the joy of a
completed mission. The recording angel will write such a woman's
name with that of Abou Ben Adhem, who loved his fellows, and in
serving humanity served God.

The single point which I wish to present to the women before me
at this hour and in these brief remarks is this, then; that it is
your solemn, sacred duty, as you love God and the truth, and
human welfare, to seek the ballot, and, having obtained it, to
use it in purifying our statute-books and making them read more
like the oracles of God--the eleven Commandments, and the Golden
Rule.

Mrs. MARY F. DAVIS, of New Jersey, observed that in a court room
of New York, a lawyer--she understood--recently stated that
according to law the husband of a woman has such control over her
as to "own" her; that man was made for God and woman for man! She
asked if those present accepted that law [A voice, No!] Do you,
said she, own your own persons, according to the law of God, or
do you not? Our brothers tell us that women would be contaminated
by going into the court rooms and sitting on juries; that women
must be kept from these places because it would impair their
delicacy. Well, if women were wholly excluded from our court
rooms the case would be different. But when in the mornings we
take up the daily papers, how frequently do we read of some poor
young creature who has been arrested and taken to the court room,
to be tried by a jury of men; and carried perhaps from there to a
place of imprisonment, with no pitying woman's eye or heart or
hand to give her a ray of comfort. And these poor, forlorn
creatures shall be deprived of our sy