compare notes and learn what has been done.
Here, too, we must briefly survey what is yet to do and how
it is to be done. May no moment in this too brief season be
wasted! May we all speak and act in view of great
necessities and of high hopes. We may take for our text the
words: "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed."
But we must also acknowledge that the end is not yet.

Every year that sees us banded together in pursuit of our
present object sees a wonderful growth in its prominence and
recognized importance. Opposition has grown with our
efforts. People at first said, "Nobody will resist you."
This was when people thought we were in fun. But when it
appeared that we were in sad and bitter earnest, opposition
was not wanting. Wherever we came to plead the cause of
human freedom, the enemies of human freedom met and
withstood us. All the professions have befriended--all,
too, have opposed us. We have stood before powers and
dignitaries to maintain what we believe; and while we have
asked that the right of suffrage be recognized in the
persons of women, women learned and unlearned have stood up
to ask that our petition should not be granted. We need not
say that for one woman who has done this, hundreds and
thousands have risen up to bless the woman suffrage cause
and its champions. And for every doctor, lawyer and priest
who has shrieked forth or set forth our presumptive
disabilities, a tenfold number of men in all of these
callings have arisen to do battle for the right, and to tell
us on the authority of their special knowledge and
experience, that the reform we ask for is congenial to
nature and founded on right. Goldwin Smith, a man knowing
naught of woman, airs his irrational views in the English
_Fortnightly_, and Frances Power Cobbe and Prof. Cairnes,
and a host of others, unravel the net of his flimsy
statements. Drs. Clarke and Maudsley dogmatize from their
male view of the female constitution; and from men and women
throughout the country an indignant protest rises up. Men
and women say alike: "It is not education that demoralizes