monic Order
"woman and her brother are pillars in the same temple and priests
of the same worship."

The Secretary, SIDNEY PEIRCE, read the following letter from

SARAH M. GRIMKE.

When an insect emerges with struggles from its chrysalis state,
how feeble are all its movements, how its wings hang powerless
until the genial air has dried and strengthened them, how
patiently the insect tries again and again to spread them, and
visit the flowers which bloom around, till at last it enjoys the
recompense of its labors in the nectar and the fragrance of the
garden.

This illustrates the present condition of Woman. She is just
emerging from the darkness and ignorance by which she has been
shrouded. She looks forth from her chrysalis and sees the natural
and intellectual world lying around her clothed in radiant
beauty, and inviting her to enter and possess this magnificent
inheritance. How came I, she asks, to be excluded from all these
precious privileges? I will arise and go to my Father and say,
"Father, permit me to share the labors of my brethren and partake
of the fruits which they enjoy." "Go, my daughter," is the
paternal response. "Be unto man, in an infinitely higher sense
than heretofore, a help-meet." How is woman fulfilling her divine
mission? Is she looking on the benefits she is commissioned to
bestow on the human race, or is she keeping her eye on her own
interests and seeking her own elevation, with little of that
expansive benevolence, that philosophical foresight which seeks
the development of all?

Woman is now in the transition state, a glorious mission is
before her, a glorious destiny awaits her. To fulfill that
mission, to be worthy of that destiny, she must patiently wait
and quietly hope, blessing those who scorn and deride her feeble
and often unsuccessful efforts, to free herself from her
entanglements. She must expect many failures in her attempts to
emancipate herself from the thralldom of public opinion. Those
who have long held the reins of power and the rank of
superiority, naturally look with distrust on a movement which
threatens to overturn long established customs and transform the
baby and the toy into an intellectual being, desiring equal
rights with themselves and