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cause of the slave, they were assailed both by pulpit and press,
and every species of abuse was heaped upon them; but they
persevered and proved their capacity to do it, and now we meet in
quietness, and our right to speak in public is not questioned.
The woman who first departs from the routine in which society
allows her to move must suffer. Let us bravely bear ridicule and
persecution for the sake of the good that will result, and when
the world sees that we can accomplish what we undertake, it will
acknowledge our right. We must be true to each other. We must
stand by the woman whose work of hand or brain removes her from
the customary sphere. Employ the woman physician, dentist, and
artist rather than a man of the same calling, and in time all
professions and trades will be as free to us as to our brothers.

ABBY PRICE, of Hopedale, said: I shall briefly consider woman's
religious position, her relation to the Church, and show that by
its restrictions she has suffered great injustice; that alike
under all forms of religion she has been degraded and oppressed,
the Church has proscribed her, and denied the exercise of her
inalienable rights, and in this the Church is false to the
plainest principles of Christianity. "There is neither Jew nor
Greek; there is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor
female; for ye all are one in Christ Jesus." Gal., chap, iii., v.
28. "So God created man in His _own_ image; in the image of God
created He him; male and _female_ created He _them_, and said
unto _them_: have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air; over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth." Genesis i., v. 27, 28. Notwithstanding these explicit
declarations of equality, even in the Godhead, the Church
claiming to be "Christian" denies woman's right of free speech.
The priesthood, from Paul down, say gravely: "It is not permitted
for woman to speak in the churches." Some denominations have
gravely debated whether she should be allowed in the service, or
chants, to respond Amen!

The whole arrangement of Nature in her beautiful and wise
manifestations to us evinces that the Divine order is for the
sexes to mingle their different and peculiar characteristics in
every relation of life. In Jesus the m