ety and do themselves honor. We said that women could be
doctors of medicine. Well, we can now prove the statement by
fact. Harriot K. Hunt is among us to-day, who, by recognized
attainment and successful practice, has shown that women can be
physicians, and good ones. You have in your city two women who
are good physicians; there are female medical colleges, with
their classes, as well ordered, and showing as good a proficiency
as any classes of men. Thus that point is gained. It was said
women could not be merchants. We thought they could; we saw
nothing to prevent women from using the power of calculation, the
knowledge of goods, and the industry necessary to make a
successful trader. Here, again, we have abundant examples. Many
women could be pointed to whose energy and ability for business
have repaired the losses of their less competent husbands, I will
mention a particular case. Mrs. Tyndal, of Lowell, Mass., has for
years carried on business in a quiet way; she has made herself
rich by conducting a ladies' shoe store in Lowell. She said to
herself: "What is to hinder me from going into this business? I
should know ladies' shoes, whether they were good or bad, and
what price they can bring. The ladies should support me." And so
they did, and that woman has given a proof that her sex does not
incapacitate for successful mercanti le operations.

It is said women could not be ministers of religion. Last Sunday,
at Metropolitan Hall, Antoinette L. Brown conducted divine
service, and was joined in it by the largest congregation
assembled within the walls of any building in this city.
(Hisses). Some men hiss who had no mothers to teach them better.
But I tell you that some men in New York, knowing that they can
hear the word of God from a woman, as well as from a man, have
called her to be their pastor, and she is to be ordained in this
month. Some of you reporters said she was a Unitarian, but it is
not so; she is among the most orthodox, and so is her church.

We have caused woman's right to address an audience to be more
fully recognized than before. I once addressed an assemblage of
men, and did so without giving previous notice, because I feared
the opposition of prejudice. A lady who was among the audience
said to me afterward, "How c