Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw (Mass.), in A Review of the Remonstrants, was
enthusiastically received. Young, handsome and a fine elocutionist,
her imitation of the "remonstrants" and their objections to woman
suffrage convulsed the audience and was quite as effective as the most
impassioned argument.

The speakers of the convention were invited to fill a number of
pulpits in Washington Sunday morning and evening. In the Unitarian
Church, where the Rev. Ida C. Hultin preached, there was not standing
room. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw gave the sermon at the Universalist
Church, of which the _Post_ said:

Never in the history of the church had such a crowd been in
attendance. The lecture rooms on either side of the auditorium
had been thrown open, and these, as well as the galleries, were
crowded almost to suffocation. Women stood about the edges of the
room, and seats on window sills were at a premium. Outside in the
vestibules of the church women elbowed one another for points of
vantage on the gallery stairs, where an occasional glimpse might
be caught of the handsome, dark-eyed, gray-haired woman who
looked singularly appropriate at the pulpit desk. The
congregation hung upon every word, and her remarks, sometimes
bitter and caustic, were met with a hum of approval from the
crowded auditorium.

Perhaps eight-tenths of the congregation were women. Miss Shaw's
pulpit manner is easy, but her words are emphasized by gestures
which impress her hearers with a sense of the speaker's
earnestness. Her voice, while sweet and musical, is strong, and
carries a tone of conviction. Her subject last night was
"Strength of Character." The text was chosen from Joshua, 1:9:
"Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not
afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goest."

In the opening remarks the speaker said it was now time that
women asserted their rights. "Men have no right to define for us
our limitations. Who shall interpret to a woman the divine
element in her being? It is for me to say that I shall be free.
No human soul shall determine my life for me unless that soul
will stand before the bar of God and take my sentence. Men who
denounce us do so because they are ignorant of what they do.
Woman has broken the silence of the c