n woman suffrage and offered a tribute of
song to Wendell Phillips. Brief addresses were made by Mrs. J. Ellen
Foster (Ia.) and Mrs. Morrison (Mass.). A letter of greeting was read
from the corresponding secretary, Rachel G. Foster, Julia and Mrs.
Julia Foster (Penn.), written in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Caroline Gilkey
Rogers described School Suffrage in Lansingburgh, N. Y.

An eloquent address was made by Mrs. Caroline Hallowell Miller (Md.),
in which she said:

There are a great many excellent people in the world who are
strongly prejudiced against what they designate "isms," but who
are always glad of any opportunity of serving God, as they
express it. I ask what can finite beings do to serve Omnipotence
unless it be to exert all their powers for the good of humanity,
for the uplifting of man, which, if aught of ours could do, must
rejoice our Creator. When we see more than one-half of the adult
human family--reasonably industrious and intelligent, if we make
for them no larger claim, and certainly the _raison d'etre_ of
the other half--called to account by the laws of the land and
held in strict obedience to them without the slightest voice in
their making, with neither form nor shadow of representation
before State or country, do we not see that there rests upon the
entire race a stigma that materialist and idealist, agnostic and
churchman, should each and all hasten to remove?

"Behold, the fields are white unto harvest, but the laborers are
few!" How can it be longer tolerated that the wives and mothers,
the sisters and daughters, of a land claiming the highest degree
of civilization and boasting of freedom as its watchword, should
still rank before the law with criminals, idiots and slaves? I
feel as confident as I do of my existence, that the apathy which
we are now fighting against, especially among our own sex,
springs mainly from want of thought; the women of culture
throughout the country placidly accept the comfortable conditions
in which they find themselves. They receive without question the
formulated theories of woman's sphere as they accept the
formulated theories of the orthodox religions into which they may
chance to have been born; occasionally an original thinker steps
out of the ranks and finds herself after a while with a few
followers. They remai