The high road to reform which she held so dear was not even
measured before her. The ground was covered with a growth of
centuries. Could this small hand that held a sickle hope to cut
down those forests of time-honored prejudice and superstition?
What had she to work with? A silver voice, a winning smile, the
great gift of a persuasive utterance. What had she to work from?
A deep and abiding faith in divine justice and in man's ability
to follow its laws and to execute its decrees.

The prophetic sense of good to come, vouchsafed to her in the
morning of life, did not forsake her at its close. Her mind was
of a very practical cast and in her many days of labor her eyes
were always fixed upon her work. But when her work was taken from
her, she saw at once the heavens open before her and the eternal
life and light beckoning to her to go up higher. With a smile she
passed from the struggle of earthly existence to the peace of the
saints made perfect. Here she was still debarred the right to
cast her ballot at the polls, but lo, in the blue urn of heaven
her life was received, one glowing and perfect vote for the
rights of women, for the good of humanity, for the Kingdom of God
on earth.

A few sentences may be given as the key-note of the eulogy of the Hon.
Wm. Dudley Foulke (Ind.): "Her career, while different from that of
most women, was characterized throughout by entire and consistent
womanliness. Among the many admirable qualities that she possessed, it
is difficult to single out the one for which she will hereafter be
best remembered, but as dauntless moral courage is a rarer quality
perhaps than any other, it seems to me that this will remain her
brightest jewel."

In the address of Mrs. Josephine K. Henry (Ky.) she referred to the
marriage of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell as follows:

Their matrimonial contract is the grandest chart of the absolute
equality of man and woman that has ever been made, and it throws
a new halo of consecration and sanctity around the institution of
marriage. It has not yet been written in our ecclesiastical and
civil codes that every woman shall retain and dignify her own
name through life, but civilization is preparing now to issue
this edict. The coming woman will not resign her name at the
marriage altar, and it will be told in future ye