been either placed in the
aisles or on the stage, and then boxes and benches were pressed
into service. Many of the most prominent professional and
business men were standing on the stage and in different parts of
the house.

Miss Shaw gave her great sermon The Heavenly Vision. She told of the
visions of the man which it depended upon himself to make reality; of
the visions of the woman which were forever placed beyond her reach by
the church, by society and by the laws, and closed with these words:
"We ask for nothing which God can not give us. God created nature, and
if our demands are contrary to nature, trust nature to take care of
itself without the aid of man. It is better to be true to what you
believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe,
even if that belief is correct."

Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby (D. C.) preached to more than a thousand
people at the Bethel (colored) Church; Mrs. Meriwether at the
Unitarian Church; Miss Yates and Miss Emily Howland (N. Y.) also
occupied pulpits.

The evening programs with their formal addresses naturally attracted
the largest audiences and occupied the most space in the newspapers,
but the morning and afternoon sessions, devoted to State and committee
reports and the business of the association, were really the life and
soul of this as of all the conventions. Among the most interesting of
the excellent State reports presented to the Atlanta meeting were
those of New York and Kansas, because during the previous year
suffrage campaigns had been carried on in those States. The former,
presented by Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, State president, said in
part:

The New York Constitutional Convention before whom we hopefully
carried our cause--"so old, so new, so ever true"--is a thing of
the past. We presented our petition, asking that the word "male"
be eliminated from the organic law, with the endorsement of _over
half a million_ citizens of the State. We laid before the
convention statistics showing that outside the city of New York
the property on which women pay taxes is assessed at
$348,177,107; the number of women taxed, 146,806 in 571 cities
and towns; not reported, 389.

We had the satisfaction of knowing that the delegates assembled
were kept upon a strong equal suffrage diet for days and nights
together. At the public hearings, graciously granted us, we saw
the