ative, who can neither read nor write, I
would have this association discuss and pass a resolution in
favor of "educated suffrage." ...

The object of our organization is to secure equality and freedom
for woman: First, in the State, which is denied when she is not
permitted to exercise the right of suffrage; second, in the
Church, which is denied when she has no voice in its councils,
creeds and discipline, or in the choice of its ministers, elders
and deacons; third, in the Home, where the State makes the
husband's authority absolute, the wife a subject, where the
mother is robbed of the guardianship of her own child, and where
the joint earnings belong solely to the husband.

....Let this generation pay its debt to the past by continuing
this great work until the last vestige of woman's subjection
shall be erased from our creeds and codes and constitutions. Then
the united thought of man and woman will inaugurate a pure
religion, a just government, a happy home and a civilization in
which ignorance, poverty and crime will exist no more. They who
watch behold already the dawn of a new day.

The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (N. Y.), the first woman to
graduate in theology and be ordained, delineated The Changing Phases
of Opposition, pointing out that when the first Woman's Rights
Convention was held the general tone of the press was shown in that
newspaper which said: "This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural
incident ever recorded in the history of humanity; if these demands
were effected, it would set the world by the ears, make confusion
worse confounded, demoralize and degrade from their high sphere and
noble destiny women of all respectable and useful classes, and prove a
monstrous injury to all mankind." Yet this present convention was
celebrating the granting of all those demands except the suffrage and
not one of the predicted evils had come to pass. The direful
prophecies of the early days were taken up, one by one, and their
utter absurdity pointed out in the light of experience. Now all of
those ancient, stereotyped objections were concentrated against
granting the suffrage.

Mrs. Virginia D. Young (S. C.) delighted the audience with one of her
characteristic addresses. Prof. Frances Stewart Mosher, of Hillsdale
College (Mich.), gave an exhaustive review of the great increase and
value of Woman's Work in Ch