the
future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of
giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have
done in the past. After all the bequests women have made to Harvard
see how niggardly that institution, in its 'annex,' treats their
daughters. I once asked a wealthy lady to give a few thousands of
dollars to start a medical college and hospital for women in New
York. She said before making bequests she always consulted her
minister and her Bible. He told her there was nothing said in the
Bible about colleges for women. I said, 'Tell him he is mistaken.
If he will turn to 2 'Chron. xxxiv. 22, he will find that when
Josiah, the king, sent the wise men to consult Huldah, the
prophetess, about the book of laws discovered in the temple, they
found Huldah in the college in Jerusalem, thoroughly well informed
on questions of state, while Shallum, her husband, was keeper of
the robes. I suppose his business was to sew on the royal buttons.'
But in spite of this Scriptural authority, the rich lady gave
thirty thousand dollars to Princeton and never one cent for the
education of her own sex.

"Of all the voices to which these walls have echoed for over half a
century, how few remain to tell the story of the early days, and
when we part, how few of us will ever meet again; but I know we
shall carry with us some new inspiration for the work that still
remains for us to do. Though many of us are old in years, we may
still be young in heart. Women trained to concentrate all their
thoughts on family life are apt to think--when their children are
grown up, their loved ones gone, their servants trained to keep the
domestic machinery in motion--that their work in life is done, that
no one needs now their thought and care, quite forgetting that the
hey-day of woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the
vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the
brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader
channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness,
and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of
humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of
their own children.

"Or, perhaps, the pressing cares of family life ended, the woman
may awake