cept the
Quakers, that has recognized the equality of woman, is the
Spiritualists. They have always assumed that woman may be a
medium of communication from heaven to earth, that the spirits of
the universe may breathe through her lips messages of loving
kindness and mercy to the children of earth. The Spiritualists in
our country are not an organized body, but they are more or less
numerous in every State and Territory from ocean to ocean. Their
opinions on woman suffrage and equal rights in all respects must
be learned from the utterances of their leading speakers and
writers of books, from their weekly journals, from resolutions
passed at large meetings, and from their usage and methods. A
reliable person widely familiar with Spiritualism since its
beginning in 1848, says that he has known but very few
Spiritualists who were not in favor of woman suffrage; that all
their representative men and women, and all their journals
advocate it, and have always done so; that expressions in its
favor in public meetings meet with hearty approval, and that men
and women have spoken on their platforms, and held official
places as co-workers in their societies through all of these
thirty-seven years. All this has taken place with very little
argument or discussion, but from an intuitive sense of the
justice and consequent benefits of such a course. A single
testimony, of many that might be given from their writings, must
suffice. In the _Religio-Philosophical Journal_, Chicago, Ill.,
November 22, 1884, its editor, J. C. Bundy, says: "Although not
especially published in the interest of woman, this journal is a
stalwart advocate of woman's rights, and has for years given
weekly space to 'Woman and the Household,' a department under the
care of Mrs. Hester M. Poole, who has done much to encourage
women to renewed and persistent effort for their own
advancement."

It has been the custom of some of our journals to ask for letters
of greeting from distinguished people for New Year's day. We find
the following in the _Inter-Ocean_: "Sojourner Truth, the Miriam
of the later Exodus, sends us this remarkable letter. She is the
most wonderful woman the colored race has ever produced, and thus
conveys her New Year's greeting to our readers:

"DEAR