was very glad remembering that in our _own_ Serbian
history there is no case of such an example of infidelity or even of
hesitation to fulfil the pledged word of the nation.

In this respect the Serbian women excelled as well as men. Therefore,
and because I am speaking before you, brothers and sisters, whose
country may be proud not only of a large number of great men of every
kind, but of great and famous women as well, I must mention the
memorable qualities of the Serbian women in the long fight for Cross and
Freedom. What sacrifices _for Cross and Freedom the Serbian_ _women_
have made cannot be enumerated from this pulpit, but only slightly
touched upon in a few examples. I take just three splendid names:
Miliza, Yerina and Ljubiza.

_Queen Miliza_ was a lady of a peaceful domestic character. But she was
also the wife of the most tragic king in our Serbian history, of King
Lazare, who perished with all his army on the field of Kossovo fighting
for Cross and Freedom against Islam rushing over Europe.

She had nine brothers--nine brothers and a father. All were killed on
Kossovo together with King Lazare, and Miliza survived that catastrophe.

After the death of King Lazare, Queen Miliza ruled the country together
with her son, Stephen the Tall. But Sultan Bayazet asked three things
from the new rulers in Serbia. Firstly, he asked for Miliza's daughter
Mara for his harem. Miliza gave her daughter. Then Bayazet asked a
second, more dreadful thing, namely, that his unfortunate mother-in-law
should build a mosque in Krushevaz, the Serbian capital at that time, so
as to have a place where he could pray when he came to visit her. There
existed and still exists a beautiful church built by King Lazare. Now
Miliza was constrained to build, close to this dear monument of her
husband, in which she prayed every day for his soul and for the
salvation of Serbia, a Turkish mosque. She agreed silently and she
protested silently. Then Bayazet asked a third still more dreadful
thing, namely, that Stephen the Tall should help him with his troops in
a time of danger for the Turkish Empire. Queen Miliza with a broken
heart advised her son to sign such a treaty in order to save the rest of
the State and people. But very soon it happened that Bayazet needed and
asked for Stephen's help against the formidable Mongol conqueror
Tamerlan. Stephen hated both the Asiatic monsters--Bayazet and
Tamerlan--equally, and it was more profitable fo