ng from a vital source, has vitalized every point it has
touched. Other torches lit by that have become beacon lights, and
every one has stood for the illumination of women....

In the name and in the blended tongues of the women of the
different nationalities who belong to the International Council,
I salute and congratulate you.... I beg the proud honor of
placing your name, Miss Anthony, among the list of Patrons of the
Council as a birthday gift, where it shall one day be pronounced
in every language....

The Rev. Ida C. Hultin brought the gratitude of the ministers, saying:

....Women have failed to see that the work of every woman has
touched that of every other. The woman who works with the hand
helps her who works with the brain. To-day we know there could be
no choice of work until there was freedom of choice to work. O,
beloved leader, we of the ministry, as they of all ministries of
service, bring our greetings and benediction. I hear the voices
which shall tell of the new gospel and among them are the glad
tones of women and the intonations of this one who spake in
tears, who dared to speak before other tongues were loosed. Years
will never silence that voice. Woman in her highest moods will
catch the cadence of its melody and in the future there shall be
that which will work back and forth to the enlightenment of the
world because you have lived and ever shall live....

Miss Hirschler thus closed the tribute of her profession: "In the
generations to come when courts of law shall have become courts of
justice, women lawyers will think of Susan B. Anthony as one who paved
the way and made this possible."

Mrs. Hollister said in part: "Miss Anthony has opened the portals of
activities; has dignified labor; has made it possible for women to
manage their own affairs--four millions to-day earning independent
incomes. Women have given their lives for philanthropies and reforms,
but the one we honor to-day gave hers for woman. Olive Schreiner tells
of an artist who painted a wonderful picture and none could learn what
pigments he used. When he died a wound was found over his heart; he
had painted his masterpiece with his own blood. Such women as Miss
Anthony are painting their masterpieces with their life's blood."

Mrs. Cook, with a dignity and simplicity which won the audience, said:

....It is fit