gs House,
gave a reception to enable the people of Washington to meet the
distinguished speakers and delegates. The large parlors were thrown
open and finally the big dining-room, but the throng was so dense that
it was almost impossible to move from one room to another.

President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland received the Council Friday
afternoon. Monday evening a reception was given by Senator and Mrs.
Thomas W. Palmer of Michigan, for which eight hundred invitations were
sent to foreign legations, prominent officials and the members of the
Council. Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford opened their elegant home on
Tuesday afternoon in honor of the pioneers in the woman suffrage
movement. In addition to these many special entertainments were given
for the women lawyers, physicians, ministers, collegiate alumnae,
etc., and those of a semi-private nature were far too numerous for
mention.

Albaugh's Opera House was crowded to its capacity at all of the
sixteen sessions. Religious services were held on both Sundays,
conducted entirely by women representing many different creeds. Some
of the old-time hymns were sung, but many were from modern
writers--Whittier, Samuel Longfellow, John W. Chadwick, Elizabeth
Boynton Harbert, Julia Mills Dunn, etc. The assisting ministers for
the first Sunday were the Reverends Phebe A. Hanaford, Ada C. Bowles,
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Amanda Deyo. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw
gave the sermon, a matchless discourse on The Heavenly Vision.

"Whereupon, O, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision." Acts, xxvi:19.

In the beauty of his Oriental home the Psalmist caught the vision
of the events in the midst of which you and I are living to-day.
And though he wrought the vision into the wonderful prophecy of
the 68th Psalm, yet so new and strange were the thoughts to men,
that for thousands of years they failed to catch its spirit and
understand its power.

The vision which appeared to David was a world lost in sin. He
heard its cry for deliverance, he saw its uplifted hands.
Everywhere the eyes of good men were turned toward the skies for
help. For ages had they striven against the forces of evil; they
had sought by every device to turn back the flood-tide of base
passion and avarice, but to no purpose. It seemed as if all men
were engulfed in one common ruin. Patient, sphinx-like, sat
woman, limi