rts and made her appeals to a jury of the sovereign
people and "the judgment of a candid world." On all principles of
precedent and importance our case now stands first on the calendar.
When will the verdict be rendered and what will it be?

FOOTNOTES:

[377] Among them were Isaac H. Sturgeon, Francis Minor, James E.
Yeatman, Judge John M. Krum, Judge Arnold Krekel, Hon. Thomas Noel,
Ernest Decker, Dr. G. A. Walker, John E. Orrick, J. B. Roberts,
Rev. G. W. Eliot, Bishop Bowman, Albert Todd, Rev. John Snyder,
John Datro, J. B. Case, H. E. Merille, Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, Mrs.
Rebecca N. Hazard, Mrs. Adeline Couzins, Miss Phoebe Couzins, Mrs.
Beverly Allen, Miss Mary Beedy, Miss Arathusa Forbes, Mrs. Isaac
Sturgeon, Mrs. Hall, and many others.

[378] _President_, Mrs. Virginia L. Minor; _Vice-President_, Mrs.
Beverly Allen; _Secretaries_, Mrs. Rebecca N. Hazard, and Mrs.
George D. Hall; _Treasurer_, Mrs. George W. Banker. There were
present, besides the officers, Mrs. Anna L. Clapp, Miss Penelope
Allen, Mrs. Frank Fletcher, Miss Arathusia L. Forbes, Mrs. Nannie
C. Sturgeon, Mrs. Harriet B. Roberts, Mrs. N. Stevens, Mrs. Joseph
Hodgman, Miss A. Greenman, etc. Among the men who aided the
movement were Francis Minor, Isaac W. Sturgeon, James E. Yeatman,
Judge John M. Krum, Judge Arnold Krekel, Hon. Thomas Noel, who gave
the society its first twenty-five dollars, Ernest Decker, Dr. G.A.
Walker, John C. O'Neill, J.B. Roberts, Wayman Crow, Rev. Dr. Wm. G.
Eliot, Bishop Bowman, Albert Todd, Rev. John Snyder, John Datro,
J.B. Case, H.C. Leville.

[379] The following we find in the St. Louis papers. It is
significant of the sentiment of the Methodist women of the West:
"We, the undersigned, join in a call for a mass-meeting of the M.E.
Church in St. Louis, to meet at Union Church on the 15th inst., at
3 o'clock P.M., to consider a plan for memorializing the General
Conference to permit the ordination of women as ministers. All
women of the M.E. Church are requested to attend. Mrs. Henry
Kennedy, Mrs. T.C. Fletcher, Mrs. E.O. Stanard, Mrs. A.C. George,
Mrs. Lucy Prescott, Mrs. U.B. Wilson, Mrs. L. Jones, Mrs. E.L.
Case, Mrs. W.F. Brink, Mrs. S.C. Cummins, Mrs. R.N. Hazard, Mrs.
Dutro, Mrs. M.H. Himebaugh." The result of this meeting of the
ladies of the Methodist churches to discuss a plan for admitting
women into the pulpit as preachers was the appointment of a
committee to draft a memorial to the General Conference to me