also much more dynamic, a power to move as well as a
power to stay. True womanliness must grow and not diminish, in
its larger and freer exercise. Whom did I see at that first
suffrage meeting, first in my experience? Lucy Stone, sweet faced
and silver voiced, the very embodiment of Goethe's "eternal
feminine"; William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, noble advocates of human freedom; Lucretia
Mott, eloquent and beautiful in her holy old age. What did I
hear? Doctrine which harmonized with my dearest aspirations,
extending as it did the hope which I had supposed was for an
elect and superior few to all the motherhood of the human race.
The new teaching seemed to me to throw the door open for all
women to come up higher, to live upon a higher plane of thought
and to exercise in larger and more varied fields the talents,
wonderful indeed, to which such limited scope had hitherto been
allowed. I felt, too, that the new freedom brought with it an
identity of interest which formed a bond of sisterhood and that
the great force of cooperation would wonderfully aid the
promotion of objects dear to all true women alike....

I have sat in the little chapel in Bethlehem in which tradition
places the birth of the Saviour. It seems fitting that it should
be adorned with offerings of beautiful things but while I mused
there a voice seemed to say to me, "Look abroad! This divine
child is no more, he has grown to be a man and a deliverer. Go
out into the world. Find his footsteps and follow them. Work, as
he did, for the redemption of mankind. Suffer as he did, if need
be, derision and obloquy. Make your protest against tyranny,
meanness and injustice!"

The weapon of Christian warfare is the ballot, which represents
the peaceable assertion of conviction and will. Society
everywhere is becoming converted to its use. Adopt it, oh, you
women, with clean hands and a pure heart! Verify the best word
written by the apostle; "In Christ Jesus there is neither bond
nor free, neither male nor female, but a new creature," the
harbinger of a new creation!

On the last evening Senorita Carolina Holman Huidobro told of The
Women of Chili and Argentina in the Peace Movement. Mrs. Mead spoke on
The World's Crisis, and, with an unsurpassed knowledge of