were Dr. J.
A. Rondthaler of the Normal Park Presbyterian Church; Dr. Austin K. de
Blois of the First Baptist Church, and the Rev. Jean F. Loba of the
First Congregational Church, Evanston. A number of pulpits in the city
were filled by officers and delegates Sunday morning. The Studebaker
Theater was taken for the regular service of the convention in the
afternoon in order to accommodate the large audience. The Rev. Kate
Hughes of Chicago offered prayer. Dr. Shaw presided and read a message
from Miss Mary S. Anthony dictated a few days before her death, when
Miss Shaw asked her what word she would like to send to the
convention. It said in part:

Until we, a so-called Christian nation, put into practice those
principles of justice which we claim are the foundation of our
national greatness, we cannot hope to inspire confidence in the
people of the world in our lofty pretensions of freedom and fair
play for all. The wrong which today outranks all others is the
disfranchisement of the mothers of the race. So long as this
injustice toward women continues, just so long will men fail to
recognize justice in its application to each other. This one
question puts all else into the background and until we can
establish equality between men and women we shall never realize
the full development of which manhood and womanhood are capable.
Because I believe this so thoroughly I have given the best of
myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political
freedom for women, knowing that upon this rests the hope not only
of the freedom of men but of the onward civilization of the
world. I therefore urge upon the delegates and members of the
National Association not to lose courage, no matter what befalls,
but to work on in hope and faith, knowing well that the time of
the coming of woman's political liberty depends largely upon the
zeal and unwearying service of those who believe in its justice.

The Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincinnati in a strong address showed
the Value of the Ballot. Miss Addams told with much feeling of the
recent campaign for the Municipal franchise, the objections they had
to meet, the character of the opposition and how hard it was for women
to be patient.

Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch gave an able address under the title "Why Not?" a
study in Prejudice and Superstition, reviewing the objections to woman
suf