dgment most remarkably rare--apparently
far beyond her years! The whole situation was a complex problem they
could not analyze: they did not even try!

With the advent of modern spiritualism in 1848, came the first
opportunity to bring woman forward as a teacher and leader in the great
work of elevating and spiritualizing the masses. As a heritage from her
sister oracles, who spake in the mystic temples of the ancient past, the
modern woman was endowed with the divinity of a rarely sensitive and
highly refined spiritual organization. By virtue of this endowment, she
speedily demonstrated her peculiar fitness for this new mission. Her
eloquence and inspiration charmed the multitude from a thousand
rostrums. Her work in this new field was so startlingly brilliant,
important and successful as to attract the attention of the whole
civilized world; affording a remarkable object lesson which demonstrated
her possession, as the mouth-piece of inspiration, of a wonderful
magnetic power to sway the people; to enthuse, interest and educate them
up to higher mental, moral and spiritual conditions; by making them
aware of the vast import of the true purpose of human life; by helping
them to realize to a limited degree, the significance of immortality,
their individual responsibility in relation to the universe, as
important factors in the evolutionary advancement of the race toward the
millennium of its final destiny.

These inspired teachings touched a responsive chord in the hearts of all
womankind as they began, dimly at first, to perceive the all-pervading
force and rythm of the dominant key-note to the evolution of the race,
which in thunder tones ever proclaims the mighty truth, that all
progress of the race depends entirely upon the elevation, education and
refinement achieved by woman. They also began to understand something of
the glorious possibilities of a perfected womanhood, as a regenerator of
mankind. A magnificent array of future victories for woman's work loomed
up before them as a command to awake; to prepare for the coming dawn of
the twentieth century--the beginning of a new cycle in the life of the
planet; the commencement of woman's golden era! To woman the command was
imperative that she must strive for more wisdom, for more light on her
holy mission as the evangel of evolving life; that she might reach a
higher consciousness of her individual responsibility as the keeper and
guardian of the sacred temple of