Smyrna times., 1891-03-11
The Work of Women.

4O w OIk OI " omen.
Miss Frances Willard made a most
effective address at the Triennial Coun.
Gil of women held in Washington last
week. The Subject of her address was
''The general advance of the woman's
cause" and the following synopis of it
will be of interest to our readers of
both sexes.
Consider the fact said Miss Willard
that more than 80 per cent. of all our
school teachers are women; that over
200 colleges have now over 1000 women
students; that industrial schools TO.
girls are being founded in almost every
state; that hardly score of colleges
in all the nation still exclude us. and
that these begin to look sheepish and
speak in tones apOlogetic, while the
University of Pennsylvania was lately
opened, Barnard College, in New York.
is the annex to magnificent Columbia.
and the Methodist University. of
Washington, D. G. the Leland, Stan
ford and Chicago Universities. with
countless millions back of them, are
in all their departments, including di-
vinity to be open to women. Reflect
that we are admitted to the theological
seminaries of the Methodist, Cengrega-
tional and Universalist Churches. to
say nothing of half dozen smaller
ecclesiastical communiOns that the
Free Baptist and several other church
es, now welcome women delegates to
their highest councils, while we vote in
the local assembly of almost every
church in ChristeDdOm, except the
Catholic; and that, while some of us
were rejected as delegates by the Gen.
eral Conference of the Methodist
Church in 1878, that body submitted
the question to a vote of two million
Methodists, and 81 per cent. of those
present and voting" declared in favor
OF complete equality within the House
hold of Faith"
Pass in review the philanthrOpies of
mountaineering not fewer than 60
societies of national scope or yalue.
with their hundreds of State and tens
OF thousands of local auxilliaries, both
North and South, and the countless
local boards organized to help the de-
tective, dependent and delinquent
classes in town and city (all of whom
would be stronger if each class were
correlated Enationally); study the
college settlements" or colonies of col.
lege women who establish themselves
In the poorer parts of the great cities
and work on the plan of Toynbee Hall.
London; think of the women's protec-
tive agencies, wemen's sanitary asso-
Citations and exchanges, industrial
schools and societies for physical cul-
ture, all of which are but clusters on
the heavy laden bOughs of the Chris.
tian civilization, which raises women
up and, with her, lifts toward heaven
the world.
Contemplate the woman's foreign
and and home missionary societies. rel.
atlve to which an expert tells us that
the first was organized about a quarter
OF century ago, and now most of the
denominations have both associations.
with a contributing membership of
about 81 100000.
They hold at least 100000 mission
ary meetings every year presided over
by women. They raise and distribute
$4,000, 1000 every year, and these several
Loards scan each little investment with
as much care as if fortune were to be
made in discovering an error in the
accounts"
Marshalled in blessed array the
Kings Daughters, two hundred thous-
and strong, with their hallowed motto,
I'm His Name;" the society of Chris
tian Endeavor, with immense contin-
gent of women reflect that a woman
spoke before the Catholic Total Abstin-
ence Society, at its late meeting, in the
presence of distinguished prelates of
that church, which, while beyond most
others in utilizing money, devotion and |
work of women, is most conservative
of all when their public efforts are con-
cerned. Remember the pathetic figure
of our beloved Pundita Ramabai as she |
stood pleading the cause of high caste
HindOO windows upon this platform |
three years ago, and rejoice that in her
school at POona the dream is coming
true.