The morning call., 1891-01-16
AN UNCRowNED QUEEN.
What One Woman in Her Life Time ID
fer the Benefit of Mankind

What One Woman in Her Life Time Did
for the Benefit of Mankind.
Editor " oHtdn'S Column, Morning Call:
The roster OF monarchs counts many a
woman, and some most excellent sovereigns
nave been of the wrong sex, as a gallant de-
lender OF mans rights has ingenuously con-
fessed, but after all the grand work of the
world Is done by quiet people, guided by
some fixed state of conviction. They are
usually called cranks, fools or fanatics. A
few centuries ago they were likely to be i'm
prlsoned or pitched over precipiceS, but they
testified as conscience decided, usually died
ignoble deaths, the world only too glad to be
ridof their agitation, and-loi century later
they have given name TO a successful creed,
the opponents of which have very likely for
gotten their spirit, or they shine enIhrOned
IN science or craftsmanship. Appreciation
for true public worth rarely comes TO people
while alive; like the people of old, we
stone the prophets and our children build
their sepulchers." In this fast age, how
ever, even appreciation of real heroes and
heroines hastens. They sometimes live to
hear the pleasing well done" while in the
flesh. Garrison bore everything but death
for people who had no power to reward
him, who might never know
THE SERVICE WHICH HE RENDERED THEM.
Helen Ellison, his wife, bore trials and fear
such as come to few women, yet she never
ialtered. When he was dragged through
the streets OF Boston with a rope around his
neck by the mob she pressed her baby
closer, and with white quivering lips said:
] know my husband will do his duty"
she stOou before the world and took its
curses and its plauditS. she stood back and
by her courage made it possible for him to
bear. Thus it is usually, a man in the fore
ground of pOOd work nSuolIV hroya
woman in the background giving herself
gladly as an air-pillow to relieve the hero
she is the final ultimate. Put woman in
the foreground and some man known or I'M
known usually performs the same service
Tor her General Booth and Catherine, his
wife, undertook a work that cut across every
selfish interest, for they combated pride,
ignorance, vice, monopoly, prejudice and
that dead apathy which is the strongest bull
wark OF evil. To help those who seemed be-
yond the pale OF human aid. Leaving cul-
tured friends and homo comforts, with no sup
rort but God, each other and their little ones,
they went into the slums to rescue. Where
every one else had failed they adopted new
methods. They gave their all and meekly
BORE THE CRITICISM
OF the many who did nothing; they sepa-
rated religion from its theological swaddling
clothes, aud made it vital principle of
action; they worked as equals and
founded a system that knows no sex; they
simply select the individual best suited to
the work, and the results have been wonder
full in England, where the Booths had per
sunal supervision. The Church IF England
encourages 1t, its bench of Bishops once
passed resolutions commencing the Saliva
ton Army, and added: They save those
we cannot reach, and the Lord bless them
And now the Mother of tile Salvationists"
has been promoted, in the language of the
earth; she is dead, and over %, 900 attended
her funeral The best of East End aud of
West End jOstled each other in that crowd
She wished a simple funeral and no sad
ness, so the place was decorated with gay
banners, japanese umbrellas and other
Such devices; the Passages were covered
with red cloth, the lads and lassies wore the
mourning badges, a white armlet marked
with large -" She came liz a very plain
coffin, on which lay her bonnet, uniform and
a flag. The crowd was so dense that the
order of exercises was announced by a set
of signals from the platform. At signal l
the bands played Rockingham; as signal
went UP ali rose aud joined in sing ing,
when l Survey tile Wondrous Cross"
THEN SILENT PRAYER.
The bands playing solemnIy Summoned