Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-19
WOMEN'S CONGRESS
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Johnson, ana yet almost dA VI Us Aa'S
meat upon our tables"
In reply, Mrs. Lowell said that most OF
those who are opposed to Viylsectlon 90 not
believe it is wrong to kill humanely. She
herself was not an eater of meat and hao
not been for a year, bue it was not because
she thought it was sin to Kill 1t II IL were
done humanely and with proper consldera,
ton. 1t was because of the horrible ana
atrocious cruelteS that are perpetrated
upon helpless animals in the slaughter
houses
Then Miss Frances E. Willard, the charm
ing head and front Of the National Wo-
| mems Christian Temperance Union, arose
to speak. She had come in with Lazy
Henry Somerset, and they occupied seats
together on the platform. Her appearance
was the signal of prolonged applause ana
she made one of her characteristic and de-
lightful little speeches. In the course Oh
her remarks she said that il she We're ask
ed what of all gave her the most pleasure
and satisfaction she would answer that IL
was the spread of the realizing sense OF
the close connection between religion ana
the details of ones daily life.
As Minister and Missionary.
"Woman's Mission to the Church as Min
lister and Missionary" was the subject OF
a more than ordinarily interesting paper
by Mrs Katherine Lente Stevenson OF
Massachusetts. She expressed the opinion
that woman's sphere of usefulness is as
wide as all humanity, and cannot be con-
SC.
as being opposed to woman having snare
in practical church work, and yet Paul
himself said thai there was no Jew or
Gentle in the service Of God, nor bond' nor
free, nor man, nor woman.
Paul may have been in favor of restrict
ing woman's sphere in church government
then, but If he could have lived, with his
| intellect growing through the ages and
finding it's fullest development in our time
| no man would be more liberal in his ati-
tude toward woman than he. II Mr.
SteadS conception of the church-the union
| of all love in the interest of all those who
suffer-is to be realized in our life, woman
must have her share in the work, or 1t
can never be perfected. The day when
Gods kingdom shall be done on earth as it
| is done in heaven is not far off.
The discussion on the subject OF Mrs
Stevensons paper was begun by Mrs.
Emeline Burlingame Cheney, delegate from
| the Free Baptist Womans Missionary So
ciety Mrs Cheney said that the prin-
| cipal question to be considered was
| whether woman has the spiritual, physi-
| cal and intellectual qualifications neces-
| sary to take her share in church work.
| No one objects to a woman intoxicating
religious truths in the minds Of the little
| ones at home, nor to her teaching in the
Sunday schools of the land. She frequent
| ly teaches Bible classes which are more
numerous than many of the regular church
congregations.
| Then it becomes little hard to draw the
| line and to say just where her sphere of
| the different objections which have been
| raised against the extension Of woman's
| power and influence in the church and
| answered each of them in turn, concluding
| with that one that it Is an injury to wo-
| man herself. She met this in a particularly
| happy way She said that one of the
morning papers in referring to her speech
last evening said that she was "a very
| MISUNDERSTANDING woman" Yet Tor the
last twenty years there had been few Sun
days when she had not spoken from some
| pulpit on some branch of Christian work
She thought that the fact that newspaper
| man was struck above all else by her moth
| erlness was the best kind of refutation
| Of the charge that church work I'M
1 sexes women.
| Lady Henry Somerset.
| The subject was further discussed by
| LADY, Henry Somerset, Mrs. Mary Lowe
| Dickinson and Rev. Anna H. Shaw, all of
| whom spoke earnestly of the need of pay
| irg more attention to the motherhood as
| we'll as the fatherhood of God, and the
| womanhocd of the Divine.
| The idea of motherhood in God would be
| a great element for the salvation of men,
as is shown by the fact that before the
| shrines one sees everywhere in Europe one
| will find more men before the SHRINE OF
| Mary than before any other.
| Rev. Anna Shaw, who can be very sar-
| castle at times, said that the men had
done all they could 90 to Keep women Out
| missed and permitted the women to be
| deaconesses. In other words. they had
kept the pulpits for themselves, and mad
| let the women have the slums for their
| field of work That fitted the ideas of wo-
| men, to a certain extent. For many men
| thought that the people should be expected
| to come to the churches instead of taking
| the influence of true religion out among
| the people. In her opinion, the women are
| the active working power in the churches
| today.
| the discussion which was brought to
| close by Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton.
| After the reading of a number of notices,
| the session adjourned at l25o oclock.
| Afternoon and Evening Program.
| The general discussion of the subject of
| religion and the sphere of woman's useful
re IS in church work was continued at the
afternoon session today, and will again oc-
| cupy the attention of the council this even
ing. The afternoon session began at
| o'clock The program for the afternoon
and evening is as follows:
| .Organized Work in acknowledgements
| Foreign Missionary Union of Friends, Han
rah J. Bailey. delegate. Maine; National
Mary A. Davis, president, Rhode Island;
| National Council of Jewish Women, Mrs.
| H. Solomon president, Illinois Organized
Work in Temperance '-Natlonal oman
| Christian Temperance Union, Frances E.
| Willard, president, Illinois.
Evening session, o'clock-'Relgion"-
Nation /, Council Of Jewish Women presid-
| ing officer, Mrs. H. Solomon. Social obi
cations of Religion Sadie American, Hi
nois: Greek and Hebrew Thought: 1ntlu-
ence on Christianity and Civilization" Car
| RE Shevelson Benjamin, Colorado; RE
ligious Education OF Children" Mrs. Isabel
Hickman Wallach, New York Temper
ance"-National Women's Christian Temper
| ance Union, presiding officer, Frances E.
Willard; prayer by Katharine Lente Stew.
e1son. ''The, Do-Everything Policy"
| Frances E. Willard, Illinois: address topic
not yet announced Belle Kearney, Missis-
sippi; What Promise For the Future?"
Clara c. Hoffman, Missouri; ''The White
| Ribbon" Lady Henry Somerset, England.
Notes.
The attendance at today's sessions of the
council was much larger than yesterday,
| and during the forenoon there was scarce
| ly a vacant seat on the floor of the hall,
while the gallery was also well filled with
| spectators who, of course, took no active
part in the deliberations of the body. 1t
| was a thoroughly feminine audience, and
| there were hardly score Of men in the
hall.