Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-02
W. Q. I. i. NOTES.



somewhat the better for our living.
And gladder for our human speech.
Whittier
We give tho following from Lady
Henry Somerset'H letter TO the World q
Convention:
Nothing. think. causes us to
realize 80 much the solidarity 1f hui
mainly as these Worlds Conventions
bringing us together with our varied
interests, our different outiooks. our
separate requirements. and yet all one
in the bond OF the fellowship of our our
common Christianity. The very fact
that We sometimes differ makos us
realize all the more tbe importance of
tho spirit in which we work; for as
life goes on the little that we can in
di,idually accomplish appears TO US to
grow smaller when it is measured by
the standard of the worlds vast re-
quirements, and We feel that after all
that which we can best do ia to add TO
that increment of good which goes TO
make up an atmosphere in which the
Spirit of Life Himself can dwell; for
it is the spirit that giveth life and the
letter that killeih. Therefore, in all
we desire to ito for the world's good,
wa need 10 ask ourselves again and
again in what spirit We are working,
whether with that boundless lore and
charity which loves even while 1T diff.
fers or whether our horizon is limit ted
by such harrow walls that we can only
seo our own littls plot of ground, and feel
that all the world M ust come to us, in
stead OF understanding something of the
spirit OF the words that tell us that we
must go to them, and that from angels
Of vision we have perhaps some new
light to gaip.
"As the years roll, nothing seems TO
mo to matter so much as the personal
attitude we adopt towards the great
questions that effect VA SO nearly.
Looking back from the vantage ground
at the nineteenth century, We condemn
unhesitatingly the spirit of the in
QUESTION; and vet il we dissect the
motives which prompted those appalling
cruelties, We shall find that the root
principle was not ore wholly evil. but
wholly mistaken; that all who differed
had tn b" brought into Inns for the vel
fare OF the race, and that any means to
this end was ustiiiable, that to hate
the individual INFANT to be loyal to
principles that we're believed to come
from God, and | think that il We
examine our motives wo shall fluid that
something of this spirit sometimes
governs US, and that we, too, feel that
where we differ, We may almost claim
the spirit of arsnging angels. And SO
| know that in your great gatherings
You will sometimes pause TO think that
Love suffers long aud is kind, love
thinketh no evil reipiceth not in
iniquity, hut rejoiceth in the truth Z
and that IT may DO possible sometimes
that those who do nat sec eye to eye
with us are yet acting from natives
which are absolutely sincere, motives
perhaps even purer than our own. This
ia the message that / should like to
send across the wild wilderness Of
waters that separates ms from my
comrades as they meet. Our work 10
many places must seem slow and dis
couraging. The great mass of public
opinion that rises up like an i'm
pregnablo fortress before us appears
often impossible to overcome; and the
victory for which We wait is yet dis
tHnt; but Itbelieve more absolutely
than ever in the final triumph OF all
good over all evil; and while / think
that time may appear 10 drag its
lengthening chain to our 6nite minds,
by and by whom We understand the
working OF those plans which come
From tho Infinite, We shall realize how
this slow evolution has haen the train
ing school for that eventual good which
is working out in this world, and which
l believe is preparing us for the wider
work that awaits US beyond. {"
We were pleased to learn from our
delegate ut. large to the National Con.
ventiun, Mrs. Kate +. SmIthers, who
also attended tina Worlds Convention
at Toronto, that there was not an un-
KIND word spoken at either convention
concerning Lady Henry Somerset's
position upon the G. ID. Acts, and we
are sure that Tbs universal regret OF her
absence from both conversations was an
assurance of the cuntinued love and
confidence OF her CO. workers. Misc
Willard said OF Lady Henry at the Ma
tional Convention: "She ia as devoted
TO the cause OF purity as any woman
here. She will prove it to you yet as
she has in tho past Lady Henry
Somerse has reformed more women than
any other person that | know, taking
them out of the polios courts and work
houses, and everywhere, and she will
be where We are as Ahe was, | firmly
believe, some day."
Our national president stood firmly
for the Temple at the Buffalo meeting.
and will try this year "te help GET
enough to retire the $500, 200 II Temple
trust bonds
Mrs. Frances j. Barnes has resigned
the position of general secretary Of the
Young Woman's Branch of the United
StateH, which she has filled with great
efficiency the past 20 years. Mrs.
Barnes has reinquished the work hero
to take charge of Y. w. q. 7. u. work
in Europe. Mrs. Ella \. Boole of
Staten Island was elected by the execu.
tivs committee to ill tho vacancy mazda
by Mrs. harness resignation. Mrs
Boole is a Very attractive speaker, and
10 in every way adapted to the position,
besides having had some experience az
the secretary of the State of New
York.
Letting Him Down Gently.
II think ! lost an umbrella in m
elevated train yesterday" he said
timidly TO the clerk in the lost. luggage
department.
"You think you lost it, replied the