New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
"WORLD'S WOMAN AND FRIEND
BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO THE LATE LEA DER
OF THE W. c. r. L. BY A FRIEND
AND FELL OW-WORKER.

r, a, interview a few days ago Mary Lowe DICK
inson. the Editor OF 1.-THE Silver Cross had this
10 say about her dear friend. the late Frances
willard:
'In a time like this II seems hardly hitting that
one should speak OF individual or personal oe-
rcoven,ent Our loss is universal and the bereave-
mont seems to have stirred the pulse of sorrow In
the heart OF the whole Nation. know OF no other
Instance when over the grave Of any man or
woman was outpoured such a food OF apprecia-
ton OF affection and regret. That flood rose until,
like \ sea II has swept over the press and the
| pulpit and found its way into the inlets or ten
thousand homes and many times ten thousand
hearts II Is a privilege to be allowed 70 add the
little drop which is all that any one OF us can oner
to swell that universal tide.
"For many OF us It Is hard 10 think OF her as
tho worlds woman and the worlds friend. The
instructive claim OF affection calls her our woman
and our friend and yet We must not forget that
Il was her great value TO the world that gave her
friendship its great value to Individual souls
During the great meetings Of the Congress OF
Representative Women at the time OF the Column
bian Exposition. speaking Of the women who
formed the Womans Christian Temperance Union,
I said:
They made a union. and that was great They
made temperance union, and thar was greater
They made 2 woraan's temperance union. and that
was greatest. bur they made a woman's christian
temperance union, and that fact made tho great
ness Of all the rest
"Tbat which 7 said then Of the organization
through which the life OF Frances Willard found
its best expression applies equally we'll TO the
woman herself She made union. She was among
tho first 10 recognize and 10 develop the pos3-
hilitles of cooperation and In this she was great
She showed herself greater still In he- power 10
discern and to choose the one cause on whose
success hung tho welfare o, the world. Ana she
was surely greatest when she made woman =
nd combining all nlgneSt
womanly forces for the moral uplift Of home and
native land. The great thought or ner great
heart was to gather the women OF the "orid TO-
gether and make OF their outstretched arms an
orphanage for the worlds childhood. ana OF the'r
throbbinC hearts a bulwark against the worlds
misery and sin and shame, yet In all her grand
conccption and magnificent execution the fact that
the union cooperation she sought was TO DO a
Christian union kept ever In the foreground
No matter or what field the fight for temperance
and purity and patriotism was to be fought out
over every battle this Christian banner hung Tn
der II her own life march went grandly heaven
ward Under it the srevins ranks OF the women
who follow her leadership must go forward 10
the battles that are as yet unwon
I'm the emphasis given to this side OF her life
work lies its strength In the future believe
that II the sealed lips spoke 10 us tonight from
would be 20 bid the women OF the world TO stand
hood a finer boyhood n nober manhood higher
typo OF citizenship and, through the help Of a
united Christian womanhood. homes lifted from
dishonor and a land redeemed from shame.
zone might easily hil a book with what could be
said OF this living and loving friend OF humanity.
as a child in the prairie home. as student edu-
Gator organizer and as the discoverer Of the un-
developed forces III womanly nature. as leader
and as an ideal Christian woman OF her day. We
women Of her century pay her the highest tribute
and do her the highest honor when We learn TO
love humanity she loved II. and 70 live under
Tho control Of such motives diguihed her life
The following poem by Mrs Dickinson adapted
was written In part by Miss Wizards side as: TO
borrow the authors words. she lay In that exalted
sleep under which years and pain and care faded
IN her face shone out upon us radiant with i'm