Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-25

our own land comnercialism has held its dol
lars close to the average voters eyes that he
seems absolutely hypnotized.
The highest genius predicts the most univer-
sal sympathy. A shut-up soul and shut-up
oyster nearer the same level than the soul
believes. One can be exclusive small intel
lectua capital but only broad, far-sighted
minds can be inclusive.
The Knights of Labor have glorious motto:
'That is the most perfect government in which
injury to one is the concern of ALL" That
idea must be worked out into custom and law,
and we will help to do it; but that idea has
briefly and prohibition at its core.
Life has but one problem to solve: how self
may be driven from the throne and love placed
there i'll its stead Practically worked out, this
problem is to substitute for the old motto:
Each for himself, and the Devil take the hind
most" this truer one: each for the other,
that there may be no hindnost for the Devil
to take"
The tHort of good women everywhere should
be to secute the introduction of textbook of
right living-one that should teach the reasons
for the social code of good manners, every par.
tce of which is based OH the Golden Rule, and
those re6nements of behavior which involve
the utmost kindness to the animal creation.
Ex-Governor ST. John writes:
Frances +. Willard was one of the worlds
greatest women. She was warn-hearted and
generous; a wonderful diplomatist and remark
able leader, whose passing on caused tremor
in the ranks Of every righteous cause.
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Mrs. J. Ellen Foster wrote of her:
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into His immediate presence: she sees Him
face to face and beholds The King in His beau
ty. We all, with hushed voices and bowed
hearts and streaming eyes-but with lifted
faces-look toward the heavenly gates which
opened for her entrance
AS we think of her, death seems to have lost
its sting, the grave its victory. She was al
ways looking up always going on, always
ready for tile next step though there seemed no
ground tread upon. This last step, this
close of her motal career seems but Il. . natural
as,eit OF her spirits triumphant flight. Oh,
tlc glory of it! "rharks be unto God, who
4lv,tn IL, the victory through our Lord Jesus
Cnri,t."
NJ my years ago, frie I'd said 10 ine of Miss
Willard: "Her gentleness makes her great"
& nt.enrss, always beautiful accomplishment,
always duty, is also force which makes for
ality was her greatest power. She was strong
i'll intellect, keen in perception, versatile in
genius, indomitable i'll will, intense in spirit
uality, and possessed the gift of cultured speech
and great eloquence: but these qualities of
greatness, possessed by her in so large meas
ure would not alone have made her the great
woman she was, and the great force among
women for righteousness.
1t was her gentle power which caused that
"arrest of thought of which she often spoke,
and which made her appeals we-nigh riesist-
ible. This was the power which gave her the
greatest personal following of any woman in
American history. May the mantle of her
gentleness fall upon those who take up the
work she left.
Bishop Vincent writes:
Frances f. Willard was dreamer and doer.
She saw visions and wrought them into orations
and d-vics and achievements. She was versa
tile and practical intense and persistent. She
swayed scepter like queen, and she served
with willing hands like sister Her faith
was unlimited. Her hope made the future
diant however dark ard discouraging to her
friends and followers the immediate present
seemed She trusted God and her friends and
the instincts of humanity She knew how to
wait, and to smile in confidence when fears
filled with shadows the faces of her co workers.
Bat Frances Wilard's highest quality was her
charity. This never wavered and never grew
dim She illustrated the grace of 'perfect
love- If mortal ever did. | have for years in
my thought associated with her the matchless
Song of Charity sung by Paul in his first letter
to the Corinthians. She was full of love. Her
spirit was connected with the exhausteSs foun-
tain of divine love. She has fulfilled the d-
vine commission given her. The Christian
world will mourn her sorely. We shall do