Evening star., 1899-10-18

| bodily sense the instrument of his spirit.
'1deallsm means the most practical con-
| duct and the highest efficiency. It takes
| hold of every human problem; 1t addresses
| Itself to the actual tasks Of education and
| civilization, to more honest methods of do
| Ing business. to the righteous administra-
ton of our cities. to fraternal democratic
| and truly cooperative relations between all
classes Of workers, to Justice and friendli-
| ness, In place OF war, In the dealings of our
! government with weaker peoples. Do our
| churches believe in their noble idealism?
Then the twentieth century offers them the
| grandest opportunity that men ever had in
| the history of religion"
WOMEN's NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
biennial Meeting of the Organization
Held Last Evening.
| After the close of the report of the pro-
| ceedings Of the conference, as recorded in
The Star Of last evening, the biennial
meeting of the Womens National Alliance
| took place. 1t was called to order by the
president, Mrs. J. Dix Ward of Brooklyn,
| n. Y. The report of the recording secre-
! tary, Mrs. Emily A. Fifed of Dorchester,
Mass. stated that the alliance had recent
| ly been enlarged by the accession of Wis
| consin and Canada. The central state sec
| tion had also been formed. The function
| of the executive board was simply advt-
sorry and as an organ of intercommunica-
| tion by the women of the churches in their
| work. For a medium of this the monthly
| Journal, Word and Work. was ctrcu-
lated.
The alliance is now specially interested
| in missionary work in Florida and North
Carolina. The ld-fashioned sewing circles
| are being rapidly changed into branches of
the alliance, and the national organization
| has broadened the sphere of every ladies'
aid society. The alliance insists in regard
Ing religious as well as material interests
The report of the treasurer showed a
balance still to credit.
Address by Mrs. Davis.
| An address was then made by the corre-
| spending secretary, Mrs Mary Barrett Da-
| Wis of New York. THE middle states" she
said, were called years ago the Unitarian
bad lands, but had lately shown a greater
development than New England in the
| work of the alliance" She related encour-
aging experiences and emphasized the need
| of the missionary spirit Of self-sacrihce TT
| has been said she remarked, that it was
through the Unitarian Church that contir-
uity of development was to be secured for
Protestantfsm.'
Mrs. Wells Theme.
Two addresses were delivered during the
session. The first, on What Unitarian
Women of the Nineteenth Century Be-
Queath to the Women of the Twentieth
Century" was by Mrs. Kate Gannett
Wells of Boston. She said in part:
The development of women during the
present century will rank equally with its
scientific discoveries, as the growth of the
soul Is the most potent factor of humanity
In the history Of this development, though
education and legislation have aided go-
mans progress, it has yet been due chiefly
to the growth of her own self-consciousness
in working itself out into freedom and ser
vice for others, her sense Of personality be-
coming more and more the cause of her
righteousness. She thus has to bequeath
to the future the modern sense of service
that is, philanthropy, which must be rem
dered joyousiy-with women's sharpened
FACULTY for organization; an enlarging view
Of education, secular and religious
Mrs. Wells noted several other be
quests. as she termed them, among them
the modern attitude toward prayer as COM
munion rather than its former petitonary
| aspect, the belief in God as the Divine Per-
son, the imminent force of life, past, pres
ent and to come; the happier view of death
than that formerly held, the outgrowth
from a credal denominat tonalism into a
wide sympathy in religion.
Power of Organization.
Miss H. Isabel NJ Chapman of Brooklyn,
speaking on the power of organiza ton, said:
The ideal organization toward which we
are surely moving will be composed of both
men and women, each sex the complement
Of the other, furnishing to each that which
the other lacks. There is. legitimately, the
mans point of view, the womans point of
View. Not till we have the qualities that
make up both do we get the perfect whole.
Not till then are we able to see all sides Of
a question.
I'm meeting any problem we need the
| delicacy. the genteness. the sympathy of
the woman and the judgment, the discrimi-
nation, the practically of the man. Let
neither sex hesitate to learn of the other.
The ideal woman would ever go where she
is spiritually led. The ideal man never for
gets to be practical.
Let all foolish talk cease about womans
sphere or mans sphere. We must rather
consider the sphere of the individual, which
is surely the doing of that for which the
man or woman is the best fitted. We
cook OF a writer-at least, we should not
try Only by doing that for which each
was born can all take their proper places
in the organized work of the world
Nominations Approved.
The recommendations of the committee
on nominations Of the following names
as candidates for election to the executive
board of the National Alliance of Unitar-
ian and other liberal Christian women were
unanimously adopted, as follows:
For vice presidents-New England. Kate
Gannett Wells; middle states, Mary Louise
Catlin; southern states. Antoinette Dan
forth Smith; central states, Fanny Field
middle west. Mary w. McKittrick; Rocky
mountains, Rebecca P. Utter; Pacific coast,
Lucy NJ. Stebbins.
For directors-Maine, Sarah Fairfield
Hamilton: New Hampshire, Mary A. Down
ing; Massachusetts,. Elizabeth P. Charming,
Sarah E. Hooper. Sarah c. F. Wellington.
Abby A. Peterson, Lillian NJ. Cressey,
Phoebe NJ. Waldo, Caroline I. Chaney, Alb |
bic L. Stone, Ella P. Judkins, Elizabeth B. |
Lombard. Sarah B. Williams; Rhode Island, |
Mary E. Cleveland; New York, Minnie H. |
Bishoprick. Mary Seward Merrell: Canada, |
s. Margaret Loud; New Jersey. Elizabeth |
n. Bell; Pennsylvania, Elizabeth J. May;
Ohio. Kate Lindsay; Illinois, Ellen F. |
Marshall: Missouri, Belle NJ Page; Michi- |
gan. ida A. Marks: Wisconsin. Mary G. |
Upham; California, Elizabeth B. Easton, |