Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-26

II Mrs. Mary Church Terrfll had any
doubt as to the high etseem in which
she is held by the citizensof Wash
ington, that doubt was removed last
Wednesday evening, at the reception
rendered her at the Metropolitan A.
M. e. church. When it was learned
that she would soon return to the
city fro mher trip abroad as delegate
to the International Congress of Wom-
en-, which met recently in Berlin, Ger
many, movement was started by 100
of the leading colored citizens of the
District, to tender her grand public
reception, to show in a public way
their high and warm appreciation Of
the great honor she had done herself
and the race while abroad. The asv,O-
ciated press and the magazines and
newspapers have already told the
story of her triumph abroad, and it is
only left to the citizens Of her home
city to acknowledge the same in a
public way. Metropolitan A. M e.
church, which has the largest seating
capacity of any church in the District
OF Columbia, was comfortably filled
with representative men and women
of the race who had come out to hear
the story of her triumph, and to make
her return home welcome The church
was beautifully decorated. an 4orches-
ira was secured and most interest
ing program was rendered.
Master Of ceremonies, DR.. J. R. Will.
der; invocation, Rev. Sterling N.
Brown; Introductory remarks, DR.. J.
R. Wilder; addresses of welcome, Hon.
John G. Daney, and Miss Maria l..
Jordan; Response, Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell; benediction, Rev. c.. J. w.
Scott; music for the occasion was fur
nished by the Invincible orchestra.
Mrs. Terre!I's Address.
Mrs. Terrell was then escorted to
the front of the rostrum, by DIR. J. r.
fore she could speak so thunderous
and enthusiastic was the applause
given her. Her re- honse beggars de-
scription. 1t was only such speech
as Mary Church Terrell could deliver
| and for twenty minutes she charmed
the audience with a pen picture of her
| trip abroad She spoke without notes
and had perfect command of herself.
| The Washington Post, speaking of her
address, said: .a.f
Mrs. Terrell said that it wal only
| because she felt that she represented
not only the Afro-American women,
but the entire race that she decided in
the face of advice to the contrary to
attempt to address that great body Of
intelligent to address that great body
of intelligent and progressive women
in German, and again in French.
MRS. Terrell is Washingtonian by
adoption and for several years watt
member of the board of education.
Shells graduate of Oberlin college,
holding two degrees. A. B.. and A. M,
and has had the added advantage OF
thorough study in Paris, Berlin and
Florence.
"She was touched last night by the
heartiness of the reception rendered
her. .,- LIS S.....- ..
when she stepped forward she was
warmly greeted. and it was several
moments before rhe could proceed.
She began by giving credit to her
parents for educating her and to her
husband for enabling her to use her
talents in behalf of the women of her
race.
Coming to the incidents of the con-
vention in Berlin, she paid high trib-
ute to the Germans, stating that she
doubted that the women of any other
nation in the world could arrange a
meeting which would surpass that
| held in Berlin. She was the only rep
resentative of the African race at the
| Congress, and she declared that the
courtey accorded her was equal to
that extended to any other delegate