. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. asure the wonderful success which attended her efforts. She was areformer, but she never shared the usual unpopularity of reformers, andher advocacy of reform in temperance never made her offensive to anyclass of people. Notwithstanding her public life, she was nevertheless areal woman, with that degree of sincerity and modesty that commanded theutmost respect from all with whom she came in contact. The world has been better because Frances .E. Willard lived. Shedevoted her life unselfis
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. asure the wonderful success which attended her efforts. She was areformer, but she never shared the usual unpopularity of reformers, andher advocacy of reform in temperance never made her offensive to anyclass of people. Notwithstanding her public life, she was nevertheless areal woman, with that degree of sincerity and modesty that commanded theutmost respect from all with whom she came in contact. The world has been better because Frances .E. Willard lived. Shedevoted her life unselfishly to the cause of humanity, and she brought so-briety into the homes of untold thousands; and at her death she left anorganization that has been and will continue to be a potent factor for goodin the world. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana: Mr. President—From the beginning woman has personified theworlds ideals. When history began its record it found her already thechosen bride of Art. All things that minister to mankinds good have,from the very first, by the general judgment, been made feminine—the. MRS. ELLA V B( M > Lecturer. W. (.!. U. FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD. 161 ships that bear us through storm to port; the seasons that bring variety,surcease to toil and lifes renewal; the earth itself, which, through all timeand in all speech, has been the universal mother. The Graces were women,and the Muses, too. Always her influence has glorified the world, untilher beatitude becomes divine in Mary, mother of God. Mark how the noblest conceptions of the human mind have alwaysbeen presented in form of woman. Take Liberty; take Justice; take allthe holy aspirations, all the sacred realities! Each glorious ideal has, tothe common thought, been feminine. The sculptors of the olden time madeevery immortal idea a daughter of the gods. Even Wisdom was a womanin the early concept of the race, and that unknown genius of the youthfulworld wrought triumph itself into womans f
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