JULIA WARD H0WE

Julia Ward Howe is something more than a noble memory. She has left herimpress on her time, and given a very new significance to womanhood. To hearthe perfect music of the voice of so cultivated a woman is something ofan education, and to have learned how gracious and kindly a great naturereally is, is an experience well worth cherishing. Mrs. Howe waswonderfully alive to a wide range of interests--many-sided andsympathetic. She could take the place of a minister and speakeffectively from very deep conviction and a wide experience, or talk simplyand charmingly to a group of school-children.

When some years later than her San Francisco visit she spoke at a King'sChapel meeting in Boston, growing feebleness was apparent, but the samegracious spirit was undimmed. Later pictures have been somewhatpathetic. We do not enjoy being reminded of mortality in those ofpre-eminent spirit, but what a span of events and changes her liferecords, and what a part in it all she had borne! When one ponders onthe inspiring effect of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and of the armsit nerved and the hearts it strengthened, and on the direct blows shestruck for the emancipation of woman, it seems that there has beenabundant answer to her prayer,

"As He died to make men holy, Let us expire to make men free."