stood or half explained.

God is the author and the revealer of all truth, all beauty, all happiness and all good. If any man is inspired to do good, to teach truth. or to evolve beauty, he does it through the influence of the Divine Spirit of inspiration. A good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and we do not gather figs of thorns and thistles. The Pilgrim Fathers were inspired; so were the framers of this Constitution. So were all those who have contributed to bring to pass liberty and peace upon this earth. We as Saints are inclined sometimes to be narrow and contracted in our views; when we are, however, we are not filled with the Spirit of the Lord.

He is as broad as the arch of the everlasting heavens? Can we who are finite and full of follies afford to condemn where He does not?

In gazing back upon that momentous page of history, written all over with the name of Christopher Columbus, I bow in reverence to the great man who felt and followed the inspiration of God in coming to seek the watery highway of the earth. He knew not, he never did while living in mortality, the great mission he had performed, but up in that bright place where the spirits of the great and good of the earth are dwelling, one of the highest and noblest spirits there is that of Christopher Columbus. And so we are honoring one who deserves all honor, and paying a tribute of grateful love to the spirit of one

of God's chosen ones. All honor to brave old Christopher Columbus!

In relation to the premiums offered to those who act as agents for the JOURNAL, there still seems to be some misunderstanding of the matter, and so I wish to explain a little more about it. Any agent who has been acting for the JOURNAL, and who wishes to do so for the coming year, can do So on precisely the same terms as last year if she prefers the cash per cent. If she wishes to take premiums instead she can do that. So again if anyone, whether as agent or not, desires to become an agent, he or she can do so, taking her choice between the cash per cent. or the premiums. Likewise,

any one whose name is already on the book, no matter with whom they subscribed, can become an agent if she so wishes. The premiums are matters of choice for all. Is this clear now?

THE management of Yale has decided that, this fall, all the post graduate courses with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, will be opened without distinction of sex. It is not the design to

establish an annex or other fival of the colleges already existing for women, but to receive the graduates of those colleges and give them as good opportunities for the most advanced research and education as can be found in Europe. Yale is the first of the great universities of this country to make this change.

IARY.

MRS. POTTER PALMER, PRESIDENT.

MRS. CHARLES HENROTIN,

VICE-PRESIDENT.

DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S PROGRESS.

Preliminary Address of the Committee on a World's Congress of Representative Women at Chicago in 1893.

THIS Congress is proposed, not for the purpose of advocating any one cause, of promoting any one doctrine, or of advancing any one propaganda, but for the purpose of bringing together, the representatives of all worthy organizations of women, whatever their nationality or their specific object.

In June of 1887 the National Woman Suffrage Association issued a call to the women of the world, stating that on March 25, 1888, an International Council of Women would be convened in Washington, D. C., to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of "the first organized demand for equal educational, industrial, professional and political rights for women, which was made in a convention held at Seneca Falls, New York (U. S. A.), in the year 1848."

The International Council convened in Washington on the

sessions through eight days, adjourning April 1, 1888. Fiftyone national organizations of women and seven different countries were represented in this meeting.

The Council seemed too important to the women participatof its being adjourned and dising in its deliberations to permit solved without taking measures toward a permanent organization. of the National and International movements represented in it. Accordingly on the 31st of March, 1888, the National Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of Women were both formally organized, under the form of constitution hereto appended. The International Council of Women was officered as follows:

President Millicent Garrett Fawcett, England. Vice-president-Clara

United States.

Corresponding

Barton,

Secretary

Rachel Foster Avery, United States.

Recording Secretary-Kirstine Frederiksen, Denmark.

Treasurer Isabelle Bogelot, France.

By the terms of the constitution, meetings of the International Council were to be held quintennially, and the first was set for five years from its organization,

viz., the spring of 1893. It was informally agreed that the first meeting of the International Council should be convened in London, unless prior to the date fixed for it, circumstances should render it advisable to convene it elsewhere.

In July, 1889, in response to an invitation of the progressive women of France, an International Congress of Women was convened in Paris, under the auspices of the French Government.

The French leaders were generous in repeatedly ascribing the courageous impulse under which they had acted to the council held in

Washington the preceding year. Before its adjournment, that Congress, composed of delegates representing over one hundred societies and twenty-six different nationalities, by a unanimous vote, passed a resolution approving the permanent International Council of Women, the organization of which had been effected in Washington the preceding year, and pledging its members to work for the establishment of National Councils in their respective countries, and for the dissemination of information concerning the International Council and its objects.

So soon as the United States Government had, through Congress, made provision for celebrating the discovery of America by the World's Columbian Exposition and had fixed the time and place for such Exposition, the American officers of the Interna

tional Council at once conceived it to be appropriate, inasmuch as the year fixed for its first meeting coincided with the year for the Exposition, that the International Council should be convened in Chicago during the Exposition season of 1893, the exact date to be hereafter announced. Through correspondence concerning this

plan, the cordial concurrence of the foreign officers was received. The organization of

THE WORLD'S CONGRESS AUXILIARY, under the authority and with the support of the World's Columbian Exposition, and with the recognition and approval of the Government of the United States, affords to the officers of the International Council of Women an unanticipated ally, in securing a meeting of the character they desire, viz.: A GENERAL WORLD'S CONGRESS OF THE REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN

OF THE WORLD.

It is desired to convene in this Congress not only the delegates of organizations of women, but also women not affiliated with others in any organic relation, who have attained distinction in any line of worthy activity.

It is believed that such a Congress of women will be able to present the history of woman's development and progress, and her present status as an acknowledged factor in the world of Art, Science and Industry, and a potent influence in civil as well as in social and domestic life.

In May, 1891, the National

Council of Women of the United States, through its Executive Committee, passed a resolution pledging itself to entertain, during the Congress, all delegates attending it from foreign countries.

This was announced to organizations of women wherever known, and in many countries, notably in England, France, Canada, Scandinavia, and Finland, and more recently in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, the organized activity of women has been quickened by it. Many women in all these countries are planning to attend this Congress.

Home and Foreign Advisory Councils will be formed to COoperate by correspondence with the Local Committee of Arrangements, to the end that this Congress may be conducted to the distinguished success which the conditions demand. All officers of the International Council will be made members of the Foreign Advisory Council. All officers of the National Council will be made members of the Home Advisory Council.

the Congress, and also the names of women who should be included in either of the two Advisory Councils.

Every living question pertaining to the education or the employment of women may be discussed in this Congress. In its sessions the woman's view upon every issue affecting humanityupon the Home, the Church, the State, and her own function in these institutions may be presented. What such a Congress may do for the uplifting of humanity, if the women of the world avail themselves of its unique advantages for stating their view of the present condition of the race,

of its struggles, its possibilities, its hopes, -is incalculable. The aid which such a Congress will give to the solution of the hundreds of problems included in what is massed under the phrase "The Woman Question," is equally beyond measure. Humanity may well entertain eager anxiety regarding the manner in which women will respond to this matchless opportunity.

On behalf of the Committee of Arrangements,

MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chairman of the Committee and President of the National Council of Women, U. S. A., 343 N. Pennsylvania. St., Indianapolis, Ind.

RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Secretary of the Committee. and Corresponding Secretary International Council of Women, Somerton, Philadelphia,

CONSTITUTION OF THE INTERNATION

AL COUNCIL OF WOMEN, ORGAN-
IZED AT WASHINGTON, UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, MARCH 31,
1888.

PREAMBLE.

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We, women of all nations, sincerely believing that the best good of humanity will be advanced by greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an organized movement of will best conserve the highest good of the family and the State, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers, committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the goiden rule to society, custom and law.

That we may more successfully prosecute the work, we adopt the following

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.-NAME.

This federation shall be called the International Council of Women.

ARTICLE II.-GENERAL POLICY.

This International Council is organized in the interest of no one propaganda, and has no power over its auxiliaries beyond that of suggestion and sympathy; therefore, no National Council voting to become auxiliary to the International shall thereby render itself liable to be interfered with in respect to its complete organic unity, independence, or methods of work, or shall be committed to any principle or method of any other Council, or to any utterance or act of this International Council, beyond

compliance with the terms of this Constitution.

ARTICLE III. —OFFICERS. The officers shall be a president, vice-president at large, corresponding ponding secretary, recording secretary and treasurer. Each president of a National Council shall be ex-officio vice-president of the International Council.

The five general officers, with the vice-presidents, shall constitute an executive committee, of which seven members shall make a quorum, to control and provide for the general interests of the International Council.

ARTICLE IV.-AUXILIARIES.

Any National Council may become auxiliary to the International Council by its own vote, and by the payment of one hundred dollars every five years. The sum shall be paid into the treasury of the International Council not later than three months prior to its quintennial meetings.

ARTICLE V.-MEETINGS. The International Council shall hold quintennial meetings. The Committee of Arrangements shall be composed of the Executive Committee and one delegate from each National Council.

ARTICLE VI.

This constitution may be altered or amended by a majority vote of the Council at any quintennial meeting, printed notice thereof having been sent to each member of the Executive Committee at least three months prior to such meeting.