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Show - w- WOMAN'S ...EXPONENT; AGAIN ARE WE AFFLICTED. Againris-OTrSiafffictioa'sc,- seemed requisite. The number of meetings held in the Drauehea not. oA rphnVt www. ' w bVUi " . Again the waves of sorrow flow, ' Stirring the soul's deep anguish up, To feci afresh its former wje. But oh, this cup. in kindness given, We may dare not cast away: ' , We feel our Father's hand hath riven, These dear home-link- s from earth away. Sorrow's retiring wave must leave Upon our hearts some precious gem, . To twine within affection's wreath, A rich, a priceless diadem. Tho nature for her loss must mourn, And our eyes fill with blinding tcrs, Undying" faith shall cheer us on, : Dispelling gloomy doubts and fears. "Tom tinglo" those bright realms afar, '", ' Her holy light shall be our stay, Unto our souls a guiding star, Thro' Him whoisthe TrhndJlVay, O vef IheTugged mount of prayer, And valleys oft in sorrow trod, Lieth immortal gardens fair, - j Where dwell the ransomed Saints of God. L. M. H. I write this as one who sorrows with you. much zeal has been manifested. The cause of woman's wages, woman's moral, social and political needs have been discussed; also the best methods of helping woman to rightly understand her present degree of helpless dependence, and to intelligently assert her selfhood in a manner that her to labor more effective!? for the general good of , it, . will-enab- le humanity. ' Classes in civil government havo hepn formed; the duties of city and county ..officers ' have been considered: mock lecrislativft assemblies Jbavebeen organized and-bill- s pass ed, inese icsson3 have been among the most instructive of our general exercises. In July, the Territorial Woman's Suffrage . . iAsscjatioliLgay pendence Celebration, attended by over four hundred, at which the principles of the su ffrage cause were presented from a political and scriptural standpoint. In the same month we held a grove Jubilee in honor of the admission of our neighboring State, Wyoming, with her model constitution guaranteeing equal political privileges to men and women, ' PRESIDENT . WELLS. brave Jroe heart, that wore na worldly mask, Nor ever shrank from any proving test, A strong, kind hand, ne'er known to shirk its task.. Now calmly rest. - - . - - s; .1 -- . 1 ' Ye Saints of God, whose love for him was great, Mourn for your loss, yet deem not this complete; Bring high resolves his work to emulate, .... As offerings mete. Remember whatjsweet charity he's shown, Forgetting self in care for others' need; And try to make such Christ-hk- e love your own, ' In word and deed.- tr- . " . -- - , s . due$,-adding:word- :: - - ; Eternal One, this Friend hath served Thee well; Thy mercies to his family still increase; For love like his, Thine only can excel, Grant them its peace. , From first to last, e'en that loneabsent one, The favored child of his declining years, Help them to truly say, "Thy will be done,'? . Amid their tears. -- ill The cruel enactment of our Government which depnvedjjhewoinen-- oi JJtahr-wUh&uinai, oi their vested and treasured right of franchise, we understand to be a grievous wrong, which caJIs on the administrators of justice in our nation for redress. Our mountain vales are not free from obstructions; but one by one the advancing .. "1 waves of better, thought silences them.and once may not oe permitted to do. timid friends of our cause come more and more In refemncr t.n thft rAlntinti "nf wnmnn in to the front. the church, he spoke of the argument raised Women workers in the suffrage cause in by many women that it was the desigu of various . parts of the Territory report that they God that woman should be eligible to anv find many clear brained men who- are helpful to position she could occupy. The women go them in various ways. They'give their names and pay their of: encourageone woman uoon whom we have all laid nnr ment, and wishing us success in the good, cause claim and our boast i3 that grand old woman of women's full enfranchisement n r teat ana rrv n m innfrm irr- nittOur publishing committee have is a Israel in its hour of peace, "There was collection of songs, which help to make our trouble, there was dissension, there was un- roof in Toioal until T TnKrt.n1a mnitma i meetings varied and interesting. We watch with interest the reports of the Israel, arose." . We point to the fact that the . labors of our Sister Suffragists abroad and they judges of Israel were always understood by have our sympathy in all their laudable efforts those people to be divinely selected for their in helping to raise-th- e standard of equal position; and being thus divinely selected, human rights. we cannot assume that any human being S. M. .Kimball, Pres. could have taken the position who was riot recognized, by the people at least, as having oeen chosen by uod; and even with the SPEECH OF REV. ANNA H. SHAW.. authority of the bishop to back it, we cannot assume that God did not know what he was FrancesE. JWljMd,J&e doing when He chose Deborah to be a judge ' last thT CouiIcrrThtroduced speaker, Rev. in Israel. If Bishop Vincent thinks God follows: H.lShaw as Anna made aT mistake, he will have to wait forever We have had present during the "Council a to correct the mistake, for it is done and we TnJc Tt?mn very modest, quiet, gentle, and yet indomitable nun nnt rrn Yionlr nn little woman, who has had the embarrassing foil d xrA i'stiiiTliSl n W MM v ntrvxreatl " n J O and unenviable duty of tapping the bell. where the judges had been taking bribes fromj Now she is to come under the rule, and no the people, where the ptfbple "were utterly one will do it with more gracefulness or good demoralized, where they dared not walk on will. While Rev. Anna H.ShaW speaks to their highways because of thieves or robbers, us about "God's Women," sheNdll present in and were compelled to go secretly through herself an embodiment of the unique title she crosslots in order to get from city to city. has chosen for her address. I will ask Mrs. of the her as forty years During reign judge Mary T. Lathrop to time the Rev. Anna H. of Israel, the whole condition of Hhings was Shaw. revplutipnized. JWe are told that she fudged -- t Miss-Shthe people in "righteousnessand the people proceeded assertion that God's had peace for forty years. Just think of Vincent's reported women are not the Deborahs and Miriams, forty yeara of peace! We have never known but the Ruths, Rachels, and Marys.. She such a thing since that; day. Now then, " said: this woman was not, we are told by Bishop The subject, "Gods Women," was suggested Vincent. Tf tnon eKa nas . , GrvrTa wnmnn vru.uu- - di., luwu cue uuti . . i i in in r article a newspaper which uous to me by an woman was she And wuman,wflose a gentleman defined God's- Women. It ha3 if God is not able to recognize His own, always seemed to me remarkable how clear what will become of us at the last? Now, we the definitions of men are in regard to women, believe that this judge in Israel was divinely their duties, their privileges their responsi 1 f)0.1 on nana (Continued JT . J ; Rest from their labors, but the light they shed, Shines now from earth to heaven, and will not dim; The works of this, our Friend, the blessed dead,-- Do follow him. . bilities, tueir relations to eacbotberto men, to government, and now to God. Whije they have been doing this for years, we have been patiently listening. The woman of the nineteenth century has taken to definition, and she has come to the conclusion that it may be possible for a woman, as well as for a man, to comprehend ;the relations of women" to each other, to their homes, . to the church, to the State, and, listening for ; the voice of God themselves, to know what is the relation of woman to the Divine; and, believing this, no divine, whether he wear the name of elder, hialmn nr rnra snail Aa&na xawmww, t(fP(r' rr!ef Aivuiif wxowvy for the woman of the twentieth century her right to be and to become all God makes it possible for her to be. The great divine who sucrcrested this subject to me was lecturing before an In stitute of Sacred Theloy, ialhs..dty.ofNewxorK. ieiore mm wasa class or students, male and female, and he was defining to the male 6tudents what they, the males, might permit the females to do. He savs: "There are some things which the women mav be permitted to do." Now we like that, don't we? Some things that we may be permitted to do! "They may be permitted to dispense certain charities; they may be permitted to speak in prayer and they may do certain lines of church work. There are other things that women. . may noc do permuted to do. among the things that women may not be permitted to do, is to hold high official relation ' to the to become its ministers, and to church, class-meeting- J ? In some parts of the territory,' notable in Sanpete, Millard, Utah and Davis Counties, 147 And help Thy Saints, oh, Lord, who labor still, Thy laws V- uphold, Tfaymame lQ glorify;. ... Like this great man, life's duties to fulfill, ' Like him to die.' ' v r i "Lula. XV - " - .. . UTAH WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIA- - v: tion. - Madame President and Members of the Convention: Since pur last report a petition was presented to the Legislative Assembly of Utah asking that the Deseret University, which admits male and female students, be put under the control of male and female Regents, instead of, as at present, twelve male Regents. The petition was read and, like the petitions of our revolutionary forefathers to. .the J British Parliament, laid xonthe table. There are auxiliary to the " territorial organization seventeen county organizations, and they have many auxiliary branch organizations. The paid up auxiliary territorial membership is over fifteen hundred (1,500.) There have been two territorial conventions -- . beld in Salt donJto LakeCity, at whichn the general routine'df business reports have been received, and such instructions given as ; rti w WW - w , , :'v' , V : -- aw : ' ' ' - ' a - : X x |