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Show - A- -'.- The Rights of the Women of Zion, and the Rights of the Women of all Nations. Vol. 17. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, For the Exponent. Thy Lord doth all his words renew Redemption's at thy gate. Ltf ARISE! SHINE! FOR THY LIGHT IS COME I I Daltox. "The recent visit "of "Mf3"Julia Ward Howe to Salt Lake City, has awakened a desire to fulfil immediately a promise made some time ""since, when a short sketch was published t)f -- Lucy Stone, that we would give a pen portrait of Mary. A. ; Livermore and Julia Ward . " ' Howe. ':. Mrs. Howe has become more widely known everywhere (in this country at least), through her "Battle Hymn of the Republic," than even her social, literary ; and political-attainmehad made her, or one might with propriety add, even the fame of her distinguished husband, Dr. Samuel G." Howe, now some years deceased. She will live in that one hymn as long as the 7 " - , Thick darkness covers all the earth, ' Through which thy Iightshall shine, And give to many souls new birth, ... .And thou shalt claim them thine; -- And theshall fly to thine embrace As doves to windows fair" Delighting in the Kingly grace Of Him who dwelieth there. - " ' ' nts , Thou shalt break forth on every side Thy children cluster round; Enlarge and spread thy curtains wide, Let Strengthening stakes abound; ' Swift ships shall ring thee sons from far, And daughters from the isles; And kings - their nursing fathers are, Queen mothers greet with smiles. ... ' Behold, the Gentiles unto thee In meek demean shall come; Their kings thy rising splendor see, ' And swiftly, gladly run, The sons of them that did oppress. Shall bending come to thee, The sons of strangers build thy walls, And princes bow the knee. Whatever nation serves thee not, Thy God will lay it waste; They who against thee gathemp -- remembrance of the war shall last, and that ,'. will be forever. Mrs. 'Howe was the daughter of Samuel Ward, a banker in the city of New York, and early in her school life the little girl had written verses that betokened a brilliancy of talent that has since been manifestly apparent In these school' days she pubto lished a review of Lamartine's Jocelyn with translations in English: versed and afterwards another review of D wight's translation of the minor poems of Gcethe and Schiller. How these works were received by the literary world we cannot say, but, a any rate, the.girl kept on "reading, writing and dreaming. When Mrs. Howe nee Miss Ward was twenty years of age her father died, and soon after a - then-sh- eBegan studying - the ' enthusiasm same which had with the Bible herein-thestu- dy" of philosophy naractwized and other pursuits of a like nature. Inclined, as almost all poetic temperaments are, to seasons of melancholy, the sorrows that came into her life intensified this, mood, and she be- came a ''religious and spiritual enthusiast." J3he was roused from this condition of mind by studying "Guizot s History ot CivinzationT . wpich awatenea a new lire witnm ner. S. married G. she Dr. twenty-threAt Howeof Boston a man whose heroic labors for Greece in her struggle for independence whose beautiful devotion to the blind, and y whose crusades, made men speak of him as the new Bayard." They went abroad immediately, and though the idol of her circle at home, "her only claim to social distinction" abroad, "was her husHer first child was born in band's fame. was strong, and her Rome; her mother-lov- e passion for the upreme city was deep and fervent." She lived in this divine atmosphere for months, and then came back to the cold clearness; of New England days, settled into the prosaic round of housekeeping, and gave herself much to society." She read, however, such works as stimulated her to "new resolves of thoroughness and breadth of culture." In 1850 she. went abroad again, and all this' time her strong, active mind was being improved by, what-sh- e saw and experienced in her journey-ing- s here and there. Soon after she published "Passion Flowers," a book of poems, said to and have been "over-blameShe still continued to cultivate art and books. Dr. Howe had charge of The Commonwealth, to its columns editori- and his wife contributed " the-world- . dear-broth- er; , Shall perish for thy sake. God hid His face in a little wrath, And left thee to thy foes, 1 But everlasting kindness shall His changeless love disclose. Though mighty mountains should depart Or hills flee far away, ' His covenants with thee remain And grace and mercy stay. Thy wood be brass, thy brass be gold, And iron be thy stones; Thy fair foundations sapphires hold, "Thy borders pleasant stones. No violenceshall come to thee, Oppressors, none be found, No wasting nor destruction be Within thy utmost bound. Thy people all shall righteous be, Inheriting the land; Thou shalt become a glorious tree Here planted by His hand. ' - " His heavenly favor on thee beams. Thy walls resound with praise, His love divine, in deepening streams, Flows 'round thee all thy days. Rejoice ! rejoice ! give thanks and sing, ' The hills repeat thy joy, v The trees and winds to praise thy King Their voices sweet employ. Fear not thou shalt not be ashamed, For He will glorious make The place where He hath set His feet, And never thee forsake. Rejoice I rejoice I be pure and true, No more in.sadness wait; als, verses and' literary articles, which to her was practical educational work, (and must have had a tendency to . make her' acquainted with the most famous men and writers of the time, a time that called forth the best powers and JULIA WARD HOWE. Arise ! arise thy light. is come ! O,' Zion, rise and shine ! " Put all thy beautecms garments on, Uplift those eyes of thine, For glory all unspeakable Is risen over thee; Thy Lord,theincomparable Thy light and joy will be. 1 e - anti-slaver- d , " . , over-praised- ' "7 No. 3. JULY 1, 1888. ." 7" 7 thoughts, of those, "zealous for the liberty of : the slave." Her next book was," "Words-fo- r the Hour." These poems, it is said, "were riper,and, even more full of promise." Still studying industriously, still writing peseveringly, in spite of criticism or flattery, adhering to her own views, and maintaining a distinct individuality, and the courage one seldom finds in woman, Mrs. Howe pressed on- ward in her literary career. In 1857 she published a play "The World's Own" brilliant and -- brimful It - was produced at Wal lack's Theatre in New York. ' In L859 Dr.; and Mrs. Howe accompanied Theodore Parker to Cuba, and during her . travels she gathered material for a very charming book, an account of the journey, which appeared first in the Atlantic Monthly, and afterwards ii a volume called, "A. Trip to" Cuba." About the same time Mrs Howe wrote occasional letters to the New York Tri-- " bune, from Boston, New York and Washington. Her letters were "about the gay world and places of note, about summer days and autumn glories, about poetry, art and Mrs. Howe has studied the works . religion." of the great- - philosophers, Swedenborg, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte and Hegel. She has: written many social and philosophic papers, and has given lectures on ethics. She read a remrkable lecture of hers at a meeting of the American .Society'Tof Arts and Sciences, Mass., called "Man a priori and a posterjori.'7 She has published essays, entitled, "Polarity," "Limitation' and "The Fact Ac- -' other-ess- ays We could ame-many; complished." of hers, but shall only mention one more before closing this article, the one read at the International Council in Washington last April, on Organization. Mrs. Howe s last book of miscellaneous poems is called, "Later' Lyrics." She has a : and-peopl- e, -- -n- iyricaLseriesTailed7J - 'Her-rersessa- id bya fine critic to recall Mrs. Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese," with more of Sappho and less of the saint." MrsTHowe has written a biography of Margaret Fuller, which does her great credit, and is full of womanly tender-nes- s in its style. A later-booof travels, . "From the Oak to the Olive," is very highly' spoken of. It is the story of a journey from London to Athens via. Paris, Marseilles, Rome-Naple' and Venice. 7 Mrs. Howe has been, for many years, an active member irof the American Woman Suffrage Association, of which "she has sometimes been President. Mrs. Howe is President of the Association for the Advancement of Women, which holds its Congresses once a ; year, generally changing Tfom city to city to accomodate members and reach the 'people in different places: This fall th'e Woman's Congress, as 'its is called, will meet in Detroit, Michigan' This Association gets confused with the Suffrage Association by those who are not familiar with the organizations and the terms used, but it has no connection whatever . with that association, though a number of the ladies are members of both associations, and some of them not believers in:woman's suffrage at all. Mrs. Howe in a letter9 to me, dated at Newport, R. I., Oct. 3rd, 1883, stated: "The k s" X . . -- .,- - |