| Show 1 lrS flILLISGS LECTURE WImt Christianity Has Done for IVonmn and tVliat Woman Hts Done for Christianity A large audience assembled Jdst night at the MethodistjcChWh to hearMSf Willing of Chicago deliver her hoice lecture on Uu Sphere of WOOl She gave a most beautiful description pf the women of the Bible eitinj the exemplary lives of Mary Martha Rebecca and others in holing Up the high ideal the Scriptures presert of womanhood injmi trasfc with the teachings of time Y rd sand s-and Shastns of India and with Oietreaf f mqnt of omen by the old nations of the world In China the women ar held to have no soul alt there Js but l ftit bare chance of her immortality SHe referred L I to the scope given by the < Methodist Church and the Society of Friends to woman for the exercise of her talents too often held subdued The sphere of woman in public life seems now to be in the reformatory re-formatory agencies They have given new life to foreign missionary enterprises t the temperance cause to helping the poor and ignortant otour own land which embraces the negroes of the South the poor in large cities andmany cases under our eyes almost daily to which relief can L be given One great work for women is I to teach daughters and mothers to respect womanhood in its grandest sense a jts own sake to teach daughter in the great choice of life to demand purity for purity honor for honor integrity for integrity The chief work for them is to bring the ivirl1 fn Christ TTor iT icni Jim to wore cl for the coaversipa of the race n Mrs Willing is a rather stoutlybuilt lady below the medium h hair y mCium height getting get-ting quite gray and altogetherof a very She is forci prepossessing appearance a forc ble and fluent speaker with a clear and pleasing enunciation Energetic in her gestures and of f fascinating style of speaking she held the close attention of the large audience in attendance to the close of her lecture Mrs Willing has been for several years active in the foreign for-eign missionary work of th Methodist Church and her worthy efforts have been well rewarded with success I is to be hoped the lady will be able to favor Salt Lake City with another of her able talks before taking leave |
