The past week has been one of rather unpleasant experiences, in some ways. The Beverly Farms bribery investigation at the State House has occupied me. Whether bribery or not, great injustice is attempted on my native town, which I love and will defend, so long as I know her to be unmistakably in the right, as she is now. I have done the little I could, so far; have written for the newspapers,--have sent a letter of request for veto to the governor,--and joined the women of Beverly in a petition to him, to the same effect, and I shall hold myself ready to do more, if needed. But I do trust that our legislature will, of themselves, make the matter right. April 25. Spring is in the air, even in Boston, although just a week ago to-day we had one of the worst snowstorms of the season. Yesterday’s experience is something not to be forgotten, though unrecordable. There are no words to repeat the spirit’s story, when it is taken possession of by the highest influences, and lifted up into the heaven of aspiration and consecration; when the way is open through sympathy with human souls, and with the Eternal Son, into the Father’s heart. How easy the spiritual life seems, when material things fall into their subordinate places! If it might always be so! May 20. Still in Boston, interested in many things. People _are_ trying to help each other. I have been at the Woman’s Industrial Union, have heard Miss Leigh talk of her work in Paris, have talked over the possibilities of better influences for girl-workers in Boston, have listened to Miss Freeman’s report of her Student’s Aid work at Wellesley College--all so suggestive--so hopeful! What should not the woman of the future be? What may she not be? “I saw all women of our race Revealed in that one woman’s face!” June 6. Canon Wilberforce and the great temperance meeting at Tremont Temple. A most eloquent man, and he goes to the very root of the matter,--no real temperance without spirituality. “Not drunken with wine, but filled with the Holy Ghost,”--he made that infinite contrast clear. His sermon yesterday was most impressive,--from the text, “What seest thou?” It was a Trinity Sunday sermon, and the thought was that in Jesus we see God most perfectly. But emphasis was placed upon the attitude and condition of the soul, for the seeing. It was Canon Wilberforce’s first sermon in Boston, and I think this is his first visit to America. It is good to have such neighbors come to see us.