Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
To one has come the vision of political freedom. She saw how the
avarice and ambition of one class with power made them forget the
rights of another. She saw how the unjust laws embittered
both--those who made them and those upon whom the injustice
rested. She recognized the great principles of universal
equality, seeing that all alike must be free; that humanity
everywhere must be lifted out of subjection into the free and
full air of divine liberty.
To another was revealed the vision of social freedom. She saw
that sin which crushed the lives of one class, rested lightly on
the lives of the other. She saw its blighting effect on both, and
she lifted up her voice and demanded that there be recognized no
sex in sin.
Another has come hither, who, gazing about her, saw men
brutalized by the rum fiend, the very life of a nation
threatened, and the power of the liquor traffic, with its hand on
the helm of the Ship of State, guiding it with sails full spread
straight upon the rocks to destruction. Then, looking away from
earth, she beheld a vision of what the race and our nation might
become, with all its possibility of wealth and power, if freed
from this burden, and forth upon her mission of deliverance she
sped her way.
Another beheld a vision of what it is to be learned, to explore
the great fields of knowledge which the Infinite has spread
before the world. And this vision has driven her out from the
seclusion of her own quiet life that she might give this great
truth to womanhood everywhere....
And so we come, each bearing her torch of living truth, casting
over the world the light of the vision that has dawned upon her
soul.
But there is still another vision which reaches above earth,
beyond time--a vision which has dawned upon many, that they are
here not to do their own work, but the will of Him who sent them.
And the woman who sees the still higher truth, recognizes the
great power to which she belongs and what her life may become
when, in submission to that Master, she takes upon herself the
nature of Him whom she serves.
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