ber of half-educated women could foist themselves upon the public, and claim equality with practitioners of either sex who have gone through a complete curriculum. Some female quacks there have been no doubt, but the line drawn by registration is so sharp and clear that a very moderate amount of caution makes any deception on this head almost impracticable. Some of the medical missionary societies were for a few years somewhat ill-advised in this matter, for, finding it impossible to obtain a sufficient supply of fully qualified women, they committed the fatal mistake of employing a certain number of half-educated persons, who had gone through a fallacious "two years' course," but the results have been so far from satisfactory that the societies are now recognizing their error, and are recalling some of their half-trained women in order that they may be fully qualified, or that their places may be taken by others.

To sum up the preceding brief and imperfect sketch, I think we may now claim that the victory is substantially won all along the line; for it is the exception rather than the rule at present to exclude women from any examining board, and adequate schools for their education exist in each of the three kingdoms. In an appendix I submit a list of the schools and examining boards open to women, and also a list of those who, up to the beginning of the present year, have taken their place on the National Medical Register.

In conclusion, I trust I may be allowed to say that, as an Englishwoman who received a great part of her medical education on the other side of the Atlantic, and who has occasion to cherish very grateful memories of her American sisters foremost among whom stands my late noble friend and teacher, Dr. Lucy Sewall- I feel it to be a great pleas ure and privilege to be allowed this opportunity of greeting the World's Congress of Representative Women at Chicago, and of touching hands of greeting with my professional sisters on the other side of the ocean.

DISCUSSION BY MRS. ELLIS R. SHIPP, M. D., OF UTAH.

DR. ELLIS R. SHIPP, discussing the same topic, opened with a tribute to woman in the medical profession, her peculiar fitness to the work because of the gentleness, tender sympathy, kindness, and patience of her nature, and her unselfish devotion as the guardian of infancy and childhood through times of suffering, and even up to man's estate. Dwelling upon the divine mission and characteristics of motherhood, she adds, "Who is so well qualified to minister to the maternal pangs of woman as one of her own sex? And we aver that none are more capable of comprehending the great physical laws that govern procreation!”

The writer referred to the recognition of women physi cians not only in enlightened countries, but in far-off climes, in China and Japan, where skillful surgery had secured to some in the profession world-wide honor and fame.

WOMAN IN THE PULPIT-ADDRESS BY REV. FLORENCE E. KOLLOCK OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVERSALIST).

Woman in the world is the product of the will of the First Great Cause. Woman in the pew is the natural sequence of woman in the world. "Woman in the pulpit is the inevitable consequence of woman in the pew.

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Logically, the power that gave woman being is accountable for the fact of her thought and her discussion upon questions relating to her origin, duty, and destiny. Theologically there is no responsibility in the case. Woman antedates theology, however, so before her mental and moral activities were prescribed we find her one of the active agents in awakening, quickening, and propagating certain religious truths; instrumental, also, in not only giving the world its great prophets, priests, and teachers, but

sustaining them in their efforts to fulfill the mission on which they were sent.

It was a mother's love and a woman's wit that rescued Moses from the hand of the slayer of the innocents, and so gave the Hebrew nation a leader, and all civilization a lawmaker. It was Miriam who prophesied for her beloved people, and told them of their coming weal and woe. Deborah, the Hebrew Boadicea, as Coleridge calls her, whose knee had not bowed to Baal-a woman of faith, courage, and patriotism - was given the high office of Judge of Israel, and at last became the military leader of her people; and how grandly the day was won, and Israel redeemed, the ode of Deborah triumphantly sings. The prayers of the once childless Hannah gave her despairing nation an inspired leader. Queen Esther and Judith were the savior and the avenger of their people; and so on through Hebrew history.

From the early dawn of the Christian era down to the present day woman has been one of the most potent factors in the presentation, growth, and spread of the new religion. The tenderest acts of service on the part of Christ were bestowed upon women- the unfortunate, the sorrowing, and serving. Through woman's wrongs, her loyalty, her sorrows, he taught the world the sublimest lesson of unselfishness, sympathy, and charity that the ages have ever witnessed.

Only through a woman's nature could these new principles of conduct be proclaimed to the world. The twelve were not more clearly called to preach the gospel than the "last at the cross and the first at the tomb" were ordained to speak not merely of his gospel, but rather of him-of his power and compassion, of his wondrous love and illumined life. As example is more valuable than precept, the testimony of these women concerning Christ has been more valuable than all the recorded miracles of his ministryaye, even than his sermon on the mount.

Other prophets and inspired teachers the world has