Modern Review February 1911

But the society that she gathered around her was not the fashionable and the frivlout ; it was the intelligent the cultured the earnest—the men and women with ideals and high purposes in life ; the men and women who made the Boston and the New England of the last half of the 19th century honored and great. [...] The Episcopal ministers of all four of the States Colorado Wyoming Utah and Idaho declared more than two to one that the effect of suffrage upon women the home and society had been good: the Baptist ministers declared the same seven to one; the Congregationalists eight to one ; the Methodists ten to one and the Presbyterians eleven to one. [...] In the later years of her life she was welcome in almost any of the pulpits of the country except those of the Roman Catholic or the Episcopal order. [...] Burton the President of the College in conferring the degree characterized her felicitously and truthfully as "poet and patriot lover of letters and learning advcate for more than half a century in print and in living speech of great causes of human liberty ; sincere friend of all that makes for the elevation and enrichment of womanhood to whom in her serene gracious and venerated age we o [...] writing not by the hand of the medium) was often given sometimes on a sheet of paper placed in the centre of the tabk and equidistant from all the sitters; at other times one of us would place our hands on a piece of paper previouily dated and initialled and usually a message.was found written upon it at the conclusion of the seance.