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THE CONGRESS OF WOMEN.

will be more clearly taught, more perfectly understood. Perhaps the pettiness of tyranny and dignity of true humility will then become accepted realities instead of theories suitable for copy-book quotations. We may then possibly realize that it is given to the poorest in earth’s dross, the least influential in earth’s puppet show to govern by a better and nobler right than can ever be gained in incompetent platform speeches and struggles. Our kingdom will be a garden for weary men and women to rest in. Our ambition will be to make it so fair that thew r orld will protect it unasked.

The noblest lady in our land is such a queen—not by right of the crown she wept to wear, and wears so fitly, but by right of a broad and noble charity that can sympa­thize with the weak, encourage the strong, that is purified by personal suffering into a more tender pity for those that weep. Not only because Victoria reigns queen and empress of the grandest country in the world are we women of England proud to serve her, but because, as Carlyle says, “ she has been a guide and deliverer of many by being servant of many.”