Having been greatly benefited by the experiences of others which have been given through the Journal, it came to me that others might receive some help from a few thoughts on the subject of the Woman's Congress, which, was the first of the one hundred congresses to convene on the grounds of the World's Fair during its continuance.
In studying its different phases I learned many lessons which have been helpful to me. Before me sat many women with faces betokening the deep seriousness of their lives and thoughts; some of them veterans in their various causes, having served in the army of their respective endeavor all the way from privates to commanders in chief. So many statements were made along the line of Christian Science thought by the leading speakers, that they fell on my ears with gladness.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, said that there were no barriers to Spirit; and that no one need consider that the tomb buried their sins as it did their material bodies. Their sins bound them as closely on another plane as on this, and they would have their own salvation to work out as well hereafter as now. She alluded to the Medical Congress which was to follow, and remarked that the time was not far distant when the honest physician will acknowledge a greater power than the remedies he now applies. She spoke of the melting away of bigotry in the religious world, and the gradual coming together of all sects and creeds. People should profit by such an international exchange of thought, tearing down as well as building up.
