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Rh Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, D.D., Chairman of the Woman's Committee and a faithful friend of the Parliament, was then introduced. She said:

As Miss Chapin took her seat President Bonney introduced the Apostle of Freedom, the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston. There were cheers and waving of handkerchiefs and great tumult when the features of the venerable woman appeared at the desk. When quiet was restored she addressed the audience as follows:

—I wish I had brought you some great and supreme gift of wisdom. I have brought you a heart brimming with love and thankfulness for this crown of the ages, so blessed in itself and so full of a more blessed prophecy. But I did not expect to speak to-night. I will only give you two or three lines which very briefly relate a dream, a true dream that I had lately: