Causes which have Inspired Women Speakers - Feminine Pastors and Preachers - Composers, Executants and Queens of Song - The Woman Doctor and Her Work - Pioneers in the Field of

Medicine and Nursing - Dentistry as a Career for Women

Great causes have moved women to their triumphs upon the public platform. It has never been either for money or for mere display. In America the Grimke sisters fought down prejudice by their burning eloquence when they first took to the platform in the cause of the slave. Society and the Church were scandalised that women should attempt to address a public meeting, and even the friends of Abolition sought to restrain them. Their message burned for utterance ;they persevered, and soon the biggest halls in the Northern States could not hold the people who came to hear them.