The Woman's Era

The North Ohio Methodist Episcopal conference, consisting of 150 members, ■was lately held at Wooster and was addressed by Rev. J. W. Hamilton. He spoke on the "New Era" and divided this centnry into f our periods of 25 years each. The first was the period of the birth of the xnissionary spirit and organization; the eecond marked the birth of the antislavery spirit; the third saw the beginning of the legal emancipation of woinen; the fourth marks the developI ment of the hnmanitarian spirit, thé care of the weak and derelict. Speaking of the place woman was to occupy, he said, "In this new era woman is tobe nothing higher and nothing lower than the sister of man, and man is to be nothing higher and nothing lower than the brother of woman." It was a magnificent address.