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she was lame, but that gave her the more time for writing.
The Journal records many letters; among other things, “a short screed for the man who asks to be convinced that there is such a thing as soul.”
In September she spread other wings and flew back to Chicago for the Parliament of Religions, and some last Impressions of the Dream City of the World's Fair.
“September 23. Went to the Parliament of Religions where Jenkin Lloyd Jones put me on the platform.
Heard Dr. Momery, who gave a pleasant, liberal, and spirited address, a little elementary, as he closed by reciting ‘Abou Ben Adhem,’ which is as familiar to Americans as A B C. In the evening went to meet, or rather find, the women ministers.
Miss Chapin excused herself from attending and asked me to run the meeting.... I read my short screed, briefly narrating my own efforts to found an association of women ministers.
Miss Putnam and Mary Graves were appointed as a committee to consult with me as to a plan of organization.”
“September 26. Up early.... Visited the German village, castle and museum, the mining, agricultural, shoe and leather buildings for a brief space.
Made a turn in the Ferris Wheel ... Mary Graves came for me, and we started for the Parliament in good time.
The first speaker was intolerably narrow and out of place, insisting upon the hostility of Christ to all ethnic religions.
I could not refrain from taking him up a little, very mildly.
I was received with applause and the Chautauqua salute, and my brief speech (fourteen ”
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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