about the subject of her query but on the vaster issues
that grew out of it. She looked up into my face the
other night after my call for volunteers for the new
mission we are beginning in the slums of the East Side,
and asked me if the girls were not going to be given
the chance to do something worth while in this church's
work.

"I couldn't honestly answer her off-hand and in my
groping I forgot the child and her question. I saw a
vision--a vision of that broader, nobler future toward
which human civilization is now swiftly moving.

"I say deliberately that it is swiftly moving,
because the progress of the world during the last fifty
years has been greater than in any five hundred years
of the past.

"The older I grow the stronger becomes my
conviction that the problems of the age in which we now
live cannot be solved by masculine brain and brawn
alone. The problems of the city and the nation and the
great fundamental social questions that involve the
foundations of modern life will find no solution until
the heart and brain of woman are poured into the
crucible of our test.


"They talk about a woman's sphere
As though it had a limit: