BLACKWELL FAMILY ELIZABETH BLACKWELL General MiscellanyIn Memoriam.In Remembrance of GEORGE SWEET, Born 3rd May, 1814, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 26th JUNE, 1879.THE DEMORALIZING TENDENCY OF THE PRESENT METHODS OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. Mrs. Moolcott Browne (At the request of some Members of the Ladies' National Association, The Moral Reform Union, and the Social Purity Alliance,) will hold A DRAWING ROOM MEETING, FOR WOMEN ONLY, To consider the above subject in all its bearings, at 58, PORCHESTER TERRACE, BAYSWATER, W., ON TUESDAY, MAY the 31st, at 3.30 p.p. Mrs. SHELDON AMOS, MRS. BOOLE, MRS. PEARSALL SMITH, MISS ANNIE GOFF, MISS ABNEY WALKER, MISS WHITEHEAD, and others, are expected to address the Meeting. THE FAVOUR OF YOUR PRESENCE IS REQUESTED. R.S.V.P. "Meeting," Mrs. Browne, Non-Transferable. 58, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, W.Edward Carpenter Books & pamphlet 1896WOMAN'S CENTENNIAL CONGRESS - NOVEMBER 25, 26, [] Hotel Commodore, New York City DELEGATE CREDENTIAL CARD Name Eva vB. Hansl [W?] Address 41 Park Avenue New York City This card will be countersigned at Congress office upon receipt of [re?] and returned to you. It must be presented at all Congress sessions, excep[?] Celia M. [?]1896 [?] 143 Oxford Street London "Towards Democracy" net 3/b "Loves Coming of Age" net 3/b "England's Ideal Civilization - Its Cause & Cure" pub at 2/b cost 1/11 "Chants of Labour" pub at 2/o cost 1/6 "Adam's Peak to Elephanta" "Sketches in Ceylon-India" pub at 15/- cost 11/3d Also pamphlets "Marriage" 4 - "Sex Love" 4d - + "Women" 6d. List of names on the fireplace at Scalands, as far as Mrs. Ransom can remember them: William Howitt Mary Howitt Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Katherine Barry Mr. Lewes and George Eliot Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore Miss More Miss Jekyll The Miss Davenport Hills Sir Godfrey and Lady Lushington Dr. and Mrs. Thompson Professor and Mrs. Dicey Miss Sara Scott Miss M. A. Ewart Mr. Mocatta Dr. and Mrs Norman Moore Mr. and Mrs. Shore Smith Miss R. Shore Smith Miss Ludlow Miss M. Ludlow Miss Bonham Carter Madame De Gorloff, with her husband William Allingham Helen Patterson Allingham Miss Leigh Smith Mr. Silverester (?) Madame Bessie Parkes Belloc, with her son Hilary and her daughter Mary Miss Lewin Miss Martineau Miss Maggie Cogden with her sistersIN LOVING REMEMBRANCE. ____ ANNA KENYON HOLDEN. BORN 3RD AUGUST, 1846. AT REST 10TH FEB., 1929. ____ "She hath done what she could." 17, Magazine Brow, New Brighton. 15th Feb, 1929.Miss Henderson The Manse Edrom, Berichishire [Berwickshire](From Woman's Journal, Feb. 4, 1911, p. 35) BLACKWELL MEMORIAL MEETING The Women's Medical Association of New York City held a memorial meeting for Doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell on January 25, at the Academy of Medicine. The hall was crowded, and people stood throughout. Dr. Emily Lewi presided. The opening address was by Dr. Stephen Smith, formerly of the State Board of Charities, a fine-looking old doctor, whose aspect and voice did not show any weakness from his 88 years. He had been a fellow-student with Dr. Elizabeth at Geneva, N. Y., in the 40's. He told how her presence had transformed a riotous and disorderly class of medical students into gentlemen, and had also raised the moral tone of the instruction, convincing him once for all of the advantages of co-education in medicine. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell gave personal reminiscences of her distinguished aunts. Mrs. Henry Villard, who has been for more than thirty years on the board of Managers of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, read from her father's paper, The Liberator, of Nov. 7, 1856, a plea to "all friends of female medical education" to help in Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's effort to found in New York a practical medical school where women might study, as the hospitals were all closed to them. She reviewed the history of the infirmary and the college and paid cordial tribute to the Doctors Blackwell and the men and women who had stood by them in those hard 2 early days. Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins and Dr. Abraham Jacobi followed with earnest and eloquent addresses. Dr. Welch said that as the social aspects of sanitation and hygiene came to be more generally recognized, and their intimate connection with the home and with our daily life, women's share in them would become increasingly important. Dr. Jacobi several times in the course of his speech denounced Clause 79 of the Page law, to which he is strongly opposed. Dr. Emma B. Culbertson had been called away to California by important business, much to her regret, and so was unable to speak. The closing address, by Gertrude B. Kelly, was a warm and heart-felt tribute to Dr. Emily Blackwell as the beloved teacher whose noble life and character, as well as her instructions, would always remain an inspiration to her students. Mlle. Ada Sassoli furnished music. The Women's Medical Association had the addresses at the memorial meeting taken down stenographically, and will publish a full report. Those wishing to see it may communicate with Dr. Elizabeth Mercelis, 17 Plymouth street, Montclair, N. J., chairman of the committee that arranged the meeting. The whole tone of the proceedings was dignified and impressive. It was a delightful meeting. Huxley Paul Richeh [?] On uncertainty in Science on material demonstration Memorial CardsIn Loving Memory of GEORGE BUTLER, Canon of Winchester, Who Died on Friday, the 14th of March, 1890, In the 71st year of his age. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." The Funeral will leave The Close, Winchester at noon on Thursday, March 20th, after a short Service in the Cathedral at 11.30In Affectionate Memory OF Emily Bovell Surge M. D. WIFE OF William Allen Sturge M. D. Who died at Nice on the 2nd of April 1885. In Memoriam WILLIAM SHAEN. 1820-1887.In Memory OF WILLIAM SHAEN. BORN OCT. 31ST, 1820. DIED MARCH 2ND, 1887.SERVICE AT KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, MARCH 7TH, 1887. SERVICE _________ Sentences and Lessons. COME, let us return unto the Lord, for he hath smitten and he will heal us; he hath broken and he will bind us up. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed is he, O God, who loves thee, and all mankind in thee; for he only never loses his dear ones to whom they are dear in thee, who art never lost. Forasmuch, then, as we are compassed about with so great a cloud of 6 witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. ______________ Lo ! thou hast made our days as an hand-breath, and our age is as nothing before thee. And every man at his best state were altogether vanity, save that thou art our dwelling-place in all generations. But thou,- before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou, art God. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Let 7 thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : and establish thou the work of our hands upon us ; yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory? For the sting of death is sin.8 Recordatio. When the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness unto him. Because he delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him, and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. He put on righteousness, and it clothed him; his justice was as a robe and a diadem. He was eyes to the blind, and feet was he to the lame. He was a father to the needy, and the cause of him that he knew not he searched out. And he brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. Then we said, "He shall die in his nest. His root is spread out to the 9 waters. And the dew lieth all night upon his branch." And now that his spirit has returned unto God who gave it, we cry not, "Oh that he were as in the months past, as in the days of his youth, when his children were yet with him, and he with them;" for we know that the light of God still shines upon his tabernacle, that it is well with him and well with his children. ________________ Address. There is a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reaches unto heaven; and the angels of God ascend and descend upon it. In human service faithfully and tenderly rendered, in human relationships glorified by the spirit of self-sacrifice and love, in10 human hopes and purposes and efforts purified from every taint of self-seeking and of guile-in these things is set up on the earth that ladder the top of which is lost in heaven. To the father and brother in the Lord whose mortal remains we are now gathered round, whose deathless spirit lives in our hearts and with God, it was given to see, as few have seen, the meaning and the beauty of earthly things, and the firmness with which that ladder rests upon the earth, the top of. which reaches to heaven. He walked amongst us a saint in purity, with a lofty unworldliness stamped upon his very mien, yet not despising the world, but rather reverencing its too often latent holiness, and striving to bring it to consciousness and action. The blameless knight of 11 God, without fear and without reproach, his soul erect within him, and the light of chivalry shining from his brow, he gave us assurance of a man, and as he marked his path through life with the manifold grace and thoughtfulness, the manifold and tender helpfulness, the uplifting and sustaining courage which ever waited on his steps, he showed us amid the sorrows that closed round his own life that the good man cannot fail, that he whose hunger and thirst is after righteousness shall not depart unsatisfied from life. His was the true spirit of chivalry which finds the glory and the consecration of strength in its ungrudging dedication to the service of weakness. As in the ancient days of random violence the chevalier was he who put the strong arm and the steady lance at the service12 of the physically weak, and turned the instrument of oppression into the means of defence; so in these days the chevalier is he who puts knowledge at the service of the ignorant, who makes that which only wealth can buy his free gift to those whose only claim is their need, who puts calm, clear judgement at the service of the passion-swayed-aye, and who thinks that purity itself can have no higher mission than to bear the shame of the shameless, and lighten the burdens of the victims, while smiting the arrogance of the tyrants, of lust. And now the soldier of God fights no more with us in the flesh. The crusader's arms are folded and his sword sheathed. And we ask ourselves what it was that gave him the might and beauty which already place him in our calendar of warrior saints. The 13 secret of each several soul is only God's. No analysis can lay hold of the mystery of individuality or say what made this man himself. Yet amongst the factors of his spiritual nature, one is discernible which entered into all he did and said and was-it is his unwavering, unconquerable faith. He had faith to know that God has not spoken clearly to our heart and conscience only to give us commands that will bring us into hopeless collision with the facts and conditions of life and nature. He had faith to discern the blasphemous and dastardly untruth that lies in the words, "a necessary evil." He had faith to know that the ideal is the only real; that the purest and most spiritual is also the most practical way of life; that they who reckon without righteousness, purity and love, reckon without the14 mightiest and the most permanent of all forces. What else is this than to say that faith in God, faith that our Creator, our Inspirer, our Comforter are one, lay at the very basis of his life? But while this lofty faith supported and directed his life, how full of charity and patience was he, if others dared not to trust God, and needed to walk by sight and not by faith! With what laborious care he would seek to justify the ways of God to men, by showing the practical working out everywhere of that divine law by which all life becomes disorganised when its fundamental sanctities are defied! And as he thus served God and man, with no reserve in his self-sacrifice, putting all his powers at the service of any who needed them,-listening, as though he had no troubles or anxieties 15 of his own, with a tender gravity and earnestness to every tale of sorrow or perplexity, and, as one "whose thought and will are straight and love it true," giving the counsel that was needed,- it was yet his special pride and joy to make his professional knowledge a power for righteousness and a source of strength. He deeply felt the sacredness of the trust which is laid upon any man who wields so sharp a weapon; and no priest ever entered the temple with a deeper consciousness of the holiness of the work to which he was called, than was his as he entered his office-room; never did priest dedicate himself to his task in life with a deeper act of self-consecration than that with which he took up his work. And this was no passing or occasional feeling. It pervaded his professional work.16 Hence it is that so many of those who appealed to him as their trusted adviser, now weep for him as for a father and a friend, and know not where to go for that transfusion of love and knowledge which made him at once the heart and the head of so many a little band of workers in so many a field; hence it is that wreaths of white flowers cover him, sent by the hands of friends bound to him by varied ties, but not least from societies and institutions his professional connection with which was beautified and transfigured by human tenderness and individuality of service; hence it is that some whose blind eyes hinder them not from seeing the image of his love, pupils of the Royal Normal College for training the Blind, which he helped to found, which he ever supported, which he served professionally 17 professionally and personally, with a single- hearted service, have desired this day to join their voices with ours, and to sing over the body of one they loved and trusted the words of comfort to themselves and us, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee." __________ He was sung by eight pupils of the Royal Normal College for the Blind the Quartett from Mendelssohn's "Elijah." "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he never will suffer the righteous to fall: he is at thy right hand. Thy mercy, Lord, is great, and far above the heavens. Let none be made ashamed that wait upon thee."18 Let us Pray. God of the pure in heart! God of the chivalry of earth and heaven! We thank thee for the life that has been lived in our midst, for the battle that has been fought and the victory that has been won by this thy servant. We thank thee for the pure heart, the clear thought, the steadfast will, which with constraining power have led many feet to tread thy paths, and for the lofty faith and courage which have cheered many drooping souls, and bade them love and hope and labour on. We thank thee for the memory that shall not die, safe in our hearts under thy beauteous deal of death, rebuking every poor or selfish thought, bidding each generous impulse live and grow till it take the name of action and make itself eternal. We thank thee for the life 19 that still lives in thee, for the deathless love and faithfulness that have borne the image of the earthly and now bear the image of the heavenly, gathered into thy nearer presence. Oh Father, we would thank thee for all these blessing that shall not die; but with our thanksgiving now must blend our cry, and our prayer goes up to thee for consolation and support. Comfort those who are bereft of the dear familiarities of human speech, and lift them into the deeper communion of thy spirit, where all faithful and loving souls are one in thee. Guide and comfort those who in manifold bewilderments and temptations were wont to come from many homes, and many too from homeless wanderings, to seek the guidance and the help for which they know not now where they shall go. And may the out-20 cast and the defenceless and downtrodden find that his memory and yet living spirit have armed in their defence a hundred hands where his have ceased from battling upon earth, and are busied in that higher service or folded in that deeper peace of which we know nought save that it is thine. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive them that trespass, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 21 At the grave-side. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the sons of God. _______ Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his mysterious and merciful providence, to remove from our sight the spirit of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Aye, the dust returneth unto its dust, but the spirit unto God who gave it: unto the22 God in whom the dead die not at all, in whom we all are one. Now may the love of God, which passeth all understanding, be with us and abide in our hearts, henceforth for ever. Amen. C. Green & Son, Printers, 178, Strand.