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 TO HAVE known the father of Agnes Nininger was 
 to know that the daughter who so much resembled 
 him, would, through the unerring laws of heredity, 
 make and fill a place during the progress of the 
 nineteenth century peculiarly her own. 
 
 Anthony Nininger was a native of Alsatia, France. He 
 emigrated to America early in 1816 and marrying Miss Catherine 
 May, settled in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 
 where, after a long, useful and singularly prosperous life he 
 died in 1866. 
 
 He was the father of nine children, all of whom died in early 
 childhood except John, who became brother-in-law of Alexander 
 Ramsey, Governor of Minnesota, and afterward Secretary of the 
 United States War Department and Agnes, "the apple of her 
 father's eye." 
 
 The gentle mother dying when Agnes was yet an infant, 
 the tie between her father and herself became intensified. 
 
 Possessing much of his genial, sunny nature, vivid imagi- 
 nation and strength of will, whether at home or at his place of 
 business, the presence of the blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked girl prattler 
 seemed indispensable to the father's success and happiness. 
 Thus, the peculiar business qualifications, executive ability 
 and genius for orderliness and organization which have been 
 such prominent factors in the life-work of his accomplished 
 daughter, were being developed, unknown to herself, at an age 
 when most girls are in the nursery playing with dolls. 
 
 She was born a linguist, the French and German tongues 
 seeming as native to her as her own, and there are those in 
 Harrisburg today, who, while speaking of their distinguished 
 
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 townswoman with pardonable pride, will also record with tender 
 satisfaction her unusual and bold traits of benevolence, inde- 
 pendence of thought, energy and the courage of her conviction 
 which characterized her and were evinced at such an early age. 
 
 Born November 4, 1823, while but a mere girl in years she 
 became the beloved wife of her fellow townsman, Colonel William 
 Saunders, and a few years after, thanks to a fortuitous seeming 
 failure in health, was ordered by her physician to a celebrated 
 water-cure sanitarium in New York. It was during this first 
 flight from the home nest, while yet ignorant of her own powers, 
 that her ardent, aspiring soul was brought into intimate associ- 
 ation with that matchless galaxy of "immortals," the grand men 
 and women whose lives have been sublime, viz. : Lucretia Mott, 
 William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abbey Kelly 
 Foster, Miss Elizabeth Peabody, Wendell Phillips and others 
 of like spirit and undying fame. Their recognition of the 
 inherent possibilities for great good in this "child of nature" 
 was almost immediate and its result creditable in the highest 
 degree to their spiritual insight. 
 
 At a time, in the middle of the last century, when to be 
 recognized as an anti-slavery man or woman was to subject 
 one's self to persecution and often to physical danger, and when 
 to declare one's self in sympathy with equal civic and political 
 rights for women was to become socially ostracized, it required 
 no small amount of moral bravery in the young matron, upon 
 her return home, to prove her "faith by her works." But she 
 was equal to the demand of the hour. Firing a few souls with 
 her own lofty zeal and laughing at all obstacles, she brought 
 successively to Harrisburg such sturdy pioneers of our latter- 
 day glory as Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone Blackwell, the 
 saintly Lucretia Mott, Edward Everett and men and women 
 of their ilk, and with her pen, purse and push helped them 
 to sow the seed of a higher patriotism and more liberal and 
 lofty thought in the then conservative capital of great Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 The first to accept her invitation was Lucy Stone. Doubts 
 of the propriety of Mrs. Saunders thrusting such an obnoxious 
 
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 personage before the vision of the good people of Harrisburg 
 were freely expressed. A woman to lecture ! What an unheard of 
 innovation! Not a few expressed their opinion that the wife 
 of Colonel Saunders had gone "clear daft" since her return 
 from Boston. He should restrain her wild freaks. When the 
 actual announcement of the date and place of the lecture was 
 made it produced as much of a furore in some social and political 
 circles as would, today, an invasion by the Japanese or a visit 
 from the Empress of China and her court. The lecturer was 
 the champion of that dreadful infringement upon the sanctity 
 of the home and the morality of society expressed in the term 
 "Women's Rights." Her expectant hostess was importuned 
 to know the truth of various statements concerning her, one 
 being that she was six feet tall in her stocking feet, wore high- 
 topped boots and rode upon the platform of the cars all the way 
 from Massachusetts the better to see and to be seen to all 
 of which Mrs. Saunders would imperturbably reply with a 
 charming smile, "Wait and see." Lucy Stone came quietly 
 and unobserved, appearing upon the platform at the appointed 
 hour, modestly attired in a dress of plain black silk with a tiny 
 lace ruffle around her white throat and her shapely head sur- 
 mounted by a coronal of her own abundant, soft and sunny 
 brown hair. Her arms were encased in the flowing sleeves of 
 that period, lined with white silk, and her small feet wore the 
 daintiest of slippers. 
 
 The house was crowded, and she stood (having been intro- 
 duced by Mrs. Saunders) the cynosure of all eyes. A lovelier 
 picture of artless, earnest, simple womanliness could not have 
 been imagined. Her plea was for a larger opportunity for 
 women to share in the work of the world without being con- 
 sidered as having unsexed themselves or in any degree lost 
 their femininity. Her arguments in its favor were so unex- 
 pectedly womanly and tender that her audience sat spellbound. 
 Suddenly an egg was hurled at her through an open window 
 in the rear of the hall and broke upon her shoulder. Calmly 
 wiping off the offensive matter with her handkerchief, she 
 observed, "If I could as easily erase from the memory of the one 
 
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 who has tried to insult me the folly of his act I would be glad of 
 the opportunity." 
 
 At the close of the meeting crowds stepped forward to clasp 
 her hand and congratulate Mrs. Saunders upon the success of 
 her scheme. She was entirely vindicated. 
 
 In appearance at the time, Mrs. Saunders was a perfect 
 Hebe. Her health having been entirely restored and her buoy- 
 ancy of temperament always at a high altitude, she was literally 
 "the observed of observers" whenever she appeared in public, 
 and "the bright particular star" in her home and social circle. 
 
 The poetry of her nature was exhibited in the extreme beauty 
 and daintiness of her apparel, and her love of order evinced the 
 harmony of her thought. She had not an idle minute. Self- 
 culture became with her a passion. Hours of each day were 
 faithfully employed in the cultivation of music, for which, like 
 that of learning foreign languages, she had great aptitude, and 
 during the intervals studying works on mental and moral 
 philosophy. She was considered, by far, the most advanced 
 woman of her time in her native city, and while an object of 
 envy by a few outside her own peculiar circle, none could 
 restrain their admiration for the boundlessness of her desire 
 to do good and to be beloved by all. 
 
 After a few years of happy married life her husband fell a 
 victim to tuberculosis and passed into the great unknown. 
 This was her first heart-breaking sorrow. When she emerged 
 from it, a widow, and with abundant means at her disposal, 
 the question soon occurred to her, "How can I the best benefit 
 my own sex?" Exceedingly simple in her tastes and living 
 close to Nature in her habits of life she realized that ignorance 
 of the laws of hygiene lay at the root of most of the diseases 
 peculiar to women. She would be their teacher and deliverer. 
 Full of enthusiasm she soon put her determination into practice 
 by going to Philadelphia and entering the Women's Medical 
 College. She graduated in 1879, being the first woman in 
 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to be received into its medical 
 society. She thus blazed a pathway for the many who have 
 succeeded her. Letters of congratulation poured upon her, 
 
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 of which one is quoted as being characteristic. The writer 
 was a distinguished woman professor in Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1400 N. TWENTY-THIRD STREET. 
 
 June 7, 1880. 
 
 MY DEAR FRIEND: I was rejoiced to read in the Public Ledger of last 
 Saturday morning (June 5th) an extract from the Harrisburg Patriot 
 stating that at the last regular meeting of the Dauphin County Medical 
 Society you were admitted a member of its body. 
 
 I hasten to offer my congratulations on this auspicious event and 
 to express the hope that you will prove a valuable member. Your 
 cheery and friendly letter of November 24th has afforded me much 
 pleasure and should have been answered earlier but for many burdening 
 cares. I am glad you are in Harrisburg and trust you may long be 
 spared to do a good work there. Let me hear of your successes from 
 time to tune and come to see us when you can. You are one in whose 
 career we are greatly interested. Believe me, your sincere friend, 
 
 L. BODLEY. 
 
 A characteristic incident demonstrating her democratic 
 principles and love of truth and simplicity is told of her as 
 having occurred in the cars while en route for her home the day 
 succeeding her graduation. 
 
 The car was chiefly occupied by men, but two aristocratic 
 and elegantly attired ladies were sitting directly behind her while 
 she was absorbed in a book which she was reading. All being 
 quiet the conversation between the two ladies was overheard 
 easily. They were boasting of their foreign lineage and the signs 
 of ancient heraldry, as proofs of it, to which each was entitled. 
 "I carry my grandfather's coat-of-arms stamped upon my 
 handkerchiefs," said one. "And I have mine engraved upon 
 my pocket book," responded the other. Then, in a rather loud 
 roice she said, "Doctor! Excuse the interruption, but where 
 do you place your coat-of-arms ?" 
 
 Thus publicly appealed to, the newly made doctor calmly 
 arose, and lifting the lid of her modest lunch-basket beside her, 
 took from it a small link of Bologna sausage, which holding 
 aloft, she said, "I carry it with me when traveling; my father 
 
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 dealt in cattle." The car was in a roar of laughter, the men 
 loudly applauding her. 
 
 Her second marriage, to Joseph Kemp, Esq., of Hollidays- 
 burg, Pa., a man of unusual breadth of intellect and ripe culture 
 and a lawyer by profession, took place in 1857, and the birth 
 of three children, two of whom were girls and one a boy, seemed 
 to ripen into quick maturity a degree of religious fervor and 
 high order of philanthropy which to those phlegmatic souls who 
 could not comprehend Agnes Nininger-Kemp's burning enthusi- 
 asm to lift her fellows into the higher understanding of God's 
 plans for His children, seemed fanaticism. 
 
 Questions which a third of a century ago were rarely dis- 
 cussed in polite society, nor indeed scarcely thought of by the 
 masses, such as the formation of Magdalene Asylums; crusades 
 against intemperance and the social evils; the divine rights of 
 childhood; the kindergarten system of education and the need 
 of social purity for higher development of the race were, with 
 Mrs. Kemp, the theme of almost constant conversation. Wher- 
 ever she abode she became an agitator and an educator of public 
 sentiment in the right direction, and when the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Association became a National organization she 
 was the first to establish a local union in Harrisburg as well as at 
 Hollidaysburg, Pa. None but the pioneers in this noble and 
 now exalted cause can understand the conflict between the 
 liquor power and its opponents, the curse of the open saloon and 
 the invasion of the purity and privacy of the home which it 
 heralded. Often and often were Mrs. Kemp's motives impugned 
 and misunderstood, but she valiantly forged ahead in arousing 
 the women in the cause from which they were the greatest suffer- 
 ers until a large number of the wisest and best flocked to the 
 standard which she so valiantly upheld and enrolled them- 
 selves as fellow workers. 
 
 The death, while yet in infancy, of her two younger children 
 and, some years later, of her husband left her with the eldest 
 daughter, Marie Antoinette, upon whom to concentrate her 
 wealth of motherly love and consecrated ambition. 
 
 Lovely Marie ! Even when a child she attracted the attention 
 
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 of all with whom she came in contact. Unlike her mother in 
 appearance, she was a brunette with great, dark, brilliant and 
 soulful eyes and a wealth of chestnut-brown hair. Like her 
 father, mentally she was a human interrogation-point craving 
 to know "Why" and "Wherefore" of all with which she came 
 in contact. With a maturity far beyond her years she distanced 
 in grasp of thought the children of her acquaintance and became 
 her mother's dearest and closest companion. The youthful 
 "Tottie," as she was then familiarly called, became an uncon- 
 scious leader among the children of her set who, upon all occa- 
 sions, deferred to her opinion. But she assumed no proprietary 
 rights, content to champion her adherents and to give to her 
 opponents when she had any a wide berth. When ready to 
 enter college her mother chose that of Swarthmore, Pennsyl- 
 vania, for her alma mater, and at the close of her four years* 
 course she was the valedictorian of her class consisting of eight 
 young gentlemen and five young ladies. The following unso- 
 licited testimonials were given by Marie L. Sanford of the college 
 and Dr. E. H. Magill, its president: 
 
 Said the former: "Of all the graduates who have gone out of 
 Swarthmore College during the nine years that I have been 
 connected with it, there has not been one of finer promise than 
 Marie A. Kemp. As a student in the classroom, as a practical 
 teacher and in the social circle she everywhere takes the palm. 
 Gentle and modest in her manners, thorough and clean in her 
 scholarship, calm and firm in positions of responsibility, she 
 cannot fail to achieve unusual success as a teacher and to give 
 tone and charm to the social life in which she moves." 
 
 Said the latter when asked his opinion of Marie A. Kemp's 
 qualifications as a graduate: "Marie A. Kemp has now almost 
 completed a regular course of study in this college and will be 
 graduated with the degree of A. B. at our coming commence- 
 ment. There seems to be no doubt that she will be the vale- 
 dictorian of her class. During the ten years of the existence of 
 this college she has shown herself a young woman of unusual 
 ability in imparting knowledge and of unquestionable power 
 of control. I should most unqualifiedly commend her for 
 
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 any position which she would consider herself competent to 
 fill." 
 
 In June, 1887, Dr. Kemp and her daughter sailed for Europe. 
 The mental condition of the former was most happy, as a brief 
 quotation from the first pages of her diary proves: "A more 
 propitious day never smiled on woman than the one in which I 
 left my native city for the foreign shores. It was all the physical 
 and spiritual nature could desire. Friends everywhere wished 
 us bon voyage. The last morning was spent in listening to the 
 eight girl graduates of Miss Woodward's Seminary upon such 
 topics as many would have been led to believe could only be 
 discussed by those having age and experience. The way in 
 which these various themes were handled proves that time, 
 thought, talent and ability were not lacking in the education of 
 these girls. Ah, the joy our children bring when time and priv- 
 ilege are given to develop their heavenly gift ! 
 
 "At 3:30 the cars separated us from the loving group that 
 had assembled to take a last adieu. The picture is still mirrored 
 on my brain. My heart-strings have not ceased to vibrate at the 
 sight of that beautiful occasion. Love is the divine element, 
 and its impress the most enduring. How I wish I could have had 
 the living reality photographed to carry with me! 
 
 "As we were borne rapidly along, Middletown and Lancaster 
 were soon lost to sight. The luxuriant vegetation of June 
 rendered hill and dale a lovely picture. All seemed a forerunner 
 of peace and plenty, a harbinger of joy. At the Philadelphia 
 depot another group of friends awaited our arrival. Daughter 
 and I were separated for the night, I being taken to the home of 
 Miss Thompson, sister of Edgar Thompson, who desired me 
 to spend my last night in Pennsylvania under her hospitable 
 roof. Our acquaintance has been of short duration and is 
 bound by the ties of Woman's Suffrage needs, both of us having 
 been born into the kingdom of the much-needed truth. The 
 presence of Miss Matilda Hindman, a devoted leader of this new 
 gospel, completed our trio. The next morning we had the pleas- 
 ure of meeting Miss Charlotte Grey of Antwerp, European 
 organizer of the International W. C. T. IL, who gave us letters 
 
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 to Miss F. Koolmanne, secretary of the World's Temperance 
 Conference. Thus, how beautifully the way was being opened 
 to meet kindred spirits in the Old World ! At New York another 
 group was in waiting near the Waesland steamer of the Red 
 Star line, who presented us with flowers and a beautiful silk flag 
 with which to wave our last adieus as we were being borne away 
 upon the bosom of the mighty deep." 
 
 Arriving in Europe the mother and daughter entered upon 
 an entirely new life. Facilities for meeting with the most 
 intelligent people in the highest social rank came to them so 
 easily and unsought for, it was impossible not to believe that a 
 special Providence had a hand in thus shaping their course. 
 Marie entered the University of Zurich, Switzerland, for a special 
 course of study which would enable her to perfect herself in the 
 German language and its literature, while Dr. Kemp engaged 
 in a certain branch of scientific research. 
 
 A year later a portion of the following letter from the latter 
 to a friend in America revealed her sentiments in reference to 
 the Eternal City: 
 
 ROME, ITALY, 5-2-88. 
 
 DEAR ONE: We are at last in Old Rome, traveling over those seven 
 hills. We have been wandering for a week. We have beheld the Coli- 
 seum, the ruins, within whose walls thirty thousand people could be 
 seated. We have seen the ruins of the old Forum, and the spot where 
 Brutus killed Caesar. We have been to the Vatican and to St. Peter's. 
 The last church we visited was St. John Lateran. I was obliged to go 
 out twice during the morning service to get warm in the sunshine. The 
 houses and churches being built of marble or stone are always cool and 
 often cold. Every day we meet people from America, many groups 
 that we have met before. How we cling together! There is so much 
 wreck and ruin all around and in the city. We were in the catacombs 
 of a small church last evening whose walls were lined with human bones 
 and the ceilings with skulls. Groups of monks are to be seen in all 
 parts of the city: the Franciscans dressed in brown serge gowns with no 
 stockings and their feet thrust in wooden slippers. Nevertheless, they 
 look sleek and well fed. These, with the many soldiers and tourists, 
 are in great contrast with the working people. 
 
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 everybody at work. The builders, the masons, the carriers, the drivers, 
 the mechanics, all seemed working very hard. Many live upon the 
 streets but all are occupied. Donkeys are quite numerous. These, 
 with dogs, horses and human beings, all in a medley, crowd the streets 
 which have no pavements or sidewalks and often are so narrow as scarce 
 to permit a cart to pass. 
 
 We attended Rev. Nevin's church yesterday, also the St. John 
 Lateran. In the evening we joined Rev. Yering's Bible Class which 
 has disbanded for the season. We have seen many groups of pilgrims 
 going to St. Peter's to attend the special service held for them but all 
 was said in the Latin language. Oh, how my heart ached for these 
 people! We are taught the letter killeth. It is the spirit which maketh 
 alive. The magnificent paraphernalia of the priests and their attend- 
 ants clad in lace, girdles and golden ornaments made them look resplend- 
 ent. All of them had seats save five or six, while the audience stood 
 upon cold, marble floors. Many wealthy ladies had blanket scarfs 
 carried by their attendants. The peasantry have their own peculiar 
 styles. Their ornaments are very picturesque but burdensome; they 
 consisted of weighty earrings, massive chains and gilded crosses. What 
 is most to be regretted is then- lamentable ignorance. Medals, statues, 
 statuettes and paintings of the Pope are thickly strewn throughout the 
 city. The beautiful simplicity of childlike worship as enjoyed in our 
 W. C. T. U. meetings, without the loud ringing of bells, burning of 
 incense or peals from the organ, is a contrast, the truth of which I pray 
 may be realized by all those who sincerely desire an entrance into the 
 Heavenly Kingdom. I often ask myself, What is it ye went out to see ? 
 The foreign climes ? The people of many nations ? All are here in this 
 cosmopolitan city. For some my heart aches; for others I rejoice when I 
 see the light of truth and intelligence depicted upon their faces. These 
 are mostly students to whom the truth has been revealed. We have 
 made many charming acquaintances, two of whom are Mr. and Mrs. 
 Carpenter of Boston who have been studying Grecian life in Greece. 
 Their conversation is illuminating. 
 
 I regret to say that I left Paris before a W. C. T. U. was formed, 
 but I believe the day is not far distant when the Parisian women will 
 join hands with the World's W. C. T. U. 
 
 Lord and Lady Mount Temple made arrangements to have me 
 present the subject at an afternoon parlor meeting over which the former 
 presided. They were on their way from Nice to London, stopping for 
 a few days with the Hon. Mrs. Spencer Cooper. I wish you could have 
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 stopping with Countess of Caithness, Duchesse de Pomar. This lady 
 is a member of our World's W. C. T. U. who sent me from Nice a letter 
 of introduction to the Hon. Mrs. Spencer Cooper, whom I found to be a 
 most charming conversationalist; she has consented to read whatever I 
 may send her on the subject of temperance. I have since breakfasted 
 and lunched with her several times when all our conversation was upon 
 the reforms of the day. Although not a total abstainer, she is sincere, 
 and her conviction is but a matter of time and education on the subject. 
 When total abstinence is presented in its true scientific and religious light, 
 when the truth becomes perfectly clear to her mind, she will not hesitate 
 to accept it. Mrs. Cooper would make a splendid officer. Being a 
 lady of leisure, culture, education and high social position, the cause 
 might grow with her support. 
 
 Lady Caithness wrote me she would give garden parties after her 
 return to Paris, where the subject of temperance could be discussed, 
 but our arrangements took us away from Paris a few days after her 
 return. We saw each other last at the reception of Madame Bogelot, 
 who represented France at the International Council of Women held in 
 Washington, D. C., March 25, 1888. 
 
 A reception was given by Madame de Morsier, one of the Parisian 
 philanthropists, to Madame Bogelot. An Italian sculptress made a 
 bust of her, and a wreath of laurel with many flowers was presented 
 as tokens of admiration and respect. She received all smilingly and 
 then told of all that she had seen and heard during her first visit to 
 America. How her heart was touched by the delicate attentions every- 
 where shown her of her visit to the White House, where she met two 
 of her own countrywomen in this new country! It melted their hearts 
 as they joined hands tears of love and gratitude flowed, which they 
 soon drove away, lest the great President might see them and ascribe it 
 to another source other than their love of their own country and of each 
 other. 
 
 I utterly fail to tell you of the pleasure I had that afternoon with those 
 truly refined and excellent women nor how we are enjoying every hour 
 of our stay here. Affectionately yours, 
 
 AGNES KEMP. 
 
 During these four years abroad the mother and daughter 
 enjoyed rare facilities for impressing themselves upon people in 
 their own sphere of mental and moral activities. In 1 899 Dr. 
 Kemp delivered her oft-quoted address upon "Health and 
 Physical Culture" before the Institute Polyglot in Paris. 
 
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 In the same month from a copy of Le Figaro containing an 
 account of a meeting of women of various nationalities, for the 
 amelioration, moralization and regeneration of man, the editor 
 thus wrote: "Miss Kemp, une jeune Americaine a expose, avec 
 un charmant accent et une grande amiabilite le grand mouvement 
 des femmes de VAmerique du Nord" She also read a paper on 
 the 23d of January, in Paris, before the conference of the Insti- 
 tute of Languages which won for her high approval. Her 
 theme was "The Poems and Influence of James Russell Lowell.'* 
 Her peculiar fascination was particularly felt by Mrs. Thomasson, 
 the niece of John Bright, who invited her to accompany her 
 family in a tour through the Mediterranean, stopping at Gibral- 
 tar, Algiers and other ports. The descriptive letters furnished 
 to the American press by Marie during this trip are of a high 
 order and replete with interest. 
 
 Meanwhile invitations to lecture before various associations 
 were flowing in upon Dr. Kemp. One from "Pembridge Place, 
 London," is a specimen. It read as follows: 
 
 DEAR MADAME: As I am just going abroad I am precluded from 
 meeting you at Mrs. Ingram Walker's on the 8th inst. I am to ask if it 
 would be possible for you to grant us the great favor of addressing our 
 North Kensington Woman's Liberal Association on the first Thursday 
 in November or December, or even February, 1891. We have a young 
 but very earnest association, and if you could see your way to give us 
 your interesting lecture upon the American Crusade of 1873 and 1874 
 on either of the Thursdays which I have mentioned you would confer a 
 great favor upon Yours faithfully, 
 
 T. L. MALLET. 
 
 The source of her popularity and the style of her addresses 
 can best be gleaned from an editorial which appeared in the 
 New York Tribune: 
 
 "Mrs. Agnes Kemp, a Harrisburg woman, electrifies a 
 Parisian audience by her eloquence." 
 
 "The regular Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune, 
 in describing a recent meeting for Woman's Work held in the 
 French metropolis, pays the following tribute to one of Harris- 
 
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 burg's well-known citizens. Mrs. Kemp and her daughter were 
 at this meeting and both spoke, the daughter in French and the 
 mother in English. Each in her way was a success. 
 
 "The mother has a fine face, nobly outlined, sweet of ex- 
 pression and crowned with soft, gray hair. There was decision 
 and firmness as well as kindliness in her face. The figure of a 
 charming model and erect, went well with the head. She was 
 tastefully and becomingly draped in a robe of coarse black 
 stuff. 
 
 "This lady, speaking out of a wide experience and deep 
 conviction, was eloquent and became more and more so as she 
 went on. Her eloquence reminded me of the effect produced 
 by the cutting of the wire which holds down the cork of a cham- 
 pagne bottle. The cork first moves a little and then more and 
 more until, at last, it bursts out and the foaming nectar bubbles 
 over. 
 
 "Mrs. Kemp, being a strict temperance woman, would not 
 perhaps relish this simile. Her wish for equal rights in this 
 country springs from a desire to put down the dark demon to 
 which phylloxera has given a fine field by destroying the vine 
 and affording an opportunity to distillers of bad alcohol, of which 
 they are availing themselves. 
 
 "Mrs. Kemp gave the meeting an account of the leading 
 part American women are taking in the temperance movement 
 and of the good work done by Miss Willard who presides over 
 a society which numbers more than five hundred thousand 
 working in thirty-eight departments of work. 
 
 "Mrs. Kemp invited the women of Paris to join them, to 
 combine to work in the same direction, and that they would 
 cause the children in the schools to be taught how intoxicating 
 drinks acted upon the different organs and functions of the body." 
 
 A portion of this address was, fortunately, preserved and 
 afterward repeated at home. 
 
 She said: "There is an army abroad that is not in the service 
 of the Divine Master, whose members stalk about the country 
 so defaced that the divine impress is lost. There are they who 
 have woe, and sorrow, and contentions, and babbling, and 
 
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 wounds without cause. They have redness of eyes, blotched 
 faces, foul mouths and slackness of gait, for alcohol takes away 
 the glow of health from the cheek, the luster from the eye and 
 the beauty and comeliness from the face, leaving it ill-shaped 
 and bloated. 
 
 "Alcohol has such power we liken it unto the King of Destruc- 
 tion, or Satan in solution, photographing himself upon the 
 Divine image. Alcoholic beverages take strength from the 
 limbs and firmness from the steps, making them faltering and 
 treacherous. It takes vitality from the blood and fills it with 
 poison and the seeds of disease and death. It takes the impress 
 of manhood from the face and leaves upon it the marks of sensu- 
 ality and brutishness. It bribes to madness and cursing. It 
 turns the hands from deeds of usefulness to instruments of 
 brutality and murder. It has made a kind and indulgent father 
 a brute and a tyrant, and transformed a loving mother into a 
 very fiend. It has taken luxuries from the rich man's table and 
 compelled them to cry out because of famine and to beg for 
 bread. It has stripped backs of broadcloths and silk and 
 clothed them with rags. It has taken away acres and denied even 
 a decent burial in death. We all know how it feeds almshouses 
 and compels us to keep an army of policemen to tramp up and 
 down the land by day and night. It brings hunger and cold 
 and nakedness into thousands of families. It is the Great 
 Dragon ravaging the land and doing it, Great God, by per- 
 mission of the people. 
 
 "It is against this unrighteous, this unholy traffic we women 
 are waging a war. We are recruiting for an army of women. 
 It is woman's work to assist in ridding the land of this destructive 
 element, this invisible spirit of wine which Shakespeare says, 'We 
 call thee Devil !' 
 
 "A law suit has been set up in the Supreme Court of Public 
 Opinion, viz. : the women of the nation versus the liquor traffic, 
 and before this question can be settled there is much work to 
 be done intelligently and scientifically for science is but the 
 unfolding of God's laws. It must be done religiously. We 
 must have hearts filled with love for humanity. God is love, 
 
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 and love is the fulfilment of the law. We must learn more of 
 His law that we may have more of His love. Love makes the 
 heart light and the work easy. It quickens our footsteps to do 
 errands of mercy; not alone to feed the hungry and clothe the 
 naked but to enlighten the ignorant. Ignorance being the 
 mother of sin is personified in the devil who is the father of lies, 
 while God who is the fountain of all knowledge is personified in 
 Christ who is 'the light of the world.* Ruskin says: 'Men often 
 think to bring about great results by violent and unprepared 
 effort, but it is only in fair and forecast order, as the earth 
 bringeth forth her seed, that righteousness and praise may 
 spring forth before the nations.' 
 
 "The W. C. T. U. believes that the educational method is 
 one of the surest and shortest ways of reaching the desired end. 
 We believe the people are intemperate from ignorance rather 
 than from choice, and that if the facts relating to the evil effect 
 of alcohol were fully known, the common sense of the community 
 would introduce a reform upon such a sure foundation as would 
 lead to the most important, and lasting benefits to the nation. 
 'My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,' saith the 
 Lord. 
 
 "We have not studied the truths which science has given us 
 in the nature of alcohol and its effects upon the human system. 
 Science has proven alcohol to be a poison. We need to convince 
 the masses that in the use of alcoholic beverages lies the abuse 
 to the user. The light of reason must be fed by the oil of knowl- 
 edge of the dangers lying along the ambushed streets of a land 
 filled with saloons. 
 
 "This knowledge must be imparted to men, women and 
 children, particularly to the latter. Save our boys and girls 
 now, if it is in any degree possible. Arm the children in their 
 school days against that one great evil which will surely assail 
 each of them, and at the same time give them scientific instruction 
 in so logical and pleasant a form that the acquirement of it will 
 be excellent mental discipline." 
 
 Thus she plead abroad and at home with all the earnestness 
 of her positive nature and won the plaudits of the multitudes 
 
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 who listened with profoundest interest to every word which fell 
 from her lips. 
 
 Her influence upon the temperance sentiment of Europe, 
 then being agitated by its most enlightened and aggressive 
 women under the united banners of Frances E. Willard and 
 Lady Henry Somerset, was deeply felt and warmly recognized. 
 Most flattering comments upon her addresses on "Social Purity," 
 "Health and Physical Culture," "Temperance" in its various 
 phases and other reforms which lay close to her heart, came 
 from the European to the American press, assuring her many 
 friends that her splendid courage and noble zeal had not weak- 
 ened in the conservative atmosphere which pervaded the Old 
 World. 
 
 Marie always shared in her gifted mother's social triumphs 
 when not traveling with noted friends over the Continent. 
 Living with a German family of distinction she was laying the 
 broad foundation for a knowledge of Germany's best literature 
 and its language and preparing herself for the distinguished and 
 responsible position she was destined, afterward, to fill. 
 
 Having the entree into the most exclusive and refined circles 
 in Germany, England and France, the two insensibly acquired 
 a degree of culture which only those so fortunately situated can 
 attain. 
 
 After an absence of four years abroad they returned to their 
 "native heath" wholly equipped for the duties which awaited 
 them Marie to become professor of German at Swarthmore 
 College, and her mother to fulfil the law of her being, viz.: 
 "to do whatsoever her hand found to do with all her might." 
 
 The range of the "whatevers" covered a wide field, including 
 temperance, peace and arbitration, woman's suffrage and 
 everything necessary to one's spiritual and physical uplift. 
 
 Mrs. Kemp's adherence to her simple religious faith has ever 
 been one of her strongest points. This fact is revealed in a 
 letter written to and published in a prominent Harrisburg paper, 
 The Patriot, during the progress of a religious controversy. 
 She said: 
 
 "DEAR Patriot: Our city has been stirred up considerably 
 
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 within the last few weeks on account of differences of religious 
 views between sects. I regret the spirit manifested. 
 
 "If light and life are not set forth in our arguments, how 
 can we be benefited by statements which we have not the power 
 to prove ? I am not a Roman Catholic, but I believe that those 
 Christians who differ from this branch of the Christian Church 
 will never be benefited from the arguments and statements given 
 in the Daily Patriot, as written within their recent issues. 
 
 "The religion of Jesus, the Christ, is plain and beautifully 
 simple we are commanded to love one another. Do we do it ? 
 Also to love our neighbors as ourselves, which you know we do 
 not. To bless them that curse you. Our blessed Lord said 
 when on the Cross, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not 
 what they do/ 
 
 "Remember the letter killeth; it is the spirit that giveth life. 
 No one has ever seen God. All that we have that is written has 
 come through mankind as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 
 I believe there are many errors among the sects, but they will not 
 always remain so extreme, for light is dawning so rapidly upon 
 us that the old things are passing away and soon all things will 
 become new. The present environment will not much longer 
 permit mental imprisonment. Newness of life must not be 
 fettered by narrowness of view. 
 
 "Many of our people are suffering from mental contraction, 
 some are fossilized, while others are enshrouded in a myriad of 
 non-essentials and thus imprisoned. Now, a most beautiful 
 feature, a hopeful promise comes with the eye of faith, awakened 
 by a growth into a knowledge of truth, that glorious truth which 
 frees us from error, that knowledge which removes ignorance. 
 
 "The command is, 'Search the Scriptures; for in them ye 
 think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.' 
 This does not mean the Bible alone, but nature, art, science, 
 literature and religion. I believe the innumerable sects are 
 so bound by customs, creeds and isms that the beautiful simplic- 
 ity of Christ's teachings are almost lost sight of by many. 
 This is owing to the influences of one's environment all through 
 the journey of life. 
 
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 "We know the laws of the universe are God's laws. They 
 existed before we had a Christ or a Bible. His laws are the 
 same yesterday, today and forever. To me, it is my religious 
 duty to learn all that is needed of his laws that will assist me in 
 fulfilling the commands of Holy Writ, which have proved them- 
 selves such by experience. 'Tis our duty to aim after perfection. 
 Let us not let our angry passions arise and say that which stirs 
 up angry feelings. " AGNES KEMP." 
 
 Second only to her enthusiastic devotion to the cause of 
 temperance in its various ramifications was her adherence to 
 the principles which advocated the political enfranchisement 
 of women. She was among the pioneers of that great and much- 
 needed reform, having given to it most freely of her time, her 
 influence and her money. 
 
 A characteristic letter from that great apostle of the move- 
 ment, Susan B. Anthony, is sacredly preserved among her 
 archives. It reads thus: 
 
 ROCHESTEB, NEW YORK, March 15, 1900. 
 MRS. AGNES KEMP, 
 
 Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
 MY DEAR FRIEND: Enclosed is the certificate of your membership 
 for the fifty-dollar check which you mailed on the 6th inst. It has been 
 impossible for me to get about filling the certificates until now. It is 
 just one week ago tonight since I returned home and I have been mighty 
 busy every minute of the daylight in that time. 
 
 It is splendid of you to make yourself a lif e member. I can remember 
 how earnest you were away back in the sixties and how I met you once 
 with Mrs. Helen Philleo Jenkins at Madame Demorest's place. It was 
 at the time of the Susan King tea experiment. I have ever since counted 
 you among our faithful members. 
 
 I am very sorry the convention work was too much for your physical 
 strength. It was a very severe strain upon me, not only during the ten 
 days of the convention and celebration, but the ten days before and 
 after them. The whole month was one continued meeting and talking 
 with friends, but I went through it pretty well; then spent a week with 
 our dear friend Mrs. Bartol in Philadelphia, visiting other friends day 
 by day, and then a second week in New York City. There I stayed 
 
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 with my cousin, Mrs. Lapham, and spent a day with Mrs. Stanton 
 another with Dr. Jacobi, and yet another at our new headquarters, 
 2008 American Tract Building, wherein they seemed to be getting along 
 into good running order. 
 
 Our new president will, I am sure, prove to be just the right woman 
 to be entrusted with the herculean work which awaits our association, 
 so I hope the friends in all the States will rally around her, and in thought, 
 word and deed sustain her right royally and loyally. 
 
 That is a beautiful letter which you enclose from Elizabeth M. 
 Garrett. I should like to have been present when you gave your report 
 on all you saw and heard in Washington. It was too bad you had to 
 leave on the 14th of February so could not tell all that happened on the 
 15th in the Lafayette Opera House and the Corcoran Art Gallery. 
 
 As you say, these conventions are schools in which the Antis would 
 do well to be present. I wonder if you were present at either of the 
 hearings on the morning of the 13th. The poor Antis surely were to 
 be pitied, for their very weak exhibition of themselves and their "lost" 
 cause. Very affectionately yours, 
 
 SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 
 
 Accompanying this was an excellent photograph of the donor 
 bearing the legend: 
 
 Political equality of rights for women, civil and political, is today 
 and has been for the past half-century the one demand of 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 
 
 This sentiment was faithfully echoed by Mrs. Kemp during 
 the "half -century" of Miss Anthony's activities, and many of 
 the women's educational and industrial triumphs of today owe 
 their existence and success to her indefatigable efforts and rigid 
 adherence to principle in this direction. 
 
 In this special line of reform she was supplemented by her 
 highly gifted and accomplished daughter Marie, who, upon 
 her return from Europe, had accepted the position of professor 
 of German at Swarthmore College and began a career short 
 but brilliant to a remarkable degree. 
 
 It has been said of this beautiful woman that not the least 
 
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 of her gifts was her wonderful eloquence which she was ever 
 ready to use both in the service of the college and wherever the 
 opportunity for saying the word in season occurred. She never 
 refused the request when any public occasion demanded a speech, 
 and everyone who knew Swarthmore in those days remembers 
 with delight the charm and grace with which she was always 
 sure to meet the occasion. Her power to lift and move men 
 never failed her, and her perfectly chosen words were always 
 laden with thought. Everyone came away from hearing her 
 with spirits quickened. For this eloquence was the true ex- 
 pression of a lovely Christian character, a nature instinct with 
 tact, delicacy and refinement, whose gentle courtesy and unfailing 
 charity won all who knew her. 
 
 In this connection the report of an able address which she 
 delivered before an annual convention of Equal Suffragists 
 held in Kennett Square, Pa., attests her sympathy with her 
 mother in this notable movement. 
 
 The speakers for the occasion were Professor Marie Kemp 
 and Judge W. W. Ashman of Philadelphia. Said the intelligent 
 reporter: "Professor Marie Kemp is an attractive woman. She 
 has grace and tact, a sweet, persuasive voice, an extraordinary 
 gift of language and a logical, well-ordered mind. She charms 
 and never repels. Her influence upon her audience on Saturday 
 was magnetic. She referred to the movement as having been 
 heretofore known as the 'women's rights' movement. 'To 
 claim our rights,' said she, 'is just and right, but service is so 
 much nobler. The first women who undertook this work were 
 called monkeys because they tried to ape men. They were 
 bitterly persecuted, socially ostracized and looked upon with 
 contempt. We look back upon their efforts, their fortitude and 
 their courage, and are deeply grateful as we realize how easy 
 for us today is the work which they began. Then, in demanding 
 their rights, women first began teaching, in very humble posi- 
 tions. They stepped from higher to higher planes, proving 
 themselves well qualified for their work, and from their excellent 
 service have won the entrance to universities. I, myself, am not 
 so anxious that women shall vote as that they shall wish to vote. 
 
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 I do not think that women are fit to vote. They are no more 
 fit than are the majority of the men. The fact that these men 
 have just elected Matthew S. Quay to the chairmanship of the 
 State Committee illustrates their unfitness. What I want is 
 that women shall want to vote. Greece, in the days of her 
 greatness, was ruled by a chosen few. Rome, in the zenith of 
 her power, was governed by a small number of patricians. In 
 this country the people rule, yet not more than thirteen million 
 votes are ever cast when twenty millions of persons are entitled 
 to vote. The fact that so large a class is indifferent is astonishing. 
 The women who are esteemed and regarded and wield so much 
 influence in society are not allowed to vote. I think that the 
 reason that American women are not voting and interesting 
 themselves as English women do is a lack of patriotism. 
 
 " 'Our whole people need to cultivate a deeper patriotism 
 and love of country, a desire to minister to her needs and render 
 her willing service. The reason we do not vote is because we 
 do not want to vote. It is a question of interest. Women should 
 be the best patriots because of their motherhood. The motto 
 today is, "We learn by doing," therefore I want to see women 
 vote in order that they may learn to vote.' 
 
 "At this point in her address the speaker very ingeniously 
 introduced an illustration of the experiments of a certain eminent 
 scientist who recently took a number of shepherd puppies and 
 put them through a course for the world's enlightenment. He 
 divided the animals into three sets. One set he kept in a dark 
 place where they lived without exercise; another set he put at 
 liberty; the third he allowed to roam about, but taught them 
 carefully to distinguish objects by sight. He placed a number 
 of different colored plates upon the ground and put their food 
 always under a certain colored dish. In a very short time the 
 dogs would go only for the plates of the right color no matter 
 where they were placed. The scientist used several methods in 
 thus instructing the dogs, and finally killed the whole number. 
 The first set, confined in the dark, were found in examination 
 of their brains to have no gray matter; in the brains of the second 
 lot was found a small proportion of gray matter, and in those of 
 
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 the trained dogs was found twenty-five times as much gray 
 matter as in those that ran at large. She continued : 
 
 " Tdeas of education and woman's duties hare broadened. 
 I read, however, the protests against women assuming the added 
 responsibility and increased duties of enfranchisement because 
 they truly fear women are taking on too many burdens. I am 
 convinced, too, that the carrying on of a double profession is a 
 mistake, although I have never known an instance where the 
 woman physician and wife, or the literary woman and wife, 
 have neglected either avocation. But I think the tax is a heavy 
 one. I believe, however, that the citizenship of women will 
 strengthen and elevate marriage. When father and mother and 
 children all interest themselves in moral and civil problems the 
 bonds of the house will broaden and strengthen. Political 
 electioneering has aroused a revulsion among many good people, 
 and the suggestion that women empowered with the ballot would 
 enter into such activities has been urged as an argument against 
 the political equality of women. 
 
 " 'The dames of the English Primrose League have been 
 noted especially for their success at electioneering, and in viewing 
 the matter from a point of service the problem takes on quite a 
 different aspect. Love is the greatest thing in the world, and 
 when one considers that many of the illiterate, ignorant class 
 often give their votes to those who have befriended them, even 
 the work of the ward politician does not seem so bad. 
 
 " * Goethe, in the second part of Faust, gives his opinion of 
 the problem of life. This great work illustrates the tragedy of 
 progress. We are in danger of becoming the victims of progress. 
 We refuse to give up our old theories and the world moves on 
 and we are the victims. There is a larger sphere for women 
 which the times are preparing for us. Women should pre- 
 eminently be the home-makers. The beautiful sentiment from 
 Faust, "The woman soul leads us upward and onward," is the 
 key to much. We all know women who make life, even with 
 men far from lovely, a blessed and glorified service. The bound- 
 aries of the home extend into the State and Nation, and where 
 woman takes her proper place she will carry with her woman- 
 
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 hood, and if we can bring such power as this to bear upon national 
 affairs then have we won great service.* 
 
 "The subject, the speaker claimed, was many-sided. En- 
 vironment and one's own point of view govern opinions, and as 
 people have prejudice and principle tangled up she begged for 
 an honest hearing. A conviction is not gained easily, and if it 
 comes too easily one may beware of it. Often the less ground 
 we have for absolute theory the more we differ. Opposition to 
 the higher education of women was most violent because most 
 prejudiced. 
 
 "Is democracy a failure ? is a problem. The one man power 
 in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fairly staggers one's 
 faith in a democratic form of government. One point, however, 
 holds my faith. In many points many of the governments of 
 Europe surpass our own, but democracy tends to build character, 
 and no price is too high to pay for a principle like that. It 
 gives to us the larger opportunity for the development of men. 
 Citizenship imposes a heavier burden in America than in any 
 other land, and the whole trend of civilization is toward universal 
 suffrage. Will democracy stand the strain of a mighty class of 
 unprepared and untried voteis? The greatest good will never 
 come by the immediate enfranchisement of this class, but edu- 
 cational suffrage or qualification of the better element, the 
 educated class would certainly infuse a wholesome element 
 into the body politic to strengthen the better characteristics of 
 our Government. There are grave dangers in the future for 
 us, therefore a limited suffrage seems better with universal 
 suffrage ultimately. Home-making is woman's first calling. 
 No word is so strong as the word home. We need the home- 
 makers in government, then we will certainly have 'home pro- 
 tection.' A new word marks a new epoch. There is a new one 
 uppermost at this time. It is Solidarity, and introduced into 
 political science means the interests of one are the interests of all. 
 It is the new phase of thought at the close of this century one 
 of the brightest thoughts of the times. Society is an organism. 
 Every individual has a right to lend to the body politic the 
 special individuality which belongs to him, and as woman differs 
 
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 from man, her influence is needed and must eventually come.'* 
 
 Enthusiastic applause followed this able and excellent 
 address. 
 
 Judge Ashman in succeeding her said: "I cannot make a 
 speech to prove that two and two make four. It is like trying 
 to prove a proposition that is already proven to attempt to answer 
 the question that is before us. Now, Miss Kemp has done this 
 and beautified it. She has proven that the woman's brain can 
 be increased in size and weight, and this puts the scientist's 
 investigation all to naught. You all remember the German 
 fellow who proved that a woman's brain was so many drachms 
 too light in weight to exercise the franchise, and then died. 
 His brother professors weighed his own and found it lighter than 
 that of the average woman." 
 
 If the weight of the brain and its texture is any proof of 
 intellectual ability, that of Marie Kemp must have been far 
 above the average. Her power of description was marvelous 
 and her incisiveness of conception and utterance markedly 
 strong. Historic allusions illuminated every subject upon which 
 she was called to speak, and her epigrammatic sentences were 
 couched in language of classical purity. 
 
 The Entertainment Committee of the New Century Club of 
 Wilmington, Delaware, announced for the club year of 1894-95 
 among other celebrities, a positive engagement of Miss Marie 
 Antoinette Kemp to deliver four lectures on the "Philosophy 
 of Faust." They comprised: "Faust, the Poem;" "Faust, the 
 Man;" "The Redemption;" "Faust, a Reflection of Goethe's 
 Spiritual Nature." 
 
 During these lectures, which extended from October 17th 
 to November 7th, the Library Hall was crowded with eager, 
 intelligent women who came from Media, West Chester and 
 other points to hear them from one who was considered an 
 authority upon the German language and the products of its 
 authors. 
 
 Tributes of admiration flowed in from many responsive 
 souls, two of which are selected and given by way of illustra- 
 tion. 
 
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 A TRIBUTE. 
 
 As felt the poet, Keats, when first he looked 
 
 Into the living pages of a book 
 
 And there beheld the Master's thoughts of old 
 
 Given new life by one of later time, 
 
 And as he sang the praise of Chapman's Homer 
 
 So, also, I would sing the praise of her 
 
 Who has for me made Goethe's Faust reality. 
 
 I saw the poet in his noblest mood; 
 
 The man in the blest light of charity, 
 
 The woman's touch has made him more divine; 
 
 Her thought hath added luster to his own. 
 
 O happy poet, to have found in her 
 
 So kind and gentle an interpreter! 
 
 Erst had I worshipped had I only found 
 
 The shrine that since had been revealed to me. 
 
 MAZIE P. DERICKSON. 
 
 Wilmington, Del. 
 
 DEAR PROP. KEMP: Pardon my addressing you, but I do feel that I 
 ought to thank you personally for the exquisite pleasure which you gave 
 me in your lectures upon Faust. I am so sorry that you had to condense 
 the last one. What little knowledge I had of the poet has been enriched 
 by you, as I had always looked upon him as a man of very little principle. 
 How fortunate pupils are in having such a teacher. 
 
 Your sincere admirer, 
 
 MARY A. CROSS. 
 
 In 1895 Professor Kemp became the beloved wife of George 
 A. Hoadley, Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College. It was 
 an event which elicited the interest and congratulations of the 
 entire college town, so admirably were the two adapted to each 
 other. 
 
 Her marriage, however, did not interfere with her literary 
 work, for the following year, 1896-97, the Entertainment Com- 
 mittee of the New Century Club of Wilmington, Delaware, 
 announced as an important feature of its program for the year a 
 series of lectures on Wednesday afternoons at 3 p. M., by Prof. 
 Marie Kemp-Hoadley of Swarthmore College. 
 
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 Subject, "The Character Growth of the Germans as Reflected 
 in Their Literature." 
 
 The course consisted of three divisions, viz.: "Childhood, 
 From the First Invasions to the Suabin Emperors;" "Youth, 
 From the Suabin Emperors to Luther;" "Manhood, From 
 Luther to the Present Time." 
 
 As her auditors were also students she recommended for 
 their preparatory reading: "Scherer's History of German Liter- 
 ature," "Taylor's Studies of German Literature," "Luther's 
 Life of Himself" (translated by Hazlitt), "Schiller's Wallen- 
 stein," "Carlyle's Essays, Vol. III." 
 
 This series only the more firmly established her reputation 
 for thoroughness in her chosen profession, while it stimulated 
 to research and close investigation all who sat beneath the sound 
 of her rich, musical voice. Even without that personal magnet- 
 ism which gives control to so many orators and which she pos- 
 sessed in an unusual degree she would have won her way by her 
 clear-cut, terse, incisive process of spoken thought. 
 
 At the annual Commencement of the twenty-fifth anniversary 
 of Swarthmore she was selected to deliver an address upon the 
 "Moral and Spiritual Influence of College Life." 
 
 The occasion was one of the most important of her young 
 life. It had drawn together a large gathering of the Alumni 
 and friends of the Quaker College. Seated upon the stage in the 
 hall of the second floor of the main building were members 
 of the Board of Managers and Faculty and the graduating 
 class. 
 
 The opening address was made by Joseph Wharton, President 
 of the Board of Managers, who, after reverting to the strictly 
 college course, viz.: the scientific and engineering departments, 
 the astronomical observatory, the gymnasium and the other 
 additions to its efficiency which were maintained, said, in closing : 
 "It is well that a people should continue to show to the world 
 that piety and rectitude and spiritual growth can exist without 
 priests or creeds; that luxurious living is not necessary to happi- 
 ness, nor guile to reasonable prosperity in business; that high 
 intelligence is compatible with simplicity and inexpensiveness 
 
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 and that love and unity are practicable amid the clash and con- 
 tention of modern life.'* 
 
 He was succeeded by Frank Blair, the present State Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction of Illinois, who represented the 
 graduating class and whose subject was, "The Unity of Truth." 
 "The Early Days" was the theme of John D. Hicks, representing 
 the first Board of Managers, and Dr. Edward H. Magill, Ex- 
 President of the College. After John Russell Hayes had recited 
 an ode entitled, "Swarthmore," Marie A. Kemp-Hoadley spoke 
 as the representative of the Alumnae of the College. 
 
 She referred briefly to the character of the Alumnae and their 
 love for their Alma Mater. Seventy-nine per cent of Swarth- 
 more's women graduates, she said, were teachers or mothers, 
 and they were almost all looking forward to entrusting their 
 children to the same foster-mother who had guarded their own 
 youth. In the eyes of the Alumnae, of greater importance than 
 scholarship and physical development was right moral and 
 spiritual influence. Mentioning several features of college life 
 that were well calculated to develop the moral strength of the 
 student, she emphasized, particularly, the fact that by living in 
 common with many of his fellows a life of happy industry and 
 democratic equality, the student discovered for himself, by actual 
 experiment, the supreme value of social solidarity. 
 
 "The college," she said, "does not give lectures on faith, 
 hope and charity, but the small college, like Swarthmore, for 
 instance, arranges a life based on faith that what is sown in 
 righteousness is reaped in joy; based on hope of the gradual 
 unfolding of the life of the spirit that shall bring to pass the 
 ultimate putting away of childishness; based on love of whatso- 
 ever things are lovely, pure, and of good report, and then she 
 invites the student to live this life, to taste and see, to ascertain 
 for himself the exact worth of four years of regular industry, 
 aided by instruction imposed for the welfare of the whole as for 
 the individual; four years of immediate reward for honest work, 
 of inevitable condemnation of idleness; four years of true dem- 
 ocracy, in which each is a component part of a great whole and 
 attains enviable distinction in the social organism, in so far as he 
 
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 serves the general good. And the student does, by actual 
 experiment if he enters at all into the true spirit of the collegiate 
 body ascertain whether a life organized in accordance with the 
 principles of faith, hope and charity, be a good thing or not. 
 And to my mind the college teaches no greater lesson." 
 
 The impression of this talk upon the student body was one 
 neTer to be forgotten. 
 
 In a letter from Professor Birdsall to a friend, he said: "I 
 had the extreme pleasure of a brief talk with Mrs. Hoadley, 
 whose effort in simplicity and eloquent expression I thought 
 worthy of any college or university commencement anywhere in 
 the land." 
 
 To Mrs. Hoadley herself he wrote: 
 
 I was compelled to leave Swarthmore immediately at the close 
 of the exercises of the day, and was not able to make verbal expression 
 of the sense of personal obligation which I felt for thy nobly adequate 
 presentation of what is to me the element of greatest transcendental 
 value in college life. I think no one could have heard thee without 
 speaking, at least, some measure of thy feeling, while the whole pro- 
 gramme was of such a high order that it needed no criticism. 
 
 Thy address made the occasion one of which it was good indeed to 
 take part. Sincerely thy friend, 
 
 WM. W. BIRDSALL. 
 
 The interest in and admiration for Mrs. Hoadley by the New 
 Century Club of West Chester never seemed to wane; accord- 
 ingly, by their earnest request, she delighted them with an 
 address upon "Foreign and American Home-Making" as de- 
 duced entirely from her own observations and impressions 
 during her four years' residence abroad. 
 
 Notwithstanding a heavy snowstorm was in progress, at the 
 appointed time every chair in Library Hall was filled. Mrs. 
 Hoadley said she felt that the longer one lives in Europe the more 
 difficult it is to generalize in regard to the home life of Germany, 
 France, Italy or England. For several months she had been a 
 member of a German pastor's family near the borders of the 
 North Sea. She had gone to this village that she might be where 
 
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 she would not hear one word of English spoken and would be 
 compelled to hear and speak only German. In her desire in 
 this respect she was not disappointed and was much amused by 
 overhearing some one say, "How foreign she looks." People, 
 she found, came to church from miles distant to see her, 
 and frequently the congregation would not disperse until she 
 left. 
 
 The home life in this German village family was such as we 
 would consider almost poverty-stricken. The main room of the 
 house opened directly into the cow stable for the purpose of 
 saving heat. At first this surprised her, but she soon found that 
 the heat from the cow's body was precious, even with the odors 
 that accompanied it. The house was heated by means of porce- 
 lain stoves in which a few peats were burned. If the stove felt 
 warm to the touch the fire was considered satisfactory and the 
 house comfortably heated. She, however, found some diffi- 
 culty in existing during the months of March and April. In 
 the morning she would don a fur-lined ulster, a woolen hood, 
 felt shoes and mittens, and in this costume she was barely able 
 to spend the day without really suffering. 
 
 The fare was also very different from that of America. Once 
 a week roast beef was served, and twice a week delicious shrimps 
 formed the basis of the meal. On other days the remnants of 
 these were used in various ways. Potatoes were served cold with 
 the butter heated and served on a hot plate. Buttermilk, black 
 bread, raw fish and plenty of beer and wine were the other 
 staples of diet, while dried string-beans were another viand 
 which was considered a great delicacy. Ten dollars a month 
 was the allowance for housekeeping purposes. With all this 
 poverty of what we would consider the necessities, this family 
 was one of culture and refinement. The house-mother was an 
 authoress of the old school. She wrote thrilling romances which 
 she sold for much-needed cash. Her hair was tousled, her 
 fingers ink-stained and her cooking what her husband called 
 "inspirational." 
 
 This pastor's wife, however, was an exception, as most 
 German women are housekeepers and nothing else, yet as some 
 
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 one says, "A woman who is nothing but a housekeeper is a poor 
 housekeeper." 
 
 Americans are criticized by Europeans as being too full of 
 too many things, yet, while this may be true, some of them, 
 who are most fully occupied by many outside interests, are the 
 best housekeepers as well. 
 
 On the contrary, German women think of almost nothing but 
 their sweeping, scrubbing and cooking, and become wedded to 
 laborious methods and narrow ideas. If the fate of German 
 housewives is narrow and laborious, far more monotonous is 
 that of the woman who does not marry. While single she has 
 almost no liberty, and her whole thought centers on preparing 
 her trousseau, which often embraces sets of dozens of each 
 garment. 
 
 In the rearing of children, also, the Europeans follow far 
 different lines from those adopted in America. Our cousins 
 across the ocean think that American children are most ill- 
 mannered and undisciplined. They judge, chiefly, from children 
 whom they meet traveling abroad, and who are, of course, under 
 disadvantageous circumstances. European children are not 
 considered the center of the family, and are kept much more in 
 the background than are those of America. This results in the 
 young men and girls being much more retiring in their manners. 
 At the same time the young men are far less self-reliant, and will 
 seldom attempt anything to which they have not been trained. 
 As illustrating this fact Mrs. Hoadley said that the German pastor 
 and his family were, on one occasion, about to start to a nearby 
 forest on an excursion when it was found that the driver had 
 been tippling and was in no condition to drive. Father, mother, 
 daughter and grown-up son stood about gazing helplessly at 
 the lamblike horse to the silent amusement of the American girl. 
 "I will drive you," she said, but this was not to be for a moment 
 thought of. The family would have trusted her, for they felt 
 that an American girl could do anything, but public opinion 
 would never have countenanced anything so strong-minded. 
 They patiently waited, therefore, until the effects of their chari- 
 oteer's potations had worn off and then proceeded on their 
 
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 pleasure trip. But while much of the freedom and careless 
 happiness of childhood is lost to the little ones in European 
 families, Mrs. Hoadley felt that there are some points in which 
 American families might well pattern after them. Within the 
 past few years we have quite generally adopted the custom of 
 chaperoning young girls, but in France and Germany the boys 
 are chaperoned quite as closely as are any of our young girls. 
 
 In Paris it is an unheard of occurrence for a boy of good 
 social standing to go to an entertainment unattended. He is 
 accompanied to and from school by an older person and even in 
 recreation hours a party of boys have always with them one or 
 more tutors. As a result these youths have most polished man- 
 ners and their conversation is very free from slang. On the other 
 hand, the first taste of liberty is apt to intoxicate them, and 
 they rush into excesses because their early training has not 
 developed strength of character or moral stamina. Still, the 
 speaker felt that Americans leave their boys too much to their 
 own devices, and thought that if parents would make friends 
 and companions of their children there would be far less of regret 
 in their later life. 
 
 Taking up the second part of her subject Mrs. Hoadley 
 emphasized the thought that woman's mission in this world is 
 emphatically that of home-making. A preacher whom she had 
 recently heard dwelt upon the fact that it is a necessity of our 
 natures that we become more and more like our ideal, and she 
 urged upon her hearers that the more nearly the life of the wife 
 and mother comes, in self-forgetfulness and devotion to duty, 
 to that of Christ, the Divine Model of Humanity, the more 
 truly will she become a home-maker. 
 
 It is not house or family that makes a home, but the love and 
 mutual care of the members for each other. There were several 
 things that Mrs. Hoadley feared for the women of the twentieth 
 century. In the first place, she was afraid that they would 
 attempt too much. "Woman's life is already very full," she 
 said, "and every year seems to broaden her possible sphere of 
 action. The danger is that in accepting the many calls which 
 society, philanthropy and the advancement of her sex are making 
 
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 upon her, she will be tempted to forget that greatest, holiest 
 duty, home-making. While there are women physicians, 
 lawyers, editors and merchants who are also exemplary wives 
 and mothers, if the coming woman attempts too much the next 
 generation will suffer. 
 
 "Another tendency of the time is for women to feel that 
 they must get all their self-development and self-improvement 
 from books and lectures. These, of course, are important and 
 necessary, but many a valuable lesson can be learned from the 
 most trivial drudgery of dish-washing and dusting. 
 
 "A French reformer has written at length upon the theory 
 that the national educational system should be based not upon 
 mathematics and philosophy but upon the science of happiness. 
 Children should be taught first and last that virtue brings 
 happiness and that vice destroys it. While the speaker does not 
 feel prepared to express an opinion in regard to this theory, yet 
 she felt that even a little child may be helped to find that the 
 kingdom of heaven is within him, and by finding that naughti- 
 ness brings unhappiness may be helped to reach the idea that 
 it is better to be good. 
 
 "In regard to the enfranchisement of women the lady felt 
 that a restricted ballot in which the votes of intelligent women 
 could be cast with those of good men would benefit the country 
 in the greatest measure, yet she felt much sympathy with those 
 who timidly shrink from assuming any more responsibility than 
 they now have. That this participation in public affairs, how- 
 ever, would directly act as an aid in woman's ability as a home- 
 maker, she felt certain, and was sure that were the political 
 franchise granted to women they would be found equal to the task.'* 
 
 In accordance with her oft-expressed theory of what consti- 
 tuted woman's highest sphere, Mrs. Hoadley's home life became 
 a splendid exemplification. In it neatness, order, elegance, 
 simplicity and hospitality became prominent factors in making 
 it an ideal one. 
 
 In 1900 Mrs. Kemp removed to it from Harrisburg, Pa., and 
 her identification with the social life of Swarthmore gave to its 
 popularity an added charm. 
 
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 Among her main "enthusiasms" was the Universal Peace 
 Union of which she was one of the vice-presidents and from 
 which she was appointed as a delegate to the International 
 Peace Convention in Belgium. By special invitation of the 
 W. C. T. U. of Swarthmore the following address, fully embody- 
 ing her sentiments, was delivered before that body: 
 
 "The theme of my address is 'Peace by Arbitration,' a subject 
 to be deeply, earnestly and intelligently considered and one too 
 long unheeded by the majority. Yet we are not without hope, 
 for it seems as though there has come a general awakening 
 throughout the world as to the evils and brutalities of war, 
 which is in direct opposition to the divine command, 'Thou 
 shalt not kill.' We are greatly cheered by the signs of the times, 
 and from many sources, particularly from our President Roose- 
 velt. 
 
 "He thinks the time has come when differences between 
 nations, as between individuals, should no longer be settled by 
 the strong, physical arm, or by sword or cannon, but by the power 
 of righteousness and the courts of justice. 
 
 "It is but a few months since our President began the work 
 of mediation between the warring nations of Japan and Russia, 
 and disregarding all diplomatic precedents, he persisted in his 
 efforts until the nations agreed to bring the slaughter of men 
 to an end. This is the crowning triumph of the presidential 
 career and the greatest achievement of the United States in 
 international affairs. 
 
 "When these words, 'It is Peace,' were flashed around the 
 world, all civilization rejoiced at the magnanimity of Japan in 
 conceding to Russia her just claims and the reimbursement of 
 her war expenses, and one-half of the island of Saghalien already 
 in her possession. This act completes a record of wisdom, 
 courage and common sense rarely ever before equaled in the 
 annals of history. It is said that 'he that ruleth himself is greater 
 than he that taketh a city' then Japan has surpassed her 
 achievements on land and sea by her act of far-sighted states- 
 manship and recognition of future international interests. Let 
 us hope that this splendid example of national virtues may put 
 
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 an end to the era of piracy and shedding of blood. All honor 
 to Roosevelt and 'blessed are the peacemakers.' 
 
 "And now there seems to be a depth of spirituality in our 
 midst which brings us in touch with those of like feeling. So 
 let us be in earnest. 
 
 "Oh, that we may have an intellectual and spiritual discern- 
 ment of the divine methods of the true and higher life! This 
 would be, in some degree, the measure of our progress and 
 happiness. So let us not be content with our present condition. 
 Contentment means inaction. All great achievements spring 
 from life's unrest, so let us prize our present privileges and work 
 for the uplifting of humanity and the doing away with barbarous 
 practices. Do we perceive the immeasurable superiority of 
 arbitration to all other methods of settling disputes ? 
 
 "Think of the good work done at The Hague where they 
 have erected a standard ! They have shown a righteous way if 
 we but sustain them. 
 
 "This will be our deliverance from the murderous war spirit. 
 Great men are they who see that spiritual power is stronger than 
 material force. This is an age when intellect should take the 
 place of the sword. The thinker, not the fighter, should be the 
 hero of the day. We now call men great who arbitrate and keep 
 war's hounds at bay. So let us all work and pray that all inter- 
 national differences may be determined by the scales of justice, 
 and not by the heaviest battalions. 
 
 "Remember, too, that territorial expansion by force of 
 arms is contrary to the principles of righteous government, so let 
 us encourage the world's court of arbitration and join hands 
 with those who are awakened to the higher methods. 
 
 "The vast body of the world's people are just awakening to 
 their possibilities and their duties. We do not want that wars 
 shall continue and armaments increase, nor the wealth of nations 
 used for the destruction of humanity, so let us keep our atmos- 
 phere magnetic with love and faith, for this is the only atmosphere 
 into which spiritual force can enter and assert its power. 
 
 "War is an evil to the whole human race. It checks culture, 
 morality, economy and growth in the divine life. Nearly every 
 
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 nation has its standing army and spends its millions in shot and 
 shell, and military implements, blighting homes, saddening 
 hearts and murdering human beings. But, friends, we have 
 reason to rejoice that there are other armies in the field one of 
 women who number over half a million, who discard all these 
 murderous methods and material. 
 
 "They have added to their thirty odd departments of work 
 that of Peace by Arbitration. Their rallying ground is around 
 a throne of grace, their armor is the sword of the spirit, a divine 
 enthusiasm. Their aim is not to destroy life but to save it. 
 They need no shot nor shell, no sword nor cannon. No, no, my 
 friends, the elements they use are of greater power. The 
 difference between spirit and matter is beyond what words can 
 express, as love is greater than hate. 
 
 "From love comes life, from hate comes death. Love is the 
 redeeming element, the divine element which we seek to manifest 
 toward those who have wandered far from the tender shepherd's 
 care or never knew how sweet it is to be with God. To bring 
 these into the fold of righteousness, justice, mercy and love, to 
 have them born of the true, godly spirit is our desire. Men 
 boast of their victories, and the number of fathers, husbands, 
 brothers and sons they have mowed down. The W. C. T. U. 
 rejoice over the wrecks they can recover, reform and restore to 
 their manhood. We would not rob the world of God's crea- 
 tion. 
 
 "We have been shown by those who have been divinely inspired 
 how that peace may be obtained which passeth understanding, 
 then let us not be satisfied with our present wars. 
 
 "We rejoice over the inspiration that came to the Emperor 
 Nicholas as well as to that of the Baroness Von Suttner, whose 
 remarkable book, 'Lay Down Your Arms,' has had such a 
 wonderful mission. It has awakened, aroused and enthused 
 earnest souls who have been longing for a way of deliverance 
 from the curse of war. 
 
 "Highly gifted and conscientious, with talent, culture and 
 means, combined with a strong will and much energy, the 
 author's heart-rending experiences, as recorded in that much- 
 
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 read book, assisted in bringing forth the Peace Conference at 
 The Hague, one of the greatest historic assemblages in the world. 
 
 "In the language of Ex-President Andrew D. White of 
 Cornell University, who was our Ambassador to Germany, our 
 Minister to St. Petersburg, also President of our American 
 Delegation at The Hague, 'Remember what one woman did in 
 leading up to this event in the history of the Nation.' It is 
 pleasant to note that it was a person debarred by her sex from 
 the privilege of sitting in councils of war or peace Baroness 
 Von Suttner, who so tenderly and ingenuously gleaned from the 
 theme of peace, who so strongly and beautifully wove the truth 
 of her heart's yearning into expression, so as to appeal to all the 
 nobler instincts of humanity. The song of her inspiration was 
 heard by the Czar; his heart was touched, resulting in the meeting 
 at The Hague. Another gem was added to the crown of this 
 hopeful event Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, offered one of 
 her palaces for their meeting, and in every way manifested the 
 greatest and deepest interest in its proceedings. This was the 
 first council that ever came together for the purpose of accom- 
 plishing the destruction of the curse of war, and it has created 
 a permanent tribunal of arbitration under the auspices of many 
 powers. 
 
 "All through the journey of life women have come forth as 
 they became awakened to the needs of the hour, and the cry, 
 'Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do to aid in delivering 
 humanity from the ills which beset it ?' is heard. We must feel 
 for each other's woes; each other's burdens bear. The words of 
 Holy Writ are, 'Thou shalt not kill.' 'Vengeance is mine; I will 
 repay, saith the Lord.' 'They that use the sword shall perish 
 by the sword,' and yet we expend more for destructive purposes 
 than for all else. War, alcoholic drinks and tobacco are our 
 worst enemies. 
 
 "What are we, as women, doing to stay these tides of misery ? 
 It has been suggested that as women mould temperament from 
 the dawn of childhood life, they, more than all others, determine 
 the proclivities of boyhood, and that women must organize for 
 peace ere the nations will learn to war no more; also, that war 
 
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 will be put away in exact mathematical proportion to the degree 
 of influence that women attain in government. War is placing 
 force against reason. Soldiers consume the substance of the 
 people, and what do they return ? If the millions, yes, the bil- 
 lions, were used in redeeming influences, what might we not 
 hope for ? We know that it is the fulfilling of God's laws that 
 brings peace. And what is peace? It is to conquer love of 
 self and lust of life; to tear deep-rooted passion from the breast; 
 to still the inward strife which comes from mutual misun- 
 derstanding and prejudice, as unity results from a discovery of 
 basic truth. When we settle differences by arbitration, nations 
 will not have to spend their millions in erecting forts, building 
 battleships, maintaining standing armies, conducting wars and 
 other institutions of a military character. 
 
 "Ere this can be accomplished mothers must cease purchas- 
 ing military toys, such as guns, swords and toy cannons, for their 
 children, which by their use incite in them the military spirit. 
 They must be lifted out of the combative spirit and taught to 
 rise above the lower animal nature. 
 
 "Yet, friends, beyond all the miseries of war we have much 
 to rejoice over. God is still speaking to the present generation 
 as He did to the Huldahs, the Miriams, the Deborahs and to 
 Mary; just as He has been doing to the Frances Willards, the 
 Lady Somersets, the Clara Bartons and other good women who 
 have progressed in the divine life. Their spiritual supremacy 
 was obtained through their personal virtues. This growth is 
 accessible to all who will search for the requisite knowledge. 
 These women have been listening. Then aspiration fitted them 
 for inspirations. Some one has said, 'The hand that rocks the 
 cradle rules the world,' and an ancient Roman warrior bestowed 
 a flattering compliment upon the homes of Roman mothers when 
 he said, 'The empire is at the fireside.' 
 
 "Now this, the twentieth century, is radiant with the spirit 
 of the time; with achievement for the happiness and well being 
 of the race. What may we not hope for ? Progression, when in 
 harmony with science, can no longer be repressed. 
 
 "Our beloved leader, Frances Willard, was not an advocate 
 
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 of shot and shell nor the cutting of throats and blowing out of 
 brains in order to settle difficulties between nations. She 
 accepted the words of Holy Writ, 'Thou shalt not kill/ 'Love 
 your enemies.' She said, Tut your wealth in your arteries, 
 store it away in your brain cells and in the heart fibers of your 
 children.' She looked beyond the present. She listened to 
 and heard the voice within. God spoke to her as He did to 
 Moses, by the inner voice. Stately were the steps of her ascent, 
 and as her spirit took its flight, she said, 'How sweet it is to be 
 with God.' Miss Willard constantly and unceasingly held 
 herself in receptivity of relation to the spiritual world. She 
 was in touch and in constant communion with it. Greater power 
 to aid and guide than the Holy Spirit there is none. O friends ! 
 When shall we get more deeply in earnest to provoke each other 
 in the spirit of Christian love; to make some sacrifices ? Let us 
 do away with non-essentials and commence ascending in the 
 scale of being by close living, deep thinking and praying without 
 ceasing. 
 
 "The spontaneous, united effort of waging war against the 
 drink traffic with purely spiritual weapons was known as the 
 woman's crusade. How comforting it is to remember that 
 spiritual supremacy is obtained through our personal virtues. 
 We not only need to discharge our duty to the extent of our 
 abilities, but we should ever seek the presence of the Holy Spirit. 
 We all need to be spiritually unfolded, to have the divine up- 
 lifting and sustaining power. When shall we take pleasure 
 in working for the realization of the ideal in humanity and the 
 doing away with wars ?" 
 
 This address, given as reported, closed with a peroration 
 which held the hearers spellbound and was immediately asked 
 for publication. 
 
 When on the platform Mrs. Kemp made no attempt at 
 oratory. Her thoughts flowed so rapidly that, at times, her 
 sentences became involved, but her simplicity of manner added 
 to her undoubted sincerity of earnestness never failed to deeply 
 impress her auditors and to render her much in demand at 
 conventions and other public meetings. 
 
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 November 4, 1903, was her eightieth birthday, and it found 
 her so young in spirit as well as in appearance that it was a 
 subject of universal comment among her many friends. No 
 girl of eighteen was more blest with the rushing tide of joyousness 
 than this woman of eighty. To an intimate friend she wrote: 
 "I feel as though I had just begun to live. Life is so beautiful 
 and my Heavenly Father is so good to me and seems so near. 
 Heaven and earth interpenetrate and enfold each other, and my 
 body is simply the sheath for my exultant, happy spirit." 
 
 A frequent contributor to the columns of the Harrisburg, 
 Pa., Patriot, a letter sent her at this time, published in it, bears 
 quoting : 
 
 SWAHTHMORE, PA., 12:11:03. 
 
 To THE HON. B. F. MEYERS: I have received over forty letters of 
 congratulation upon arriving at my 80th birthday one of which I have 
 given to the public and now a second comes from one whom I have 
 never seen, but the perusal of which I think will advance our suffrage 
 interests. It reads thus: 
 
 BRISTOL, PA. 
 
 "Mr DEAR MRS. KEMP: When I saw your name fa last week's issue 
 of the Woman's Journal and read your pleasant letter as well as Mrs. 
 Eyster's beautiful and deserved tribute to your work and well doing, 
 ruminating upon the pleasant fact that you have happily and serenely 
 clambered up the hill of life to the eightieth milestone, I was led to 
 indulge in a session of sweet, silent thought and to recall old times when 
 you so worthily did your part in the initial days of the Pennsylvania 
 Woman's Suffrage Association. 
 
 "I was further led to rummage among the mass of old letters that I 
 received while Chairman of its Executive Committee, with the view of 
 finding the first letter received from you. It now lies before me, and I 
 have just read it with deep interest and cheerful recollections. I well 
 remember always thinking that you were very generous, willingly aiding 
 with open hand our early efforts, and at a time when the movement for 
 woman suffrage was more hampered than now by the hostile frowns 
 of an unfriendly world. 
 
 "That first letter, similar in spirit, in sympathy and in earnestness 
 with those which followed, is dated January 17, 1870, less than a month 
 after the birth of the association. 
 
 "It was in answer to one from me, written four days earlier. After 
 
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 telling what you had done in York County, near your own home, to 
 create an interest in woman suffrage and help promote the object of the 
 new association, you modestly said, 'I enclose you a check for ten dollars, 
 my contribution to the cause.' Such a sum at such a time for such a 
 purpose seemed to be, as it was, an evidence of rare generosity, for 
 money came grudgingly and seldom with alacrity. 
 
 "Our funds were often painfully low and frequently vexed with a 
 touch of famine, so that a donation of ten dollars was like a 'Triton 
 among the minnows.' In that letter you farther said, 'It shall be my 
 pleasure to aid you, as I work from a sense of duty. Trusting all your 
 labors in the cause of justice may be compensated with success, I remain 
 yours in the service of humanity.' 
 
 "Good and noble words! What wonderful changes have taken 
 place in the path of progress since that letter was written. Their record 
 would fill volumes. The movement for impartial suffrage does not 
 halt. It goes steadily onward, carried forward by women with brave 
 hearts, willing hands, cultured brains and wise discrimination, and 
 onward it will continue to go, victory following victory, till the day of 
 final triumph. 
 
 "Accept my good-will and best wishes for your health and happiness. 
 
 "Sincerely yours, 
 
 "I. K. WILDMAN." 
 
 A year later the following tribute in verse came from a friend : 
 
 Dear Mrs. Kemp, when you look back 
 
 On all the fleeting years 
 That stretch behind with share of hopes, 
 
 And joys, and griefs, and tears, 
 You will agree when all is done 
 
 You happiest are at eighty-one. 
 
 And oh! dear friend, whose busy life 
 Has been filled through and through 
 
 With changeful care and earnest work 
 For those less blest than you, 
 
 Oh! tell what charm it is you've won, 
 To be so young at eighty-one. 
 
 JANE CAMPBELL. 
 
 The secret of her elasticity of temperament she revealed 
 in the following address called by her "Elixir Vitae," which was 
 
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 MARIE ANTOINETTE HOADLEY AND SON ANTHONY 
 
A NOTED MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 
 
 delivered about this period to a large audience of devoted friends 
 and admirers: 
 
 "FRIENDS: My present discourse is the result of contem- 
 plation, of thought that greatest of gifts of travel, of study, 
 including work during four-score years of my life journey. 
 Each year has been growing brighter in proportion to the amount 
 of truth gained relative to living a true, physical, moral, intel- 
 lectual and spiritual life, and practically praying to attain that 
 state which will enable us to live in harmony with the divine 
 command, 'Be ye perfect.' 
 
 "In order to attain that perfection it is essential that we 
 search the Scriptures, for in them we find the truths pertaining 
 to eternal life. This study includes that of nature, science, 
 literature and religion, bringing into exercise all our God-given 
 faculties, thus enabling us to realize the truth of the poetic 
 expressions, 
 
 "Age is only youth full blown 
 A ripened, more transcendent youth. 
 
 " 'Tis the sunset of life gives us mystical lore 
 As coming events cast their shadows before. 
 
 "The laws of the universe are unchangeable, the same yes- 
 terday, today, and forever. They existed before we had a 
 Christ or Bible. It is our duty to learn concerning these laws, 
 all relating to the perfection of our being, and this is the theme 
 of my discourse. 
 
 "I ask the question, What is life ? And who can solve the 
 problem ? We have learned that for every manifestation of life 
 something must die. Every breath we draw kills thirty millions 
 of blood cells. We live by the death of atoms, the projecting 
 of a plan; the birth of a thought; the committal of a deed: each 
 involves the death of something. We are constantly throwing 
 off and taking on. When this reciprocity ceases we shuffle off 
 the mortal coil. 
 
 "If we would ascend in the scale of being we must live in 
 harmony with divine law; we must partake of the Elixir Vitce 
 
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 and drink that we may live forever. We must become acquainted 
 with the requisite elements that develop our individuality; 
 we must become integral and not fractional; the tendency to 
 individuality is to vigor, therefore, to duration of life. Person- 
 ality is power. Behind every great success is an individual 
 who is an integer. The majority of us are yet fractional, too 
 ready to run with the crowd, and now, in order to discern clearly, 
 a knowledge of the laws of our being are requisite. 
 
 "The most important part of life is to know how to live: 
 to nourish mind, soul, and body, for we must remember that 
 lack of knowledge lies at the root of physical, intellectual and 
 spiritual degeneracy. 
 
 "Knowledge is the fulcrum, intelligence the lever, and 
 courage the power that moves the world. The highest service 
 which can be rendered to any person or class is emancipation 
 from ignorance and from unfavorable conditions. We are all 
 playing our parts in the great drama of life and every step taken 
 should be in accordance with divine law. When our thoughts 
 soar heavenward every step of truth is uplifting. Each truth 
 gained and made our own, practically, is a jewel to be treasured, 
 is a step gained heavenward. 
 
 "In this evolutionary period, which is so grandly uplifting 
 humanity to higher levels and giving us a wider range of vision, 
 what have we not to hope for ? Our powers being improvable, 
 our capacities being expansive, let us become individualized, not 
 influenced by the crowd, but strive to develop all our God-given 
 faculties, to unfold from within and thus perceive the way of 
 righteousness, justice, mercy and love. 
 
 "Study, art, science, literature, nature and religion: these 
 are the heavenly highways that lead to holiness. 
 
 "We build the steps by which we rise 
 
 From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. 
 
 "Each ascent gives us a wider range, a loftier view, a higher 
 outlook, and enables us to preserve the happy, joyous love of 
 life which is one of the elements of life. It is life, one of the 
 proximate principles of our existence. 
 
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 "How eagerly the fountain of youth has been sought for by 
 philosophers and astrologists, they little dreaming it was close 
 at hand and yet seen only by the few who worked with every 
 faculty of mind, body and soul. 
 
 "This activity must be guarded intelligently in accordance 
 with the divine plan, comprehending fully that inactivity is 
 death. Our Father worketh hitherto and we must work. The 
 subtle forces in nature can accomplish more in minutes than 
 their equivalent in months and years. Judgment, discretion 
 and wisdom must be constantly on the qui vive, remembering 
 that overwork dwarfs both body and soul, but cultivated, habitual 
 activity carries within itself perennial satisfaction and the assured 
 renewal of every power brought into exercise. 
 
 "And now, dear friends, I come to you in the eighty-fourth 
 year of my youth, full of hope. Winter may be on my head but 
 eternal youth and its spring is in my heart. You have read of 
 the fountain of perpetual youth. Have you found it ? You have 
 heard of the streams of living waters. Have you tasted thereof ? 
 This fountain and these streams are forever flowing and have 
 been since the creation and ever will be so far as we know. 
 Many are spiritually, physically and intellectually blind; they 
 cannot 'interpret atmospheres or be in holy vision tranced;' 
 cannot hear the melodies which are ever attuned to the listening 
 ear. To enjoy these privileges we must ever be alive to their 
 existence, 'flying swifter as we near the sun,' 'keeping our locks 
 wet with morning dew and freely let our graces grow.' 
 
 " For life, well spent, is ever new, 
 And years, anointed, younger grow. 
 
 "The elixir of life is the concentration of the will exercised 
 in an almost superhuman degree. Life is matter in motion, 
 and when wisdom is sought, and knowledge is gained, and 
 God's laws are obeyed and we aspire to the highest life attain- 
 able, our aspirations lead to inspiration. From this three-fold 
 conjunction we preserve our youthful feelings, not lessening 
 the number of our years for this we cannot do but by exer- 
 cising all our God-given faculties and dropping all non-essen- 
 
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 tials. We do not become exhausted but strengthened by the 
 requisite activity; we increase our ability to ascend in the scale 
 of being remembering that truth leads to duty. Let us keep our 
 bodies young in expression. It is better to be seventy years 
 young than thirty years old. 
 
 "The phrase, 'You are just too old,' means that you are not 
 teachable, not receptive. Many people believe they are too 
 old to learn anything. These must be awakened to perceive 
 that if they ask they shall receive, and this is work to do to 
 awaken others to come up higher, to be delivered from their 
 vain delusions. We are not too old to put the mind in tune or 
 neglect it and the imagination. Lofty imaginations receive 
 wings which carry us upward. The truths of art, science and 
 religion are the wings upon which we soar out of ignorance into 
 knowledge, out of darkness into light, out of slavery into freedom, 
 out of conservatism into progression. 
 
 "How shall we preserve youth ? By living perfect lives 
 which keep us from feeling old and worn out. The impress of 
 our feelings and principles is seen upon our faces and figures. 
 We paint our own pictures, and as we journey through life they 
 are on exhibition, read by those we meet according to their 
 attainments. 
 
 "Those who give a lifetime to study, to know what is needed 
 to fulfil the laws regulating our being and what are the non- 
 essentials to be discarded never feel old. They daily rejuvenate 
 and feast upon the truths which elevate, refine and enlighten. 
 They are jealous of admitting aught of a pessimistic nature. 
 
 "Charles Kingsley says, 'We become like God when we 
 become of use.' Every glimpse of Heaven's life is one of help- 
 fulness and usefulness. To feel young we must continually 
 feed upon new thought. The body needs constant supplies of 
 fresh air and nutriment; the mind, also, has its needs. It is no 
 less exacting. A change of activities, scenes and location is 
 one of the elect ways of prolonging life. Age is a matter of feeling, 
 not of years. Mr. W. G. Lewis of Philadelphia says, 'The dura- 
 tion of human life depends neither on climate, nor food, nor 
 race, nor any external condition, but has relation simply to the 
 
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 natural constitution and intrinsic vigor of our organs.' He says 
 one hundred years is the natural life of man. This is far short 
 of the age of Methuselah. This curtailment below the normal 
 term is the result of those errors and excesses in the manner of 
 living which impairs the organs and produces premature decay. 
 He holds up Thomas Parr as living a true physical life, being 
 one hundred and fifty-two years of age. 
 
 "The words of Holy Writ are, 'My people are destroyed for 
 lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge I 
 will also reject thee.' Ignorance is the chief cause of the brevity 
 of life. We mean that pernicious ignorance which knows in a gen- 
 eral way without acting upon the knowledge in a particular sense. 
 
 "Dr. Henry D. Bellows says, 'This is the doctrine of Chris- 
 tianity, that man has in him a secret, sure and direct access to 
 God's spirit.' This is what Jesus knew to be in man, and in 
 having this he knew man to be capable of building up the king- 
 dom of righteousness in himself, in his race, and in the civili- 
 zation of the future. This is what alone makes faith, hope and 
 charity possible. Who has found out the limits of humanity ? 
 What experience, what study of past history exhausts its possi- 
 bilities ? Were Homer, Plato, Phidias, Dante, Newton and 
 Shakespeare looked for or reckoned possible until they came ? 
 
 "The Elixir Vitse! Where does it dwell ? is the study of the 
 hour. It has been the theme throughout the ages to know 
 where the Divine dwells, in whom is the fountain of perpetual 
 youth, that inexhaustible spring of newness, beauty and worth. 
 It is the Spirit of God incarnating itself in human nature and 
 character, forbidding us to doubt that anything we hope or long 
 for is impossible of attainment. 
 
 "My friends, the command of Holy Writ is, 'Be ye perfect.' 
 Now, in order to attain unto perfection we must search for the 
 essential requisites which are based upon physical, moral, intel- 
 lectual and spiritual laws. 
 
 "This is the work of life, and we must become intelligent as 
 to divine law and live in harmony with it, for mind accumulates 
 power by its own activity, and learns to know that a perception 
 of the inexhaustible is an immortal youth. 
 
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 "What have we not to hope for from the rapid progress of 
 the age? All the departments pertaining to a perfect life are 
 being made plain if we but seek to know the laws which control 
 our being. Science is being revealed as though by magic. Its 
 truths are the unfolding of divine law, a revelation of God's 
 methods. Through it we have bridged the ocean with ships 
 and made lightning to run our errands. We have the practical 
 knowledge of how to utilize steam, electricity and the laws of 
 vibration as well as the Roentgen rays through which we can 
 ascertain the condition of the interior of our bodies. We have 
 learned how to reduce the air we breathe to a liquid and to a 
 degree of coldness not computable. And, now, what have we 
 not reason to hope for ? As a result of this greater knowledge 
 we have gained a clearer insight into natural law, have broader 
 views of religion and are loosening the shackles of our religious 
 creeds which forbade freedom of thought. We no longer think 
 of ourselves as 'worms of the dust/ for we know that we have 
 arisen to higher levels. 
 
 "Imagination, that grand faculty by which the mind con- 
 ceives, goes in advance of efforts and points the way. 
 
 "Mental science is the science of mind unfoldment. Imagi- 
 nation, hope and expectation are mental conditions controlled 
 by spirit power. They even shape the body, bone, nerves and 
 muscles. Any momentary exultation is only an invoice of the 
 soul's progress. Destructiveness can easily be replaced by con- 
 structiveness. To constantly grow wiser, better and become more 
 enlightened we must be full of high ideals; must absolutely 
 abide in the Holy Place. Unless discerned by the Spirit we are 
 lost in a labyrinth of materialism. 
 
 "Fear, grief, sin, anxiety, pessimism, all that train pull 
 down bodily tissue, their positives build up. Harmony, joy, 
 optimism, idealism, love and courage invigorate in like degree. 
 The creative power in thought is man's and woman's divine 
 instrument, and the knowing of the inexhaustible in nature is 
 an immortal youth. 
 
 "To grow in Christliness, a knowledge of the true life, the 
 higher life, is requisite. We should embrace all opportunities 
 
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 to grow wiser, better and more intelligent by constantly adding 
 to our faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, brotherly kindness, 
 godliness and charity for if all these abound in you they 
 make that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in acquiring 
 the requisite knowledge to attain perfection. 
 
 "They that lack these things are blind and cannot see afar, 
 so let us feel it to be our duty to remind each other of the Heaven- 
 born gifts accessible to all who will seek for them. Holy joy 
 will drive out every fear, and the more we learn to live in the 
 serene air of delightful studies the longer do we retain the fresh- 
 ness and charm of youth, the more adaptable do we become, 
 the more capable of high and holy companionship. 
 
 "It has been said that dying a natural death is one of the 
 lost arts; that we deny ourselves the requisite amount of the 
 life-giving principle, oxygen. The art of ventilation is so 
 imperfectly understood that four-fifths of humanity shorten 
 their lives because of their ignorance of its nature, and the 
 quantity of oxygen needed to preserve perfect health. They 
 know not that life well spent, intellectually and spiritually, is 
 ever new, and 'years anointed younger grow.' 
 
 "A right purpose is curative and preservative. The only 
 life worth living is that of infinite aspiration. Holy joy drives 
 out every disease and it is the elixir of life. It is the divinity in 
 men and women which gravitates upward, and one owns all 
 that one can appropriate. The broader the education the nobler 
 the aspirations. Our powers are improvable, our capacities 
 are expansive. When all are developed harmoniously Heaven 
 comes down our souls to greet. In brief, 
 
 " The tissue of the life to be 
 
 We weave with colors all our own. 
 In the field of destiny 
 We reap as we have sown." 
 
 . Among the public offices performed by Mrs. Marie Hoadley 
 was the presiding at the organization of "The Woman's Club of 
 Swarthmore," held at the Borough building. 
 
 An informal notice had been circulated inviting all mothers 
 
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 and home-makers interested in the matter to be present, and 
 about forty or more responded. Mrs. Hoadley explained that 
 the object of this club was the furtherance of the interests of 
 home life and of the community at large in whatever way woman 
 affects it. 
 
 The home-makers of all kinds were expected to confer as 
 to methods and experiences in improving the atmosphere of the 
 home. The woman of social or intellectual gifts; the woman of 
 scientific tastes; the woman who read, discriminatingly, the 
 literature of the day; the woman who was abreast with the 
 current of passing events; the musician; the woman who wielded 
 a graceful pen or who could appreciatively interpret what others 
 had written; the quiet home body who was winning the battle of 
 life with patience and common sense all were expected to give 
 as they had received, to the mutual benefit of all. In brief, 
 the intention as outlined by the gifted speaker was to quicken 
 the best culture of Swarthmore through that sure medium, 
 its women. 
 
 Alas! The club was destined soon to lose its inspirer and 
 guide. Marie A. Hoadley died on February 16, 1907, leaving 
 a little son, Anthony de Hothlegh, only six years old, to the 
 loving care of his devoted father and grandmother, Mrs. Kemp. 
 Some years before there had come upon her an incurable illness 
 (paralysis agitans), which laid a burden upon her almost too 
 heavy to bear, and yet which she met with heroic endurance 
 and unfailing cheerfulness. 
 
 Her loss to the community in the prime of her life and rare 
 efficiency was generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest. 
 
 Said Dr. Isabella Bronk of Swarthmore College in an address 
 to the students: "I cannot stand here before you this morning 
 without some allusion to the beautiful life which has gone out 
 in our midst. I say, in our midst, for although Mrs. Hoadley 
 had been during some time cut off by physical weakness from 
 participation in the intellectual work and pleasures of the 
 college, she was often, very often, with us in mind, and always 
 in spirit. 
 
 "She belongs peculiarly and wholly to Swarthmore College, 
 
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 having graduated with one of its earlier classes. She was an 
 alumna who, because of her intellectual brilliancy, would have 
 been claimed with pride by any college or university in the 
 country. She later called upon her Alma Mater to grant her 
 a second degree, and she was also, for several years, professor 
 of German, leaving the impression of her high scholarship, fine 
 character and delightful personality upon hundreds of former 
 students of the college. With Schiller, she found her greatest 
 pleasure in constant activity, and like Lessing, no occupation 
 to her was so important as that of searching for the truth, but 
 she had sat with Goethe and the Greek philosophers upon the 
 heights and had attained to spiritual serenity. 
 
 "No one could be long in her presence without feeling her 
 mental superiority and moral elevation, and this rich equipment 
 of mind and heart found full expression in her life.'* 
 
 Marie Hoadley truly did noble things, not dreamed them 
 all day long, 
 
 "And so made life, death and that vast forever 
 One grand, sweet song." 
 
 The death of her daughter weighed heavily upon the heart 
 of the devoted mother, checking her exuberance and loosening 
 the ties which bound her to earthly things. Yet her interest 
 in the suffrage cause, the temperance movement and all the 
 phases of "new thought," particularly those which related to 
 spiritual uplifting which rippled the current of social life, had 
 not abated. The society and care of her little grandson gave 
 her the keenest delight, and the genial companionship and 
 watchful consideration of her son-in-law, with whom she lived 
 to use her own language "crowned each day with blessings." 
 Yet the desire to join her daughter seemed ever uppermost. 
 Early in March, 1908, she wrote to an intimate friend: "I read 
 without glasses, have a moderate appetite, sleep pretty well, 
 but believe it will be better for me in the next sphere. I am 
 not afraid of death and long to be more spiritual. All I have 
 seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. 
 There is so much of mystery in life, so much that seems unat- 
 
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 tainable. My greatest consolation is from the blessed Bible 
 which I study continuously and which reveals more and more to 
 me of precious truth. Its invitation, 'Come unto me all ye that 
 labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest,' seems to me 
 very direct and I long to go to Him. In a purer atmosphere 
 than that of earth, among exalted spirits who belong to the 
 redeemed, in the society of the many beloved ones who have 
 passed on before, I shall find, I humbly hope, the rest and 
 happiness promised to those who love the Lord." 
 
 The summons came on the afternoon of May 20, 1908, 
 after she had been confined to her bed only about a week. Up 
 to that time she seemed in her usual health except that she 
 tired easily in exerting herself, finding it increasingly difficult 
 to walk without becoming wearied. 
 
 The funeral services at the house, 518 Walnut Lane, Swarth- 
 more, were of the Friends order, as Mrs. Kemp had united 
 with that body. They were impressive in the highest degree. 
 Said Anna Travilla Speakman, a near neighbor: "Such occasions 
 as these usually mean great sorrow, but seated here this morning 
 under the beautiful silence that has settled over us, there is a 
 very precious feeling, one of thanksgiving for the life that was 
 and the life that is. 
 
 "When we first heard that the dear friend and neighbor had 
 been called to her eternal home, there arose in our breasts such a 
 feeling of thankfulness that this frail body could no longer hold 
 her great, strong spirit, so young, so enthusiastic, and always in- 
 terested in the best things of life. We rejoiced that it was free, 
 unfettered to enjoy the different mansions of our Father's home. 
 
 "With this feeling of thankfulness came a still deeper one, 
 the thought of her joy and happiness upon meeting the dear 
 daughter with whose life here hers was so closely interwoven. 
 Our faith is very sure that love and life go on deepening and 
 growing in that larger life, and as such it is beautiful to think 
 of the dear friend free to develop, and reunited with her dear 
 ones, for she had filled her life of usefulness here, and with a 
 child-like faith was ready when the summons came. Many 
 are the lessons we can learn from her life." 
 
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 Mrs. S. M. Gaskill also said: " 'Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, they rest from their labors 
 and their works do follow them.' The kingdom of Heaven has 
 been likened to a grain of mustard seed, and to the little leaven 
 which leaveneth the whole lump, but the symbol which Jesus 
 more often employed and which I think He most preferred was 
 that of the little child. This spirit of the little child our friend 
 had attained to in a remarkable degree, ever willing to learn, 
 helpful and gentle in these later years as we have known her. 
 
 "Whatever the life struggles of her earlier years may have 
 been we do not know, but we do know that she stood for the 
 equality of woman with man and for her higher education. 
 
 "She was brave and true to her convictions and quick to 
 respond to every appeal, and illustrated in a beautiful manner 
 that saying that has almost become an axiom, 'There's nothing 
 so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.' " 
 
 The Woman Suffrage League of Swarthmore adopted the 
 following memorial: 
 
 In the decease of Dr. Agnes Kemp, which occurred May 20, 1908, 
 our Suffrage League has lost a member who was faithful in her attendance, 
 ever zealous for our cause, and a life-long living example of what a woman 
 may do for the elevation of her sex and the good of humanity. 
 
 She studied medicine after she was fifty years of age, graduating 
 when she was fifty-six years old, thereby manifesting her great inde- 
 pendence of character and perseverance. Her zeal for knowledge and 
 light continued to govern her activities up to and beyond her eightieth 
 year. She was untiring in her advocacy of Peace and Temperance, 
 and hygienic and abstemious living. She was generous in her response 
 to every appeal. 
 
 She bore her great affliction, the loss of her only daughter, with 
 serenity and resignation and looked forward with an unusual degree of 
 interest and hopefulness "to the life to come," believing in a renewal of 
 spirit and a reunion with the beloved who had gone before. 
 
 Her sweet, childlike spirit, her perseverance and hopefulness are a 
 valued legacy to those who knew her best. 
 
 Signed: ELIZABETH N. GARBETT, 
 JESSIE L.HOOPES, President; 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 Among the numerous testimonials of appreciation and 
 affection which came to Professor Hoadley were the two follow- 
 ing, from Alfred H. Love, Philadelphia, president of the Univer- 
 sal Peace Union, and Arabella Carter, business manager of the 
 same society. 
 
 Wrote the former: 
 
 ESTEEMED FRIEND: I was not aware of the death of thy mother- 
 in-law, our dear vice-president of the Universal Peace Union, until too 
 late to be with you on the 22d inst. Some of our members were present. 
 I want to testify to my admiration of her work and her influence. She 
 was one of the most fearless women I have ever known when it came to 
 the upholding a great truth and when advocating that which would 
 uplift humanity and broaden the pathway of reformation. Her positive 
 and conscientious convictions were in the advance of the age, "with the 
 authority of faith be thou removed she to the mountains sayeth." 
 
 She was always young, even in the face of growing years. My last 
 helping hand was at Mystic, Connecticut, when I put her in the cars 
 for home. I felt then it would be her last visit here. She was, however, 
 so confident that I remember I let her go alone and I was rejoiced to find 
 she reached home safely. 
 
 You all have a rich legacy in her wonderful life and I will ask the 
 favor of some of you to give us a sketch of her life for the Peacemaker, 
 and if you have the cut as prepared of her some years ago, say about 
 1899, we would like to have it, except you may have a later one that we 
 can place in the next issue. 
 
 Let me express my sincere sympathy with you all. 
 
 Dr. Kemp was always a generous contributor to our pages, and to our 
 treasury, and promised more. We shall deeply miss her at our meet- 
 ings. She was generally there with such friends as David Ferris, Dr. 
 Magill, Lydia H. Price, Lydia H. Hall and others who have passed on 
 at about her age and all sincerely beloved. 
 
 With assured regards. 
 
 Thus wrote Arabella Carter: 
 
 ESTEEMED FRIEND: Trusting it may not seem an intrusion I want 
 just to say to thee how very glad I was of thy loving tribute to Dr. Kemp 
 this morning. I came so late I did not know who may have spoken or 
 what had been said, yet longed that some such tribute should be paid to 
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 when thee arose and spoke as I so desired, and coming from thee was so 
 much higher tribute than from any of us. 
 
 Her life was a lesson ! Her intensity, her care to have the vital things 
 of life really count, much as she enjoyed the little amenities of life, as 
 well her perpetual youthfulness which was a never-ceasing marvel to 
 some of us who perhaps are far older in a way at one-third her age than 
 she was at eighty-five. 
 
 Her joyousness in life and its experiences is something which, as 
 others said, is given to but few. 
 
 How I recall her at Mystic, Connecticut: her great interest, not only 
 in the proceedings of the convention, but in everything else as well. 
 Hers was no one-sided nature. The funeral was so beautiful. Light 
 and air were not excluded. It seemed to me as though her friends were 
 gathered there socially and she was in their midst. Nothing of funeral 
 heaviness was there, but all just as it should be the last time here an 
 earnest of the time over yonder when we shall gather face to face. Even 
 though a stranger thee will not be averse to my expression of admiration 
 for one who was much to thee. 
 
 By Agnes Kemp's desire, her body was cremated, and her 
 ashes repose in the Cemetery at Harrisburg, Pa., beside those 
 of her first husband, Col. William Saunders. 
 
 "Death is delightful. Death is dawn. 
 The waking from a weary night 
 Of fevers into truth and light." 
 
 " The living are the only dead, 
 
 The dead live never more to die, 
 And often when we mourn them fled, 
 They never were so nigh." 
 
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