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delegate ; but all recognized her as an aristocrat, ' ' one of the fine minority"; with this recognition the membership rested easy in the thought that high birth carries an inherent sense of obliga- tion on the part of the possessor to give her best; with Mrs. Stevenson, her position as President General quickly developed her latent talent for generalship, and she marshalled her forces promptly to the achievement of the plans and purposes of the organization. Perhaps she had her failings. If so, I never saw them. Be- ing human and called to an unique and exalted public station, she formed a shining mark, but if criticisms were aroused, which I never heard, the shadow soon disappeared before the sunshine and blue sky she left all along her pathway. She was gentle, sympathetic, courteous, just and strong; womanly and tender, as she needs must have been by birth and training, and yet formed to fill completely the enormous position to which she was urgently called. She has fallen asleep and now rests in sweet peace in the House of Everlasting Silence. The hearts of the members of the Society she loved well and served faithfully, are full of an enduring regret that she will no more move among us to encourage us in well doing. We will keep lovely memories of her in our hearts unfading immortelles that bear tribute to a good and distinguished woman, an exquisite lady, a President General who ruled over a great body of women with a gentleness that was never weakness, with justice that was always tempered by consideration, with

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