The United States can claim the benefit of her exalted influence, but Ohio enrolls her among its illustrious daughters, as she was born and educated in that state. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, August 28th, 1831: died at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, June 25th, 1889. Mrs. Hayes' grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, and all four of her great-grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War.

In the memorial oration of Hon. J. D. Taylor, M. C., is this tribute to Lucy Webb Hayes:

"In America, where this ideal woman was so well known, and where she was so closely identified with works of charity and benevolence, when the electric flash carried the sad news of the death of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes across the continent, a great nation and a great people were in deepest grief. It is difficult to realize how much real courage was necessary to take and to hold the advanced position occupied by Mrs. Hayes. It may seem easy now when the battle has been fought, and when the victory has been won, but when the pathway of politics and policy seemed to lead one way, and the path of duty the other, and all eyes were upon her, it took both courage and conscience to decide these questions as she decided them. To carry into the Presidential Mansion her ideas and aspirations, her view of life and mother-hood, to discard obtrusive etiquette, and adhere to her high convictions of duty, required undaunted heroism as well as religious faith."

In her modest way Mrs. Hayes thus stated to a friend her personal convictions regarding her stand in the White House: "When I came to Washington I had three sons just coming to manhood, and starting out in society, and I did not feel as if I could be the first to put the wine cup to their lips, and set an example that would only too often be followed."

"At a reception in Washington City, a number of intelligent ladies were discoursing upon the influence of the White House upon the domestic life of the country. All the diverse drifts of opinion seemed to return to Mrs. Hayes, as the typical mistress, and an analysis of her powers and methods ensued. The secret of that ever-fresh and simple feeling which seemed to make common cause with all ages, classes and times, was the problem, when one lady remarked: We all receive from the people of the world just what we bring to them.'

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'Mrs. Hayes brought love to all. No mere affectation of love, but a genuine feeling of interest. No individual or class of individuals was indifferent, uninteresting or repulsive. She looked beyond the accidents of dress, position, or circumstance, and saw in every one a human interest; she stood on the high plane of noble kinship to all, and this divine truth was expressed in her simplicity.""

From several published addresses delivered by Mrs. Hayes at various annual meetings of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, of which Mrs. Hayes was president, the following extracts are taken:

"Our field of usefulness is of great extent. Our home population embraces elements more or less extensive of every important race, nationality and language. They are of all conditions, material, intellectual and moral.

"Coming originally from every part of the world, they are here seated in the midst of this central continent, which looks out from widely extended coasts and almost countless harbors upon the two oceans on which is carried the larger part of the commerce of the globe. By the agencies of our advancing civilization, in the near future, this people will surely wield a commanding influence in the affairs, in the education and in the religion of all mankind.

"The inspiring and attractive field which invites our efforts is the home. First in importance and first in number are the homes of the uninformed, destitute and unfortunate of our own race-those of our own kith and kin. To these we must add the just claims of the lately emancipated people and their posterity, of the Indians, of the Mormons, of the Spanish Americans, and of the Chinese now within our borders-all of whom, it has been well said, have claims upon us for Christian civilization not to be surpassed by those of the heathen of foreign lands.

"We believe that the character of a people depends mainly on its homes. Our special aim therefore is to improve home environments, home education, home industries and home influences.

"We wish to strive for the attainment of these worthy ends by means upon which we can, with an assured hope, conscientiously invoke the Divine blessing.

"This is indeed the work of the Divine Master, whose example

and teachings all wish to imitate and heed who hope in their own lives to realize the blessings and consolations of that religion which He came into the world to establish.

"The corner-stone to practical religion is the Golden Rule. How best to obey its mandate is the vital question. Our conviction, our faith is, that the surest hope of mankind is in America. Within our limits, within our reach, are gathered representatives of all the races of mankind.

"That duty is of highest obligation which is nearest in time and place. With America and American homes what they should be, we need not greatly fear the evils that threaten us from other lands. We can easily shun or safely meet them, if our duty is faithfully done in behalf of the weak, the ignorant, and the needy of our own country. If our institutions, social and political, are imperiled to-day, it is largely because the wealthy and the fortunate, engrossed as they are in the midst of our vast material progress and prosperity, are not sufficiently mindful of what was taught by the words and life of the Founder of our blessed religion: 'Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.'

"The friends of Home Missions rely on familiar facts. Not less than five millions of people are now added to the population of our country in each ten years by emigration from foreign lands. Among them are no doubt persons of education, of morality and of religion, who, in spite of want of familiarity with our language and institutions, will in good time become valuable citizens without special effort in their behalf. As to a multitude of others, it may be truly said that the missionary to pagan lands will find nothing more hostile to Christian civilization than the evil influences which immigration brings into the very bosom of our American society. Home Missions seek to protect our own land from imported heathenism. Again, the condition of the emancipated race in our Southern States still engages the attention of the patriot and philanthropist. It is represented by well-informed and conscientious observers that the colored people increase more rapidly than the whites in proportion to their number, and that the proportion of the ignorant and unchristian does not diminish. The facts do not permit us to indulge the hope that the Christians of America have done and are doing their whole duty with