_Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly_
We have tenderly laid away to rest our beloved honorary president,
Jane Cunningham Croly, to sleep the blessed sleep that knows no waking
in this toilsome, troublous world.
Her gentle soul is at peace, her personal work is accomplished, her
useful life is ended. She has been taken from further pain and further
labor, to that existence where all is perfect peace, perfect rest,
perfect rhythm.
We wish to place upon our records, therefore, our appreciation of the
fact, that this New York State Federation of Women's Clubs has
suffered such a loss as can come but once to any, a loss like that of
a loving mother to an affectionate child.
We shall miss her at our meetings, at our larger gatherings, and at
our conventions.
We shall hold her, and the desires of her heart in relation to us, in
loving and constant memory.
And we purpose to take up her work, where she laid it down, and carry
it on with the same unselfish aims, high ideals, and unremitting
patience with which she labored, until we shall reach the goal upon
which her farseeing eyes were fastened, and her great heart was set.
FANNY HALLOCK CARPENTER.
February 13, 1902.
[Illustration: Resolutions adopted by The Society of American Women in
London, March 24th, 1902.]