''
In her turn, Miss Anthony was fascinated by the
Empress. She could not keep her eyes off that
charming royal lady. Probably the thing that most
impressed her was the ability of her Majesty as a
linguist. Receiving women from every civilized
country on the globe, the Empress seemed to address
each in her own tongue-slipping from one language
into the next as easily as from one topic to another.
``And here I am,'' mourned ``Aunt Susan,'' ``speak-
ing only one language, and that not very well.''
At this Berlin quinquennial, by the way, I preached
the Council sermon, and the occasion gained a cer-
tain interest from the fact that I was the first or-
dained woman to preach in a church in Germany.
It then took on a tinge of humor from the additional
fact that, according to the German law, as suddenly
revealed to us by the police, no clergyman was per-
mitted to preach unless clothed in clerical robes in
the pulpit. It happened that I had not taken my
clerical robes with me--I am constantly forgetting
those clerical robes!--so the pastor of the church
kindly offered me his robes.
Now the pastor was six feet tall and broad in pro-
portion, and I, as I have already confessed, am very
short. His robes transformed me into such an absurd
caricature of a preacher that it was quite impossible
for me to wear them. What, then, were we to do?
Lacking clerical robes, the police would not allow
me to utter six words.
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