MADAME ANTOINETTE STERLING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8583, 9 September 1893, Page 7

MADAME ANTOINETTE STERLING.

Madame Antoinette Sterling held her promised meeting in Melbourne to pot the Argus to confusion in regard to the ; Crimes Act, oa Sunday afternoon, in the Theatre RoyaL There was a crowded audience, and a resolution was proposed opposing the suggested in the Act, Madame Sterling supported the motion in a - characteristic speech. She said the proposed amendment of the Act would make a "* damnable law," and that it was the duty of men to protect women, nob for fifteen years and a few months, but lor ever. Men who would not protect women ought, in her opinion, to be " taken out and hanged." She felt she had been called by God to Melbourne, and it was (iod and not she who was now speaking to them. She had not come to Melbourne to sing, bat she could see very plainly chat people came through curiosity to see the singer, and~ thus the Lord spoke to them through her. "One of these-days," she said, "women will take the work up, aifii it will be done. lam God's child; I am <L spirit, and God works in mc to do what I .ought to'do; that is the reason I can come here and be not afraid. I cannot help that yearning over the people here, and I feel mat I am called to the work of raising up a high standard of good before the people." The motion wee carried with gaijr two dissentients, who were in the gallery. When a special vote of thanks was being passed to Madame Sterling she pushed the astonished Chairman pack in hie eeat, and protested against any thanks to herself as unnecessary. Having openly apologised to the Chairman for her apparent rudeness, Madame Sterling brought the proceed ja to a dose by singing two songs, " Oh, i»st in the Lord," and the other "»little hymn written and composed by her daughter."