Ormiston wrote and lectured on social purity , temperance , and women 's rights . Her published works include pamphlets , hymns , a novel and a book of poetry and are described as reflecting " many of the tensions characterizing feminism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries " . She also wrote the words and music for '' Action Songs for Children '' and several more volumes of music in the same vein , consisting of simple ditties embodying physical exercises for small children . In 1893 Chant addressed the 1893 Parliament of the World 's Religions , held in Chicago in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition . Her subject was '' Duty of God to Man Inquired '' . In 1894 she started attacking music-halls as temptations to vice . She went to Bulgaria to give aid to Armenian refugees from the 1894 – 1896 Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Laura Ormiston Chant