rdently has the prayer been breathed that God would fit us for
all He is preparing for us!

My mind has been especially turned toward those who are standing
in the fore-front of the battle; and the prayer has gone up for
their preservation, not the preservation of their lives, but the
preservation of their minds in humility and patience, faith,
hope, and charity, that charity which is the bond of perfectness.
If persecution is the means which God has ordained for the
accomplishment of this great end--emancipation--then, in
dependence upon Him for strength to bear it, I feel as if I could
say, let it come; for it is my deep, solemn conviction that this
is a cause worth dying for. At one time, I thought this system
would be overthrown in blood, with the confused noise of the
warrior; but a hope gleams across my mind that our blood will be
spilt instead of the slaveholders'; that our lives will be taken,
and theirs spared. I say a hope; for of all things I desire to be
spared the anguish of seeing our beloved country desolated with
the horrors of a servile war.

"These words were written by one who was standing not apart in a place
of safety, but in the foremost post of danger, and who knew that she
was as likely as any one to share in the martyrdom which she foresaw.
The spirit which dictated these sentences went through her whole life
as its ruling influence.

"There is the courage of the mariner who buffets the angry waves.
There is the courage of the warrior who marches up to the cannon's
mouth, coolly pressing forward amidst engines of destruction on every
side. But hers was a courage greater than theirs. She not only faced
death at the hands of stealthy assassins and howling mobs in her
loyalty to truth, duty, and humanity, but she encountered
unflinchingly the awful frowns of the mighty consecrated leaders of
society, the scoffs and sneers of the multitude, the outstretched
finger of scorn, and the whispered mockery of pity, standing up for
the lowest of the low. Nurtured in the very bosom of slavery, by her
own observation and thought, of one thing she became certain, that it
was a false, cruel, accursed relation between human beings. And to
this conviction, from the very budding of her womanhood, she was
true."

"Well do I remember," said one, "when, after the American Anti-Slavery
Society, founded in 1838, had battled for a