elt as I ever feel, that there is not a woman
who, as a representative of my own sex, I would sooner show to
the world as the embodiment of all domestic beauty and wifely
care and motherly fidelity. I only wish that they and you might
know her as I know her. I only wish that you might see in her, as
I see in her, the very best possible illustration of the power of
guiding and guarding all the sanctity of home, of blessing
husband and children and grandchildren, and exerting in the
guidance of her household an intellectual power which would be
the glory of this or any other platform. Not only do husband and
children "rise up and call her blessed," but in the time to come,
the children and children's children of those who now scorn her
name--of priests who have despised it, editors who have ridiculed
and slandered it, and heaped upon it all of the ignominy of their
souls--will thank God, as they reap the benefit of her exertions
and her beautiful life, for the name of LUCRETIA MOTT.
(Applause).

The word I would impress upon you all, as you go hence, is
this--it is always safe to do right. Carry away with you from
this Convention, my friends, this one thought--God is wiser than
man. What He has made right, He has also made safe. His paths are
paths of pleasantness, and all His ways are peace. And to those
who go forward, bearing this great cause in their hands, to work
for themselves, for their sisters, for their mothers--to them I
would say, "Be not discouraged at any obstacles that may lie in
your way! Forget, for a little while, the sneers of the press and
the pulpit, the laugh of the fashionable lady, who calls you
unladylike, and the scorn of arrogant men, who appreciate not
your labors! You need not pay back the laughter and the scorn
with scorn. Your work is too great, too high, too holy. Forgive
them, and pass on! Rejoice to think that, in a few years, they,
too, will rise up and thank you for it. Those who work for
mankind must be content not to receive their reward in the
appreciation of their services as they pass through life. It is
of little consequence. The only thing is to be sure we are doing
right, and living for some great purpose; for, of all the
afflictions that can befall a man or woman, there is none so
great as to pa