s
no answer, but the great Judge to whom she appealed seemed turned aside
in earnest conversation with one who stood at his right hand, wearing
the human form, but more fair and beautiful than any person she had ever
seen. Then the Lord turned again and looked upon her,--and such a look,
of pity, of love, of forgiveness and reconciliation! A sweet peace
distilled upon her soul, and joy, such as she had never felt, sprang up
in her bosom. "I am forgiven, I am accepted!" she cried, "but not for
any thing I have said. This stranger has undertaken my case. He has
interceded for me. I know not what plea he has used, but it has been
successful, and my soul is saved." In this exultation of joy she awoke.

Yes, her soul WAS free. The plan of salvation had been dimly revealed
to the weeping sinner in the visions of the night. What strange ways the
Lord sometimes takes to reveal his love to his creatures! But his way
is not as our way, and he has ALL means at his control. Every soul will
have an individual history to tell of the revelation of God's mercy to
it.

Thus the second part of Tidy's long-offered prayer was answered. From
this time she rejoiced in the Lord, and gloried in her unknown Saviour.
Her prayers were changed to praises, and she forgot that she was a slave
in the happiness of her new-found soul-liberty.

She kept her Bible at hand, and every now and then picked out some
precious verse; but the long, sweet story of Calvary, hidden between its
covers, she had not yet read. And her voice found delightful employment
in singing the hymns of the olden time, which came to her now with a
meaning they had never had before. The Lord sent her health of body, and
as she returned to her duties, she tried in all things to be faithful
and worthy.

CHAPTER XVIII. CROWNING MERCIES.

THE Lord had not yet exhausted his love towards Tidy, but was designing
still greater mercies for her. He was going to deliver her from the
thralldom of oppression, and to send her to be further instructed in his
truth, and to bear testimony to his loving-kindness in another home.

The master's heart was moved to set her free; and, embarked in a small
vessel, with a New England captain, Tidy found herself at twenty years
of age sailing away from the land of cruel bondage, to a home where she
should know the blessings of freedom. Her emancipation papers were put
into the hands of the captain, and money to provide for her comfort,
with the