assurance that while her master lived she should never want.

At first she was sick and almost broken-hearted at the change in her
condition. Much as she longed for freedom, she had formed new ties in
her Mobile home, which it was hard for her affectionate nature to break.
She was old enough now to look forward to some of the difficulties to be
encountered in a land of strangers, seeking employment in unaccustomed
ways. But she went to her Bible as usual in her trouble, and the words
which the Angel of the Covenant addressed to Jacob, when, exiled from
his father's house, he made the stones of Bethel his pillow, came right
home refreshingly to her,--"I am with thee, and will keep thee in
all places whither thou goest." The soreness at her heart was at once
healed, and she cried out, in deep emotion, "Enough, Lord! Now I have
got something to hold on by, and I will never let it go. When I get into
trouble, I shall come and say, Lord, you remember what you said to me on
board ship, and I know you will keep your promise."

Thus fortified for her new life, Tidy arrived at New York. The sun was
just setting as she planted her foot on the soil of freedom; and as
his slanting rays fell upon her, she thought of her toiling, suffering
sisters, driven at this hour from labor to misery, and her heart
sickened at the thought. "O God," she cried, "hasten the day when ALL
shall be free."

Tidy's first experience in this wilderness of delights, where was so
much to be seen, learned, and enjoyed, was a striking one, and proved
how the goodness of God followed her all the days of her life. It was
Saturday evening when she landed. The family with whom the captain
placed her were pious people, and were glad enough of the opportunity on
the morrow of taking an emancipated slave, who had never been inside
a church, to the house of God. It was a humble, un-pretending edifice
where the colored people worshiped, but to her it was spacious and
splendid. How neat and orderly every thing appeared. Men, women, and
children, in their Sunday attire, walked quietly through the streets,
and reverently seated themselves in the place of worship. The minister
ascended the pulpit, and the singers took their places in the choir. It
was communion Sunday, and the table within the altar was spread for the
holy feast. All these strange and incomprehensible proceedings filled
the mind of Tidy with solemnity and awe.

The services began. The prayer and readin