n Underground Rail Road affairs, he
found a fugitive slave, a woman, in Adams county, who was in immediate
danger. He stopped his journey, and sent his horse and wagon back to his
own home with the woman, that being the only safe way of getting her
off. This was but a sample of his self-denial, in the cause of human
freedom.

His want of ability to guide in person runaway slaves, or to travel with
them, prevented him from taking active part in the wonderful adventures
and hair-breadth escapes which his brain and tact rendered possible and
successful. It is believed that no slave was ever recaptured that
followed his directions. Sometimes the abolitionists were much annoyed
by impostors, who pretended to be runaways, in order to discover their
plans, and betray them to the slave-holders. Daniel Gibbons was
possessed of much acuteness in detecting these people, but having
detected them, he never treated them harshly or unkindly.

Almost from infancy, he was distinguished for the gravity of his
deportment, and his utter heedlessness of small things. The writer has
heard men preach the doctrine of the trifling value of the things of a
present time, and of the tremendous importance of those of a
never-ending eternity, but Daniel Gibbons is the only person she ever
knew, who lived that doctrine. He believed in plainness of apparel as
taught by Friends, not as a form or a rule of society, but as a
principle; often quoting from some one who said that "the adornment of a
vain and foolish world, would feed a starving one." He opposed
extravagant fashions and all luxury of habit and life, as calculated to
produce effeminacy and degrading sensuality, and as a bestowal of
idolatrous attention upon that body which he would often say "was here
but for a short time."

Looking only upon that as religion, which made men love each other and
do good to each other in this world, he was little of a stickler for
points of belief, and even when he did look into theological matters or
denounce a man's religious opinions, it was generally because they were
calculated to darken the mind and be entertained as a substitute for
good works. Pursuing the even tenor of his way, he could as easily lead
the flying fugitive slave by night out of the way of his powerful
master, as one differently constituted could bestow his wealth upon the
most popular charity in the land.

His faith was of the simplest kind--the Parable of the prodigal son,
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