Part 21 (2/2)
”Friends,” he said, ”this life carries us back to the first chapter of that great movement hich her name is associated,--to 1835, '36, '37, '38, when our cities roared with riot, when Williah the streets, when Dresser was mobbed in Nashville, and Macintosh burned in St Louis At that time, the hatred toward abolitionists was so bitter andtime unmarked; and at last ventured to put, with his name, on his tombstone, only this piteous entreaty: _Jarave'
”As Friend Wright has said, ere but a handful, and our words beat against the stony public as powerless as if against the north wind We got no sympathy from most northern men: their consciences were seared as with a hot iron At this ti wo section She caly hopeless crusade, both fah place in the church, genius, and ratitude we felt for this help from such an unexpected source After this[9] came James G
Birney from the South, and many able and influential men and wo sacrifice, on the altar of the cause But noclouds will deny that there was hardly any contribution to the anti-slavery reater or more ih the New England States
”When I think of Angelina, there comes to me the picture of the spotless dove in the te for some place to rest her foot She reirlhood, alone, heart-led, she co with the proble sorasps the Church, which proves a broken reed No whit disheartened, she turns fro each by the infallible touchstone of that clear, child-like conscience The two old, lonely Quakers rest her foot awhile But the eager soulNorth at last, sheaway fro above, all forms, the dove floats at last in the blue sky where no clouds reach This is no place for tears Graciously, in loving kindness and tenderly, God broke the shackles and freed her soul It was not the dust which surrounded her that we loved It was not the form which encoer a very little while, her old comrades The hour comes, it is even now at the door, that God will open our eyes to see her as she is: the white-souled child of twelve years old reat influences; the serene old age, exao out Farewell for a very little while God keep us fit to join thee in that broader service on which thou hast entered”
[9] A mistake James G Birney was one of the most widely known and influential leaders in the abolition cause at the tielina came into it
At the close of Mr Phillips' re, followed by a fervent prayer fro and singing of ”Nearer, my God to Thee” Then, after the last look had been taken, the coffin-lid was softly closed over the placidly sleeping presence beneath, and the precious form was borne to Mount Hope, and tenderly lowered to its final resting-place
There the sisters, inseparable in life, lie side by side next the ”Evergreen Path,” in that ”drea the funeral, says:--
”The funeral services throughout wore no air of gloom That soht of a glorious autuh uncurtained s It was not a house of ,--no sad word said, no look of sorroorn The tears that freely fell were not of grief, but tears of yearning love, of syratitude to God for such a life in its rounded completeness, such an example and testimony, such fidelity to conscience, such recoil fro devotion to duty, coht of peril or loss, even unto death”
Florence Nightingale, writing of a woelina Grimke, had been devoted to the service of the poor, the weak, the oppressed, says at the close:--
”This is not an _in memoriam_, it is a war-cry such as she would have bid me write,--a cry for others to fill her place, to fill up the ranks, and fight the good fight against sin and vice and misery and wretchedness as she did,--the call to arms such as she was ever ready to obey”