Her  active  mind,  directed  and  developed  by  the  peculiar  teachings
\l  of  her  religious  sect,  took  a  wider  range  than  had  previously  been  cus-

tomary with  women,  and  she  gave  of  her  best  offerings  to  the  world.     In
all  the  great  moral  reforms  she  took  an  active  part,  manifesting  a  great

I  interest  in  the  advancement  of  the  working  classes,  frequently  attending

their  meetings,  and  adding  her  testimony  to  the  righteousness  of  their
cause.  She  was  unquestionably  the  most  gifted  woman  of  her  time,  and
used  her  gifts  with  consummate  wisdom.  As  a  spiritual,  moral  and  in-
tellectual force  of  the  nineteenth  century  she  had  no  superior  the  world
i  over.     Her  power  of  speech  was  almost  divine  ;  her  "words  were  gold

I  coined  in  the  mint  of  a  royal  mind;"  whatever  her  hand  touched,  it

blessed;  whatever  her  warm  sympathy  became  attached  to,  grew  in
stature  and  comeliness.  She  was  the  bright  morning  star  of  intellectual
freedom  in  America,  and  she  helped  break  the  chains  which  bound  a
race  in  physical  slavery.  Put  for  the  fact  that  her  death  was  to  hai  e
been  expected,  the  announcement  would  have  spread  a  gloom  throughout
the  bounds  of  civilization.  The  idol  of  to-day  may  crowd  the  hero  of
yesterday  from  the  speech  of  mankind ;  but  the  life  of  Lucretia  Mott
has  left  an  influence  upon  the  world  which  time  cannot  destroy  or  efface  ;
t  and,  so  long  as  there  is  left  a  chord  in  the  heart  of  humanity  which  beats


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rcsponsively  to  the  truth  and  purity  of  hi»r  life.  so[long  will  there  Ik*  |>i I-
grims  journeying  to  her  tomb  to  drop  thereon  in  mingled  profusion  white

Mowers  and  tears.
