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I wished one more word in reply to your most kind and encouraging letter—it is this, that if you should have the opportunity again—and you will—to speak to friends as you did at our house, I wish most earnestly that you should exactly do as you did here; you can and will, thereby, wonderfully serve the different sacred movements of reform going on here.
I mean, that it seems to me and my husband the very best thing possible that you should relate that wonderful narrative of your labors—or some portion of your labors—with all its deep and suggestive lessons, enforced in a few words, as you can enforce them, and
then, having quite won your hearers, speak at the end a few grave and earnest words concerning the struggles going on here—our own great conflict for justice and purity, the temperance movement, etc. You won
several at our house, and you can do us thus
immense service with, I trust, not too much effort yourself, and without any
public meetings at all.
You perhaps scarcely realize the gladness imparted by your visit to
England to all of us, and we are
many now, who have to fight so sacred a battle against great odds—a battle which in some of its essential features resembles the great and marvellous anti-slavery struggle.