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come and minister to her spiritual wants, because he found she was very unhappy without religious consolation in the form to which she had been accustomed in childhood.
The peculiar adaptation of his character to this mission of humanity was not only felt by his fellow laborers in the New-York Association, but was acknowledged wherever he was known.
Dr. Walter Channing, brother of the late Dr. William Ellery Channing wrote to him as follows, when the Boston Prison Association was about being formed; ‘I was rejoiced to learn that you would stay to help at our meetings in behalf of criminals.
The demand which this class of brothers has upon us is felt by every man, who examines his own heart, and his own life.
How great is every man's need of the kindness and love of his brethren!
Here is the deep-laid cause of sympathy.
Here is the secret spring of that wide effort, which the whole world is now making for the happiness and good of the race.
I thank you for what you have done in this noble work.
I had heard with the sincerest pleasure, of your labors for the down-trodden and the poor.
God bless you for these labors of love!
Truly shall I thank you for the light you can so abundantly give, and which will make the path of duty plain before me.’
Incessant demands were made upon his time and attention.
A great many people, if they happened
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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