“One night, while watching with her, after she had been a long time quietly sleeping, she seemed to be in pain, and began to toss excitedly.  It was soon plain that what seemed bodily pain was mental anguish.  She began to talk earnestly in mingled tones of pathos and strong remonstrance.  She was back again among the scenes of childhood, talking upon slavery.  At first, only words could be caught here and there, but enough to show that she was living over again the old horrors, and remonstrating with slave-holders upon the wrongs of slavery.  Then came passages of Scripture, their most telling words given with strong emphasis, the others indistinctly; some in tones of solemn rebuke, others in those of heart-broken pathos, but most distinctly audible in detached fragments.  There was one exception,—­a few words uttered brokenly, with a half-explosive force, from James 5:  4:  ’The—­hire—­of—­the—­laborers,—­kept—­back—­by—­fraud, —­crieth:—­and—­the—­
;cries—­are—­in—­the—­ears—­of—­the—­Lord.’...

“As we stood around her, straining to catch again some fragmentary word, she would turn her eyes upon our faces, one by one, as though lovingly piercing our inmost; but though all speech failed, the intense longing of that look outspoke all words....

“Then there was again a vain struggle to speak, but no words came!  Only abortive sounds painfully shattered!  How precious those unborn words!  Oh, that we knew them!”

Thus quietly, peacefully, almost joyfully, the life forces of the worn and weary toiler weakened day by day, until, on the 26th of October, 1879, the great Husbandman called her from her labors at last.  She lived the life and died the death of a saint.

Who shall dare to say when and where the echoes of her soul died away?  Not in vain such lives as hers and her beloved sister’s.  They take their place with those of the heroes of the world, great among the greatest.

One last thing I must mention, as strongly illustrative of Angelina’s modesty, and that shrinking from any praise of man which was such a marked trait in her character.  She never voluntarily alluded to any act of hers which would be likely to draw upon her commendatory notice, even from the members of her own family, and in her charities she followed out as far as possible the Bible injunction:  “When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”

Her husband relates the following:—­

“In November, 1839, in making provision for the then to her not improbable contingency of sudden death, Angelina prepared a communication to her husband, filled with details concerning themselves alone.  This was enclosed in a sealed envelope, with directions that it should be opened only after her death.  When, a few days after her decease, he broke the seal, he found, among many details, this item:  ’I also leave to thee the liability of being called upon eventually to support in part four emancipated slaves in Charleston, S.C., whose freedom I have been instrumental in obtaining.’”