Florence Nightingale, writing of a woman whose life, like the lives of Sarah and Angelina 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.”