her well-beloved sister Angelina proposed adding to the collection for the cushion two handsome lace veils, a lace flounce, and other laces, etc., which were accepted, and are accordingly in this medley.  This has been done under feelings of duty, believing that, as we are called with a high and holy calling, and forbidden to adorn these bodies, but to wear the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, as we have ourselves laid aside these superfluities of naughtiness, so we should not in any measure contribute to the destroying of others, knowing that we shall be called to give an account of the deeds done in the body.”

This was at least consistent, and in this light cannot be condemned.  From that time Angelina kept up this kind of sacrifices, which were gladly made, and for which she seems to have found ample compensation in her satisfied sense of duty.

One day she records:  “I have just untrimmed my hat, and have put nothing but a band of ribbon around it, and taken the lace out of the inside.  I do want, if I am a Christian, to look like one.  I think that professors of religion ought so to dress that wherever they are seen all around may feel they are condemning the world and all its trifling vanities.”

A little later, she writes:  “My attention has lately been called to the duty of Christians dressing quite plain.  When I was first brought to the feet of Jesus, I learned this lesson in part, but I soon forgot much of it.  Now I find my views stricter and clearer than they ever were.  The first thing I gave up was a cashmere mantle which cost twenty dollars.  I had not felt easy with it for some months, and finally determined never to wear it again, though I had no money at the time to replace it with anything else.  However, I gave it up in faith, and the Lord provided for me.  This part of Scripture came very forcibly to my mind, and very sweetly, too, ’And Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord.’  It was then clearly revealed to me that if the true ark Christ Jesus was really introduced into the temple of the heart, that every idol would fall before it.”

Elsewhere she mentions that she had begun with this mantle by cutting off the border; but this compromise did not satisfy conscience.

But the work thus begun did not ripen until some time after Sarah’s departure, though the preparation for it went daily and silently on.

Sarah in the meanwhile was once more quietly settled at Catherine Morris’ house in Philadelphia.

But we must leave this much-tried pilgrim for a little while, and record the progress of her young disciple on the path which, through much tribulation, led her at last to her sister’s side, and to that work which was even now preparing for them both.

CHAPTER V.

Angelina’s diary, commenced in 1828, is most characteristic, and in the very beginning shows that inclination to the consideration and discussion of serious questions which in after years so distinguished her.