“7th.  Surely my heart ought to be lifted to my blessed Master in emotions of gratitude and praise.  His boy came home last night a short time after our conversation, and instead of punishing him, as I am certain he intended to do, he merely told him to go about his business.  I was amazed last night after all my sufferings were over, and I was made willing to leave all things in my Father’s hands, to see John in the house.  This was a renewed proof to me how necessary it is for us to watch for the right time in which to do things.  If I had not spoken just when I did, I could not have done so before John’s return.  He has escaped entirely....  Oh, how earnestly two nights ago did I pray for a release from this land of slavery, and how my heart still pants after it!  And yet, I think, I trust it is in submission to my Heavenly Father’s will.  I feel comfortable to-night; my relief from suffering about John is so great that other trials seem too light to name.”

“8th.  My heart sings aloud for joy.  I feel the sweet testimony of a good conscience, the reward of obedience in speaking to H. Dear boy, he has good, tender feelings naturally, but a false education has nearly destroyed them, and his own perverted judgment as to what is manly and what is necessary in the government of slaves has done the rest.  Lord, open thou his eyes.”

On the 13th of March she says:  “To-day, for the first time, I ironed my clothes, and felt as though it was an acceptable sacrifice.  This seemed part of the preparation for my removal to the North.  I felt fearful lest this object was a stronger incentive to me than the desire to glorify my divine Master.”

There was doubtless some truth in the charge brought against her by her brothers, that her face was a perpetual condemnation of them.  Referring to a call she received from some friends, she says:—­

“An emptiness and vapidness pervaded all they said about religion.  I was silent most of the time, and fear what I did say sprang from a feeling of too great indignation.  Just before they went away, I joined in a joke; much condemnation was felt, for the language to me constantly is, ‘I have called thee with a high and holy calling,’ and it seems as though solemnity ought always to pervade my mind too much to allow me ever to joke, but my natural vivacity is hard to bridle and subdue.”

The bond between Sarah and Angelina was growing stronger every day, their separation in matters of religion from the other members of the family serving more than anything else to draw them closely and lovingly together.  Every letter from Sarah was hailed as a messenger of peace and joy, and to her Angelina turned for counsel and sympathy.  It is very pleasant to read such words as the following, and know that they expressed the inmost feelings of Angelina’s heart:—­