SMITH, HANNAH WHITALL (1832–1911), author, evangelist, and social activist, was born to birthright Quaker parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 7, 1832. Frustrations with her slow spiritual progress as a young Quaker girl immersed in the troubled Quakerism of her time cast the only shadows over what she otherwise describes as her "sunshine years." Her early journals give strong intimations of the concepts that later became the central themes of her ministry as a spiritual guide. The unfailing provision of loving—even doting—parents shaped her understanding of the "unselfishness" of the loving God of the Bible, whose unfailing care for humankind she portrayed in both its fatherly and motherly expressions. The love and bounty of her childhood milieu later defined the pivotal point of her understanding of the mature Christian's experience of God: "God is enough!" With these givens, early in her life as an evangelical...