And if aroused conscience makes you
suffer keenly, have patience to bear it. God will not let you
suffer more than you need to fit you for his grace. At the
very moment of your utmost pain, persist to seek his aid, and
it will be given abundantly. Cultivate this spirit of prayer.
I do not mean agitation and excitement, but a deep desire for
truth, purity, and goodness, and you will daily learn how near
He is to every one of 'us.''
These fragments, from a hasty report transcribed when the impressions
of the hour had grown faint, give but a shadow of the broad good
sense, hearty fellow-feeling, and pathetic hopefulness, which made so
effective her truly womanly appeal.
This intercourse with the most unfortunate of her sex, and a desire
to learn more of the causes of their degradation, and of the means
of restoring them, led Margaret, immediately on reaching New York, to
visit the various benevolent institutions, and especially the prisons
on Blackwell's Island. And it was while walking among the beds of the
lazar-house,--mis-called "hospital,"--which then, to the disgrace
of the city, was the cess-pool of its social filth, that an incident
occurred, as touching as it was surprising to herself.
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