She resembled an inspired prophetess, an aged Deborah,
crying aloud in the valleys of Israel.
The last speaker was Friend Carter, a small man, not more than
forty years of age. His face was thin and intense in its
expression, his hair gray at the temples, and his dark eye almost
too restless for a child of "the stillness and the quietness." His
voice, though not loud, was clear and penetrating, with an earnest,
sympathetic quality, which arrested, not the ear alone, but the
serious attention of the auditor. His delivery was but
slightly marked by the peculiar rhythm of the Quaker preachers; and
this fact, perhaps, increased the effect of his words, through the
contrast with those who preceded him.
His discourse was an eloquent vindication of the law of kindness,
as the highest and purest manifestation of true Christian doctrine.
The paternal relation of God to man was the basis of that religion
which appealed directly to the heart: so the fraternity of each man
with his fellow was its practical application. God pardons the
repentant sinner: we can also pardon, where we are offended; we can
pity, where we cannot pardon.
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