sing one more song they would not pester the meeting any more that night. So she began to sing:
I bless the Lord I've got my seal—to-day and to-day—
To sla' Goliath in the field—to-day and to-day.
The good old way is a righteous way;
I mean to take the kingdom in the good old way.
Before she had finished this song the mob crowd fled in a mass. In this she showed more tact and courage and real generalship than all the preachers in the camp could muster up. That she was a woman of power of speech there can be no question when one reads the many testimonials of the newspapers and friends of those days, when men possibly spoke the truth more at ease than now. The Rochester papers spoke of her while lecturing in the State of New York as follows:
She was for forty years a slave in the State of New York. Wholly uneducated, her eloquence is that of Nature, inspired by earnest zeal in her Heaven-appointed mission. She speaks to crowded houses everywhere. Let Rochester give her a cordial reception.
The lecturer is a child of Nature, gifted beyond the common measure, witty, shrewd, sarcastic, with an open, broad honesty of heart and unbounded kindness. Wholly untaught in the schools, she is herself a study for the philosopher, and a wonder to all.
She is ahvays sensible, always suggestive, always original, earnest and practical, often eloquent and profound. She often asked visitors, "Don't you want to write your name in de Book of Life?" She delighted to have her distinguished friends write their names in this "Book of Life." Among those who wrote their names were Lucretia Mott (who calls herself a "co-laborer in the cause of our race"). Senators Revel, Mor-
