the world of intellect. He seems desirous to meet even one young and obscure as myself on equal terms, and trusts to the elevation of his thoughts to keep him in his place.’
She found higher satisfaction still in his preaching: —
‘A discourse from Dr. C. on the spirituality of man’s
nature. This was delightful! I came away in the
most happy, hopeful, and heroic mood. The tone of
the discourse was so dignified, his manner was so
benignant and solemnly earnest, in his voice there was
such a concentration of all his force, physical and
moral, to give utterance to divine truth, that I felt
purged as by fire. If some speakers feed intellect more,
Dr. C. feeds the whole spirit. O for a more calm,
more pervading faith in the divinity of my own nature!
I am so far from being thoroughly tempered and
seasoned, and am sometimes so presumptuous, at others
so depressed. Why cannot I lay more to heart the text,
“God is never in a hurry: let man be patient and
confident”?’
PROVIDENCE.
In the spring of 1837, Margaret received a very favorable offer to become a principal teacher in the Greene Street School, at Providence, R. I.
‘The proposal is, that I shall teach the older girls my
favorite branches, for four hours a day, — choosing my
own hours, and arranging the course, — for a thousand
dollars a year, if, upon trial, I am well enough pleased
to stay. This would be independence, and would
