ELIZABETH FRY.

LIFE AND LABORS

OF THE

Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher, and Prison
Reformer.

COMPILED FROM HER JOURNAL AND OTHER SOURCES,

BY EDWARD RYDER.

"Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
preached in the whole world, there shall also this which this
woman hath done be told for a memorial of her."

NEW YORK:

E. WALKER'S SON,
(14, Dey St.)

1883.

Matt., 26, 13.

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"Mr. Harvey, two days ago I saw the greatest curiosity in London-aye and in England too, sir,--compared to which Westminster Abbey, the Tower, Somerset House, the British Museum, nay Parliament itself, sink into utter insignificance! I have seen, sir, Elizabeth Fry in Newgate, and have witnessed miraculous effects of true Christianity upon the most depraved of human beings."

-John Randolph.

"We shall not look upon her like again! and must try to preserve the impression of her majesty of goodness which it is a great privilege to have beheld."

-Baroness Bunsen.

"To see her was to love her; to hear her was to feel as if a guardian angel had bid you follow that teaching which could alone subdue the temptations and evils of this life, and secure a redeemer's love in eternity."

-Captain K. B. Martin.

"May you contiuue, my dear madam, to be the honored instrument of great and rare benefits to almost the most pitiable of your fellow-creatures."

-William Wilberforce.

"Of all my contemporaries none has exercised a like in fluence on my heart and life.”

-Thomas Fliedner.

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"Though faithful to her duty as a wife and mother, into the night of the prison Elizabeth Fry brings the radiance of love, brings comfort to the sufferer, dries the tear of repentance, and causes a ray of hope to descend into the heart of the sinner. She teaches her that has strayed again to find the path of virtue, comes as an angel of God into the abode of crime, and preserves for Jesus' kingdom that which appeared to be lost."

-German "Almanac for the Beautiful and Good."

"Your name has long been to us 'A Word of Beauty."" -German Pastor.

"TO MRS. FRY.

Presented by HANNAH MORE
As a token of veneration,
Of her heroic zeal,
Christian charity,

And persevering kindness

To the most forlorn

Of human beings.
They were naked and she
Clothed them;

In prison and she visited them;
Ignorant and she taught them,
For His sake,

In His name, and by His word
Who went about doing good."

-H. More, in copy of "Practical Piety."