Emphasis Preaching Journal

Catching people -- for good instead of for evil -- sometimes begins with catching them off guard. Lucretia Coffin Mott, a Quaker reformer who campaigned for women's rights and abolition of slavery, was involved in an anti-slavery meeting that turned ugly. Thugs broke up the gathering and attacked some of the speakers as they left the hall. Mott told the gentleman accompanying her to escort some of the other ladies who were alone and frightened in the tumult.