She early embraced the doctrine of the Second Advent, and felt it her duty to proclaim the Lord's speedy coming.

With this message she crossed the Atlantic and spent the greater part of a long life in travelling over Europe and Asia.

She lived some time with Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman as fantastic and mentally strained as herself, on the slope of Mt.

Lebanon, but finally quarrelled with her in regard to two white horses with red marks on their backs which suggested the idea of saddles, on which her titled hostess expected to ride into Jerusalem with the Lord.

A friend of mine found her, when quite an old woman, wandering in Syria with a tribe of Arabs, who with the Oriental notion that madness is inspiration, accepted her as their prophetess and leader.