Dark hours of conflict were spent over all this, and she interpreted her disinclination as evidence of unworthiness.

Poor little Susan! As we look back with the knowledge of our later life, we translate the heart-burnings as unconscious protests against labeling your free soul, against testing your reasoning conviction of to-morrow by any shibboleth of to-day's belief.

We hail this child-intuition as a prophecy of the uncompromising truthfulness of the mature woman.

Susan Anthony was taught simply that she must enter into the holy of holies of her own self, meet herself, and be true to the revelation.

She first found words to express her convictions in listening to Rev.William Henry Channing, whose teaching had a lasting spiritual influence upon her.