But there was another seed corn dropped at this time in his mind, and that is the immense utility of woman in the work of regenerating society.

She it is who feels even more than man the effects of social vices and sins, and to her the moral reformer should strenuously appeal for aid.

And this, with the instinct of genius, Garrison did in the temperance reform, nearly seventy years ago.

His editorials in the _Philanthropist_ in the year 1828 on "Female Influence" may be said to be the _courier avant_ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of to-day, as they were certainly the precursors of the female anti-slavery societies of a few years later.
But now, without his knowing it, a stranger from a distant city entered Boston with a message, which was to change the whole purpose of the young editor's life.

It was Benjamin Lundy, the indefatigable friend of the Southern slave, the man who carried within his breast the whole menagerie of Southern slavery.