I was wholly taken by surprise.

It was a countenance glowing with health, and wholly expressive of purity, animation and gentleness.

I did not wonder at the citizen who, seeing a print of Garrison at a shop window without a name to it, went in and bought it, and framed it as the most saintlike of countenances." The appearance of such a man on the stage of our history as a nation, at this hour, was providential.

His coming was in the fulness of time.

A rapid review of events anterior to the advent of Garrison will serve to place this matter more clearly before the general reader.