7 8 THE WORLD'S WORKERS. 



to be separated by death from those we love, when 

 we can remember that while here they were faithful 

 and earnest workers for what is true and right. The 

 unendurable pain comes when they have given cause 

 for regret. 



Within a few years after the death of her father, 

 Mary Carpenter's revered friend, Dr. Tuckerman, 

 died. This was an additional sorrow. Mary had the 

 greatest veneration for this excellent man. To use 

 her own language, " for six years he was a guide and 

 rest to her soul." Thirty-five years afterwards, when 

 a scheme which lay very near her heart that of the 

 establishment of feeding industrial schools was 

 successfully floated, she regarded it as a carrying out 

 of Dr. Tuckerman's idea. 



In May, 1843, about three years after the death 

 of her father, Mary Carpenter formally "took the 

 pledge," and became a teetotaller. The event ought 

 to be noticed, because the lady herself thought so 

 much of it. She always insisted with ardour on the 

 importance of workers among the poor being total 

 abstainers, and once said that " teetotalism, divested 

 of the nonsense and vulgarity which too often accom- 

 pany it, appeared to her to be the sublimest 

 institution that exists next to Christianity." Once, 

 when writing to a friend, she said : "The slaves here 

 for whom I am most concerned, are those enslaved to 

 the use of intoxicating liquors. I feel on this subject 

 somewhat as you do about slavery, and perhaps in 



