MEMOIRS OF
Mrs. Rebecca Steward,
CONTAINING:
A FULL SKETCH OF HER LIFE,
WITH VARIOUS SELECTIONS FROM HER WRITINGS AND LETTERS;
ALSO CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BISHOP CAMPBELL, D.D.,
PROF. B. F. LEE, OF WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY,
B. T. TANNER, D.D., EDITOR OF THE Christian Recorder,
REV. T. GOULD, MRS. ELIZABETH LLOYD, AND WM. STEWARD,
BY REV. T. G. STEWARD.
The motto I taught my boys was "Aim at the Sun! If you do not bring it down, you will shoot higher than if you had aimed at the earth."—Rebecca Steward.
"Her children shall rise up and call her blessed."
PUBLISHED AT THE
Publication Department of the A. M. E. Church,
No. 631 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
1877.
Copyright, 1877, by Rev. T. G. Steward.
To DANIEL A. PAYNE, D.D.,
Senior Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church:
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS LEARNING, TALENTS AND PIETY:
AND AS A TESTIMONIAL TO HIS HIGH APPRECIATION
OF FEMALE EXCELLENCE, THIS LITTLE
VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED.
THE AUTHOR.