[1] In this position, she took on a motherly role the older girls and youngest sisters and helped nurture their faith.

[5][3] Pace called the ten women she had guided who later joined the Shaker faith (nine as children in the 1860s, and one as an adult in the 1873) her "gems of priceless worth.

Notably, Mace held an active role in the establishment of the Shaker brush industry.

[1] Mace was a prolific writer of letters, historical vignettes, religious meditations, eulogies, and lectures.

[1] Mace's writings serve not only as theological texts but also provide insight into the lives of Shaker women.

In the 1890s, Mace, along with other Shakers including Anna White, began to refer to themselves as "Alethians," or "Truth-Followers.

"[1] Mace, along with White and Leila S. Taylor, became one of the primary Shaker spokeswomen for women's rights in the early 1900s.

[1] Mace gained notoriety in the summer of 1900, when a lost and bedraggled eighty-eight year old Charles Lewis Tiffany arrived at her community looking for a glass of water.

Assuming he was a tramp, Mace gave him lemonade, brushed off his clothes, insisted he join her for the noon meal, and sent him away with a large boxed lunch and best wishes that he find work.

"[12] Mace was disappointed by the general Shaker reluctance to reflect Ann Lee's concept of equality between the genders.