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Rh  advocate, lecturer, preacher, reformer, and a most profound thinker and reasoner; a poet of no small merit, and in fact a sojourner wherever she found opportunity to do good. The world has indeed had but one Sojourner Truth.

While her bones lie lifeless in the dust she still lives on earth and in heaven. With grateful appreciation of a ereat woman we utter our final farewell to her dust:

Few, if any, Afro-American women have done more real work that has gained for them a world-wide reputation than this faithful member of our race. However, at the time of this writing we are informed that Mrs. Smith is preparing for publication a history of her life; therefore, out of our very great respect for her and her writings, we withhold all recent facts concerning her life, and simply make a few brief extracts from "The Life and Mission of a Slave Girl," by Rev. M. W. Taylor, D. D., which we trust, will not in the least affect the sale of her book.