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Says Sister Smith: "I believe God's leading me to Africa was that I might call the attention of the Church, both here and at home, more definitely to the subject of holiness and Gospel temperance. There never was a time when the attention of the Church in all lands was so clearly called to consider these subjects as in the past ten years, more or less, and why should not Africa wheel into line? May God help her."

Sister Smith, putting her faith into words and showing it by her works, says: "I have organized Bands of Hope and Gospel Temperance Societies in all the country and towns I have visited here, except Cape Palmas and Cape Mount. I have not visited Cape Mount, and expect to organize here in Cape Palmas this week." (First week in June, 1886).

As an enlightened, thoroughly consecrated Christian evangelist, among negro women, Mrs. Amanda Smith takes the first place in American history.

Mrs. Barboza was born to Henry Highland Garnet and his wife, February 11, 1845, Troy, N. Y., and graduated from Hopedale, Mass., 1861. We have not been able to learn much as to her early life. She was an educated, consecrated woman who ever thought out the best possible means of lifting up her down-trodden race. In 1881 her father. Dr. Garnet, was appointed Minister to Liberia by the United States government; the document of his appointment was the last official