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Rh times, viz.: In 1887, at Danville, on "Woman a Potent Factor in Public Reform"; 1890, Hopkinsville, "Professional Women and Their Achievements," and 1892, Henderson, "The Colored Women in the School-room."

Miss Cook made her debut in journalism in 1886. Her contribution, "Nothing but Leaves," in the American Baptist, was one of her best productions. Having been converted in 1876, she showed in this article a noble Christian heart and a soul deeply affected by Divine grace. In 1887 she was editor of a column of the South Carolina Tribune and also a column in the American Baptist. She has recently written for the Georgia Sentinel. Her position as editor of the "Educational Department" of Our Women and Children gave her wide scope in editorial work, in which she took much pleasure. In the "Negro Baptist Pulpit," by Dr. B. M. Brawley, Miss Cook has an article on "Woman's Work," and is the only female writer in the book. Dr. J. M. Pendleton highly commended the article in his criticisms on the book and recommended it to the Northern Societies in their missionary work. Miss Cook is a terse, vigorous writer, who loves her race as she loves herself, as her articles will show.

September 5, 1889, she visited the New England States by invitation of the Board of the American Baptist Woman's Home Mission Society, Boston, as a representative of the colored women South and the State University in which she was teacher. The president and trustees granted her a leave of absence, and they (the president and trustees), in connection with the