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Rh While teaching in Florida, before going to college, sympathizing deeply with the two most needy and lowly classes in the community where her field of labor belonged, instead of devoting her leisure time to such amusements and recreation as are generally hailed with delight by the average young and thoughtless teachers. Lulu was found with a devotion which was as rare as it was Christ-like, doing with all her might what her hands found to do, in aid of the aged and infirm and the poor little orphan children. On this line, for a time, she concluded that her mission work was to be consummated.

In 1883, she claims, while in school, Africa was laid on her soul, but she then yielded only to the extent of trying to have others become interested and go. After finishing her collegiate studies, with renewed zeal she returned to her former field in Florida.

Here again the narrative would not be complete if her own graphic language was omitted:

In due time the voyage came to an end; the desired haven was reached. Other than some very rough