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202 to preaching the Word. The past two months I have had a native helper, who takes the afternoon class. This gives me ni}' afternoons to preach in three towns, taking one an afternoon. I hope to get off on another jungle tour through this dry season; yet it seems too bad to have to close my school again, as it has already been twice closed for health reasons.

My native helper I will need with me. I am praying that the God of all missions will show me my duty in the matter. Out here we often wish it possible to divide ourselves and let half go on one mission and a half on another. Truly the harvest is great, and the laborers are few. There are coming more into the vineyard, praise the Lord, and in our day we may see many great changes. You know of your Church in the South beginning a mission out here? This makes three new societies to enter the field since I have been here.

The signs of the times say that the "coming of the Kingdom draweth nigh" in Congo Land. We have a mission house two miles away where I work mornings in the capacity of preacher, teacher and doctor. All is very poorly done, but is done for the love of Christ and in His name. I hope to be allowed two years home in which to study medicine, so as to be better able to help this suffering people. They do trust so fully in my skill—poor creatures—and I know so little to do for them.

Thus, after laboring hopefully and incessantly for about four years she returned for much-needed rest and recuperation and to obtain medical knowledge. After all, however, she has found no great amount of time or opportunity for leisure or rest. Being a very interesting speaker, with a well-stored mind on missions, in particular, and Africa, likewise, she has been much in demand, solicitations coming from different denominations (from white and colored. North and South). It may not be out of place here to state that on one occasion she had the honor to be heard in Spurgeon's great chapel, in London, and to be very cordially greeted by that wonderful man. Let the young women of the