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214 afflictions seem as nothing when compared with what Christ suffered for us. Why not be patient?

Miss Tilghman attended the Boston Conservatory of Music expressly to study the Conservatory methods of teaching piano, and that she learned the system well and is a most efficient teacher is shown by the following letter:

In 1886, while teaching music in Montgomery, Ala., Miss Tilghman first began the publication of the Musical Messenger, the first and only musical journal ever published by any one of the Negro Race. That the Messenger was well edited and was a credit to the race is fully attested by the following complimentary comments:

Miss A. Iv. Tilghman is the editress of the Musical Messenger, the only paper of the kind ever published by our people. Miss Tilghman is a young lady of much talent.—New York Freeman.