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292 might die ere the operation was completed. She decided to try and did withstand the keen blade of the surgeon; she conquered her disease and yet lives.

Mrs. Cooper is a brilliant scholar, a pleasant lecturer, a fine writer and an earnest, energetic Christian woman. Her speech on the 5th day of November, 1891, at the North Carolina Industrial Fair, in connection with the Interstate Exposition, was, possibly, the best effort of her life.

She has recently joined the A. M. E. Conference and is now at work in that Church, and on the 13th day of January, 1892, was married to Rev. A. B. Cooper, a young but rising A. M. E. minister.

Though her way has been beset by many an obstacle, often disappointed and discouraged, she has steadily passed forward, climbing higher each year. Young and accomplished as she is there can scarcely be any doubt about the brightness of her future.

She is accustomed to visiting the sick-room, jails and huts of the poor, and reading the Bible she kneels and offers a word of prayer with them. When leaving them she always, in a very comforting way, commends them to Jesus Christ, who alone can, at will, heal the sick, free the captive and provide for the poor. Who can estimate the good this woman may do in this way? Who will do likewise? Truly the call for such women in this special mission is indeed great!