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Rh Finally she was given a position, which she has held till now. She has been a member of the Congregational Church for seven or eight years; is a consecrated Christian and much loved at home and at school; kind-hearted, industrious, painstaking and faithful as a teacher.

While she is quite young yet she is promising, and has in her the elements to make a great and noble woman.

Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more, And mix the bowl again; Seethe fate! the ancient elements, Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace, and pain. Let war and trade and creeds and song Blend, ripen race on race, The sun-burnt world a man shall breed Of all the zones and countless days. No ray is dimmed, no atom worn, My oldest force is good as new, And the fresh rose on yonder thorn Gives back the bending heavens in dew. —Emerson.

The possibilities and general trend of social reforms and universal advancement largely depend, as society is now constructed, upon the co-operation of the feminine with the masculine element. The truth of the