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which require hrs. to read. Our hostess consented to
collect the Fed. dues, and she expressed her interest in
the fine women who make up this body and
hoped the Asso. would resolve to attend the
mtgs. in the future. She then gave her sentiment as follows:

“It a good and safe rule to sojourn in every
place as if you meant to spend your life there,
never omitting an opportunity to do a kindness,
to make a friend, or utter a cheering word.”

Alice Tyson had a clipping from Wilmington
giving some wonderful statistics of the
extent of the Salvation Army’s work. In New Zealand
the Maoris were spoken of as “a vanishing
race”, but the “Army”. a few years since, began
teaching them, not only to read and write, but
to raise vegetables and cure fish and they are
no longer an ignorant and starving people.

The Indians and the Zulus are likewise feeling
the benefits of their ministrations to body and soul.
Their greatest triumph however, is amid the slums
of almost every large city in the world, - they are established
in 58 different countries by means of
1000 social institutions.

Marg. G. T. Moore read of the wonderful change
made in a small boy by being taken to an oculist and
fitted with glasses. From being the worst and most
stupid boy in the school, in one year he was among
the best and most studious. He was more than
¾ blind and his parents had never discovered the
real source of his dullness and bad habits.

Fanny B. Snowden amused us with the woes of
a coffee lover who thought a coffee bean in his
mouth, as he swam the Missouri river, would make
as good a beverage as he had found at Natchez or
Baton Rouge. Anna G. Lea gave the prayer of Agassiz, -

“By past efforts unavailing,
Doubts and errors, loss and failing;
Of our weakness made aware;
On the threshold of a task
Let us light and guidance ask
Let us pause in silent prayer.”

Her 2^nd selection was from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, -

Do you wish the world were happy
Then remember, day by day,