character was
manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.

She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
uttermost."

The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!

E. M. CRAVATH.

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MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.

Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
Sar