about it. I
take the names in alphabetical order, and call the roll:

The first answers from Buffalo, where, as a minister's wife, she finds
ample opportunity to exercise all her powers. She reports good health.

The second is unmarried, and a teacher. For some years she has been
working among the freedmen's schools at the South. When I last saw her,
some five months since, she appeared the embodiment of good cheer and
sound nerves.

The third was for eleven years a teacher in a private seminary in New
York. A part of that time she had the entire charge of the school.
During the whole time she lost but two months from sickness. She is now
in good health, and enjoying home life.

The fourth does not answer to any roll-call here. She came to us clad in
mourning. Consumption had robbed her of a mother and sister, and we
always felt that her hold upon life was slight. The years added somewhat
of strength and elasticity, and we hoped against hope. She married soon
after graduating, and moved to the South. When the war opened, she and
her husband were obliged to flee; hunted from county to county and from
State to State, they at last crossed the Ohio. No sooner had her feet
touched her native soil, than, turning to him who was her all, she
said--Go. She lived to see the war closed; but the watching and the
waiting had been too much for her. The old family enemy claimed its
victim.

The fifth, in reply to the question, "What are you doing?" answers:
"Bringing up my boys. When my husband is away, besides attending to home
duties, I have charge of his business, receiving and paying out large
sums of money." She might have added, as I know, that she was general
city missionary without pay; that, when there was no man to fill the
place, she was Sabbath-school Superintendent, church organist, or leader
of the choir, and that many a poor girl had had her sentence in the
police court lightened through her timely intervention. I need not say
that she is not an invalid.

The sixth, a dignified wife and mother, I have not seen for three years.
At that time she entered no complaint of poor health.

The seventh has been constantly employed in teaching. Once during the
seventeen years the state of her health demanded a lengthening of the
ordinary vacation. She gave herself to out-door exercise, and, when able
to walk ten miles with perfect ease, she returned to the school-room.
She reports herself to-day as well, and offers as proo