persistent example of the power of the gospel of soap.--_Rev. T.L.
Riggs._

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Carlyle tells the story of a woman in the North of Scotland in the old
days before charity was organized, who wanted help. She was poor and
sick, and they said to her, "You may look out for yourself." Finally
she was taken sick with typhus fever, and died, and because they didn't
take very good care of her in the place where she was sick, she killed
seventeen others with her poison. Carlyle says: "You said she was not
your sister and she said, 'I am, and I will prove it;' and she did,
though it cost seventeen good lives to prove it." There will be a typhus
fever in this land infinitely worse than any pestilence that kills the
body unless this deadly germ be killed by putting education where there
is ignorance, and putting honor and truth where there is degradation
to-day. "Look out for No. 1?" Aye, it is our business to look out for
ourselves. May God Almighty help us that we fail not to attend to it.
There is just one way to save ourselves. We learned that long ago at the
feet of Him who said: "He that loseth his life shall save it." That is
the only way. It is just as true for a nation as for an
individual.--_President George A. Gates._

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WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.