As their fancy prompted, they gave to the different preachers and workers special names, suggested to them by some conduct or characteristic. The name they gave to Miss Leffingwell was "The Angel." The impression she made on those boys did not fade away when the meeting ended, for, some years after that, a young man accosted the author, who was then the presiding elder of that district; and, touching his hat, respectfully said: "The boys want I should ask you where that lady now is, who at tended the camp-meeting here and whom we called "The Angel.'" She always made an impression on people whom she met either in public or in private, and especially on the young people; and it was a common occurrence to find her in some retired place with a group of children or young people around her, listening to her interesting conversations, narratives and instructions.

She was always ready to step into any open door of service for her Master. When she was returning from the camp-meeting above referred to, the presiding elder spoke to her on the train, and asked her if she would stop off at Eldred, Pennsylvania, and visit two aged pilgrims who lived near there and who were shut away from religious privileges. Sho readily assented, and with a note of introduction from him stopped off at that place. She found them out in the country four or five miles, remaine l with them a few weeks, encouraging and cheering their hearts; and then engaged to teach the district school at that place for the coming term. The result was that she remained in that neighborhood teaching and preaching nearly two years; and her

labors there laid the foundation for a large and flourishing work of the Lord in that section. She also soon after this, in 1894, engaged for a while in mission work in the City of Erie, Pennsylvania. While there she had an attack of tonsilitis which forced her to close the meetings, and she soon returned home.

In the fall of the same year she was appointed by the Pittsburg conference of the Free Methodist church pastor of their church at Davis, West Vir ginia. There was a church building there and some thing of a society; but it was practically, as far as that denomination was concerned, a mission field. She took her sister Ellen with her and moved there, engaging some rooms near the church. The year she spent there was very profitable and successful. In writing to her sister in Bradford about her work she says: "I am preaching now every night, and I can say to God's glory that I believe He enables me to preach as never before. There is so little time for preparation that it is almost a literal opening of my mouth, and the Lord fills it. Praise His name! I am determined to break the alabaster box at Jesus' feet. It pays to love Him with all the heart."

Again she writes: "Sister and I are well and very happy in the Lord. The church is just crowded every night. Saturday night two men broke down and prayed as we were talking to them by the stove after meeting had been dismissed, and one of them soon had the joy of knowing his sins were forgiven."

At Thanksgiving time, while she was in Davis,

the local paper requested the pastors of the several churches to write articles for it on the topic-"For What Should We Be Thankful?" Miss Leffingwell's characteristic response to this invitation is worth reproducing:

"We should be thankful for God's wondrous love and unspeakable gift. It was He who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

"Narrowing the circle from the world to this land of Bibles, we can say:

"I'm glad we were not born in heathen lands,

To prostrate bow before cold wood and stone That cannot hear one sob, nor cry, nor groan; I'm glad we were not born in heathen lands.

"Coming down still closer, we should be thank ful that our own beautiful city of Davis is not marred by the blighting influence of saloons within its precincts. May they always be excluded.

"We should be truly thankful for friends and our families, homes and churches, for books within our reach, which have cost others their lives, and for the almost innumerable inventions by which we are benefited.

"May we not also be thankful that the Lord sends forth laborers who care for our souls; and, 'in everything give thanks'?

"CLARA A. LEFFINGWELL,

"Pastor Free Methodist Church."

CHAPTER VII.

CALL TO CHINA.

Still Thy love, O Christ arisen,
Yearns to reach those souls in prison!
Through all depths of sin and loss

Drops the plummet of the cross!

Never yet abyss was found

Deeper than that cross could sound.

-John G. Whittier.

Just when Miss Leffingwell began to think seriously that God had called her to the foreign fields does not definitely appear from what writings have been accessible to the author; but probably soon after she was healed.

The intensity of her desire for health and her protracted struggles for the faith to reach it made her consecration to any work which might be shown her to be the will of God, extremely thorough and intense. Such a healing, after such a struggle, must mean more than an ordinary future. It would be natural that her mind should be carried away beyond the home duties and the ordinary activities of home evangelism. She showed, however, that remarkable shrewdness and good sense which was always a prominent characteristic of her life, in waiting till she was sure of her call. She did not purpose going before she was sent. God not only