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the seas to uplift and train the heathen; here letters from
patriotic societies acknowledging her exceptional service in fur-
thering their aims and in administering their affairs; here let-
ters from church and charitable organizations telling of the
enlargement given their efforts by her personal labors and liber-
ality; here messages from an innumerable company whom she
housed, clothed and fed, comforted and gave new hope. The
intimate testimony of her friends and acknowledgments from an
extended acquaintance, from the highest to the lowliest, all are
redolent with fragrant memories of her queenly bearing, her
gracious personality, her deep spiritual discernment, her mar-
velous and fruitful service. Her activities were too numerous
to be recorded, for hers was a life that “translated truth into
conduct,” and she constantly, though unconsciously, measured.
her life by the service she was able to render others. Treading
this royal pathway, she ever traveled heavenward along the way
her Saviour trod, and now that she has come to the end of that
glorious way and the great white portals have opened to admit
her to the presence of her Lord, marvelous will be the tasks He
has reserved for a spirit so harmoniously related to heavenly
requirements while on earth, and so intimately and richly pre-
pared for more exalted labors in heaven. Sent from God and
returned to God; but the memory of the sweetness and strength
of her life, the beauty and depths of her character, the great
scope and marvelous fertility of her service she has left as a
gift in perpetuity to earth, and these shall bear fruit while time

shall last. Not only the life but the labors and the influence of

the saints are immortal.
SaMuEL A’Court Asus.

Rosa PENDLETON CHILEs.

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city, and subsequently Companies B and C were formed to pro-
vide for the training of boys between the ages of ten and seven-
teen. The present membership totals one hundred and thirty.

The home now occupied by the brigade is an armory given
as a memorial to a deceased friend of the organization, Capt.
William Rand Kenan, and the structure is an ornament to that
section of the city. The building is thoroughly equipped for
the work, and the organization provides most effective means
for physical, mental, moral, and religious training.

For eight years the home of the brigade was in the small
basement room of the church, with the streets as drill grounds ;

and here weekly meetings were held every Monday night and
short helpful addresses made by the commander. The rule,

most faithfully kept, required the presence of every mem-
ber, unless unavoidably prevented, and the commander set the

standard, which has been lived up to in a most remarkable de-
gree by even the youngest members. From the first the com-
mander took the boys into his confidence, laid his plans before
them, expressed his deep interest in their welfare and his abid-
ing faith in their possibilities; and from this humble beginning
has grown a force for moral uplift than which nothing greater
has ever occurred in the life of the community. The organiza-
tion is on a strictly non-denominational basis ; church member-
ship is not a condition precedent to membership in the brigade,
‘but attendance on Sunday-school is a condition rigidly exacted.
Of its membership fully eighty per cent are communicant mem-
bers of some church, and the light that has gone out from the
organization has penetrated into many forbidding corners, and
brought hope and courage to many to whom the best prospects
in life had- been denied. The commander is a leader among
men, and doubtless his experience as a military man suggested

this form of organization for the development of young men in
whom he saw latent possibilities but to whom the fortune of

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company of the Boys’ Brigade in North Carolina, and doubtless
the first in the South, was organized at Wilmington on Feb-
ruary 14, 1896, by Col. Walker Taylor, then commanding the

developed among them a spirit of loyalty, self-respect, ambition,
industry, sobriety, and propriety. To be a member of the bri-
gade imposes a duty, as it offers an opportunity, and the sense

Second Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. This com-

pany was organized in the basement of Immanuel Presbyterian
Church, a mission church located in the southern part of the

of obligation following upon privilege is deeply ingrained into
the spirit of the organization.