RETIRES FROM ACTIVE SERVICE.
It is due the many inquirers as to whether Mrs. Ruffin is the editor of the Courant to state that early in June, owing to prostration from overwork in many directions, Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin was compelled to take a long vacation from all work. Since that time the paper has been in the very efficient hands of Mr. Robert T. Teamoh, of the Boston Globe.
It is not expected that Mrs. Ruffin will again resume the active management of the Courant, although it is her intention to be a contributor to its columns; the starting of a new and very comprehensive charitable work, together with her growing business of the care of the estates of widows and maiden ladies, promising to consume all her time this coming season.
In personal appearance Mrs. Ruffin bears the reputation of being one of the handsomest women of Boston, her regular, commanding features, abundant black hair (now plentifully sprinkled with gray) and olive complexion making a noticeable and pleasing appearance.
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE GREAT PART TAKEN BY THE WOMEN OF THE WEST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH.
In reviewing the annals of our past history we can discover no agency that has contributed more to the moral and religious development of the colored women of the United States than that of African Methodism. To her it was an open door by which to enter the arena
