her own). She has been able to receive only some very small compensation for her work, and yet she is as earnest and as determined as ever. Her future is evidently bright, and her chances to do good are many.
She became a Christian when fourteen years old, and was baptized into membership with the First Baptist Church, Raleigh, N. C. She is an active, energetic, Christian worker, regarding no task too hard.
CHAPTER LIV.
IDA GRAY, D. D. S.
((A PRACTICAL, DENTIST).
As a library deprived of some one of its necessary books, or a machine without one of the component parts, or a chemical laboratory that is void of a most important reagent, is incomplete and, therefore, inadequate to fully fulfill the ends of its existence, so a nation without a full system of government, or a navy without a cannon, or a race of people who have not the diversified acquired facilities essential to achieve greatness, must strive in vain to become great. The Afro-American, like all other races, the conditions being the same, is affected similarly by his environments. He now enters every avenue into which his brethren have been going. In this spirit of push and pluck our present subject affords a living example.
