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without
complete
cash
investment.
Should the question arise whether this investment may not interfere with the income for the regular mission work, we have only to note that whereas in 1888, the year of the last London Conference, British contribu tions to Foreign Missions were $4,666,780, the very next year they increased to $5,367,946, and in 1890 to $6,457,235. that the Conference will It is confidently believed result in such an increase of knowledge about and in terest in missions as will greatly enlarge the means at the disposal of Mission Boards. Contributions of any amount will be gladly received and promptly acknowledged by the treasurer,Mr. George Foster Peabody, of Messrs. Spencer Trask & Co., 27 Donors of $5.00 and Pine Street, New York, N. Y. above will be entitled to receive a copy of the Report of in two
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handsome
volumes.
on War.
Whitman
Walt
BY
DR.
M.
L.
HOLBROOK.
Walt Whitman was of Quaker ancestry. The princi pal service he rendered in the war of the rebellion was as a private, independent nurse, going about everywhere to cheer and encourage, and help the wounded and dying.
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In his poems he sings, or shall we
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His magnificent health, his splendid physique and pres ence made him a personality of great good to them. He could not have been a soldier to fight, on account of his In his prose works are Quaker instincts against war. many harrowing descriptions, of which the following
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