Excerpt from Life and Light for Woman, Vol. 42: January, 1912 But the days go on, the holiday mood fades, the daily tasks lose again the golden sheen of the new year, and right at this point many of us ex perience a failure to endure the testing of the commonplace. To go to missionary meetings when there is no Jubilee and no Simultaneous Cam paign, when there is no beating of drums or sounding of bugles in the ranks of the faithful, to be one of the few women who are always ready to offer prayer in the little group which meets from month to month, that is the real test. To secure. The extra subscription for the magazine when other people grow tired of asking, to give the unnoticed dollar when others are not making pledges, - ih short, to engage patiently, persistently, in the lesser, the seemingly unimportant details of work for missions, that is what thousands of quiet women the country over are doing to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.