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 [From Missionary Tidings, November, 1898.] 
 
 Annie Agnes Lackey was born near Fayette¬ 
 ville, Ark., in 1874, so is in very truth a twin to 
 the C. W. B. M. 
 
 She comes of one of Arkansas’ leading fami¬ 
 lies. Her father, a native of Virginia, was 
 raised in the same county as Stonewall Jack- 
 son. His wife, a Miss.Sherry, is a member of 
 a family noted for piety, her father having been 
 a charter member of the first Church of Christ 
 established in that part of the country. She 
 was brought up under the tuition of Brother 
 Robert Graham, for fourteen years pastor of 
 the church at Fayetteville. 
 
 The family lived in the country when Annie 
 was a little girl, and even then she heard God’s 
 voice, and an intense longing to help uplift hu¬ 
 manity became the burden of her life; and here, 
 in her quiet rural home, she prayed continually 
 that the opportunity of an education might 
 come to her, to enable her to carry out her de¬ 
 sire. At the age of fifteen she removed with 
 the family into Fayetteville, and entered the 
 public schools of that city, and here came un¬ 
 der the influence of N. M. Ragland, pastor of 
 First Church, and has found in him a constant 
 help and counselor. 
 
 After leaving the public schools she entered 
 the State University of Arkansas, an institu¬ 
 tion that is the equal of any similar one in the 
 country. Her character is serious and stu¬ 
 dious, and she always held a high place in her 
 classes, as well as in the hearts of professors 
 and fellow-students. During all these years 
 she had never forgotten or lost sight of 4[er 
 childish desire, and, while in college, having 
 
learned of the great needs in the foreign field, 
 decided to devote her life to it, and to that end 
 made a special study of the languages. In this 
 she had the counsel of Brother Ragland, who, 
 constantly and prayerfully, guided her, step by 
 step, toward her goal. In the fall of ’97 she 
 offered herself to the Foreign Christian Mis¬ 
 sionary Society, but failing to gain the full and 
 free consent of her loved ones to go, decided to 
 wait another year. During this year our Olivia 
 A. Baldwin visited the family and they learned 
 to love and trust her, and consented to let their 
 daughter go to India, provided she could go 
 in Miss Baldwin’s company. This fact was 
 brought to the knowledge of the Christian 
 Woman’s Board of Missions and she was asked 
 to go to India with Miss Baldwin, to work with 
 her at Deoghur for our Board. 
 
 She goes forth splendidly equipped. She is 
 one of the best educated girls ever sent to the 
 foreign field. She has studied, systematically, 
 the world’s leading works on missions. She 
 has been for several years a successful Bible 
 school teacher in her church school, and her 
 good influence is testified to by the fact that 
 nearly all her class, boys just entering young 
 manhood, have confessed their faith in Jesus. 
 She is a valuable Christian Endeavor worker, 
 having been chairman of the Prayer-meeting 
 Committee for two years. She is also an active 
 worker in the C. W B. M. She is a young 
 woman of blameless life, and of high and noble 
 purposes. The testimony of her pastor is, “She 
 is the best gift we can make to God.” 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. L. G. Bantz. 
 
 Published by the Christian Woman’s Board of Mis¬ 
 sions, 152 E. Market St., Indianapolis, Ind., March, 1900. 
 One cent each ; fiye cents per dozen.