American Missionary, Vol. XXXIV., No. 5, May 1880Various
Religion
American Missionary, Vol. XXXIV., No. 5, May 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
This new organization originated entirely with the ladies themselves,
and, as far as we can judge, has been inaugurated and will be carried
forward with great wisdom and efficiency, and with no spirit of
rivalry, but with the utmost Christian consideration and love towards
other similar boards. It is hard to predict the future of a new
benevolent organization. Who could have conjectured in 1810 the grand
reach of Christian labor achieved by the ever-to-be-honored American
Board? And who, ten years ago, could have foreseen the remarkable
energy and wonderful success--then latent, but now active--displayed
by the Christian women of this land in the several denominations in
co-operation with the great Missionary Boards? But while we cannot
prophesy of the future of this new society, yet the success of those we
have mentioned encourages us to anticipate for it a glorious career.
There certainly is room in this our land, among the women and children
of less favored portions and races, for the widest and most hopeful
endeavors that can be put forth; and while the degraded of distant
lands should not be neglected, certainly those in our own should not be
passed by. This new Board has our warmest sympathies.
* * * * *
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
In a letter from Rev. J. Edwards, of Grantville, Mass., he adds his
testimony to the many that reach us from all directions, that the South
is experiencing a gradual, and to one who visits it after several
years’ absence, marked uplifting. He also comes back full of the
assurance, as do all others who study the “problem of the South,” that
the A. M. A. is doing good work just where it is needed. We thank him
for his letter, and second his suggestion that our work presents a
magnificent opportunity to the Christian and patriot. We have room for
a few extracts:
“Enter the train of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad and you will be
carried very comfortably through a country as monotonous and unexciting
as you will often find. You can bear to watch, for once, the scenery
that looks so painfully uninviting it is positively entertaining: light
land, scattered pines, and here and there, the so-called villages, of
which you might say, ‘enough of them--such as they are.’ No bright
green sward; and as for houses, homes--where are they? Surely not very
near the line of the railroad, unless you can by courtesy give the name
to the scanty cabins, with the tow-headed children, and the wan women,
and the man scratching the top of the earth with a plow drawn by one
decrepit steer or sorry mule.
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