Rand and the MicmacsClark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson)
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Rand and the Micmacs
Clark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson)
Indians of North America -- Canada; Micmac Indians; Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889
2. PECUNIARY SUPPORT.
Since Jan. 1st, 1865, up to the present time, Jan. 5th, 1866, I have
received in aid no less than one thousand and sixty-five dollars and
eighty-one cents. Thirty-seven dollars, twenty-one and a half cents have
reached me since the present year commenced, though most of it was
mailed sometime before. During the year my former allowance of two
hundred pounds, with forty pounds for travelling expenses, has been
received, and seventy-five dollars, nine cents and a half, over and
above. Last spring, after listening to a charity sermon by Rev. D.
Freeman of Canning, Cornwallis, I determined to lay by in store every
Lord’s day, one tenth of all receipts during the previous week, to be
expended in charity; to be laid up in heaven at a hundred fold interest
against the time to come, and having followed up this plan, I have been
enabled to devote not only the former allowance of forty dollars to
charity; but more than double that sum, and have been prospered in
proportion. By far the largest amount received during any period of
three months, was received during the quarter just closed, the amount
for the quarter being three hundred and eighty-six dollars, thirty-three
and a half cents. And the most of it came in since the 26th day of
October. That day must ever be a memorable one to me. In order to
encourage my Christian brethren in the ministry and out of it, to pray
more, and to believe more firmly, and to wait on the Lord for temporal
blessings as well as spiritual, always remembering to put the spiritual
far in advance of the temporal,—I will relate the events of that day.
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