The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
We hear from Memphis the week after her arrival of the favorable
impression made, and of the rejoicing on the part of our teachers
that there is help for them in the homes of their pupils and in
mothers’ meetings, etc. One teacher says, “I hope to visit with
her a little, especially to take her to the homes of our girls.”
Another writes, “We regard her being sent here as a special
Providence in our favor. I think there is no place where she could
do more.”
We trust that many such workers may be sent by the Christian women
of the North to these their needy sisters in the South.
The _Advance_ mentions the Church Sewing Circle as the medium, and
the spring as the most convenient time, to carry out the following
suggestion. In this way, it says, there need be no friction between
what is done for the A. M. A. and other missionary work:
“There was a time, directly following the war, when the American
Missionary Association was wonderfully aided in its work by
the special efforts of the philanthropic women. There has
been nothing finer done in the way of immediately urgent but
far-reaching influence, by the Christian women of America,
either before or since. Every one rejoices in the helpfulness of
the Woman’s Boards, creating and fostering as they do a mighty
interest on behalf of their benighted sisters in heathen lands,
and we will not believe the Christian women in our American
churches incapable of again inaugurating some similar work,
equally worthy of them, toward meeting the inexpressibly urgent
moral necessities of their sadly darkened and depressed sisters
nearer home.”
* * * * *
THE JUBILEE SINGERS AT THE IMPERIAL COURT OF GERMANY.
The Jubilee Singers have recently gone to Germany to continue the
work they have for the last six years been so successfully doing in
the United States, Great Britain and Holland, in the interests of
the education of their race at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
Within a few days of their arrival at Berlin, they had the
honor of appearing before the Imperial family of Germany under
circumstances of peculiar interest. They were invited by their
Imperial Highnesses, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, to sing
some of their slave songs at the New Palace, Potsdam, on Sunday
afternoon, Nov. 4, and on presenting themselves at the appointed
hour they found, to their joy, that they stood in the presence of
His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Germany, as well as in the
presence of the Crown Prince and Princess, with their children
gathered around them. Thus three generations stood together in the
home circle, listening to this little company of emancipated slaves
from the United States, as they sang the songs of the days of their
bondage. And never did their strange, touching songs produce a
deeper impression, or call forth heartier expressions of sympathy
for, and interest in, the work they are laboring to do for their
race in America and in Africa.
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