The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 05, May, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 05, May, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
SAVANNAH, GA.—Church building needs to be enlarged. One
hundred and eighty scholars present in Sunday-school, and good
teachers, “as faithful as Moses and as zealous as Peter,” always on
hand in time.
EAST SAVANNAH, GA.—Will be recognized by council
very soon. Three united with the church March 17th. Has eighty
Sunday-school scholars.
WOODVILLE, GA.—“Still in the midst of a revival. Nine
school children and four adults received to church membership April
7th. Six were baptized by immersion in the Savannah River—nearly
500 people were present; and one was baptized by sprinkling in the
church—the edifice could not hold the people. All the persons
baptized are members of Twichell School, held in the church.”
OGEECHEE, GA.—Received five members March 10th.
Sunday-school doubled in last four months.
LOUISVILLE and BELMONT, GA.—Numbers and interest
increasing.
MARION, ALA.—Mr. Hill writes: “The work is increasing
in interest. Our Sunday-school has more than doubled since we
came, numbering seventy-one. Twelve or fifteen had never been in a
Sunday-school or church before. Last Sabbath I visited a mission
organized, about a year since, by one of our church members, four
miles from here. The average attendance is forty. I found an
audience of seventy-five crowding the little school-house.”
ATHENS, ALA.—A larger number of scholars than heretofore
is reported, and a deepening religious interest. Several have
professed faith in Christ, and many more have been seeking the Lord.
SAND MOUNTAIN, ALA.—The church has no pastor, and only
about a dozen members, but meets every Sunday, and a sermon is read
by one of the members. The Sunday-school is also kept up.
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NOTES—FREEDMEN.
—There are in the State of Georgia 81,164 colored voters, who own
457,635 acres of land, valued on the tax list at $1,244,104, and
city property valued at $1,790,525, and about $1,000,000 worth
of horses, cattle, etc., and $2,100,000 on other property not
enumerated.
—The Atlanta _Republican_ asserts that a Campbell county negro
farmer raised, last year, seventeen bales of cotton and thirteen
hundred bushels of corn on nine acres of land, his only help being
a bob-tailed yearling.
—A Kentucky law orders the sale of certain convicts for a term of
servitude to the highest bidder. A negro was sold for six months
the other day at Hickman. It seems to many that the aim of the law
is altogether at the colored people. Is it not a dangerous weapon,
even if constitutional?
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