The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 06, June, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 06, June, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for
a year—that, with what he is able to earn by his labor. This
amount has been pledged by individuals alone, or together, for
the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having done
so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its
Secretary, to assume the tuition of one of her wards, and the
Executive Committee desire to do so; and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one
years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in addition
to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some
of our friends, who may be especially interested in the elevation
of the Indians, will make up this small amount, and help on this
work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,
and personality.
* * * * *
A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.
Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in
Sunday-schools. What to do with the Concert, has been a question
which has perplexed teachers and superintendents year after year,
as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession. The
verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly
all learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try
a Missionary Concert, or, if you please, an American Missionary
Concert.
But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern,
even, can be sent, like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and
by mail. We have one in our hands, about six inches by eight,
four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers
(prepared originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville,
Mass.) upon the nature and the work of the A. M. A., and we are
almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact information
compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape.
Coupled with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten
Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals during the Catechetical
Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great
interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near
Boston; and we commend, most cordially, the thought and plan to
the consideration and use of Superintendents and Presidents of
Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme
is a collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how
to address their gifts to us. A new edition is in preparation,
or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained in
quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the
Congregational House, Boston.
District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an
appeal to the Sunday-schools in behalf of the “Colored Student’s
Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated that we are reaching (by
student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand
children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be
reached.” He urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work.
To know, is the first step toward supplying the want.
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