The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
“From 6.30 to 7.15 P.M., we assemble at our Christian Association
Room (a small house of five rooms) for prayer-meeting. This
meeting is conducted by the president of the Association. The
exercises consist of singing, praying, and speaking from two of
the members who are appointed by the president at the previous
meeting. After these speakers get through, eight to ten minutes
are allowed to all who wish to speak or pray. The meeting is
closed with the Doxology and prayer. From this meeting we go back
to the chapel where we held our Sunday-school. There we open our
regular Sunday evening service. The average attendance is about
twenty-five. The first part of this service is singing from 7.25
to fifteen minutes of eight. The singing is conducted by Mr.
Sanford, assisted by Miss L. Gill and Miss Sanford. To these
persons we are greatly indebted for their kindness in teaching
us, especially Mr. Sanford, whose labors for us are unspeakably
great. After the singing and prayer, Mr. Sanford takes the Bible.
He then reads, and explains to them in English; I take the same
lesson and explain to them in Chinese, after which the meeting
is closed with a prayer in Chinese. On Wednesday evening our
prayer-meeting is conducted entirely by myself. Its average
attendance is about the same as that of Sunday evening. Thursday
evening I have the whole Bible-class, consisting of from ten to
eighteen pupils. Beside this Bible reading we also have another
very interesting Bible exercise in the Association Room every
evening throughout the whole week, with the exception of Saturday
and Sunday evenings. This exercise commences immediately after
the brethren get back from school and continues until ten P.M.
We begin by reading and explaining the Scripture alternately.
If one fails to explain his verse correctly, the one who sits
next to him follows it up, and if he fails also, the third,
fourth, and so on to the last one in the class. If he fails to
succeed, I then explain the verse to them again. When this lesson
is through, I read and explain to them the new lesson for the
following evening. Then this exercise is closed with a prayer in
English by one of the brethren successively.
“Yours respectfully, JEE GAM.”
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THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.
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“KING DAVID’S DANCE” AND THE “HOLY MARCH.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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