The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 11, November, 1879Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 11, November, 1879
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Our Sunday-school is in a flourishing condition, being well attended,
most of the scholars attending church services. Bradford friends in
England sent our Sunday-school a nice present in the shape of copies of
the Gospels, pamphlets, papers, etc., which we used as prizes for good
attendance, to encourage the little ones. We need singing books for
this work.
The _Committee on School Work_ reported that at Good Hope the school
has made rapid progress. During the year 245 children have been
enrolled. These are both from the Sierra Leone and from the native
element. They learn English rapidly. “We have teachers,” says the
report, “who are quite awake to their duty. Children are accessible in
Sherbro, and are brought into day and Sunday schools in large numbers.
Through the kindness of friends of the poor little Africans, shirts
have been put on their backs and books into their hands, for which
they seem to be grateful. Of course these wear out, and others must be
procured in some way or other in their stead, or these little ones in
many cases will leave off attending school. They must be constantly
looked after. We hope to see not far in the future a first-class school
at this place. We have material in abundance upon which to work. Time,
patience and labor will bring success.”
The school at Avery has not made such progress as was hoped for during
the year. On the first of January its numbers were decreased by the
taking away of most of the larger boys to cut the crops for their
parents. The irregularity of attendance is a great obstacle in the way
of our success. Some attend for one day, and may not be seen again
for a month. Those who have attended regularly have made progress.
The prospect for the future is better. There are some children now in
the Mission whose attendance may be depended on. Most of the children
living in the village around the Mission have been taken to the farms
to drive birds, so that the number on the roll at present is only
twenty, ten of whom come from the Mission house. There have been 56 on
the roll during the year.
The school work at Debia is encouraging, Mr. Goodman and family being
settled there. We base our hopes largely on the little ones who are
being trained in our Mission schools.
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