The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
beyond—to the islands of the sea. But the work is one. Whether in
Alabama or Micronesia, under the A.M.A. or the A.B.C.F.M., we are
working for one Lord, to establish the kingdom of Christ on earth. We
can but praise Him that He calls us to work in any corner of His wide
vineyard.
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MISSISSIPPI.
Sunday-Schools—Student-Conversions—Crowded Rooms.
MRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.
The year thus far has been most pleasant and profitable. During the
fall term we had an unusually large number of students who entered into
study with faithfulness and energy.
Many who had been teaching during the summer, gave most interesting
reports of their work. The Sunday-school and temperance work had been
vigorously pushed with excellent results; one of which is over thirteen
hundred signers to the temperance pledge. Some conversions in their
Sunday-schools were also reported; and quite often now some one speaks
in our prayer-meeting of receiving a letter from a pupil asking for
prayers that he may become a Christian.
Just at the close of the fall term we were visited with a remarkable
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Our good Dr. Roy had been here, and a
sermon which he preached left impressions which brought some to decide
for Christ. And then the Sunday-school lessons. I remember watching the
young people during the closing exercises of Sunday-school the Sabbath
before Christmas, and I saw that there was deep feeling, and felt sure
that there were some who would not long resist the Spirit, and during
the next three days there were nineteen conversions.
Three or four others have since then found Christ. There is also a
marked Christian growth and a growing interest in the study of the
Bible. Our hearts are greatly encouraged, and we go forward rejoicing
that we are permitted to work for Christ. Truly “The Lord hath done
great things for us whereof we are glad.”
At present we have one hundred and four boarders, with the prospect of
more soon. Every room is occupied, and we are crowded to what seems
the utmost limit of our accommodations. What we shall do with those
yet to come, is a problem which neither mathematics nor the laws of
expansion have solved. Shall they hang up in the trees or bivouac under
them? We want to put an addition to the “barracks,” but have not the
means necessary. Dear friends at the North, shall we turn these young
people away? What is your answer? We hope that by a year from now, a
good substantial building will be at least in process of erection, that
shall do away with some of the temporary accommodations we now have.
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TENNESSEE.
School Work and Week of Prayer.
E. A. H., MEMPHIS.
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