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
I have not been willing to correct any of the little mistakes of
grammar, but give the address in exact copy from the original. It
was uttered in a clear voice, with a distinct and quite correct
pronunciation, and with such simple earnestness that every eye was
fixed upon him, and every heart seemed touched. Lem Chung has been our
helper in Sacramento for about eight months, is _growing_ mentally and
spiritually, and gives promise of a very useful future.
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CHILDREN’S PAGE.
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HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.
An original Essay written by a Girl eleven years old, and read by her
at a Woman’s Foreign Missionary Meeting in Indiana.
I should think that everyone could think of ways for themselves, but I
suppose we can help each other. Some ways that I may suggest might not
be thought of by others, while others in turn might think of many ways
that I would not.
The first way that enters my mind is what I found to be a very good
plan at one time; have your grandfather get sick so that your father
will have to go and see him, and on his return your grandmother will
send you a present of one dollar. With it buy a pig in partnership with
someone else who has the same amount, and after feeding it with your
father’s corn for a year, sell it for twenty dollars, you of course
getting one half of it.
Another way is to have a little garden and sell vegetables out of it;
and another way is to have a hen and sell eggs, or raise chickens and
sell them. One way that I found to be a good one, is to make tidies
and sell them. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have a baby
brother or sister, attend it two or three hours for a penny an hour.
And I think another good way is to be a great talker, and have your
mother give you five cents to be still. We may also relieve our mothers
very much by watering the house plants, and may be she will give us a
little bit.
And I have often thought it would be a good plan to have pay for
washing dishes, and may be some of your mothers would; just mention
it to them; but mine won’t, for I have tried it! And when your mother
sends you to pick berries, just mention the missionaries to her. And if
you live in the country, gather apples, churn, kill potato bugs and dig
potatoes. And then have a penny a dozen for finding pins; and the best
place in the world to find pins is in the oldest sister’s room.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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