The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
_Mrs. Sarah Spees_, who died at York, Nebraska, June 10th, was for
many years one of our faithful workers among the Indians at Red Lake,
Minn. Born in 1832, at Nelson, Ohio, she was converted at the age of
fourteen years, and took at once strong and decided grounds for Christ.
She was for a time a pupil of Mr. Sturgis, of Micronesia, who inspired
her with missionary zeal. Soon after her marriage to the Rev. Francis
Spees, she went with him to his missionary field among the Chippewas of
Minnesota, bearing the severest privations. The journey required great
fortitude. The Indians were in the rudest state of heathenism, and
life itself was not secure. Amid scenes of danger and peril, she never
shrank or wavered, or regretted that she had entered on so arduous a
work. For three years, Mr. and Mrs. Spees labored among these people,
and then left them for a quieter work at Tabor, Iowa. Ten years later,
the way was opened for their return, and no sooner were they back among
the red faces than a precious revival was enjoyed among the Government
employees. In addition to her work as missionary, Mrs. Spees added the
care of the Girl’s Boarding School. This was too great a tax upon her,
and after a few years her strength gave out, and she was obliged to
rest. For three years she waited by the river. Her pastor says that
often, when visiting her in her feebleness, he found her wearied with
the slow progress of the work of Christ on earth, and turning over in
her mind how money could be raised for the spread of the Gospel. Her
work well done, she has now entered upon the “rest that remaineth to
the people of God.”
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_The Pastor of the Central Congregational Church_ of Brooklyn must take
a great deal of solid satisfaction in the noble missionary work of its
Sunday-school. Thoroughly imbued as he is with the mission spirit, he
does not fail to impart something of it even to the lambs of his flock.
This school is also blessed with one of the most earnest and successful
Christian workers of the city as its superintendent, and, therefore, it
is not surprising that, in addition to its own local missionary work,
it supports, this year, _four_ missionaries—one in the foreign field,
and three among the Freedmen. We take great pleasure in referring to
this school, whose example might be followed by many others with great
benefit to the cause of missions, and, also, to the schools themselves.
* * * * *
If the person who sent us a card, post-marked “Hartford, Conn., June
24,” but _without name or signature_, will send us his name, we will
gladly answer his inquiry.
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