The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 3, March 1881Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 3, March 1881
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Our grain is not all threshed yet. From present indications it will
reach about 28,000 bushels wheat and 10,000 bushels oats; potatoes,
corn, etc., in abundance. I cut down the estimate on flour for this
season 25,000 lbs. The Indians now furnish about 70 per cent. of
what they eat.
My next step will be to introduce stock raising, by procuring cows
and calves for this people.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.—Hon. John McReavy has fitted up a hall at
Union City for church purposes, and the people have procured an
organ and bell for the same object.
The Clallam Indians at Jamestown, near Dunginess, Washington
Territory, have bought a bell for their church, the first church
bell in their county, although it has been settled more than twenty
years, and has a white population of over five hundred and fifty.
The members of the church at Seabeck, at the close of the services
on the first Sabbath in December, presented their pastor, Rev.
M. Eells, with a purse containing forty dollars and fifty cents;
and the ladies of the place who are not members of the church,
presented his wife on Christmas with a box containing articles of
clothing worth about thirty dollars.
Two persons at Jamestown were received into our church in December,
and two more at S’kokomish in January, all on profession of faith.
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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—_The Memorial Church_, recently known as the
Lincoln Mission, has, as noted in the last MISSIONARY, just
blossomed into a church, and begins its life as such in a renovated
hall on the corner of Eleventh and R streets. The A. M. A. and
the trustees of the Mission decided last fall that the building
must be repaired, and the work was so far completed that it was
occupied again by the church on the first Sabbath of the new year.
The room will seat about 800 people, and with the expenditure of
$75 for matting in the aisles, would be very attractive indeed.
Mrs. Babcock, city missionary, has opened industrial schools in
connection with this church, both for mothers and the younger
girls, and proves a great help in the spiritual work of the church.
RALEIGH, N. C.—The winter has been unusually severe, and our people
are so very poor and unprepared for it that the attendance at
church services has been very small. A part of the time it has
been so cold and muddy that it was impossible for the people to get
about. The Sunday-school numbers 128.
WOODBRIDGE, N. C.—The young folks are wide awake and hard at work.
There are three grades in school, the highest studying Mental
and Written Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, History, Physiology,
Reading, Writing and Spelling. The school is working as never
before. A Band of Truth and Purity has been organized, pledged to
be temperate, truthful and chaste, and to observe the rules of good
society. It meets weekly in a social way and strictly examines its
members.
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