The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881Various
History
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 6, June, 1881
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Then here is one more opportunity, and this is for the children.
The greatest, perhaps, or at least one of the greatest disadvantages
under which these brave and earnest young teachers labor who go out
from Hampton, Fisk, and other schools to teach their people, is the
almost total lack of good reading matter. Sunday-school papers are
of really inestimable value to them in their Sunday-schools; but
they can only get them occasionally and very sparingly. Now we know
there are Sunday-schools on Sunday-schools of our Congregational
churches where the children would be glad to save their papers and
send them regularly to such destitute schools, where we can promise
the children they will give double the pleasure they have ever
given before—in fact will double the pleasure to each party, to the
givers and to the receivers. Now, how to do it; for, in order to
be a success, the thing must be done systematically. Well, then,
first, if any Sunday-school wishes to adopt the plan, let them send
to us and we will furnish them the name of a neighbor Sunday-school
in the West or South too poor to have any papers of its own. Then
let them appoint some one to take charge of sending the papers, and
let each scholar be sure and remember to save his paper and give
it to the one who has the business in charge. The only expense,
in money, will be the postage. This often seems a good deal, when
large numbers of papers are mailed each week, and some one may even
be disposed to question whether it is worth the money; but our Home
Secretary, who has taught some years at Hampton, and is in constant
communication with teachers who have gone from there, and is often
sending papers and books in this way, and receiving letters in
return which show how they are appreciated, thinks the good they
do far outweighs the expense; for, she says, in many cases, the
children would have absolutely no reading were it not for them.
So then, third, some one or ones, will be found to pay the postage,
and the thing will be done. The children will have the pleasure
of reading the papers themselves, the pleasure of sending them
regularly to some one else who will appreciate and enjoy them even
more than they; the pleasure of hearing from these friends at a
distance, for the teachers will write them, that is a part of the
plan; and the pleasure of doing something for Jesus and helping His
cause.
Now, who wants to take up with this plan and begin at once?
Let them write to the Secretary of the Woman’s Home Missionary
Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., and the
address will be sent them forthwith. Where Sunday-schools are
not ready, individuals can take up the work. A little girl in
Philadelphia is sending two hundred a week, her mother paying the
postage.
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