The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 1, January, 1882Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 1, January, 1882
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Tireless she followed on, on, on, the long, long night. The moon
went down and she got blind and staggered and groped upon her way,
but still she said hoarsely, “I must go on. I’ll be better soon.”
In the morning a farmer threw open his door and saw lying on the
steps the soiled figure of a girl. He picked her up and laid her on
his own bed, and his wife laid the wild, pleading face against her
warm bosom. A stream of music reached the ears of the dying girl.
“Mother, don’t you love your darling child?
Then rock me in the cradle all the day.”
She sank back with a weak, pleased smile. “Rock me, mother, that’s
it—oh! how nice—how nice it is. Oh, rock me, rock me—rock me,
mother. I am too tired to say my prayers to-night, mother. Let me
sleep, mother, and kiss me, but let me sleep—sleep—sleep!”
And she closed her eyes and slept, and the choir in Paradise, lest
they might wake her, sang softly:
“Her mother once—
Her mother twice—
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.
In the heaven once—
In the heaven twice—
In the heaven she’ll rejoice.”
* * * * *
MISSIONARY VEGETABLES—A GOOD EXAMPLE.
_By C. H. Kellogg._
Last Spring, our Sabbath-school having become greatly interested in
the work of Atlanta University, one of the lady teachers proposed
to the superintendent that the boys in the school be asked to
raise as their own during the season, corn, potatoes, cabbages,
squashes, etc., these to be called “missionary vegetables;” and
the girls were asked to make fancy articles, and in the Fall a
fair held called a harvest festival. The boys and girls entered
heartily into the enterprise, and last week we held the fair, which
resulted in the raising of $80 for Atlanta University; this is to
go toward supporting some worthy student. The money will be placed
at the disposal of Miss Emma Beaman, one of the teachers, who was
instrumental in awakening an interest here by giving us a talk
in regard to her work at Atlanta. Is not this a good example for
_other_ schools to imitate next Summer?
NORTH AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 17, 1881.
RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1881.
* * * * *
MAINE, $78.72.
Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $16.72
East Waterford. S. E. Hersey 2.00
Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Hallowell. Hon. H. R. Baker, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
North Anson. “A Friend” 6.00
Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Thomaston. “A Friend” 2.00
Thomaston. Bbl. of C.
Woolwich. John Percy, deceased, by I. Percy 2.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $310.73.
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