The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Alameda-- Mrs. Geo. Morris.
Marysville-- Miss M. A. Flint.
Joe Jet.
Oakland-- Miss Gertrude H. Carleton.
Miss Alice Monroe.
Oroville-- Miss Maggie A. Daniel.
Wong Ock.
Petaluma-- Mrs. M. H. Colby.
Gin Foo King.
Sacramento-- Miss Maria Carrington.
Chin Foy.
San Francisco, Central--Jee Gam.
San Francisco, Central--Miss Jessie S. Worley.
Miss Anna L. Snook.
San Francisco, Barnes-- Mrs. H. W. Lamant.
Chung Moi.
San Francisco, Bethany--Mrs. J. C. Snook.
San Francisco, West-- Miss F. M. Worley.
Miss M. G. Worley.
San Francisco, North-- J. J. Mason.
Sing Lan.
Santa Barbara-- Mrs. B. B. Williams.
Hong Sing.
Santa Cruz-- Mrs. A. L. Willett.
* * * * *
THANKSGIVING ADDRESS AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
BY. PROF. W. A. CROGMAN.
If I were asked to-day what one thing since the close of the war has
contributed most to the permanent prosperity of the South, I should
unhesitatingly answer, Christian charity--that charity which has
exhibited itself not only in the giving of gifts, not only in the
lavish expenditure of immense sums for the elevation of the degraded
masses; but by its prayers, by its sentiments promptly and fearlessly
expressed against wrong, by its patient endurance, and by its
individual sacrifices made in a field which could promise but little
more to the laborer than the reward of conscience for having served
at a critical period his country and his kind. It is just nineteen
years since the surrender at Appomattox, nineteen short years. But
what events have crowded into that brief period! What stupendous
changes have been wrought within that time in American society,
especially in Southern society!--changes as radical in their nature
as they will be far-reaching in their consequences. It is true that
these changes have not always been accompanied by peace and quiet and
good feeling. This was hardly to be expected. There have been
bloodshed and murders. There have been individual sufferings.
Thousands have perished by violence and privation. But what, after
all, are the sufferings of the thousands compared with the freedom of
the millions, and all the possibilities which that freedom grants?
And whatever may have been the sufferings, it is safe, I think, to
say that they would have been multiplied many times, had it not been
for the tireless energies of the Christian churches.
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