The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 03, March, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 03, March, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
_New York Missionary Union._--Our auxiliaries voted the $1,100
the coming year for the A. M. A. (support of three missionaries.)
I have promised, as last year, bi-monthly letters from each
of these teachers. Our auxiliaries much enjoy the letters and
greatly miss them if anything delays.
_Local Church Society, Conn._--The amount of our pledge is
collected and will be forwarded. We have received the missionary
letters monthly and we take them into our Mission Circle, and
read them, and frequently they are read from the pulpit so that
all may hear the good results of help given. We wish the good
work God-speed.
* * * * *
It will be remembered that after the Annual Meeting in New Haven
the Indian students from the Santee Normal Training School made
a short campaign among the churches. The writer of the following
letter was one of the students, and in it she tells a friend what
she saw and thought as she went from place to place.
_Dear Friend_:
I will now try to tell you how much I enjoyed our trip East. We
had good and hard times, too. We left Santee Oct. 12th. We were
gone for eight weeks. It seems very nice to get back to Santee. I
think more of the school every time I go away and come back.
We stopped over Sunday at Chicago; then we took train for New
Haven, Conn., and it was a very tiresome journey, for we never
had been on the train for such a long distance. We reached New
Haven Tuesday evening; then the next afternoon we went to the
meeting. The church was just packed, so they had the meeting in
two churches and we had to go back and forth to sing. We sang in
Dakota and English.
I want to tell you some of the places we went to. It will take
me too long if I try to tell you all. We met a great many of our
teachers’ friends.
We went to Essex and had a very pleasant afternoon at Miss
Pratt’s home. We felt as though we were going to see some of our
old acquaintances when we knew that we were to meet our teachers’
friends. As we went in Boston I thought of you and wondered how
many times you had been in that depot. I like Boston very well,
but not as well as I like our old home Santee.
At Providence I met one of my teachers, Prof. Wilson, and I went
home with him and spent the night at his house and had a very
good time.
At Northampton, after the service was out, two young ladies
invited us to go with them the next morning to Smith College, so
we went around and saw the most of the buildings; then again we
went to South Hadley Seminary, and I could not make out which
school I liked the best. I think I never saw so many young ladies
at once as I did that morning.
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