The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
This new and interesting field has opened more and more largely during
the past year, as additional colonists have come to our shores. Despite
the financial embarrassment of our treasury, we rejoice that we have
been able to assist these brave and patriotic Christian people in
establishing themselves in this mountain region of the South. We believe
the opportunity of assistful co-operation with them is one that God has
opened to us. We have every confidence that the descendants of Pilgrims
and Puritans will rejoice in the privilege of assisting those in whose
hearts there is the same passionate desire for religious freedom, and
who are the children of equally heroic stock.
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NOTES FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
BY MISSIONARY WALTON.
In one of my visits to a neglected home I found a little orphan boy of
ten years whom I invited to our mission Sunday-school, and he seemed
pleased to know he had a friend. I had told them, during my visits, of
our little Sunday-school, and as I was leaving I gave him a little
Sunday-school card with a beautiful verse of scripture and asked him if
he could read, whereupon, he answered, "No;" then I asked his
foster-mother if she would teach him the text--she promised, as by this
time she too was getting interested. I left them seemingly glad for the
little time I had spent with them in their home.
Some time after this I was going down town, moving briskly along, when a
small boy came plump up against me, saying, "Hello, mister! don't you
know me? You're the Sunday-school man which was to our house. I know
you." "O yes, I know you now," and I said, "tell me about yourself." "I
have been to Sunday-school four Sundays, and have a nice teacher, and
enjoy going very much; we are in a little class and have lesson-picture
papers, and I like it so much I want to go every Sunday and all the
time. I know a boy who does not go to Sunday-school, and he has promised
to go with me next Sunday."
Saturday evening, June 2d, it was my privilege to meet with the Mossy
Grove Christian Endeavor Society. About forty-five young people were
present and took a hearty part in the meeting--quite a number joined in
prayer during the twenty minutes' prayer service. This service was all
the more interesting because a work of our planting, and from a very
small beginning has grown and is full of Christian earnestness.
This was the home of the "unfortunate man" I had found as I went through
the mountains. It was my privilege to look into that man's face and note
the change that had come to him. In the Sunday-school I was teacher of
his class. He seemed interested in the lesson and showed evidence of
being a changed man. As I preached of the "sprinkled blood" he somehow
appreciated all the more how he had been rescued. In the house-to-house
work among this people I found many encouraging results and think our
work there will develop until we have a church organization.
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